Final Artist Statement

this is my final Artist statement, and i feel the most successful photo that i did was the surrealism picture. even though it did not turn out the way i imagined in my mind but it came really close to it. the thing im really struggle with at first was the to how to cut the cliff from my painting and make it a part of my surreal project. also, i learned how to made a floating island through some tutorials on the internet. even though mine turned out not as perfect as it suppose to be, but i will work more on it to perfect that technique.
my favorite thing that i learned from this class have got to be how to use the camera. i always wanted to do the picture of peoples drawing with glow stick on their hand like in the sprint commercial but i do not know how, thanks to this lesson, now i know how to mess with shutter speed and ISO and aperture and such to do some crazy thing with my camera. plus the fact that everybody been using flash to take picture in the dark and creating the awkward lighting situation, i learned to use the ISO function to lighten up the picture without using the flash and the picture i took of my aunt blowing out her birthday cake was pretty awesome.
one of the project that effect my life the most was my quilts project. while doing that, it helps me looking back to my past and see how i treated my family as a kid and through that, i learn to treat my family better. looking through everyone's quilts projects, i found out that everyone been through a lot of obstacles in life and how life is a gift and we have to learn to treasure every moment we have because we do not know what might happen tomorrow. some of my favorite artists that l earned about in class were Leonardo Da Vinci, Donatello and Dali, their art are so amazing and it's priceless. some are creative and some are creepy(especially Dali's works) but it all seems so interesting.
i think that i have learn to use phtoshop better since the first time i mess with it of course. one of the favorite project that i did in class was the surrealism project. it helps me think and trying to remember and pay attention more to my dreams. because i usually do not remember anything in my dream nor care to remember it, now that i tried to remember my dreams, i can see that my imagination can be really creative sometimes.

Blow out and Panning

For the Panning the ISO was 125 and the appeture is F2.8 and the shutter speed is 1/13. Now for the blow out the ISO was 50 and the appeture F8 and the shutter speed is 1/6. You create the blow out effect by changing the ISO and the shutter speed and the appeture. the best way to make a blow out picture in my opinion is turn up shutter speed and lower the ISO, by doing that you allow more time for the light to travel through the picture but at the same time limit it by turning down the ISO. panning is when you are taking a picture of a moving object and it will blur out everything except the subject and it is really difficulf to take a panning picture perfectly. to take a panning picture, you will have to turn the shutter speed to 1/2 a second because it will take sometime for it to follow your moving emphasis and focus on it. my best way to do a panning is when your emphasis moving super slow and all you need to do is have the camera on auto and slowly folow the emphasis with the camera. the panning picture are difficult to take because everything is happening in a split second

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed what it does is that you can use this in the dark and you using a flash light or some sort of light that you can use to make yourselves seem inside a bright place. when you are trying to take a shutter speed picture, your background have to be dark and you will need a light source to be able to make shapes and letters for the picture. i would change the shutter speed because i want my picture to capture the pattern that the light source are moving that's why we can draws figures with it on the picture. plus i would raise the ISO so that there will be more light in the picture because the background is dark. my favorite one is the one that they draws the name "Brisa" in the picture because it turns out awesome and the letters really has its shapes.

Aperture

aperture, you can call it the eye pupil of the camera so to speak. it controls how wide your image can be or if you want the depth of field to you image. the function Macro has almost the same function as the aperture. even though, macro only does one of the two things that aperture did. so if you are using aperture to add the depth of field to your image, you image will turn out looking kind of deep into you subject or just the background, but the image will not cover more of the surrounding while if you are changing the f-stop to f2 then the pupil will expand to cover more of the surrounding but it will not sees the subject thats really far away. for example, the picture about the flower is the one with the big f-stop because the flower is the only important emphasis in this picture that's why it doesnt need the see more surrounding. the second image uses smaller f-stop because we don't want to capture one building specificly, we want to capture the whole part of that city and smaller f-stop will expand the pupil more and that's why it can capture more surrounding.

ISO

ISO 5000

ISO 800

ISO 400

FLASH

ISO, ISO is how fast the light gets process in the camera. in other word, it means that the more or less light you going to allow going in your picture persay. then you used flash, you kind of freeze the moment and it scared your subject. also, it darken the brackground, while in ISO, you can allow how much light into the picture and how fast the picture flow is going to be. i would pick ISO over flashing because flashing gives my emphasis red eyes and it produce an ugly lighting and darken the background so i do not want that happen in my picture. you have to hold the camera still and your emphasis have to stay still the whole time while the picture is taken because one slightly movement will blur out your picture.

Flash

The pros of flashing are:
1. it's add light to the scene
2. and it's freeze time, so it can eliminate blur
Cons of flashing:
1. it disturb the subject.
2. it creates an ugly lighting situation.
3. gives ur subject red eyes.
4. and it make te background dark.
it is a perfect time to use flash when your subject is in the light. what the flash will do is it will add light to your subject's face or any of the shadow part. the flash should not be use when you are trying to capture the rich color of the night like the example picture i have on top. it is an ideal situation when you do not need to use flash, because if you do, the rich dark color will be gone and it will add an ugly bright situation.

