Final Exam

1. My transformative photo was actually taken very recently. It is this picture from my most recent project that I did on desserts:

Setting up this picture was something that I really enjoyed doing and when I was done I found myself taking hundreds of different pictures of this one plate from every possible angle. When I had to start editing it was extremely difficult for me to just pick one picture and I spent a while debating between a few shots that I especially liked. I finally settled on the picture above and edited it to my liking. When I was done, I was really proud of my work for the first time in a while. Taking this picture showed me how much I actually like photography and how rewarding it is when you get to see the final product. It also made me more confident in my photography skills and helped me find my style of photography. 

2. The difference between shape and form is that shape captures an object's 2-D lines, while form captures an object from a  3-D perspective. This is my picture showing shape. This is my picture showing form.

3. The difference between pattern and repetition is that pattern is the repeating of an object or symbol, while repetition works with pattern to make the picture seem active and to create unity in the picture. This is my picture showing repetition. This is my picture showing pattern.

4. Movement is the path the viewer’s eye takes through the picture. It can be directed along lines, edges, shape, and even color. My picture showing movement is:

This picture shows movement because the viewer's eye follows the lines from the top of the picture to the bottom or the other way around.

5. Of the last three projects, the most recent one that I did on desserts (shown here) was my best work because I genuinely enjoyed setting up, taking, and editing these pictures. I felt like I was a real photographer because I was able to apply all of the photography skills I learned this year. This project also helped me realize that I am better suited to photographing still objects on backgrounds that I can create or manipulate. For the first time I was able to execute the vision I had in my mind perfectly, and I am really proud of the outcome. 

Desserts

Student Website Reviews

1st Period: I reviewed Riddhima Mathur's weebly. I believe this is the best picture from her website because the dark trees and mountains are contrasted with the bright light from the sun on the water. The sun also creates a wide range of colors and makes the mountains look red.
2nd Period: I reviewed Estell Kim's weebly. I believe this is the best picture from her website because the lighting makes the subjects' faces glow and the plain background and cropping make the subjects the only focus.
3rd Period: I reviewed Lucas William's weebly. I believe this is the best picture from his website because it is innovative and challenges the viewer's perception.
4th period:  I reviewed Khusbhu Patel's weebly. I believe this is the best picture from her website because the red rose stands out against the dull background and captures the viewer's attention. The picture also emphasizes the detail of each individual front petal of the rose.

Pet Photography

http://mvaidyaphotography.weebly.com/gallery.html

Spring Expo Project Inspiration

For my project I will be doing pet photography. My subject will be my friend's yorkshire terrier and I will take pictures of him in the afternoon in her front yard, inside her house, and the sidewalk in front of her house. My inspiration for this project is Grace Chon.

1. Picture 1: People's eye view- sidewalk
2. Picture 2: Gopher's eye view- front yard
3. Picture 3: Gopher's eye view- bed
4. Picture 4: People's eye view- front yard
5. Picture 5: People's eye view- living room chair

Nina Shoes

By: Priyanka Chary

http://pcharyphotography.blogspot.com/

By: Amin Khan

http://amink98.blogspot.com/

By: Me!!

By: Aashna

http://aashnapshah.blogspot.com/

Tiedye Fun

Before

After

Photographer "About Me"

Alicia Gines

Eric Le

Sphynge

Blake Richards

Rama Photo Video

 

Best Picture

Multicultural Story

Multicultural week is a annual tradition at Mission San Jose High School, where students can buy food from around the world at lunch.

 At the beginning of lunch, students crowd into the horseshoe to buy food.

 

A student advertises the onion rings her club is selling. She is eagerly awaiting customers.

This student has bought his tickets and is now looking around for something to eat.

He finds the booth selling onion rings and pays the girl in tickets.

She hands him the food that he has been waiting all day to eat!

Multicultural

Student selling food.

