Final Exam

4)Transformative Photograph : This picture really changed the way I viewed photography, in the way that it made me realize how little we see at a first glance but as you look closer you can see millions of smaller details that make up a good photo. The picture at one glance is a gradient of light and color, going from blue to yellow to orange to black. Then as you look closer you start to see the silhouette of the structures like the dock and the city in the back, you notice the depth of the photo. This picture made me realize how important timing is so that each of these elements can be displayed properly so you take in the entire picture then start to see the smaller things and watch time lapse before your eyes in a still photo.

5)Shape vs Form : Shape is more of a two dimensional identifier for the way that something looks, how it's edges curve or sharply turn, and form is descriptive of a three dimensional shape. Form is how an object that is not flat is built, its structure and the way it looks. They are the difference between an object that is two dimensional and three dimensional.
6)Pattern vs. Repetition: In pattern there is repetition but it can be multiple non repetitive elements coming together to create a single piece. Repetition is the same form,shape,or structure showing up multiple times.
7)About Me Weebly
About Murad Osmann

8)Last 3 Projects:
1) Humans of My Life
2)Follow Me to...
3)First Commercial Shoot

My "Follow Me To..." project was my best project. The project was my best edited set of photos and the best lit. I also managed to include multiple background elements without taking away from the model in the photo. The project taught me how to angle the camera to get the best focus and balance between background and faceless model, it also taught me how to use light better to my advantage and scenery as well as how much time it takes to do location shoots especially ones in which you have to change location multiple times in one day. And I learned how to see models differently as well as the photographer's role in making sure the model is placed correctly and posed so the picture will turn out the best it can.

Humans of My Life Final Photo Project

Aarti Panda: "I have a super special talent for earthquakes, I can detect earthquakes that are under the normal human threshold but nobody ever believes me, But shout out to usgs.gov for always having a map of all the earthquakes so I can prove all the haters wrong. I'm always right. Always."

Kaitlyn Shih: "I joined yearbook junior year and it taught me a lot about photography,design, and layouts." 

Mansi Chopra:

"I started dancing when I was 3 and I've been dancing ever since."

"What kind of dance do you do?"

"Jazz,ballet,urban,Bollywood,contemporary"

Rudrik Suthar:" one time when I was younger, I was eating a snack and being a good little boy and a monkey came up and grabbed my food out of my hand"

Sonam Bhuptani:" When I was younger I used to dress up and run around my house pretending I was all kinds of imaginary things. It was my favorite thing to do as a child and it still is that's why I'm in drama now. I love being able to change my identity with a costume change and some mannerisms"

Student Website Review

Period 1: Sharon Hsu: Best Photo
It's slightly blurred around the edges so your gaze focuses more on the center of the picture where the city lights are not as concentrated but the building shapes are more interesting.
Period 2: Estell Kim : Best Photo
Though the two girls are the focus, it shows a bigger picture and gives a size contrast between the girls and the trees. There's a lot going on in the picture, as you continue to study it, you find the different light patterns, other trees in the background and the expressions of the girls.
Period 3: Jason Stiltz: Best Photo
It at first seems like a very simple picture but it shows depth, there's a light shining through the center of the shed and it came through very well. The sky and the hills in the very back create a light gradient that adds to the overall picture.
Period 4: Kaitlyn Shih: Best Photo
This picture showed a lot of small details you might otherwise overlook. The imperfections are what make it a perfect photograph, there are small dirt particles on the person's fingers and you can see the lines on their hands while being able to see the details of the plant and the dirt and all the minerals and sticks that are in it.

Follow me to.. Spring Expo Photo Project

Inspired by : Murad Osman

Website

Weebly

Photography Project Outline

Location: Palmdale Estates,Hunter Lane, Cougar Drive, church garden 

Idea: Adventure pictures

Models: Drishti Kaul, Jiti Sarkar( two of my friends) 

Explanation: Use flash, sun and streetlights as light sources. and have various pictures of each model leading the photographer(myself) to different areas of the city.

Aperture setting: f/22

Shutter speed: 1/125sec

Photographer of inspiration pictures: Murad Osmann Murad's Instagram

How to Process photos: increase saturation and contrast, high levels of tint and small changes to lights,darks and exposure.

Example Photographs:

Photographer: Murad Osmann 

Location: London, England 

First Commercial Shoot

Taken By: Mansi Chopra 

Taken By: Aarti Panda

Taken By: Me: Priyanka Bajaj

Taken By: Aarti Panda

Taken By: Ethan Hu

Inspired by Blake Lively Channel shoot 

Tie Dye

original

Camera Raw 

Best Photo

Brian Ingram
Nina Masic
Dani Diamond
Thomas Peschak
Brandon Jennings

MSJMC Week

Preparation 

Balance of a dancer

calculated movement

The wait 

The performance

Story with a Photo- Lights on the Water

This bay is in Berkeley, CA at around 7:30pm when the sun had almost

completely set and the last bits of light were just about to extinguish.