Metering

metering is the tool in your camera that measure the light of the surrounding and to see if the camera will focus on the object that bright or the object that aren't bright. as u can see, in image one, the camera measures my partner's face and use that as the focus of the picture, that's why everything else is visible and bright. while in image two, the camera focus on the computer screen so the screen is it's emphasis and the scrren itself already bright so everything else around it is dark because the camera didn't let much light into the pic. this will help me in the future when i want to take a picture of an object and i it is in the dark, and by not using flash i can still see the object in my pic.

Surrealism " My Fantasia"

in my Fantasia.... the only entrance is you have to go through my big closet at home (just like the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia") Once you pass the closet full of coats and clothes, you will end up on a dock made by everyone's quilts. Infront of me are the cliffs which leads to somewhere far away but it's covered with mist. that represent that my future is still undiscover. the dock made my other's quilt can represent that whereever i go, there will be peoples who will back me up and support me. the killer whale in my picture represent wisdom, that whale will guide me down my path to my undicover future. the floating island represent my family, doesnt matter where i go, they will be looking over me and will always be there for me whenever i need them. the lighthouse represent the light source that will break the mist and open the way to my bright future. the dark sky gives the audience the stormy feeling because my path to a better future aren't easy and i will need all the helps i can get from everyone around me.

Surreal Practice Tutorials

for the dessert, at first, we make a duplicate photo of the dessert ground, and then i use the soft eraser to erase the edges of the duplicate ones to make it look like it's a one ground photo. and then we transform it in distort to make it look more real than just a wall layer that look like the ground. and then, we add the light and the shadow and erase the leg to make it look blend in with the ground. finally, we color the the sky and add a gradient layer to make it look real and last, we added clouds and random sky background to add the surreal feeling to the photo

ART SHOW "my creativity"

this is one of my project that i put in the most effort out of all the projects i did in this class. What i did in this one is that i am trying to make a picture i took of the library and i am trying to turn it into an oil painting. this project was about graduation and i took the picture of the library because in my opinion, in order to be success in school and be able to graduate, one got to go the the library at least more than 100 times in their highschool year.

Graduation

the strength of my design is probably my oil painting that i made out of the original photo. i spent a lot of time on it and it did came out great. at first, i thought turning a picture into a an oil paint was easy, but then i again it is really hard to make it look exactly like the original oil painting. after i looked at all the ones that my classmates did, it make me want to fix mine a little bit on the text font and the background. the most important of graphic design is the information that the project deliver. the key to graphic design is that to play around with the fonts and the size of the texts and make sure the audiences gets the message that you are trying to get across. graphic design play a BIG part in today world today, because almost everything today need an ad, or a poster.

si se puede / academic excellence

the most difficult part of this was to come up with the idea of how yours' going to look like. i think the si se puede one was my strong one because on the academic excellence one, i have a hard time coming up with the picture that will relate to the subject and deliver the right message. if i can change this, i would of change the background on the academic one and i would make a nice background for it.

Personal Quilts

Future

outside

inside

Past

quilts

to start off, when i was doing this project, i have nothing in my mind about what to put in my picture, but then as i mess around with photoshop, the idea started to come through my head and so on. i really like this project because i get to express myself through picture, which i always wanted to do but do not know how. plus this project give me a chance to see how others think of me and it also give me a chance to think about my past and my future and what i want to do after high school. my favorite square would be the past quilt, because at first, i do not know what to do with that picture, i want to put picture of my childhood in, but i can't find any, plus it's kind of cliche' because almost everyone is doing that. so i decide to relate myself to my country and what it been through, and that lead me through the future quilt. in my past, my country suffering war and what not, and it make me think of a better life in America. then i achieved that, and which lead me to the future one because now after highschool, what do i want to do to give back to the community, to give back to the humanity.
the symbol that unified all my quilts together are my name written in Chinese. aside that i am Vietnamese, im also part Chinese and i am proud to be that way so i decide to put my name in there u unify all my quilts. the symbol i used for the inside square my country geographically and it colored yellow and three red stripes like the flag of vietnam before 1975. that symbol say alot about how i feel about me. it said that i am very proud to be who i am, and it also shape like an "S" so that can also say that i feel like a supernam inside me. i feel that i can achieve anything that i put my mind in. Also, if anyone paying real close attention to the inside quilt, you can see the flag of communist vietnam on top of the building. Viet people over here in america tend to fight about that all the time, but in my hearty, i love my country for what it is and my childhood memories i've had in that country. im not going to hate it now for just the peoples who live there have different view point about politics than me.
My outside quilt are my least favorite one because people tend to describe me in a weird way and i do not know how to put their ideas in the picture. then one said that i am random and funny, so i decided to work primary on that two ideas. the pikachu are symbolize my random point of view and a bunch of balloons represent my funny side.