Shutter Speed and Everything After

Lens Blog Photo

1. Fast or slow - why?

This Photo is Fast, Because the trucks on the right side are still moving (fast motion), and photo freeze the moment. If it's slow, the trucks should continue to move in photo.

2. One rule of composition per person

Rule of Leading Lines- Because the dark sky surrounds the picture.
Rule of Natural Framing-Because there are so many different types of lines- straight, diagonal, curvy that make the photo so interesting to look at.

3. Element of Art - list one with an explanation

Element of Arts-Line, because the picture shows a lot of lines, such as some straight white vertical lines on the freeways; straight horizontal and vertical lines on the trucks; a straight horizontal line connect sky and ground; a curve vertical line of barrier.

4. Principle of Design - list one with an explanation

Principle of Design-Movement, Because when I see this picture, I looks the bigger barrier, which is located in front of photo. The barrier directed along lines, edges.

My Partner is:  Mahad

Tuesday with Farley's Kids

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Exposure Time(Shutter speed): 1/1100, Fast

Principle of Design - Rhythm

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This picture is Rhythm, because the pipes are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement. 

Best Example of "Variety' in NYT: Lens

We choose as best example of variety is #6:

There are 3 reasons that my group choose as a best example of variety

1. There are a lots of different elements in this photo, such as trees, fire, boiling water, people and some garbage.
2. Also, there are kinds of things forming the garbage, such as woods, barrels, boxes, and windows.
3. The picture shows us different states of things, such as liquid water, solid garbage and gas steam.
In short, this picture shows a variety of objects all contact together in one photo.

Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

Part 3 and 4

What is your definition of successful? 

My definition of successful is that try my best to play every badminton games, never give up, enjoy what I am playing.

What have you given up to become successful?

I have given up my free times to study and get my grades up. 

What did Parks give up to become successful?

He gave up the his stability of personal life and money to become super rich man . 

Who was Genevieve Young's father?

Her father was a Chinese diplomat. 

How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?

He was advanced five thousand dollars. 

How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?

Five million dollars.

Why did Parks refuse the money?

He didn't want to be totally controlled by Elijah Muhammad, that's why Park refused the money.

What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?

It was the first Hollywood film produced and directed by an African American.

What was significant about the character Shaft?

He was African American hero, who was unusual.

What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?

He used film, photography, and writing.

What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?

It felt like she was in a "washing machine." She never knew what would happen next, and it also set her career back.

In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?

12 Years A Slave

Who was Gordon Parks, jr?

Parks was the oldest son of photographer Gordon Parks.  He was an American film director best known for the film Super Fly. He talents resembled his father's, was killed in a plane crash in 1979 in Kenya, where he had gone to direct a film.

What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?

American Gothic

What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?

Parks said that freedom was the theme of all of his work. He described it as, "Not allowing anyone to set boundaries, cutting loose the imagination, and then making the new horizons."

Principle of Design - Proportion

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This picture is Proportion, because it can refer to the size of the my hands compared to the rest of the bell tower and relate well with each other.

 

Principles of design－Repetition

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This picture is repetition, because the picture works with pattern of the roof to make active. 

Principle of Design - Pattern

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This picture is Pattern, because there are the repeating of the circle in this picture.

Principle of Design - Movement

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This picture is Movement, because the path of the viewer’s eye takes through the closet road to farthest road to focal areas.

 

Principle of Design - Emphasis

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This picture is Emphasis, because the basketball ring is very red and this area of the design that catches the viewer’s attention.

Principle of Design - Balance

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This picture is balance because this picture is in symmetrical balance and in asymmetrical balance, the chair used on one side of the design are similar to on the other side; and the two buildings the sides are different but still look balanced.

 

 

Element of Art - Texture

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Element of Art - Color - Yellow

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Element of Art - Space

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Element of Art - Form

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Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1 and 2

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1

On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?

The doctor puts Gordon Parks into cold ice bath to see if he was alive and would cry, saving his life.

Where was Gordon born? (what state?) 

Gordon was born in Fort Scott( state: Kansas).

What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?

The adviser Ms. McClintock said that very few African Americans go to college and it wasn't worth his parents money.

How old was Gordon when his mother died?

His mother died when he was fifteen.

Where did Gordon move after his mother died?

Parks left Kansas and moved north to St. Paul, Minnesota, to live with an older sister.

Did Gordon graduate from college?

No, Gordon Parks never went to collage. He was a high school drop out. But later, He received a doctrines degree in Fine Arts.

How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?

His early fashion photographs caught the attention of Marva Louis, wife of the boxing champion Joe Louis, who encouraged Parks to move to a larger city.

What is a "double exposure?"

It is the repeated exposure of film to light, which leads to white, ghostly pictures.

Who was boxer Joe Louis?

The elegant wife of heavyweight boxing champion Marva Louis,Joe Louis.She encouraged Parks to move to Chicago in 1940, where he began a portrait business and specialized in photographs of society women.

What instrument did Gordon play?

The piano.

What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?

The purpose of the Farm Security Administration to combat American poverty and document it.

When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?

Buy a topcoat, get something to eat, and go watch a movie and tell Stryker what he thought about it.

Who was Ella Watson?

An African American woman who worked as a maid in the FSA building he talked to Stryker in.

What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?

A little wood farmhouse, where he imagined people with long stretched faces in front of it.

What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?

He learned how to approach people when he wanted to take photographs of them.

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Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 2

16. When did the FSA shut down?

In 1946, the FSA shut down.

17. After Gordon moved to New York, what magazine did he shoot for?

Vogue

18. Who was the picture editor of Life Magazine when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office?

A young Harlem gang leader.

19. What was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine?

Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

20. Who were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau? 

Bernard, Picasso, Van Gogh were some of the artists that influenced his work.

21. How did Parks shoot fashion when he lived in France?
He shot fashion by following the models and adjusting to their movements.

22.Where was Parks' concerto performed?
Venice, Italy.

23. Who was Parks' second wife? (Who was her father? What did she do?)
Elizabeth Campbell. Her father was Parks' boss and she modeled for a living.

24. How old was Flavio de Silva when Parks met him?
12 years old.

25. When did Parks meet Flavio?
When he went to Brazil for Life magazine to document poverty.

26. Where did Flavio live when Parks first met Flavio and his family?
In the slums of Brazil.

27. How is Gloria Vanderbilt? Who is her famous son? Who are her ancestors?
A romantic acquaintance who was a painter.

28. How did Vanderbilt describe their relationship?
She described their relationship as filled with love and mutual respect.

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