Creating an Image --- Sept.27 Assignment

Creating an Image --Sept.27 Assigment

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Creating an image: The signboard of the Museum

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A Vague Cat   

 

 

Scenes from China

Creating an Image

I decided to take some photographs of my cat sitting in a shoe box. I started by doing some low camera angle shots of her but I didn't like the subject placement; I didn't think it was eye-catching enough because of her being in the center and it looked too busy in the background so I tried some high camera angle shots. I tried to not put my cat in the geometrical center of the photo but I thought it looked fine in the last photo since I made the shot interesting while adding some contrast and dynamic symmetry by including the streams of light that were coming in through the blinds and shining on the floor.

A Memorable Image

This photograph makes me smile. The caption says "Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University". First of all I love that the university not only lets but seems to encourage that the parents do this. I'm sure everyone can say they've seen their parent(s) overtired on at least one occasion because parents have a lot to juggle, so the fact that the university lets them take a moment away from all that and have a nap is wonderful if you ask me. It's also great to see them embrace it so whole-heartily. I love how they all seem to be in such a deep glorious sleep and are all in different sleeping positions. Now I understand what my mother used to say about me looking so sweet and angelic when I was asleep. There's just something very sweet about this photo and about seeing people in such a vulnerable state when they can't fix themself up or have any conscious thoughts about how they look or are coming across, they're completely free and raw. I think that the bird's eye view really translates this because you get to see all the people at once in a way you wouldn't if the camera was at any other angle.

A Memorable Image

Students practice moves at a pole dancing club in Wuhan, China on August 31, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the low viewpoint and subject placement.

Paramilitary policemen jump above their fellow policemen's arms as they take part in psychological training in Tongling, China on August 28, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement and the low viewpoint.

Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, China on September 8, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement and mainly because of the bird's eye viewpoint.

Containers are loaded by workers in Qingdao on September 9, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement and the fish eye camera lense that was used.

A North Korean girl plays at a game booth at a Folk Street in Sariwon, North Korea, Sept. 23, 2012.
This photograph is successful because of the subject placement.

Creating an Image: Hummingbird at a Feeder

Sample from Sami

My 5 Favourites

It was hard to choose!

National Geographic contest 2011. LONE TREE YELLOWSTONE: A solitary tree surviving another harsh winter in Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Photo and caption by Anita Erdmann/Nature/National Geographic Photo Contest)

A woman leans into the mouth of a plastic shark to kiss her child at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, July 24, 2012. (Hye Soo Nah/Associated Press) 

A livestock seller pedals his bike, towing his newly acquired pig that he plans to fatten before putting on the market, in Guantanamo, Cuba, July 25, 2012. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)

An Indian woman gets both a faceful of powder and a handful of green paint during celebrations in Allahabad on March 20. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press

World Press Photo Contest. 1st Prize Daily Life Singles: A photograph of North Korea's founder, Kim II-sung, hangs on a building in the capital of Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 5, 2011. 

Mountains Calling!

OUTDOOR SCENES - Lenticular Over Mt. Rainer: The wonder of the weather. (Rolland Hartstrom/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

Pedal Power!

Welcome and Good Chaplin Resource

It was very interesting to hear from you three today and nice to know that you are all film buffs! The teachers are trying to make our class a bit bigger but it seems to me that our group can definitely do some good work together this year in any case.

I've found some more information on Chaplin that I had not seen before. If you'd like to look, it includes some information on "The Kid" that gives you a sense of what Chaplin was doing for his first feature length work. The dream sequence was pretty strange!

Here's the specific page on the film we saw: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/film/chaplin/meth5.html

You can also go to page bottom and find the home page. It's a really old site that is hard to navigate but it is good quality and interesting.

More on my favourite pictures on the weekend.