Jennifer: 2011

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Extra Credit: Art Hunt Downtown

Monday, September 26, 2011

Critique of Aron W's Color Photo Project

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Photo 1: The color and editing is wonderful. It’s focused really well, so you can see what she was aiming to have as the focal point. I like how the background is blurred, but not too blurred as to take away from the picture.

Photo 2: Again, the color is great. She did a good job editing it. The only criticism I have is that for the purpose of this project, I cannot tell which color was supposed to be the focal color that pops out from the rest.

Photo 3: Great picture! You can see exactly what color was supposed to be the focal point of this one.

Photo 4: I like the simplicity of the composition of this, and I really like how the focal color (yellow) is so subtle.

Photo 5: I really love the purple color of this one, and the editing was great. Only suggestion would be to maybe have taken it from a different angle, so that more of the flowers were showing from the front.

Photo 6: I like the composition of this one a lot. There is plenty of information to look at. Again, I like how the focal color of her pictures is sometimes subtle. This one just has a little patch of purple flowers, but that is still just as effective.

Photo 7: I like how this picture was focused. The background is blurred out nicely, but she did a great job of keeping the flowers in focus still.

Photo 8: I love the color of this one. It’s very bright and the adjusting of the levels really makes that stand out even more. The details in the composition of it are excellent. My only real suggestion would be to have taken it a little more off center than she did. That is just a personal preference for pictures like this.

Photo 9: The composition of this one is nice. I like how the main flower is off center and the background is blurred. The color of it is nice as well. I couldn’t decide for certain which of the flowers was supposed to be the main color for the project though. I assumed it was the orange flower. Either way, great photo.

Photo 10: I really like both the composition and color of this photo. The purple really stands out well against the green, and I always prefer pictures that are very busy with information. My only suggestion would have been to take the photo at a different aperture to allow for one area to be more focused and leave the rest a little blurry. That way we could have a main focal point to look at, because it is easy to get lost in pictures like this that have so much information.

Color Project

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Writing Assignment #1

I chose War’s End Kiss as my piece for this writing assignment. I have always thought it was an iconic piece. My first reaction to seeing it was that it was interesting and there is a lot of information to look at and study.

Compositionally, it has some obvious factors. It seems to have symmetrical balance, as it is equally weighted on both sides. Also, it is formatted vertically on a couple levels. First, the people are vertical, but then also the buildings in the background add to the vertical format of it. Last, and probably most obvious, it has stop motion composition. Often this picture is rumored to be a posed one, but that is rumor is always disproved. It is definitely an example of stop motion.
The fact that it is stop motion really adds to how it captures the feelings they must have felt on that day. Because it was not posed, the expressions on people faces, and the excitement in the street was all real emotion captured by the camera. That emotion translates to the viewer well.