LGBT Discriminiation PSA

LGBT Discrimination

LGBT stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender” people. This is an acronym used since 1990’s a self- designation formerly known as “gay community”. Twenty- four countries currently allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. Seven countries have passed legislation to recognize marriage rights for LGBT citizens. Five states recognize marriage equality. Thirty states have passed constitutional amendments of laws explicitly banning same- sex marriage. Thirty states fire on basis of sexuality and/or gender identity. In regards to LGBT rights, statistics show not only how far we have to go in the struggle for equality, but also how far we’ve come. 

 

Who Andy Warhol?

·       Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·       In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·       Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·       Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·       Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·       Used Polaroid camera

·       Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·       Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·       Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·       His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·       First solo expedition in 1952

·       Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·       1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·       Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·       Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·       Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·       1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·       Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·       Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·       Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·       Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·       Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·       Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·       Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·       Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·       $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·       Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Warhol

Photoshop

This picture was originally in color, but then in Photoshop I made it to thershold. Doing thershold took me a lot of time and patience and was very hard to do. In fact, it had a lot of steps and precedures that if you messed on one layer, it is better to start all over. So what I did was make a copy of the image background. Then I had to get rid of all the white areas. Once I did that I made at least ten duplicated layers of that. Then after I had to go to thershold and as I go back down the layer bar and as I go down the thershold becomes darker and darker. Then After I do the color background and as I go down the layer bar, The color I used gets lighter and lighter.

This photograph is three different pictures that I have made into one photgraph. This was my copy and paste picture. The base picture was the picture of the Disneyland rides. Then I had a seperate picture of a girl sitting on a railing of some stairs. So I used the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop copied her and then pasted her onto the base picture. I also had another photograph of another girl looking up in the sky. I thought it would be cool if she would look up and the girl sitting on the railing, think what she was doing up there in the first place. I did the same precedure for copying and pasting the girl looking into the sky as I did for the girl sitting on the railing. But the girl looking into the sky was too big in photograph so I had to change her image size. Then I had to adjust the brightness and contrast in the photograph so it looked like one photograph instead of three different photographs.

This picture is also I copy and paste photo. But it is different in the way I already had set the subject on how I wanted to be. I just added another object into the photograph. I got picture of the Pokemon off from the internet open the picture in Photoshop, used the magnetic lasso tool to copy it then pasted it to my orginal photograph. The Pokemon was too big so i had to adjust the image size to get this photograph.

This picture is a different from my copy and paste photographs. It is two different photographs of mine but instead of putting them on top of each other, I blended them together so you can see both of the full images. I chose these two images because I had one photograph of the running and then I wanted to show that there are people cheering them on as well. Since both pictures where taken outside and the weather was on the dull side, When I first blended them together it was dark. Then before I blended them together, I used the bleding effect of Linear Light so it was not as dark. But then I played around with brightness and contrast to get it how it looks now.

Let It Happen

As these last few weeks past by we spend most of our class time working on different tools we can use in Photoshop. This picture here is an overview of what I learned in Photoshop. We learned many different types of editing pictures like fish eye, black and white, and blending images, and more.

This is my blending image and I first had to choose three images to combine together. The hard part about choosing your three photos are that you have to make sure when you combine them together it does not look too busy. When I applied the picture of the girl on top of photograph of the table of artwork, she was too light. So what I decided to do was go to image of girl and changed the brightness and contrast so that she can stand out more and not get lost in the photograph. Then a drawing from the table photograph was in my way of seeing the bracelet the girl was wearing. I went to the table photograph and used the clone tool to get rid of the artwork on the table to get a clean white paper. Then finally, once I combined those two photographs together it was finally at the image I want to look like. After, I added another photo to the blended one to have three images in one photo. I did not have to do much to the third photograph because it basically already how I wanted to look like.  Once I finished combining all three photos I played around with the brightness and contrast so you can see all the three images as well as if you saw them separately. After that was all done; to add more effects to it, I used the gradient tool to get the dark edges on the photograph. I did not want it too dark because then I would lose the picture that I am trying to portray. 

When we were first learning about photoshop, I thought it was the hardest thing of my life. I did not understand why it had to take so many steps. I was not a fan of photoshop at first, because it just took too long for something really simple. I always thought why we could not just use a website that does it for us. But turns out there are not that many websites that can do the same thing photoshop can do. I became more use to the fact of using photoshop and accepting that it takes time to get the photo you want.

