Animation Outtakes

 Gif: Bouncing Ball 

Two interesting facts about one of my teammates Asha is that 1) She is one of the fittest little girl I've met, she swims, surfs, runs, and more she has some abs and muscle too and also 2) We are basically the same person, I've known her since preschool, we love all the same things and she can be kind of stubborn sometimes but that's okay. Two interesting facts about my teammate Makaio is that 1) He plays multiple sports whether it is in or outside of school (#VeryAthletic) and also 2) He has very long eyelashes. Two interesting facts about my last teammate Meleana is that 1) She is kind of a tomboy, she loves to hunt! and 2) She is also very smart and gets straight A's in school.

Stop-motion animation is a type of animation technique that can make an un-animate object or person seem like its moving by itself, sometimes in an unusual way.  In this type of animation, the subject in it will be moved in small increments in between individual photographed frames, then when you edit it together and play it at a certain frame rate it appears to be animating on its own! Gif stands for graphic interchange format. Gif is a format for compressing image files.

The story that my team (Meleana, Asha, Makaio, and I) are choosing to do is my story which is about when my best friend when I was in 3rd-5th grade moved away. I think a lot of people can relate to this because pretty much everyone has lost someone really close to them and our animation teaches a lesson or moral basically saying learn to move on, make new friends even when your old ones are gone. Also if you love something (or someone) set it free. I think our animation has a strong purpose and I like how we are sharing this lesson in a fun expressive way. People should care about this because it relates to them.

Queens Bath

Queens Bath :)

Hey everyone I just wanted to share this lil Queens Bath edit I made a couple days ago, hope you guys like it and comment below if you think I should post more vids like this.

Yet by the time the food had been manipulated to capture photos of it in ideal lighting, Achatz said, what the blogger probably ended up critiquing was Warm Potato-Warm Potato.

Spring Break so Far

Ok so far our flight to ŁA was canceled last night so I'm still stuck on this island of Kauai... But today at 3 we went to the airport to catch a flight leaving at 4 but it got delayed for a couple of hours (more like a LOT of hours!) right now it's 9:30 and I'm still stuck on Kauai!!! IVE BEEN AT THIS AIRPORT FOR OVER 6 HOURS!   Me and mysister Malia have been getting kinda delusional these past hours heheh but I think we're changing our plane were gonna catch a plane to OAHU at 11:00 PM which means another 1hr and a half more hours at the airport...then when we get to OAHU around 11:30 PM we have to stay at the airport until 6:30 AM (the next day) and we catch a plane to ŁA well arive at ŁA around 3:00 PM CALIFORNIA time. And Last we catch a plane to Denver at around 4:00PM and get there around 7:00 or 8:00 COLORADO time. So yea guess I'll be spending a lot of time at airports hahah but we'll probably ski on Sunday if everything works out. Were staying i. Colorado until Saturday But we have 6 days to ski and snowboard YEAHHHH! Can't wait to hit the slopes! Well that's the update or you guys I'll blog when we get in ŁA or Denver or sooner if the plans change so bye! Remember to Live Like Lani! #LLL !!!

                   Lol still in Kauai

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.