Typography Images

Typography is the art and technique of arranging words/type to make written language readable and beautiful. It is also the style and appearance of printed matter or processing data and printing from it. It can be used with images to make a lasting impact by having the image you want to expose or tell a story with easier to understand. With the words on it, it makes the image more of a story or an easier way to explain the photo if thats what your going for.

One of the biggest  challenges that I've faced in this project is one of the final steps in the second tutorial when I finished inverting the colors because the face disappeared and I started stressing out. I thought I was going to have to start it over but Mr. Sanderl helped me and that was a relief. Another challenge is the time because at one point during the teacher portrait I realized I was in the wrong layer and had to redo the image from the beginning. Plus I missed a day of school and work time.
Last of all I wasn't going to be here for the last day of school so I have to find a way to finish my self portrait typography in a day if I can or I just can't do it.

My first example is a typography portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. He was an amazing artist (you may know some of his paintings: Mona Lisa, Last Supper) and he is very famous for is art work. Not only was he an artist but he was also a philosopher, engineer, and inventor. I picked him because I like art.

Another typography portrait that I did was one of the staff members at KMS, Julie Washington (Talia's mom). The last typography portrait example that I've done is one of myself. My favorite one that I've done has to be myself because I feel like I put harder work in that one because its me. (Yes I know its self centered but oh wells.) Oh and picture credit for my portrait picture that I used goes to Asha
                                                                                                                                                                   

Double Exposed Portraits

 

                Double Exposure                   1 step on how to create a double exposure

Hi everyone! Ok so this week we are starting a new project and its called Double exposure portrait images and they are really cool! Portrait photography is basically taking pictures of a person or group of people that shows expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photo is usually the person's face (eyes), but the entire body and the background or other details can be included. To make that easier to understand portraits are pictures of people! Profile view is the side view of someones face like a mugshot. In a profile you can usually only see half of their face (one eye, half of a mouth and nose...) Silhouetting  is the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background.

To create a double exposure, take 2 pictures of something you like or that describes you and a profile picture of you. Then you open photoshop, you hit file, scrips, load files into stack and then choose the photos you want to create your double exposure. When you have the pictures loaded, start doing the space around your profile shot until the space around you is white or close to white. When you finish that double click the layers and go to blend mode and press screen so you can see all the layers together in one. Then you press layer, new adjustment layers, and then play around with the ones you like until you get something you really love. After that save the image and voilla you got a double exposure image!

I chose surfboards and trees as my two symbolism images because I love to surf and I like nature and I climb trees in my backyard.  I used curves, vibrance, and hue and saturation as my adjustment layers. To explain the purpose my images more I'll give you some back ground info about me. Surfing is my favorite sport and I've surfed a lot in my life so i thought my surfboards would make a great image for my Multi image. I put the trees because I really like how they looked and the texture, I also put the trees in because I have several trees in my back yard that I used to climb a lot when I was little and I also fell from a tree so why not?

 Multi Image

                  

 The 2 images I used for my Multi

                       

Spring Break

Ahhhh literally can not wait till spring break! Just a couple more weeks until I'll be snowboarding the slopes with my best friend Asha! Well hopefully, if her parents say yes that she can come... We're going to Keystone, Colorado to ski and I'm so excited! Check out my blog during spring break because I will be posting photos during our break and it will be very exciting. For more photos you can check out my instagram account @laannnii . Were leaving on Thursday march 12th at 8:55PM, we have a direct flight from Kauai to LAX, then from LAX to Denver. I swear Denver has the most entertaining and best airport ever, it has everything. I practically know every part of the airport because I've been there over 20 times, LITERALLY! I even have a secret hide out spot in there that over looks most of the airport and its right next to and ice cream shop. Words cant really explain its just so wow you know what I mean? If I had to spend a night there, that would be fine. Traveling is one of my favorite things, whenever I'm going on a trip be ready for some posts :) #sumer2k15 be ready... Getting back to the Colorado Asha thing..I'm updating this post every couple days so you guys are up to date and as I write this sentence its 3/2/15 and we leave in 10 days and I and still trying to convince Asha's parents to let them come on this amaZing SB. So with that being said can you leave some comments below giving be advice how to strongly persuade/convince someone? Thanks. Well check out my blog and instagram in the next couple weeks because you don't want to miss what's coming up next on my blog "Live Like Lani -Lani."See you soon! #LLL-L

HDR Photography

HDR is a type of photography that will make your photos look better, and adds more dynamic range. Instead of taking one photo, HDR takes several different photos at different exposures. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. This is also an old photography recently introduced to cameraphones like the iPhone and some android devices. I really like HDR, I think this is a really good photography skill and the photo looks more realistic because its what the human eye sees. Theres nothing about HDR that I dislike and I hope more people get to know the power of HDR and how they can use it in their everyday life to take more memorable and amazing photos.

To take and HDR picture on a real camera (not a phone camera) you have to first locate the plus (+) and minus (-) button, hold it down, and then find the scroller on the camera to change the types of exposure. When taking the pictures do not move the camera AT ALL! Usually when I take my HDR photos I take about 7 photos. The first exposure starts at -3, then  -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3.  HDR on the DSL cameras or any camera that isn't a phone camera is much different than the function a phone camera because I feel more in control of what I am taking a picture of and its just a better and more professional way.