Multicultural Week Story

Once upon a time, at a school far far away, there was a festival called Multicultural Week. The students were filled with excitement for the abundance of food that would be present at lunch during the week.  They anticipated the festival weeks before it began. Finally, on a cool spring day in April, it arrived. The bell rang and lunch began. Students ran out of their classrooms and flooded to the horseshoe. People were shouting and rushing to get into line. Burritos, samosas, cheesecake, pizza, donuts, and every other food imaginable was being sold. People piled food onto their plates and ate with their friends. The sound of laughter and music was in the air. But sadly, the hour passed by quickly, and it was time to go back to class. The students trudged to their 5th period class, with their shoulders drooped and frowns on their face. "Cheer up everyone! We still have a whole week to go!", their teachers said. The students slowly looked up and at each other, smiles forming on their faces. Their teacher was right! The excitement wasn't over! They cheered up and went to work, dreaming of what the rest of the week would hold, and happily waiting for tomorrow. The end.

Shutter Speed and Everything After

1. This photo was taken with fast shutter speed because the moving trucks are not blurry.
2. A rule of composition displayed in picture is "depth".
3. Form is an element of art  displayed in this picture because the 3-Dimensional shapes of the trucks are clearly shown.
4. In this picture, the viewer's eyes follow the path of the trucks driving on the road, which clearly expresses movement.

Shutter Speed (guess): 1/500

Unity

Exposure: +70

Contrast: +40

Highlights: +16

Shadow: +41

Whites: -9

Blacks: +6

Clarity: +60

Vibrance: +16

Saturation: +4
This picture shows unity because the bricks work harmoniously together to create a sense of completeness.

Variety

Exposure: -0.8

Contrast: +73

Highlights: -18

Shadows: -13

Whites: -30

Blacks: -6

Saturation: +21

This picture uses emphasis, repetition, proportion, and movement, to guide the viewer's eye through the work.

Rhythm

Temperature: +75

Tint: -20

Exposure: -67

Contrast: -58

Highlights: +13

Shadow: +65

Whites: -64

Vibrance: -6
This picture shows rhythm because it uses pattern, repetition, and proportion, to create a sense of organized movement.

Proportion

Temperature: +14

Tint: -30

Exposure: +4

Contrast: -0.2

Highlights: +33

Shadow: -45

Whites: -94

Blacks: +42

Vibrance: -3

Saturation: +46

This picture shows proportion because all parts of the structure relate well with each other.

Repetition

 

Exposure: +0.50

Contrast: -20

Highlighrs: +18

Shadows: -30

Whites: +10

Blacks:-44

This picture shows repetition because the pattern on the bench creates a sense of unity for the bench all together.

Pattern

Temperature: +15

Tint: +3

Exposure: +70

Contrast: +40

Highlights: +16

Clarity: +60

Vibrance: +16

This picture demonstrates patter because the diamond shaped tiles are repeated over and over again.

Movement

Exposure: +67

Contrast: -11

Highlights: +17

 

This picture shows movement because the viewer's eyes follow the lines from one end of the picture to the other.

Emphasis

Temperature: +13

Tint: +3

Exposure: +60

Contrast: +50

Highlights: +14

Shadow: +31

Whites: -6

Blacks: +9

Clarity: +60

Vibrance: +16

Saturation: +4The focus of this picture is the pole but the emphasis is on the bright green doors in the background.

Balance

 

Whites: +33
Blacks: +46
Shadows: +55
Saturation: -64

This picture shows symmetrical balance because both sides of the picture are equal.

Texture

Temperature: +0

Tint: +0

Exposure: +0

Contrast: +20

Highlights: +20

Shadow: +20

Whites: +20

Blacks: +20

Clarity: +40

Vibrance: +0

Saturation: -100

This picture represents texture because the surface quality of the bark seems like it can be seen and felt.

