Trip Reflection: I had a pretty successful trip when it came to photography. I got a lot of really good photos of the milky way and I even got some photos of the Bodes galaxy. I cant wait to see what the stack of the Bodes galaxy looks like. I also really wanted to take photos of eagle nebula which was my main goal for the trip but there was some mix ups with the power sources and we couldn't use the telescope. If I get the chance again to go on a trip I will forsure get a photo of eagle nebula. Where I didn't have success in my trip was fishing. I probably casted out at least 100 times in the 2 days. I lost 5 lures and I caught 0 fish. I felt so determined to catch a fish. I took many trips back to camp to get more equipment to fish with. I learned that Cuyamaca is not the best place to fish. After all the frustration with fishing My friends and I went on a great little hike around the lake where we laughed a lot and got to know about each other better.
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This week we did a lot of planning for the upcoming camping trip. I am so excited for next week and I can't wait to share my work with my peers and make badass prints. I also found the objects that we want to get on the trip. The space object I am most excited about is the Eagle Nebula I can't wait to get a hopefully great image of it. Project: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1An71-S5PdLM_crVpit40LFYbmSoEHShjvgEVCMVYP-k/edit Reflection:
This week we were introduced to a new text from the book Light by Bruce Watson. We dissected the intro and learned about the philosophers, artists and the scientists that were referenced in the text. For chemistry we learned organic Chemistry, we did a new experiment with boric acid and glue and we also watched an episode of cosmos that told us about light. Humanities: Wonder and Curiosity By Pablo Robin Scientists, artists and philosophers back in the time where christianity was the prominent source of knowledge were visionaries and they were pushing the boundaries in their respective fields. Artists like Caravaggio pushed boundaries by painting these scenes that showed human emotion and actions with a dramatic use of lighting. Caravaggio's lighting and the fact that he realistically painted the human figure was very influential in starting a new style of painting. This was called Baroque. It came after renaissance art and was heavily influenced by light. The Baroque style of art is big on shadows and light sources affecting the scenes in the paintings. Caravaggio is a great example of using light sources from different angles. He used his high contrast style of Baroque to evoke movement and passion. The way Caravaggio used light inspired a whole new style of art solidifying him as someone who was pushing the boundaries with light. Philosophers were able to think about light in a different way than the church. The church was very mad that people were looking for answers other than god this led to many philosophers being jailed and killed because of their defiance to the church. Philosophers like Plato actually did a lot to the christianity. However at the same time Plato did have his own way of thinking called Platonism. He spoke a lot of the afterlife. He didn't think of it like the bible does now with the afterlife being a dark place, he thought that our minds were trapped in reality and the afterlife set our minds free to have no limits and have a better life than our previous life. Plato also had different views about light, he said, “The sun is a metaphor for the nature of reality and knowledge concerning it.” In his Allegory of the sun. Scientists like Galileo were able to theorize light. Galileo looked to space for light. By looking at space he was able to see the first light. He discovered moons on jupiter and observed comets and galaxies very closely. According to Albert Einstein he is the Father of modern science. That is because he was one of the first people to really look to space for answers instead of god. That ended up with him being credited for theorizing the Big Bang. They proved their doubters wrong and were able to produce mind blowing, world changing work. Without these 3 visionaries we would not know the things we know about today. Chemistry: Epoxy/Polymer By Pablo I went into class and saw new things on the board. The board said Organic Chemistry. I sat down and learned what was inside of every living thing. Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon. We then learned about how different chemicals bond together to create things like epoxy. We learned how our epoxy coating worked in a chemistry standpoint. We mix the hardener and resin and they form crosslinks which makes the epoxy that we cover our prints with. Some resins and hardeners mix quicker than others, our first epoxy took a long time to harden, but once we finished that one we made a new cheaper one. The cheaper one turned into epoxy much faster to harden and that meant that it had more crosslinks. We also did a very interesting experiment with Boric Acid and Elmer's Glue. We mixed them together and my groups mixture was very soupy and not like some other groups. What the other groups did differently was they added a lot of boric acid which made more crosslinks so the mixture would make a thicker flubber like substance. I got to play with the other kind of the mixture and I have to say I liked playing with it more than some soupy glue and boric acid. I wonder what people use this mixture for? Video Reflection: The video was very insightful about the way we uncovered the secrets to light. I liked learning about the findings that the early scientists found when conducting their experiments. I also think I got a lot out of it when it came to experiments I would want to do my self. Like the one where you get the a prism hold it up to the light and look at the rainbow with a telescope. I definitely want to conduct that experiment and see the black lines in the rainbow. Reflection: This week we started printing our landscapes and finishing up the second phase. So far they have looked amazing. I was the first to finish it and I have had a great week helping people edit their photos. I love doing this work I wish I could do it everyday for my entire life. I am really trying to prefect my craft and I am so glad that I can show my work that I have worked hard to get.