In my landscape HDR photo that I was assigned to do I took the photos in Talia's neighborhood around the late afternoon sort of right before the golden hour. In my landscape, I was attempting to make the photo have depth my taking the pictures in the middle of the road and having it lead down into a forest type of landscape. My experiment photos I took pictures of Talia sitting on the road. I had her placed in the rule of thirds and I think its positioned correctly. I also had her looking across the screen so she had look room. I took pictures at m,y house about a week before I took these ones but they turned out pretty bad... my experiment picture that I took turned into a profile and my was not so much a good landscape.

Movie Trailer Critique

3 weeks ago before we started our Winter Break our Gt class finished our Movie Trailer project. As I said before in my other posts we decided to make our trailer about Shaday's Guinea pig "George". My teammates were Sophia Shaday and Denae and I think we worked pretty well together. This project was fun and we got to get to know each other well. I contributed by working on the Trailer plan document and filming some of it. Also helping to edit the video by sharing my opinion of what I thought would be cool to edit in the video and when all of us shared our thoughts on what to do we ended up with a killer Movie trailer!

The project requirements that we needed was to have our video minimum of 1 min and 30 sec and maximum of 2 min and 30 sec long, Text layovers, at least 5 scenes, Characters, a Plot with a good problem in our story, Foley, Natural sounds, Voice actor, Dialogue and our Movie poster. We ended up meeting and completing all of these requirements that made us really psyched! The reason why we did is because we went out filming about 7 times and went in to edit the video almost every morning during advisory, recess and sometimes lunch.

Our class critique was really awesome, when we saw the results of what our class voted for, we were voted for the best Movie trailer. Our team felt so happy, it felt so good to be number one and after the weeks of hard work it was just amazing, words can't explain how we felt. I wasn't that surprised when we saw that we were number one because because after watching all the Movie trailer videos I really felt that we had the best one. I learned that hard work and using time wisely will take you far ahead in life and it will be worth it at the end.

P.S our team number is

            Team 4

Movie Poster Promo

Hi everyone! Recently our GT class started a new project where we are creating a movie trailer and a movie poster to go along with it. Our title is Snoopy George, its about a guinea pig (named George) that escapes from home and goes on an amazing adventure. Some of our main characters are George and the evil people that capture George while he is on his adventure.  In our movie George leaves his home and finds a hole and escapes to go on adventure. In the beginning when he finds him self exploring the world he has a lot of fun but then starts running into problems when he is trying to find is way back home but he gets captured too! So thats all I can say about our movie and what our poster is gonna have in it.

My movie poster that I've created includes big, bright, and bold text saying "Snoopy George". I also did some research on what a movie poster looks like so I can get a good idea of what I am creating. In my poster I also have movie critiques from magazines like rolling stone, time... so it would seem more professional. The movie poster will also include the names of the people in the movie trailer, rating, where it was made ect.  I am still not finished with it but I'm sure it will turn out great because I am putting in a lot of hard work into it.

With all they layers and filters that I am putting into my poster its really making the text pop out. Also my poster image is very eye catching and some what attention grabbing to who ever is looking at my poster. I put effects called the ocean ripple, and a radial blur making the back round and George pop out. Then I made a cut out of just George so the audience can see clearly what the main thing this poster is about, George. Hope you guys enjoy this upcoming trailer of Snoopy George!

Proactive or Procrastination?

I wanna be proactive but I've been procrastinating because I don't want to critique my Visual Poem because I don't really like it... As Im writing this our class is critiquing my video so I am trying to hide my face. WOO! The video finished but they are playing it again *hides face*. Ok now its done since that is over with Im gonna start being proactive. Being proactive can also make you happy and have no stress hanging over you. If you choose to be a procrastinator in life you'll get nothing done and you would just be dwelling on little things that probably don't really matter so my advice to those reading this is to be more proactive in life so you are living life to its fullest.

Well I spend about 7 hours in school every week day and after school from the time I get home to the time I go to bed 1-3 hours are spent on the internet watching Netflix.... yes I know what your thinking about, thats not so healthy for a 12 year old girl. It depends what day of the week it is, if its monday or friday I probably spend only 1 1/2 hours on the internet. Most of the things that I do on the internet is go on Instagram, Ask fm, Netflix, Vine and I text my friends. I realized this isn't the best thing to do for my age and I should spend more time doing my school work so I can get an A in every class.

Some things that I would change about my work habits is trying to use my time more wisely on my work. I say this because recently I just got a B in this class (GT) and its my first B that I got this year so Im not really happy about it and I just got a C in english Im not really sure why though and I still didn't show my parents my report card because I'm scared but at least its only mid quarter grades. I think the reason why Im not  doing as good as I did in quarter 1 is because currently I'm addicted to Netflix and watching the series Walking dead, American Horror Story, and The100. I think Ive been spending more time watching after school and doing my after school sports more than I have been doing my homework. Good thing Im done with the series of shows now I can and will concentrate on my work.