Color

Temperature: +13

Tint: +2.0

Exposure: +1.1

Contrast: +44

Highlights: +24

Shadow: +31

Whites: +1.1

Blacks: +9

Clarity: +32

Vibrance: +3.0

Saturation: +0.9

This picture demonstrates the color red in the bottom left corner. Red and green are complementary colors because they are located directly across from each other on the color wheel. 

Space

Temperature: +12

Tint: +1.6

Exposure: +0.9

Contrast: +60

Highlights: +27

Shadow: +18

Whites: +1.4

Blacks: +7

Clarity: +27

Vibrance: +3.01

Saturation: +0.6

This picture represents space because area between the tree branches gives a feeling of depth.

Form

Temperature: +10

Tint: +1.1

Exposure: +0.6

Contrast: +50

Highlights: +25

Shadow: +22

Whites: +1.0

Blacks: +9

Clarity: +47

Vibrance: +3.03

Saturation: +0.3

This picture represents form because its is 3D and shows the length and dimension of the plant.

 

Shape

Temperature: +9

Tint: +1.0

Exposure: +0.8

Contrast: +20

Highlights: +33

Shadow: +21

Whites: +2.2

Blacks: +4

Clarity: +25

Vibrance: +2.0

Saturation: +0.5

This picture represents shape because the shape of the flower is an organic shape, or a natural closed line, that is flat and expresses length and width.

Line

Temperature: +12

Tint: +1.9

Exposure: +0.6

Contrast: +70

Highlights: +23

Shadow: +34

Whites: +0.85

Blacks: +17

Clarity: +67

Vibrance: +4.03

Saturation: +0.2

 

This picture represents line because the petals of the flower are lines and the ones in the top right corner especially stick out in a linear manner.

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks (Parts 1-4)

1. He dunked him in a tub of cold water and rubbed him against the ice.
2. He was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that he shouldn't waste his parents' money trying to go to college because all Negros end up being maids.
4. He was 15.
5.  He moved to his sister's house in Minnesota.
6. Yes.
7. He got a job working for a woman's clothing store and took pictures of women modelling the clothing for an advertisement.
8. It is the repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images.
9. Joe Louis was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949. His wife convinced Parks to move to Chicago.
10. He played the piano.
11.  The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
12.  His first assignment was to go to a theater in Washington DC and watch a movie there.
13. Ella Watson worked on the cleaning crew of the FSA building. Parks photographed her standing in front of the American flag holding a mop and a broom.
14. Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and his decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house."
15. Stryker taught Gordon how to approach his subjects.
16. 1943
17. Vogue
18. Wilson Hicks
19. Crime across America.
20. De Gough, Picasso, Van Gough
21. He made the model move and he moved with her.
22. Venice
23. Elizabeth Campbell.
24. 12
25. He was climbing the slopes of Rio de Janero.
26.  He was the head of household.
27. She was an author and an artist. Her son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors were rich railroad company owners. 
28. They had lots of love and respect for each other. 
29.  I believe that people are successful if they are happy with their lives and who they are.
30. I have given up time and my temporary happiness for the sake of a good future and long term happiness.
31. xnbvxcmnvm,
32. Genevieve Young's step-father was UN Ambassador V.K. Wellington Koo.
33. Parks was advanced ewiewu for his first book, Flash Photography.
34. Elijah Muhammad offered Parks rtretrgf to do a story on The Nation of Islam.
35. Parks refused the money because 
36. The Learning Tree was the first Hollywood studio film to be directed by an African American.
37. Shaft was significant because he was the first African American superhero.
38. Park's choice of weapons was a camera.
39. Genevieve Young said she and Parks divorced because
40. 12 Years a Slave tells the same story as Solomon Northrup's Odyssey.
41. Gordon Parks Jr. was Park's son who died in a plane crash.
42. Sylvie Hirsch in Dior Skirt, Paris, France, 1949

An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor

Top 5 Pictures:

1. Picture #9: Boats on Water
2. Picture #3: Net in Water
3. Picture #5: Wheat and Hands
4. Picture #30: Fire and Water
5. Picture #22: Girl Studying

Multimedia Poster 2

1. Our Multimedia Festival poster is good because our background is a unique blend of two colors and two pictures. It's appealing to viewers and its vibrancy makes it stand out. The picture accurately portrays the event details. We made sure that our subject's camera matched the background we chose, therefore, giving it a more professional touch.  Also, we decided to make this poster horizontal so it would stand out from the other posters.