Humanities: Beautiful Photos By Pablo Robin Photo: I think the photo is the most important piece of a beautiful photo because without the high quality photo you cant edit it the way you want you cant print it and make it look good and if the print sucks the epoxy wont help it to much. If the photo is high quality and its a photo that makes you feel something I think thats a good photo. A photo is light everything in it is light. A cool thing that can make a photo beautiful is how the light looks in the photo with shadows and just the positioning of light in your photo. Processing: I think processing is very important because it allows you to make the colors look good. It allows you to also sharpen the image and add or take away the strength of the light in your photo. Processing also helps make a not so good photo look amazing depending on how the processor does it. Processing is the only way you can manipulate the light in a photo without going out and taking better photos. Metallic Paper: Metallic paper is a high quality medium that your photo can be printed on. The way it works with light is that it uses the light shining on it to an advantage. When the light shines on it, it glimmers and shines. The medium also brings out the highlights on the image which can look really beautiful too. Epoxy Coat: The epoxy coat makes the print look like glass is covering the photo which makes the photo look glossier and more professional. The epoxy coat reflects light off of it much like glass does. Chemistry: This week I printed my photo out on metallic paper and coated it in epoxy, It looked amazing. I started my process with choosing my image. I chose the image I thought looked the best and what other people said made them feel good. I chose a slow shutter photo I took of a natural waterfall while in japan. I then had to process the RAW file because the RAW file is a higher resolution than the one on my phone. I used light room to edit it I tried to get the waterfall to be the main component of the image really making the white of the water pop out and I made sure to make the colors subtle. Then when I got the picture perfect for printing, I printed it on 13x19 metallic paper. It already looked amazing but then we got out the epoxy and resin and mixed them 50/50 and made the coating for the photo. We mounted the metallic print on a piece of wood and then we poured the mixture on the piece and spread it around evenly. After that we blow torched it to get bubbles out and we let it dry over night. When it was finished drying it looked amazing. It is one of the proudest pieces of work I have ever done. Reflection:
This week I went on 2 field trips. The first one to 3 sisters falls which is a famous hard hike near julian. The second place I went to was sunset cliffs and PLNU for more landscape photos. We fine tuned the writing pieces from the week before. We also processed a lot of images. Humanities: Contrastpiece:https://docs.google.com/document/d/13VfdsytG-qlJoWfClx7p34KTJDc3fO4vtckix55-zv0/edit Windansea by Pablo Robin A few miles South of Torrey Pines, Windansea beach drops in close to downtown La Jolla and stretches for a mile. The water is cold yet refreshing, especially in the summer when the temperature of the air is hot and the sun is up for the whole day. The beach is lined with small cliffs and large rocks, but on the shoreline the water breaks ferociously on the white sand. Ice plants line the cliffs new growth over dead and purple flowers arise from the otherwise green plants; the rocks on the shoreline wear smooth from constant crashing waves. Small sand crabs burrow in the wet sand to hide from the waves and predators. Many seagulls fly in the air searching for an opportunity to swoop down to have a meal. Rarely a pelican will pass by the horizon line, the mighty animal flies close over the ocean looking through the clear blue water for a snack. On an overcast day, the water looks green and clear because it is not reflecting the blue skies that are usually over the ocean. In the early morning when there is no wind the water becomes glass. The surfers go out and the wind comes and ruins the tranquility of the water. When the sun finally comes out the people start to gather on the white sand. The tide rises and chases people from the sand. Footprints leading towards the stairs.The sun dips below the horizon, the sky darkens to shades of orange and pink. The ocean begins to calm itself again, The people go to sleep, the animals go to sleep and the ocean goes back to tranquility. Chemistry: I woke up early with excitement coursing through my body. I got out of bed and immediately got ready. I filled my pack with snacks water and my camera. I was preparing for the worst. I arrived to school and we soon left. We got in the van it was dirty. We didn't have an AUX cord we almost had to resort to listening to a CD full of Bon Jovi. Luckily we stopped at Vons on the way to the hike and purchased an AUX cord. The drive was beautiful, once