Final Artist Statement

I think that I was a little successful in Photoshop. That is because I like how my personal words is looking like that’s because that was just the first time we did something like this. Though it came out looking okay for my personal words it didn’t come out perfect, although it was nice for me. I also like how some of my quilts came up that’s because the quilts that I thought about a lot didn’t come out looking nice and the ones I just didn’t think about them. I also like my surrealism but it was a little hard trying to put everything together and making the under water and making it look realistic. I did struggle a little with making them on Photoshop and them coming out the way that I wanted them to.

Like it took me a long time in order to do my surrealism because of the water and I took most of my time making the water look perfect. I would improve on making sure some of the things come out perfect and that I turn them in on time and try to manage my time more wisely then before and to stop procrastinating. My most favorite thing would be the rules and the camera setting that we can change so that our pictures don’t come out as they used to be. I would most definitely use this knowledge in the future so that when I go on trips the pictures will come out better than before.

My life experiences have changed so much on the way that I look at life now. My life experiences do change my art work because that is where I get most of my ideas. That is also from where I get my inspiration from and the pictures. I see the world so much differently because even the smallest animal or creature makes a difference in our whole world or universe. Even we don’t see it though we know it is true. I have seen growth and improvement in the way that I take my pictures and I have to think about it before I take a picture. The most meaningful project to me would be one of my quilt squares and that is the Past quilt square. That’s because it basically sums up all the things I have had to go through these three years. The thing is that you look back and know that you were able to handle that problem.

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. I think that it is the best way to let more light in when its dark. You should change the appeture and the shutter speed. It should keep the dark colors and blur the lighter colors in the sunlight. I changed the ISO and the appeture and the shutter speed. Panning was very difficult because it would make the person blurry and not the background or sometimes the person would look like a ghost runing and it was hard in making our partner look as clear as possible.

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. The shutter speed is that it is how long it lets the light in so the you can make figures or something surreal. It also allows you to show movement and lets in more light. We had to put our camera in the shutter speed and the ISO because the camera takes care of the appeture. It was hard in the beginning although it was very fun to do and easy and weird at the same time. The setting in the room was that it was as dark as possible. I would choose changing the ISO because that is what lets more light into the camera and with more light you are able to see the movement. My favorite picture was with us having two heads and Brisa's head in the middle of everyone like a ghost.

Aperture

Apeture is the pupil of the camera. The pupil of the camera is how deep it can take a picture and how big the pupil is. Like in the first picture that is a very large depth that is because it took a picture of a lot of flowers. Like in the second picture it has had a small depth that is why it only took a picture of only one flower. Although when you have a large pupil then you have a small depth and when you have a small pupil then you have a large depth of feel. The hole in the first picture is big and the second picture the hole is small. In the first one the f-stop is small so the small f-stop is like a f-22 and the second one would be big so the biggest f-stop is f-2

ISO

Flash

ISO 50

ISO 400

ISO 800

ISO 5000

What ISO really does is that it refers to the film speed and it also captures the background light. It captures the background light and lets more light in so that you can see your background good and the flash actually makes your picture a lot more blurry. Whe I used the flash it made my background very blurry and you couldn't make out the lights and with the ISO you can see your background. Over the course of the pictures I can see that it makes this weird texture to all of my pictures and makes them more visible. I would actually rather use the ISO so that it makes my pictures a lot more brighter and lets more light in. You have to be very careful that your not letting in to much light or else it will make your pictures very bright and not able to see anything or make them blurry sometimes

Flash

The pros of using flash are that you add light to dim lit situations. Another pro wouold be that you freeze time, and it elimantes blur. The cons of using flash are that you distrub the subject. It creates ugly lightning sit spots and red eyes and it also darkens the background. Flash is good to use when you want to capture the light of the city. Flash is not a good idea when it is dark outside because it makes your background dark. This picture looks better without the flash on becasue you can capture the vivid colors in the background and the colors that the city has at night.