2.  Our new poster is much better than our previous one because we took advantage of the new Photoshop techniques we learned to make the poster better.  We worked more cohesively and therefore, the outcome was much more to our liking.  The new poster is also better because the background is a blend of two gradients with an abstract design on the corner, instead of the simple red background on the previous poster.

3. First, we spent a lot of time making the background of the poster. We decided that our new poster would be horizontal instead of vertical to stand out from the other posters. We then blended a white gradient with a red gradient, giving it a softer view. Then we searched for a nice abstract piece of artwork to put in the top left corner to further diversify our poster. Next , we experimented with various fonts to find which one looked best on our poster.  Finally, we typed up all of the required information on to the poster and left justified most of it to give it a professional feel and look.

Movie Monday- Photo League

1.) What was The Photo League's credo?
The Photo League's credo was that social change could be achieved through documentary photography and emotional connection with one's subject.

2.) What organization did The Photo League separate from?
The Photo league was separated from the Film and Photo League which broke up into the Photo League and Frontier Films.

3.) What was the workshop?
The workshop was a class taught by Sid Grossman as a part of the Photo League. These classes were important to the Photo League because the classes were affordable and offered to any photographer who had a working camera.

4.) Who taught "the workshop"?
Sid Grossman taught the workshop.

5.)If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy?

 If I were to devote one year of my life to a project, I would devote it to travelling around the world and learning about new people and their cultures. 

6.)What was The Harlem Document?
A portrait of black urban America and the people, culture, and lifestyles of Harlem that was initiated to try and tell the world about the poor living conditions hoping for improvement.

7.) Who started The Harlem Document?
Aaron Siskind started the Harlem Document from March 8, 2014 and carried it out until July 20, 2014.

8.) A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a _____ painting. Who was the painter? 
The painter was Caravaggio.

9.) Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? 
The photograph looked like it was painted by Caravaggio because the boy in the photograph was illuminated by the sunshine and looked special. Many of Caravaggio's works are dark but have the main focus of the painting very well lit.

10.) Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions)
Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photography. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States

11.) Who was Weegee?
Known as Weegee, Arthur Fellig was a photographer and photojournalist that was known for his stark black and white street photography.

12.) How did The League change when The Nazis took power?
When the Nazis took power, the Photo League received many talented refugee photographers who had escaped from Europe.

13.) How did The League change during WWII?
Photo league members used their cameras to support the war effort in America. Many female members of the League took over operations of the organization at home while many of the Photo League's men photographers were sent overseas with armed forces.

14.) How did Siskind change after WWII?
Aaron Siskind brought the concept of abstract expressionism to photography, a far cry from the sociological realism from the Harlem document. Siskind was criticized for his conversion to abstractness.

15.) What was the Saturday Evening post?
The Saturday Evening Post was a bimonthly American magazine that published weekly. Many of the photographs used in these magazine articles were taken by members of the Photo League.

16.) Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph?
barbara Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine, Aperture.

17.) What eventually undermined the Photo League?
Angela Calomiris an FBI informer testified that the Photo league journalists were supporters of Communism and the League as a whole was accused of being anti- American.

18.) What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film?
The growing menace was the suspicion mounting on the League by the nation who questioned their ideas about society.

19.) Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation?
Eugene Smith agreed to serve as President when the League was under investigation.

20.) What happened to the league?
The league disbanded in 1951.