we got off the 8 freeway. We started going higher and higher in altitude. We got so high the we could seethe clouds move quickly over the peaks of the surrounding mountains and hills. However we did get lost because of the limited connection that we had and the fact that somebody flipped the signs around. We still made it to the trailhead. I got out of the car It was pretty chilly, but not for long. I took my first step on the three sisters falls hike. Then we breezed through the first mile it was a wide trail with mostly downhill sections. We got to see a great view of the falls from far away they had a lot of water. Once we went down the first mountain we entered the ravine which had a small river running through it. We were told by Andrew that there could be a lot of poison oak in the ravine. Me being on the trip for photos I saw a great places to get a photo of a small waterfall. I went through the thin path sideways to get to the small waterfall. Andrew saw where I was and told me that I might've brushed against some poison oak. I came back really carefully to make sure I didn't get any Urushiol on my skin. Urushiol is the chemical found in poison oak. When contact is made with your skin Urushiol goes into the second layer and causes an allergic reaction. I wasn't to worried about it because it happens to people all the time. I didn't want to take a bath in oatmeal either so I was hoping that I didn't make contact and that if I did that going in the falls would help me. So I pushed on continuing down the second mountain. That mountain had ropes going down it because it walking down it without them would be really dangerous. It was really fun going down them because I had never done anything like that on a hike. Once we got down the ropes we started hiking towards the waterfalls. There was a bunch of traversing on one part and a fellow hiker Will fell and was luckily saved by Russell another member of the team. We crossed the small river a few times using small sometimes wet rocks to get across. We finally made it to the falls and we took some photos for a while they were looking amazing. But we started getting hot so we went on a waterslide. Thats right a waterslide. The 1st waterfall made the rock into a smooth surface that you could slide off and we had a lot of fun going down it. When we were finished refreshing in the falls we hiked back to the trail head. We went a better way to the ropes and on the way we ran into a damsel in distress. It was probably the high 90s when we were going up the ropes. The ropes went up a sandy slope that felt like for every 3 steps we took we took 1 step back. We got to the top of the ropes and the damsel wasnt felling to good but luckily we found her friends and they called the rangers and from there It was smooth sailing. We made it back to the cars completely gassed and returned to school. The best part was that I may have not touched the poison oak because I never reacted to it. Reflection:
This week we started our landscape writing drafts we used the writing style of John Steinbeck when he described the setting on the first page of, "Of Mice and Men." We started learning more about printing on metal and even saw some examples in person at a local gallery where they had amazing photos printed big on metal. Humanities: This is my first draft of my landscape writing piece. A few miles South of Torrey Pines, Windansea beach drops in close to downtown La Jolla and stretches for a mile. The water is cold yet refreshing, especially in the summer when the temperature of the air is hot and the sun is up for the whole day. The beach is lined with small cliffs and large rocks, but on the shoreline the water breaks ferociously on the white sand. Ice plants line the cliffs new growth over dead and purple flowers arise from the otherwise green plants; the rocks on the shoreline wear smooth from constant crashing waves. Small sand crabs burrow in the wet sand to hide from the waves and predators. Many seagulls fly in the air searching for an opportunity to swoop down to have a meal. Rarely a will pass by the horizon line, the mighty animal flies close over the ocean looking through the clear blue water for a snack. On an overcast day, the water looks green and clear because it is not reflecting the blue skies that are usually over the ocean. In the early morning when there is no wind the water becomes glass. The surfers go out and the wind comes and ruins the tranquility of the water. When the sun finally comes out the people start to gather on the white sand. The tide rises and chases people from the sand. The people start to leave.The sun dips below the horizon, the sky darkens to shades of orange and pink. The ocean begins to calm itself again, The people go to sleep, the animals go to sleep and the ocean goes back to tranquility. Chemistry: Light By Pablo Robin When a photon is absorbed by an atom it makes the electron have a higher energy level. Since the atom has the higher energy level it is