project 6

For project 6 we were tasked with taking macro photos, this project was my favorite and i believe my best photos yet, i only picked one photo out of this project because of how well i pulled this off. i focused perfectly on tuning nob whilst also blurring out the other nobs as well as one can see the details in the strings which makes it that more intruging.

during this project i learnt how to focus in on a small object and make it look big as well as how to blur the parts i didn’t want in focus. this project was difficult but once i understood how to get the camera to focus in on what i wanted it to it was smooth sailing.

i was challenged a lot with focusing on the object i wanted in focus but other than that this project was not too difficult.

i really like how this photo expresses the details in the strings and shows the inner workings of a guitar close up. i don’t like how one of the tuning nobs is really close to the camera it obstructs the view of my focal point.

project 4

For project 4 we were tasked to create a double exposure time magazine cover. for this project i wanted it to have a nice message so i chose a sunrise to show that people don’t pay attention to them and that they should appreciate things about the world more.

i learnt how to do double exposure however it did not go very well, nor did it work how i wanted it to work.

i was challenged with morphing the sunrise photo with my subject as well as the photo of my subject came out to dark, and nothing blended well together.

i like the underlying message to this photo but it did not come out how i imagined and i just struggled a lot with this project.

Project 3

For project 3 i was told to take photos of different perspectives i chose these photos because it shows the two perspectives but kind of give off the same vibe. i really like the one of the flags because it also contains a little bit of the tree bring more aspects into the photo.

for this project it taught me that taking a photo from a low angle and a mid-angle changes a photo drastically and makes one more dramatic than the other. for this the flag photo looks gloomier and darker and the one of the flowers is more uplifting but at the same time you get the look of it being gloomy.

for me the most challenging part was finding things to take photos of but in the end i found things that caught my eye.

like i said before i enjoy the gloominess of the flag photo and how the tree kind of look like it’s the same size of the flag and like it kind of morphs together if that make sense

i feel like i could have make the flower photo my interesting and make it more like appealing but i do like how i used rule of thirds.

Project 1

For these pictures i was walking around with Thea through the leaves and thought this would look lovely with the leaves blurred and being focused on her, as for the second picture we were walking back to the school and saw a spider so we were like let’s see if the camera will let us take it and it worked. this was for project one and we would take photos for different shutter speed and aperture.

I learnt that it is super hard to take a photo of a object that is super small and have it in focus. and that you can take a photo and make it very intriguing just by having leaves or another object in the frame of the photo.

the most challenging part of this project was trying to get the spider in focus it would move, and the camera wanted to focus on the background, so it was difficult to obtain this photo.

i really enjoy the photo of Thea because it makes her look in a way mysterious as well as very interested in the tree kind of like Shes relaxed and enjoying nature which many people don’t do these days. i could improve the lighting a bit.

 

Photographers bio-scrap book

My name is Anna Manship, and I am interested in many things such as guitar and lots of music. I decided to take this course to expand my knowledge and maybe find a new passion.

In this course I learnt how to conform a proper photo Aswell as learn tips and tricks to make a photo more intriguing

I feel as though I am skilled at taking photos and do enjoy it however, I am not skilled with photoshop, and I don’t understand the different parts of the camera such as shutter speed and things like that, but overall, I enjoyed this course.

I struggled a lot with getting the lighting correct so i just kept the camera in auto mode. I was also bad at putting the projects together.

As for the future I know now how to take a proper photo with things like rule of thirds so I will try implement that when taking photos for insta or something.

 

The Machine Stops Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The techniques I used to create this poster are bandwagon, plain folks, and virtu words. I decided to create the poster from kunos perspective/the resistance group. The way I design the poster was to show that the earth is not as dark and muddy as Vashti describes so having Kuno walking out of the tunnel into an astonishing mountain range shows how beautiful and colorful the world is which is why plain folks fits in perfectly because if people who live in the machine see how beautiful the world is they will want to join the rebellion. As for band wagon I decided that I would connect the fact that the people and Kuno are waiting for “you” by saying we are waiting for you in the text. If the people in the machine believe that there are more of “us” on the surface, then they will feel more motivated to join the rebellion. As for virtu words I decided to say that the surface is not as dark as it seems, this gives the people the effect that something on the surface is waiting and it’s not just dirt and mud. Vashti talks a lot about how the world gives her no ideas and she does not feel as though earth is beautiful, which is why I decided to create a person walking out of a tunnel into a remarkable mountain range to show the people in the machine can see what is waiting for them. When attempting to create the text I thought it would be a good idea to connect the fact that there are more people on the surface so that people will feel less alone in their journey out. When thinking of the text for the poster I decided to make people feel that if the world isn’t so dark why are we down here in the machine.  

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E.M. Forster authored The Machine Stops, which is a dystopian science fiction novel predicting the future and what he believes the world will turn out to be if we continue to rely on machines and technology. Everyone says it is impossible to predict the future, but this author did just that. This novel has multiple connections with how the world is today, people sitting on their phones locked in their room not thinking for themselves. This is relevant today because the way humanity is going closely resembles what the world in this novel is like. In the novel Vashti says, “how we have advanced thanks to the machine” this shows that they believe that they are more advanced than ever by not having to think for themselves nor do they have to explore or get anything for themselves(pg.10). As for the world today, humanity believes that we are advanced and powerful with the technology that we have, but that is exactly what E.M. Forster predicted and warned us not to do. There are multiple dystopian characteristics in this novel such as taking away the people’s freedom, living in constant fear of the surfaces, they live in a dehumanizing state, the natural world is believed to be destroyed, and finally the people that are inhabiting the machine believe that it is the best way to live for the rest of their lives. This novel has numerous connections with the movie WALL-E produced by Andrew Stanton such as a world that is not habitable and all the humans in the world are stuck sitting down watching shows with anything they need a click away. The people in WALL-E closely resemble an animation of a human as a couch with McDonalds, KFC, Crispy Cream Donuts, soda, and medication being fed by a tube. Stanton made the characters so lazy and weak that no matter where they go the chair, they are sitting will take them there. Since multiple generations have lived on the aircraft it has made the current generation so bulky that they have lost muscle mass forcing them not to move and or get up. The connection with the world we live in now and the worlds that WALL-E and The Machine Stops are so similar it is scary, one can clearly see that teenagers are less active, less social, there are more “work from home” jobs and everyone cannot seem to stop scrolling. Vashti sees the world as dark and gross; she could fly across a beautiful, “golden sea, in which lay many small islands” and still get zero ideas from the earth (pg.11). Our generation does not go out, hike for fun, dig holes in the mud, or look around and see the earth we decide to sit on our phones and pass time with short-term dopamine hits. If we continue down this path, we will be proving Forster and Stanton correct with the amount of garbage, Co2 and the constant sitting on our phones will create a world that we can not inhabit and may not be able to be fixed and regenerated.  

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