Multimedia Festival Poster

Concert Poster

Recreation of THIS Poster

Period 2 Semester Final

1. My favorite photo from this slideshow is picture #2 because:

• Despite the chaos in the background, the woman and her children are the focus of the photo.
• It portrays how different people react to the same situation.Everyone in the picture has a different emotion. The woman looks worried, the men are relatively calm but are busy working, and the children are terrified and crying.
• It is intriguing. The caption says that the woman and her children have just crossed the Turkish border, and the picture shows with what little belongings they have escaped. Also, despite her freedom, the woman does not look happy. She is instead worried about the future.

2. The best photo in this slideshow is picture #6 because:

• It clearly demonstrates the rule of "space to move" by showing the car in the far left and filling the rest of the space with the road ahead. The way the picture is taken makes it look like the car is moving.
• The distinct contrast between the yellow dirt and the blue makes the car pop out.
• There is nothing in the picture but the car and the road. It's simplicity makes each element of the picture stand out. 

3. I believe my best work this semester is this picture because:

•  It perfectly demonstrates the rule of thirds and the rule of patterns.
•  There is a stark contrast of colors which makes the subject and her camera really stand out.
• The subject looks almost symmetrical, and her arms frame the rest of her body below her neck.

If I had more time, I would have added brighter colors that would stand out against the white background and I would have also added shadows.

4. My three rules of composition are: the rule of thirds, the rule of color, and the rule of texture. 

5. My picture below demonstrates the rule of texture (in the texture of the leaves) and the rule of color (in the leaves as well as the contrast between the leaves and the black boots).

6. Mr.Farley's first rule of composition is "get closer". 

7. The benefits of working in a group include:

• Group members can provide concrete feedback and are a constant group of people you know you can turn to when you need help understanding something.
• Being in a group can help inspire you if you are stuck on a project.
• Group work gives students a chance to learn how to work with people who have different personalities and how to communicate with different types of people.
• Group work helps students learn how to compromise and effectively settle arguments.
• Group work also prepares students for the future, when they will be forced to work with others.

8. The difficulties of working in a group include:

• People work and learn at different speeds.
• Some people may not put in enough effort causing others to make up for their lack of work.
• Students can easily get off-task.
• Some people may not participate causing frustration among their group members.
• Creative differences between students can hinder their ability to communicate and work together.

9. My favorite project produced by another student is Marissa's album cover recreation. 

10. My master photographer was Andre Kertsz.His main contributions to photography were his war pictures, which focused on the lives of soldiers away from the fighting and the battlefield.

11. Dorothea Lange's most popular photo is "Migrating Mother", taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California. At this time she was working for the Resettlement Administration. 

12. Life Magazine was first published on November 23, 1936.

13. Elvis was born on January 8, 1935.

14. Robert Capa was the founder of Magnum Photos in 1947.

Album Cover

This is a recreation of the album cover of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town. 

Original Picture

Masters of Photography Project Reflection

1. My project represents my work as a student by reflecting my inspiration from the multiple photographers we have studied so far. My photography is not perfect, and it shows that I am a student who still has much to learn.

2. Throughout the school year, I've learned the importance of photography and what it means to take a good picture. I learned that photography is an universal language that can be used to communicate throughout the world, and that it can greatly influence people and their decisions. I also learned that it can take thousands of tries to take the perfect picture and that a photographer must have patience. I understand that pictures can speak to different people in different ways and that people tend to differentiate in what they believe is the best picture.
3. Working in a group can be beneficial for multiple reasons. Group members can provide concrete feedback and are a constant group of people you know you can turn to when you need help understanding something. Being in a group can also help inspire you.
4. However, working in a group can also be disadvantageous for some of the following reasons:
- some people work and learn at different speeds
-some people may not put in enough effort causing others to make up for their lack of work
-some people may not participate causing frustration among their group members
5. If I could go back and change anything from my project, I would use Photoshop to actually distort images instead of just taking pictures that resembled distortion, as this was what Kertesz was really known for.
6. Photography has taught me a lot about human nature and history, and I'm excited to see what else I'll learn this year.