more excited and it starts to get attracted to the nuclei, When an electron loses energy photons are emitted from the atom. Photons are waves of light. When elements are put in fire they can change the color of fire. In class we did an experiment when Andrew burnt elements in a flame. When he turned the flame was blue. When he put boron on the flame it turned green. When he put potassium on the fire it turned a purple/pink color. Then he burnt lithium and copper at the same time mixing an element that burnt red and an element the burnt blue which made a rainbow of colors come out. The rainbow was my favorite part seeing that was really cool taught me a lot and was beautiful all at the same time. I want to for an independent experiment, experiment with different elements in fire. I want to see how it would look to mix a bunch of elements and put it under flame like mixing boron and potassium to get colors like green and pink to come out on the same burn. The way we can tell the different elements is by exciting their electrons by putting them in fire, once we do that the electrons lose energy levels making them emit photons of different colors. Reflection:
This week in class we started the Land scape part of the project. My friends and I planned a field trip to 3 sisters falls to get shots hopefully it will happen next week. We also learned that the shutter speed is the main thing in land scape photography. Humanities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/177pqdHgOEOWxb1fjEer1XxyorlfVU92-2loQN5ldR9o/edit Chemistry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ig9wECzLMJsho4jjQVynWopGquDCbcBYbvAcHaR-h-g/edit My project is about melting aluminum and pouring it into a mold and creating my own ring. I wanted to do this because I want to have something that I made to wear so I can be reminded of my experience and what I learned. Reflection:
This week I learned a lot, I learned about natural landscapes in California, California history, and how to make hydrogen. I also developed another photo with the silver emulsion. I really liked learning about the Salton Sea. It really got me more interested in the water crisis of California. Humanities: Salton Sea: What Happened: In the early 1900s a bunch of water from the california river flooded an empty lake bed and it became the salton sea. People thought it was going to just dry up right away. It didn't because of all of the farmers water flowing back into it. With that water came pesticides. The pesticides filled the bottom of the salton sea with toxic chemicals. As Southern California grew the amount of water going into the Salton Sea depleted. Because of the Parker Dam which limits the water that flows to the salton sea and instead gives water to cities like Los Angeles and San Diego When the wind blew the toxic chemicals from the bottom of the Salton sea got in the air. Did we need to do it: We do not need the Parker Dam. The cities it supplies with water should have never grown to the size they are today. San Diego is basically a desert next to the ocean. All the green grass comes from the water we are supplied from the Parker Dam. Without the Parker Dam we would have a little less water but the Salton Sea would not have the problems it has today. The water would flow into the Salton Sea and proceed to flow into the Sea of Cortez. What is the water rights impact: Due to there being no outflow the Salton Sea is getting a higher and higher amount of Salinity. Which means that a lot of fish are dying because the salt levels are too high in the water. What is the environmental impact: Since there is not an outflow in the Salton Sea it is getting lower and lower. Fish are dying and people are dying. The pesticides that the farms use are flowing into the salton sea and as the Salton Sea lowers and the harsh winds blow those chemicals are being blown into the air and going into the people's lungs. Hetch Hetchy: Should we have dammed the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy? At that time San Francisco was in peril the great earthquake hit and absolutely destroyed the city that shouldn't have even been there in the first place. They were in a hurry to rebuild and I think they didn't do a good job looking for a water source. They could have found another site down river or at another spot in central California. Was California meant to support this many people? I think it was made to support this many people however the places where all the people are like San Francisco should not be there. San Francisco was essentially built on top of a rock. You can tell this by all of the hills in the city and how small packed it is. If the people were to disperse into the central valley there would definitely be enough space for them. Are our landscapes worth saving? Why? Our landscapes need to be saved or else we would all be dead. If you've ever read the Lorax you would know why this is very important. Our landscapes are what makes our world beautiful. I'm not saying we should