Blog Entry: Good example of Depth of Field

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I thought this was a good example of depth of field, though its clearly not artistic. The level of details contrasts a huge amount in the red car than with the green car in the back of the image. If used as a photographic technique depth of field can be a good tool.

Blog Entry: My Work: Depth of Field

This picture is my attempt to make similarly colored things standout with depth of field:

Free Draw on Photoshop

Cube Craft Design

This is the template for my cube craft project. Its some sort of lizard guy in a suit. The main challenge was making sure I was going to be able to see the fold and cutting lines, because they are black and so is the suit. Because of this I tried to actually avoid stretching the suit over the fold lines, thus that part of the template looks kind of sloppy; but it was actually done on purpose.

Blog Entry 16: Depth

I'm working on taking photos with more depth, not just have one-dimensional images like the pictures I took of fall in Eugene. This is a weak attempt but I often find the photos I take with different layers of detail fail to show the background in any meaningful way. I'm still working on this skill..

Blog Entry 15: Awesome Lego Sculpture

I LOVE LEGOS!!!



Courtesy of:
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/

Blog Entry 14: Cool wood and metal structure

I found this cool sculpture in a park while in Eugene a while back. Upon review I really like the contrasting materials in this piece of work. The connection between a processed metal and what seems to be a naturally occurring piece of wood juxtaposes very well within this piece of art.

Blog Entry 13: Interesting Ad Technique

Thought these ads were kind of funny. Interesting that two companies came up with the same bad idea.

Blog Entry 12: Fall is here...

A few pictures I took while in Eugene of leaves after they fell from their trees.

Blog Entry 11: Country Bike

This is a photo by a friend of mine who takes amazing pictures. I love both the main image as well as the huge amount of detail incorporated into the background. I really wish I was this good at photography!!

Blog Entry 10: Good Photography

This is an image I found on a blog I was looking at, http://blog.sduffyphotography.com/2008/02/05/reading-histograms/

I really like the contrasting colors and vivid detail the picture entails.

Blog Entry 9: My Photography

I like to take photographs of older looking things. I also like to find simple images where few colors contrast very vividly.

Picturing the Other:

I have an interesting take on this assignment. This is a photo of a cat (the ultimate other being animal). On top of this the cat is looking through the closed window to the outside world. The picture is snapped as a person is walking by the cat's boarder to the other world, which is outside. I thought this acted as a cool metaphor.

Alphabet Soup

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Blog Entry 8: Dennis Dunleavy Photograph

I really like this picture that Dennis took a while back. I like animal photography.

Blog Entry 7: my photography

Here is am image I took a little while back of some pumpkins. I like the lack of hierarchy in the shot as the eye has no specific place to focus, thus it wonders making the image a unique adventure for the viewer.

Blog Entry 6: My other Design Sample

This is another design sample I made foe the Oregon Student Association. I made this one is Microsoft Word, which is actually a very versatile program. I think this sample actually looks a lot better than the one I made in InDesign. Like my other sample I am unable to load both sides of this doc into this blog. I will load the second side for both later.

Blog 5: My design work with Indesign

This is a trifold pamphlet I've been working on in Indesign. Could be better and the quality looks bad cause of the way I transferred it to the net, which was extremely hard... I wasn't able to put the back side up, but I will put the rest of the design up later...

Blog Entry 4: Good Visual Hierarchy

I think this image has great visual hierarchy as the bottles seem to form a shape that leads the eye to what is the most dominant image (the label of the bottle).

Blog entry 3: Bad Visual Hierarchy

This is a really good example of bad visual hierarchy as there is really no actual pattern that the eye should follow. None of the text stands out and the eye is actually overwhelmed with information rather than the visually stimulating images.

Assignment 3: Posters

First:

Second:

Assignment 2: Type Composition

First Image:

Second:

Assignment 1: Collage

Cheers!

The beauty of Photoshop: The Other's Creation

As we learn the ways photoshop can help us in our private lives and within the professional world I couldn't help but think of some of the hilarious "could have been" situations I've see.

This image is a great example of photograph that was altered by photoshop, as evidenced by the second photograph, which is most clearly the same shark.

This is the original photo of the helicopter attacking shark:



Stay tuned for updates on my work!

White Red-tailed Hawk: First post of my creation

This was a Hawk I saw this weekend in a corn maze out on the outskirts of Medford. Most Red-tailed Hawks lack this white coloring of this guy, so I thought he was really neat and worth sharing. Enjoy :D