Reflection: This week I was very productive. Even though I had a seizure and missed an entire day of school I was able to finish all of my work. In humanities we had a lot of work time which helped me. Also in chemistry we did some emulsions of photos and learned more about that. We also had a workshop about editing on photo shop. Workshop Chemistry: This is the original image. This is the first image edited, I made it darker and added contrast to make him clear yet not blown out. Humanities: I finished my rough draft of my 1000 word essay. Photo Plan: Ask people that seem interesting for photos try and get closer(foot to frame) Photos of the Week: Taken at UCSD.
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Reflection: This week in class we took a lot of good portraits and made a lot of t-shirts. In humanities we started reading Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck. So far I really like the book its a quick read that has a lot of depth. We also started writing our Dorothea Lange writing and so far I have written two of the five. I think for next week I have to spend more time on it because I feel behind. In chemistry we started making our first emulsions and we turned the class into a dark room. Chemistry: My jobs in class are the paper guy and the documenter. I took photos of the process of the dark room and the emulsions. I am still yet to do any paper stuff, next week I will become more familiar with it. Humanities: Dorothea Write Up: Composition: The man is positioned in the center third of the frame. The background is blurred meaning the aperture was wide. It does a good job of separating the foreground from the background. Another way the subject stands out is that he is wearing all dark colors which brings him out from the white background. The photo is also in black and white. Which means the skies that day were cloudy because of the white skies. The cloudy skies mean there was no shadows because the sun was being blocked. The clouds acted like a soft box for the sun. The mans hat shaded his face so you could see all the creases in his face. The creases in his face add a lot of drama to the photo it looks like he's been through a lot. The way he is standing looks staged, but at the same time the look on his face is a sad one, which means it might be candid, Dorothea Lange could have asked him to make that face or that was just how he felt at the time. Autobiographical: Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer who always tried to provoke the thoughts of americans with her amazing and thoughtful photos. She was born in the year 1985, in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1913 she moved to New York City and it changed her life forever. After working in a photography studio she decided to become a photographer. She attended the University of Columbia for photography. In 1918 she was living in San Francisco with her own photography studio and a family. She started documentary photography in the 1920s photographing Native Americans. Then in the 1930s with the great depression in full effect she started taking photos of labor strikes and breadlines in her local state of California. She then went all around the United States taking impactful documentary photos about the great depression. Her photos conveyed hard intense times during the great depression. After the great depression she took photos of the Japanese internment camps that similar to the great depression photos showed hard times in America's history. Dorothea Lange died at 70 years old from esophageal cancer in 1965. Steinbeck:
1. George is constantly getting Lennie out of trouble. They are tramps living off cans of beans and looking for work wherever they can get it. Lennie is more irresponsible than George. 2. "Your aunt Clara give you a rubber mouse and you wouldn't have nothing to do with it." "It wasn't no good to pet." In this part Steinbeck may be talking about how in the great depression the workers were very replaceable much like the mice that Lennie's aunt Clara gives him. Then when you have something that will last longer like a rubber mouse you will have to pay more. No one wants to pay more when moneys tight. This week we learned about the great depression and learned more about how to take portraits. We learned about setting up lights and how they effect the subject. We also made T shirts about the statue of liberty. Humanities: Does our society really depend on “creating and maintaining a peon class?” Day In the Life of a Peon By Pablo Robin The first light of the morning peeks through the small slit in my tent and meets my eyes waking me up. I jump up off the ground and wipe the dirt off my dungarees. I come out of my tent and I immediately see the lights of the truck illuminating the city of tents. I make my way over to the truck and squeeze myself in there. I was cold before I got in the back of the truck, but once I got in the body heat of the other passengers made me warmer. Once we made it to the farm the sun was higher and was beating on us. I wiped a drop of sweat off my forehead and got right to work. I had to work as hard and as fast as I possibly could because there were a lot of people who wanted my job. The more I worked the more it started heating up. Until my drops of sweat were falling onto the lettuce that I was picking out of the ground. My fingernails were full of dirt as I bumped into another worker who was from Asia we made eye contact for a split second he looked distraught like he had not eaten in days and his skin was so wrinkled from the sun that I could barely make out his features. I continued picking until sundown. I got back into the truck to go back to the camp. The truck was filled to the brim with men covered head to toe in dirt. When I got back to camp I went back into my tent to restart the routine. T-Shirt: Chemistry: We looked at the equation of the silver printing chemicals and we noticed that the arrow from one chemical to another was the same as the equals sign and that there are certain rules on how you can write them. Photos of the Week: Alex Lopez in Rembrandt lighting. Lighting: Russell Banks and Drew Juergensen. Taken with Sony a5100. Drew Juergensen staring deep into a motor vehicle. Taken with Sony a5100.
Reflection: This was my first week of this project I've gotta say it's pretty solid. I had a lot of fun during team time when we went and took pictures around Liberty Station. I also enjoyed analyzing the photo in Mike's class and Learning about the wonders of sudo science in Andrew's class. The two bummers this week were #1 all the rain this week and #2 Trump being elected president. I can't wait to see what we do next week. Photos of the Week: This is an image I took on Monday after being given the task to take a picture that had something to do with light. I noticed how there was light shining on a light and liked how the photo looked. Taken on iPhone SE. This is an image I got after we learned about leading lines. I walked behind HTHI and I took a picture on the side of it I liked the clouds and the shadow of the railing on the wall. Taken with iPhone SE.Photo Analysis Writing Piece: Technical By Pablo Robin After looking at this photo for a long time I was able to notice things that the photographer was conveying when he took this picture. This image is kind of hard to look at because the woman in the foreground is slightly out of focus. Usually the foreground is in focus and that's also usually where the subject is. However the more I look at it as a photographer I realize the reason she was out of focus. It’s because the background holds more of a reaction. The woman yelling really draws the eye because not only is she in a good spot in the rule of thirds, she is also showing the strongest emotion. Another impactful character I noticed was the soldier way in the back. For some reason he looks really clear even though he is far back. The soldier makes the situation serious. The last character that draws the eye is the woman on the far left. The expression on her face is one of disgust. She looks repulsed by the woman in the foreground. Being a photographer myself I think I will start looking at photos this way it helps me analyze them more thoroughly and find things that you can't see at first glance. I will also use this to help me as a photographer by taking a photo that will tell a story by itself. Lab Safety Poster:
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