not get rid of everything but we should learn to give back as much as we take from the land. How should water be managed in California? By taking people out of California we use less water. Which means more water for everyone. Chemistry: Hydrogen Lab By Pablo Robin I walked into Andrew's class and I noticed some new tools on the table. There was a flask on the table that had a long skinny neck and a fat circular bottom. The circular part was filled with water. I also saw a piece of thin metal. That metal ended up being magnesium the whole time. I then saw a bag of citric acid on Andrew's desk that was not there before. He came around pouring the citric acid into everyone's flask. He also gave us an uninflated balloon. Andrew gave us directions to mix the citric acid in the water and make it dissolve. After we did that we put the magnesium in the flask. Very quickly it started to bubble. It was creating hydrogen. I put a balloon on top of the flask and it started to fill with the hydrogen. I took off the filled balloon and tied it. I looked around the room and everybody else's balloon was floating and their balloons were more filled than mine. My balloon kept falling, I cut off the end of the balloon which is the heaviest part. Sure enough it floated, I had to hold onto it so it didn't float away. Andrew said turn off the lights, the lights went off and Andrew lit a candle. He grabbed the a balloon and attached it to a stick. He put the balloon on the fire and BOOM. The balloon exploded. Everybody took out their phones to video it. I was able to get it on video so now I can inspect it frame by frame. Reflection: This week I got a lot of work done. I am almost done with my first draft of my 1000 word writing piece about my photo that I took at UCSD. We started developing our photos and my photo turned out really nice on the silver emulsion. I have a lot of work to still do for phase 1 of the project like editing my Dorothea Lange writing piece. I also finished Of Mice and Men it had quite the ending. Chemistry: Emulsion By Pablo Isaac Robin We started with silver nitrate and sodium chloride. We put it in a glass that was put over a bowl of hot water when we put the mixture of the silver nitrate and sodium chloride it rearranged the mixture and created silver chloride and sodium nitrate. We then got a sponge brush to coat our paper with the emulsion. The emulsion needs to be coated evenly on the paper. A way to check that you have spread it evenly is to hold it up to the light and if it is glossy you’re good. We then gave our wet papers to Andrew who kindly dried them with his trusty blow dryer. We repeated this process a total of 3 times. Then we put the papers in a light sealed box. Then we print our negative. When we edit our photo to print we have to make sure to turn it negative so when we develop it the right colors come out. Once we print out the negative we have to expose it onto the paper we spread the emulsion on. To expose it you have to shine a light on it, we first used test strips to figure out how long we have to shine the light on the picture. After we knew how long to shine it we tried it out on the coated paper. We shined the light for one second on the coated paper with the negative on top. After that we put it in the developing liquid for a split second the developer liquid makes the picture show up on the picture, then we quickly put the paper in the stop liquid which stops the developing process so it doesn't get over developed and turn grey. After the stop liquid we put the paper in the fixer which dissolves the remaining silver left on the paper. Then we washed it in water for two minutes and dried it and its ready for the frame. 1. What is the best light to shine on the paper? 2. What happens when a paper is under developed? Humanities: Composition: I tried to fill the frame with the subject. I was really impressed on how the photo looked when it appeared on my monitor. I liked how the background of the image filled in all of the empty space of the image. I also chose this image because the man was smiling. His smile is in the right third of the image which is supposed to draw the eye. The main and only light source of this image is the sun. The sun was shining from above onto his hat. When changing the image to black and white the light that was hitting the hat was acting like a hair light separating the hat from the background. I edited it in color at first and focus a lot on the colors. I then realized I had to edit a black and white image. I had to restart my processing in a way. I tried to use contrast to my advantage in this image because I think images that have dark blacks and bright whites look better than your average black and white shot. Personal: I chose this image for a lot of reasons. When I saw him I was immediately drawn to the camera that was around his neck. He had an old Canon AE-1, I knew he would understand when I asked him for a photo because he looked like a photographer. I asked him