Thursday, September 25, 2008

Contact sheet


My rationale for the contact sheet in general was not to make the hardest and most detailed pictures work for my sheet but so that simple pictures of "life picture". When i say life picture I mean pictures that revealed everyday life but at the same time finishing the work according to the guidelines. The flowers in the resolution section were used because the colors are a good visual especially for resolution. The jets in the format and mode section was to show how the sky and background was different from the gray color of the jet. The man with the pyramid in the Orientation section had no real orientation to the actual work but it showed the different types of print types. The penny picture was great for framing because as you zoomed in and out of the picture you could see the bust of Abraham Lincoln in better detail. The content section with the yellow flowers was also one of my favorites because as you zoomed in and out to create the different types the details were excellent and the flowers center. The final and last picture of the great white shark showed he reflection of the water and the sharks upper torso breaking the water. The biggest challenge I faced was figuring out how to make the pictures fit to the word document because on more than one instance I found that the pictures had not fit right and I had to go back and fix it all. I solved it by going back and asking for help from friends who knew how to do it better than I did. I don't mind asking for help. I'm proud that the document came out as good as it did. If i had more time i would probably tried to do the work more than once to get a better handle on it.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Font Poem


The quote is about my favorite song by the band OPM... the song is called heaven is a halfpipe and explains how people need to relax and realize that getting to heaven is not the biggest deal on earth. The Fonts were used in the order of how I was experimenting with them on Photoshop. the lyrics themselves where distorted the way they were because in the movie or music video its the band members skating in the sky. I wanted to make the words look like the wind up in the clouds were making the words move. The arrangements also had to do with how the words were supposed to look like you were flying through the clouds and the song was with you the whole time. The biggest challenge was not really knowing photoshop that well. I worked it out the best I could and fought through it. I was proud of the fact that i complete it with the help I got from my friends who knew photoshop better than I did. If I had more time I would have made it bigger and more elaborate.


The actual quote looks like this "Heaven would be a DJ spinning dub all night long and heaven would be just kicking back with Jesus packing my bong".

Thursday, September 4, 2008