 There's a silhouette of the town on some hills across the water and

 the dock in the center that extends into the bay. The lights create a gradient 

of color that you may not otherwise see and reflected off the bay to show texture in the waves 

MSJMCW

I walk out of my quiet classroom toward the buzzing of the horseshoe. It's filled with different alluring scents and fragments of conversations I'll never know the end to. I hand my ticket to the friendly face behind the stand and they trade it for a plate full of fragrant sustenance. As I take my first bite, my mouth is filled with an explosion of flavor that entices the images of fireworks and paintings you may only see in museums, behind my eyelids. I walk around and observe the commotion surrounding each booth and recognize the hard work that goes into this production each year. The blending of different cultures and the acceptance of each of them comes without a thought when there's food involved. Food carries no prejudices and it helps bring people together, that's what multicultural week does, it brings people together.

Shutter Speed and Everything after

Partner: Pavi B.
Photo
1) It has fast shutter speed because it captured the trucks moving on the right without blurring their image. On the highway trucks tend to move pretty quickly so it would be difficult to capture a non blurry photograph of them with a slow shutter speed.
2) My rule of composition:Leading Lines. There are leading lines in the picture that draw your eye further down the highway and you gradually notice more and more in the photo than just the flipped truck.
Pavi's rule: Balancing Elements, there is no main subject that draws all of your attention to the center of the photograph but there is a balance in the photograph because there are subjects on both sides of the pictures, trucks, and a similar background, the greenery.
3)Element of Art: Lines because as I said before there are numerous lines in the picture from the lines that separate the lanes on the highway to the edges of the trucks. There is a railing in the center to separate the sides of the highway that are driving in different directions that forms lines going in multiple directions.
4)Principles of Design: Proportion. There is a difference in sizes of the trucks and other objects within the image that contrast with each other whether the size difference is caused by distance from the photographer or just because of the actual size of the objects.

I'm guessing the shutter speed was about 1/500

principles of design-structures

Temperature +10
Tint -2
Exposure -0.70
Contrast +6
Highlights +9
shadows -7
whites +28
blacks -7
clarity +29
vibrance +23
saturation +2

principles of design- Unity

Temperature +10
Tint 0
Exposure -+0.70
Contrast 0
Highlights +9
shadows -16
whites +10
blacks -25
clarity +8
vibrance +30
saturation +29

Variety of the Fittest

Variety
It shows multiple flags that represent different football teams and three pictures unrelated to those flags. There's a picture of Malcom x, raiders, liquor models, the rams, a multitude of things. Each of the flags and pictures shows a mix of interests the owner holds ranging from civil rights leaders to alcohols.

Principles of Design-Rhythm

Temperature +18
Tint -14
Exposure -0.50
Contrast 0
Highlights +10
shadows -27
whites +8
blacks 0
clarity +2
vibrance +23
saturation +23

Movie Monday- Half Past August - Part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful?Accomplishing the goals you set for yourself and being happy with your life at the end of it.
2. What have you given up to become successful? So far, I've given up free time to hang out with friends and relax.
3. What did Parks give up to become successful? A life at home and a better relationship with his family.
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father? A rich business man Ambassador William ( Married Sally Alves divorced her, married Elizabeth Campbell divorced her and married Genevieve Young)
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?  He offered him $10,000 in advance based on the 7 pages he had written
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam? Half of a Million dollars.
7. Why did Parks refuse the money? Because he was afraid that if he took the money Muhammad would influence his take on the story.
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree? It made Parks the first black director in Hollywood 
9. What was significant about the character Shaft? He was the first black superhero children and others had to look up to. 
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons? A 35 mm camera
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce? The turmoil Parks was going through at the time and the strain it put on her to try to be supportive. 
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story? 12 Years a Slave
13. Who was Gordon Parks, Jr.? Gordon Park's son who died in a plan crash 
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo? American Gothic 
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years? How much he had to struggle through as a black photographer and director and how much racism he must have endured just to get his work done. 

Principles of Design- Proportion

Edits 

Temperature +18

Tint -14Exposure -0.60Contrast 0Highlights +4shadows -27whites +8blacks 0clarity +28vibrance +23saturation +2

Principles of Design-Repetition

Temperature +18
Tint -8
Exposure +0.90
Contrast +8
Highlights +7
shadows -7
whites +8
blacks +5
clarity +10
vibrance +20
saturation +1

Principles of Design- Pattern

Temperature +12
Tint -6
Exposure +0.60
Contrast +2
Highlights +7
shadows -2
whites 0
blacks 0
clarity +19
vibrance +2
saturation +23