Little Toy

Blend

Copy and Paste

Black and White

The Haunted Mansion ride in Disneyland

My Friend Izzy at K1

The object that rolls up the tarp that goes over the swimming pool

The View of a Fish

Landscape

Abstract of the broken pot

Big Shot of Lake Tahoe

Big Shot Photoshop picture of Lake Tahoe

Detail of the water fall

Architecture

Embarcadaro Ferry Building in San Francisco, California

"Ghost Buster" builidng in San Francisco, California

St. Patrick's Church in San Francisco, Califronia

Door of St. Patrick's Church in San Francisco, California

Stairs inside St. Patrick's Church San Francisco, California

Classic: Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984 from San Francisco, California. He was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known or his black-and-white photographs of the American West and especially his Yosemite National Park photographs.Adams' interest in photography grew and often brought him up to the mountains accompanied by a mule laden with photographic gear and supplies.


His images were first used for environmental purposes when the Sierra Club was seeking the creation of a nation park in the Kings River region of the Sierra Nevada. He created a limited-edition book, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, which influenced both Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and president Franklin Roosevelt to embrace the Kings Canyon Park idea. 

I like this picture because I thought it looked pretty cool. I feel like black and white gives the photograph more value. Plus this photographer probably would have to kind of close and kind of far to get this landscape. Also to even get the clouds or fog in the image makes it feel more dramatic.

 

Blog Notes pg. 202-217

Landscapes

• 3 main types of landscapes

- landscape photography through the wide views

- use close-up to capture landscape details

- create abstract images of the landscape that accentuate form, texture, and pattern

Landmarks in Landscape Photography

• emphasize elements and principles of a scene
• edges of frame and focus are key
• rule of thirds
• lighting, either warm or cool, and shooting at specific times of day will improve images
• 100 ISO will help give more details-tripods will help

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

- 14yrs old when he first went to Yosemite

- went back later and took his best-known images there

- tried to capture experience of being in wilderness

Photographing the Landscape

Thinking Artistically

• composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography and viewpoint is the most important part of composition
• value--> an image's light and dark areas is especially important in black and white landscape photography
• balance between unity and variety
• unity- when all the individual parts of your image come together and support each other to make one cohesive image
• variety- refers to all the diverse art elements found in a picture

Camera Settings

• max. depth of field f/16, f/22, f/32
• for large format cameras f/64 (smallest f-stop)

Light 

• after sunrise and just before sunset
• easier to deal with direct lighting for distant subjects than it is for closer subjects
• Grand Landscape photographs- direct lighting creates the highlights and shadows that make a landscape seem three-dimensional

Film

• use 100 ISO with 35mm capture all the details

Lenses

• landscape photographers prefer to use wide-angle lenses that capture more of the scene
• concentrating on details or areas in the distance, like one mountain in a range of mountains, some photographers use a telephoto lens

Filters

• big part of landscape 
• at least a yellow filter, just to bring out the clouds

Camera Support

• when combine slow films and small f-stops (f/16-f/22) slow shutter speeds = going to need tripod to support camera so you will get sharp images

The Grand Landscape

• grand landscape- "big view" 
• great outdoors-wide-open expanses that showcase the majesty of the natural world
• you can also select non-traditional subjects
• wide-angle to normal lens, create some Grand Landscape photographs that include sky

Landscape Details and Close-ups

• parks are a good source of subject matter for detail- oriented photograph, with interesting trees, well groomed lawns and meadows, and beautiful lakes
• light meters are designed to create an exposure that makes medium or middle gray out of the scene being metered

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

• abstracted elements are images composed of lines, shapes, values, and textures
• best ways to turn an ordinary scene into an abstract image is to get really close to your subject and photograph only a small part of it
• macro lens on small subjects, you'll need as much depth of field as possible
• trees are great subjects for exploring abstracted images

Blog Notes pg.190-197

The Big View

• big view- wide-angle, overall view
• perspective distortion appears as strong converging lines in a build, where the sides of the building angle in toward each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality
• shoot straight forward- flat and two-dimensional view
• if position yourself a bit to side and wait until the front is side-lit, photograph will reveal better textures, forms, and shadows
• shooting from side- three-dimensional view--> reveals depth as well as height and width