Surrealism "Under water City"

In my surrealism it was about a crazy dream that I had. It was as if I was floating in the water. As if I was looking at the world from the top as if I was trying to find out something. Like if I was trying to find out who I am and what is going wrong in my life. Trying to find a way out of my problems although I was stuck in this light bulb with no way out. As I was trying to find a solution to my problem and that is what I think its about. The city and me being under water was that I was drowning with how huge my problem was getting and trying to find out what to do. Me looking down at the city is that I am trying to find myself and a solution so that I can finally have some sort of peace

Surreal Practice Tutorials

We did so many different kinds of things becuase they were a little easy although the steps were long. We tried to blend everything together so that I can seem as if it was real. We put down a drop shadow and we just changed the color of the eye and the desert and we tried to make it seem real like blend two different colors together. We put clouds together and blended some stars and made them a little lighter to make it seem as if that is how the sky was. This will help me out on my surreal artwork because we have pretty crazy things in our dreams and the things are the same as like the desert and just something random in them.

Art Show "Stand Strong"

My artwork is about me and the struggles that some people that I know are going through. How they should keep themselves from falling down and to help you to stand strong and not fall. That is what will make us strong all of the struggles that we go though on in life. Our struggles make us stronger so that we become a better person on in life. It tells me that I should look at all of my struggles and know that they are the things that made me the type of person who I am right now. I picked this picture because everyone goes through all kinds of struggles although they make it seem as it’s the end of the world although we must keep our heads held high. I like this picture because it makes you think about the struggles that you have had and the way that you handled them.It makes you a stronger person and to let you know that you can handle anything that comes in your path.

Graduation Program

The strength for my design I think would probably be the way that I made it simple and it's not so crazy like other peoples it is. You can tell that it is a graduation program becuase it has a graduation hat and a diploma. You can also tell that it is from Cesar Chavez High School becuase of the pegasus in the back of the program. I could have put a picture to not make it look so plan and ugly like that and so that it is a little more interesting. It was a lot harder than what I thought because its hard to find something that the person would like and especially not being able to really know what they would like to see. The most important parts would be the pictures and the letters because they are supposed to catch your attention the most. Graphic design plays a huge role in society because they use it for mostly anything even for colleges, movies, television shows, soup operas, television ad and for selling all kinds of things.

Si Se Puede and Academic Letters

The strength in my design for my Academic Letters was the angle that I took the picture from and the way that I gave other people the prspective of how the students look at the school and the way that the words are put together in a different style. I could have been more creative with the picture in my Si Se Puede program because its simple and its a little crazy. I struggled the most with the pictures for both of the programs and how to put them together in order for them to look nice although creative and amazing. I think I did better on Academic Letters because its a lot nice and you can tell that I took a longer time on that then on the Si Se Puede program.

Personal Quilt

My Quilt

Future

Outside

Inside

Past

In the beginning I was struggling so much because I was thinking of it too much. Once I startes to just relax it was so much easier for me. I just asked Ms. Cook for some ideas on what I could do to make them look a little more similar and vivid looking. I then started to look at all of them the same and I just started to do all sorts of things, although my quilt squares are a little simple but that's how I feel and the person that I am. The hardest one for me was my future because I was having trouble on knowing what I was going to do. My least favorite quilt would be my inside. It was my hardest and least favorite because I wasn't being creative and I should have taken more time on doing it.

My favorite square actually turned out being my future square because it has everything I wanted and everything that I wanted to do. Like I would like to become a chef and graduate from high school and college. I would like to go to college and go to Hawaii and the beautiful background of the river makes it look so peaceful. In my outside and inside it is a little bit and totally different kind of person although in a way still the same person everyone can see on the outside or who actually knows me. I have pictures ofmy loved ones in my outside and inside because if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have been who I am right nor and they helped me out when I needed someone to talk to.

I think that it was hard for me to express myself visually because it's hard for me to express my self to someone else unless I know them from a long time. I was a little surprised to what some of my friends and family thought of me. They saw things that I would have seen unless they showed me. I am not happy with some of my quilt squares because they look so plain and boring to me like they really don't have any meaning to it. I would do different from some of these quilts would be to take my time on them and think about it a lot more. I would keep my future and also my outsde square beause they look nice and it's how I was really feeling about all of the quilt squares.