Best of Visual Design

This summer session has flown by so quickly!  Unfortunately, 114 (visual design) was extremely disappointing.  I was looking forward to doing the fun shoots based on the more abstract things like lines, shapes and colors.  I was looking forward to making a collage of one photograph.  Unfortunately, the class was uninspiring and I was left wondering what the point was.  My art history class was instant love, but this one not so much.  Never the less, I did enjoy the images I produced, even if the teacher had an incredibly strange grading system.  Here's to another session gone by.  Things are going to get intense next session, but I am so ready to learn how to use flashes and lighting to my advantage.  Hope you enjoy the images from this session.  :)

Inspirational
The first assignment over break was to take a piece of art and do a response piece.  I thought about what image I wanted to re-imagine and I mostly took images from album art.  In the end I chose Otsuka Ai's Planetarium single.  It took me awhile to scout out one of those types of jungle gyms, but the only one I found exactly like that behind a huge fence at a school.  So I found an alternate and the image I got was amazing.  I absolutely love it, and my classmates and friends also found it very good.  :)  I went for a daytime look and a view from inside the structure, instead of outside and at night.

Original Image

My Interpretation








My house is a mess, My house is a temple
This assignment was to find aesthetically pleasing things within our home.  No arranging, just things left the way we find them.

The mess picture was definitely one of my favorites of the session.

The "neat" picture is of the wall above my computer.  It is of the images from high school and Delta that really inspired me into being a photographer.  These are the images that made me fall in love with everything that I'm doing.

Line
We had to find a line in nature and a man made line

I'm going to admit that this image was purely from lack of images.  But it still has a nice feel to it anyways.

Yes I did have my camera out the entire time while in the front of the roller coaster.  XD  I'm sure I got many stares from people thinking, "why in the hell does she have that huge camera out while on the ride?!" but the final image came out to be stunning.  :D  This image is definitely a top favorite

Shape
We had to find a natural shape and a contrast of shape

Symmetry

We had to find symmetry and asymmetry examples

He didn't like my symmetry photo because if you folded it in half, it wouldn't match up exactly.  But I kept in the corner because I thought it would add something more to the image instead of just black and white, contrasting lines.

One of my favorite images from the day.  But I have to admit that I did like the original, non-cropped version better.  The lone person in the image gives it a certain feel.  :)



The original, non-cropped version.

Color
We had to find monochromatic color and analogous color (analogous means a grouping of 3 colors next to each other on an Itten color wheel, as seen here)

Monochromatic in the parking lot

I had a hard time choosing between these two analogous images.

I preferred the original image on my monochromatic image, but was forced to edit it down to make it more "monochromatic."

Hockney Collage 
Hockney is an artist that created photomontages of places or people.  They look like collages, but it's like you piece together the final product using closeups of images.  This is an example of his work.  My picture was of a DJ group called Space Cowboys that I saw in San Francisco on a recent trip.  I was so inspired by the energy of the crowd and the randomness of the music to make something a lot more abstracted than a traditional piece.  Unfortunately he didn't really like my collage, saying it was too abstract, but I still really love how it turned out and makes you want to know what is going on.  There were so many details to the DJ truck that it was overwhelming just looking at it.