Shadows

• make interesting subject all by themselves
• lines, shapes, and values of an object's shadow 

The Detail Shot

• detail shot- features the individual architectural elements of building's interior or exterior
• becomes indirect portraits of craftspeople who made them
• to capture most likely need a telephoto lens so that you can stand at street level and ero in on intriguing element

Interior Views

• record overall shots of whole rooms, or you can focus on smaller details
• exterior- provide indirect portraits of the creators of buildings, then interior images can be seen as concentrating on the presence of the people who live in and use those rooms
• when taking detail pictures- need to think about depth of field and the f-stop on your lens
• most architectural interiors look better when nearly everything in picture is focus, requires greater depth of field
• for interiors you'll be as close as 4ft. or as far away as 20ft--> stop aperture down to somewhere between f/11 and f/22
• closer you are to subject the more depth of field you'll need so set higher f-stop

Blog Notes pg.179-189

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

• pictures of buildings and homes in your neighborhoods, towns, and cities you create indirect portraits of people who live in them
• can be formal or informal
• people use elements of art and principles of design, created the buildings that make up or cities and towns

Looking Back

• beginning architecture was a popular subject for photographers
• Charles Negre

- artist and painter
- intended to se photographs as "sketches" for his painting but focused all his attention on his photography from that point on

• Frederick H. Evans

-one of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography
-large part of work focused on cathedrals in London
-depicted emotion with the use of light
-"try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography"


Photographing the Built Environment
Thinking Artistically

• focus on the full-view of space and emotions connected to it (portrait)
• details of buildings/abstract
• personailty and relationship to surrounds
• pattern- repetition of any of the elements of art, usually a part of every image

Camera Settings

• for 35mm f/11 to f/22
• for large format cameras like 4x5 f/35 to f/64
• slow films (100 ISO or less)

Film

• black/white or color
• color- emphasize color and settings
• b/w emphasize values, shapes, and texture

Lighting

• important in interior architectural photography
• incandescent light is slight more orange
• quartz- yellow
• fluorescent-greener
• daylight- lot more blue in it

Lenses

• using wide-angle lenses- wider the lens the more distortion you get

Camera Support

• tripods always have balance portability and stability
• monopods, single-legged camera supports, might work for walking around and shooting details but they won't work for interior photographs

Filters

• sky and clouds form uniform light gray shape
• polarizer darken a blue sky to increase the separation between clouds and sky- reduce or eliminate reflections in shiny nonmetallic surfaces

Architecture Lecture

• big picture, detail, interior
• Architectural photgraphs are indirect
• Materials, style and scale rpovide clues about who the people were and what their lives were like
• early films were notoriously shlow and needed hours of exposure for one image
• architecture was a perfect subject because:

-doesn't move
-change angles
-designs of buildings
-same elements and principles are in architecture as well as in photographs

• Frederick H. Evans

-one of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography
-large part of work focused on cathedrals in London
-depicted emotion with the use of light
-"try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography"

• worked primarily in platinum papers
• duringWWI, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions
• gave up photograpy when platinum was to hard to get

• Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)

-was an architect than became interested in photography
-used mostly line, shape, and form

• focus on the full-view of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait
• tells a story
• focus on the details of a building, as an exploration of abstract images
• communicate the PERSONALITY o the space and its RELATIONSHIP to its surroundings
• in architectural photography, patterns dominate almost every part of the image

Photography Video

• Daily News is the oldest newspaper in the United States
• Want the biggest and most interesting picture on the front the paper to attract readers to buy it
• They used lots of photographs that were staged
• Daily News photographer would strap a camera to his ankle to take pictures serectly
• Without photographs adverstisment would be hard
• People liked photographs more than drawings because it seemed more true
• Photography made objects look more diserable
• Brought people to know more what celebrities do on their own time/personal life
• The more pictures there were of a person the more famous they became
• Sell that regular people can be like a celebrity- can relate to them
• Photography neutralize the effect of what to see
• You can see more detail in a photo compared to the naked eye the exposure is not as clear