and he said sure and smiled I was able to get some really clean shots of him while he was smiling. When I was looking through my photos on the way back to school this one really stood out to me. His smile is just so infectious. It makes me happy just looking at it. I set out that day looking for a positive image and I believe that I found one. What I also liked about the image was how good he looked in black and white. His clothes are perfect for it because he is wearing a light shirt and a dark jacket and it just helps him pop out from a pretty full background. African americans at Ucsd: This photo was taken at UCSD. The man I took a photo of looked African American. I thought I would research African Americans at UCSD. 71% of UCSD undergraduates are students of color. As of 2016 2% of the undergraduate student body of UCSD is African American. In 2006 1% of UCSD undergraduates were African american. UCSD has had a past of some of the student body having racist behavior, for example: they had a “Compton Cookout” during black history month mocking the African Americans. Since then UCSD students have said that they are not racist and that was a small group of students that no longer attend. From walking around there I did notice a low amount of African American students. The African American students I saw looked very happy. It seems like UCSD is on the right path to leveling out the diversity of their university. History of UCSD: The University of California San Diego was started in November of 1960. It was essentially an extension to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The land of the school is in La Jolla the campus occupies 2,141 acres of land, which was given to the university for free by the city of San Diego. The university was built from the ground up. The money for the buildings was given to the university by John Jay Hopkins of General Dynamics Corporation who pledged one million dollars. More funding has been recently given to the university by Qualcomm. In 2013 Travel + Leisure named UCSD one of the ugliest campuses in the United States. It was mainly because of The architecture being in a brutalist style. I personally think that UCSD is one of the most beautiful places in San Diego. UCSD has also been named one of the happiest colleges in the US by the Daily Beast. I could tell this when I went not many people had a frown on their face. UCSD is also the 17th best undergraduate program in the world according to the Center for World University Rankings. The school has also produced over 680 Google employees. SubjectPOV: I just finished my second class of the day. I am on my way to the third class of the day and then I’m free for the rest of the day. Today I am planning to walk around campus taking pictures for my photography class. I got a new camera that I can't wait to test out. It is the classic Canon AE-1. I have never used film before and I cannot wait. My professor always raves about it and I just had to see what all the fuss was about. I’m almost to my third class. I see a kid walking towards me. He asks, “are you in a hurry?” I replied, “no,” “can I take your photo?” The kid said. I thought to myself I look pretty good today I've had to ask people for photos why not? I replied “Sure!” He snapped his photos I hope they came out good. The short time I was being shot I felt famous like I mattered that helped the rest of my day to be one of the best days of my life. My plan for a trip would be to go on a hike at Cedar Creek Falls AKA "The Devils Punchbowl." Its a light hike and we can get good land scape shots with a waterfall. It is also a short drive from laguna so after we can camp at Laguna and get even more landscapes there during sunset and sunrise. It would be epic.
Reflection: I loved going to Balboa Park to take pictures it was so fun especially when I was writing my blog earlier and it all deleted but you know its always darkest before the dawn. Humanities: This is the image I used for my writing piece. Composition: I tried to fill the frame with the subject. I was really impressed on how the photo looked when it appeared on my monitor. I liked how the background of the image filled in all of the empty space of the image. I also chose this image because the man was smiling. His smile is in the right third of the image which is supposed to draw the eye. The main and only light source of this image is the sun. The sun was shining from above onto his hat. When changing the image to black and white the light that was hitting the hat was acting like a hair light separating the hat from the background. I edited it in color at first and focus a lot on the colors. I then realized I had to edit a black and white image. I had to restart my processing in a way. I tried to use contrast to my advantage in this image because I think images that have dark blacks and bright whites look better than your average black and white shot. Photos of the Week: |
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