Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Series on brands and specific symbols

This picture is about famous logos and brands. You can see the peace sign at the top,the Adidas, the Sumsung, the Ray Ban brand on the other side and among other things, the ICS name. Even though ICS is not a brand,I wanted to show it because I thought it made the picture more unified.


This is also another picture of a logo of a peace sign. What I like about this picture is that, in the second one, the peace sign is constructed using a couple of paint brushes and a circle of hands.

 This picture is a sign of "THE EYE OF HORUS". What I like about this picture is that the way the girl raises her eyes upwards and the shade that is created by the hand on the forehead reaching over her eyes.
 




Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Weston's biography and greatest works assignment

Weston first taking pictures after his father gave him his first camera which was a bulls eye kodak on his 16th birthday as a gift and after that Weston began taking photographs of everything he could find including pictures of his aunt's farm. In his young age Weston used to imitate paintings. But he was dissatisfied with his work so he switched to realism and his photography produced true to life, unpretentious images. Deciding to pursue his photographic career he traveled to Mexico, where he opened a photographic studio with his lover, Tina Modotti. During this time, Weston took a number of portraits and nudes for which he's known even today. Several Mexican artists of the time, including Diego Rivera, David Siqueiro began to admire his work. He also specialized in close ups and landscapes of shells and rocks. Weston was considered one of the most innovative and influential American photographers and one of the masters of 20th century photography. He was also the first photographer to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship award. His work was greatly admired because he could capture the form and structure and show you the picture in another way. Most of Weston's pictures are black and white. Weston took his last picture in Point Lobos after that Weston was diagnosed of Parkinson's disease and died after 10 years and during the 10 years, he published many of his pictures. His pictures in Point Lobos consisted mainly of trees and rocks. Some of Weston's greatest works are Natalius and Pepper no 30. here are some of his works-

Pepper No 30- one of Weston's greatest and most famous works


One of Weston's nudes- has an artistic sense in which he takes his pictures

One of his landscapes in his last days of taking pictures- in Point Lobos

Commercial Photography


These pictures are categorized in the part of commercial photography. commercial photography is a type of photography that advertises a certain product in this situation- THE MAGNIFICENT IRON CHAIR. The first picture is used for showing the durability and appeal of the "Iron chair." The second picture is used to show that the "Iron Chair" is very convenient and that it can be turned into a smaller size. The third picture shows that other chairs like for instance The Bench might not be comfortable for sitting or working as they can cause you back aches which brings us to our fourth picture. The fourth picture is shortly saying that if you do not want to have back aches and want to sit on comfortable chairs, your choice is the MAGNIFICENT IRON CHAIR!!!"

Sequence







This is a sequence picture meaning it shows some kind of process. The process shown here is of a girl first crouching and beginning to run. The second picture shows of that same girl running and the third picture shows of that same girl winning the run and raising her hands up like a winner and when I edited this picture, i saturated it and added contrast in it and i also cropped the third picture to cut the lower part of the torso of the girl and so that it would focus more on the face of the little girl.

Diptych

This is a diptych picture. This picture is a diptych picture because it has the same theme and message. The idea of this picture is patriotism because on the first picture it has the idea of patriotism because it shows a flag. I chose the flag to reflect patriotism because i think that a flag symbolizes what many people die for. In the second picture, you see a man wearing a soldier's uniform and saluting like a soldier does to a captain. That soldier shows that he is willing to fight for his country which in turn shows patriotism and his love for his country. when I edited this picture, I saturated it and cropped the back round a bit and I zoomed the picture to make the content the center of the image

Mask

After I edited this picture using de-saturation, cropping and adding contrast, I saw the picture in a new way.When I see this picture, the phrase that comes to my mind is "sneaky rabbi", because as you can see the girl in the picture is wearing a rabbi hat(even though women can’t be a rabbi) and she is looking at you in a kind of way that is creepy. Even though the cat mask doesn't give meaning in the context of a rabbi, I imagine that because the girl is wearing the cat mask it kind of implies that the "Rabbi" is doing forbidden things.

This is another picture of a girl wearing a cat mask. This picture also gives me the idea of sneakiness. In addition to the sneakiness, this picture also gives me the idea of a girl living luxuriously and a girl who is spoiled. I took certain steps to edit the picture and so to make the eyes stand out more, I added contrast. To make the mask stand out more, I saturated the picture and finally to make the girl the attention of this picture and to cut off the distractions from the back round, I cropped the picture.

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