Happiness 101 Photo

Working for my art director, which I felt really bad because I don’t know her name. During class, I presented my ideas for the happiness 101 theme. I went off the topic so I had no idea on what to do for happiness 101. Then towards the end of class, we both came up with very similar ideas. We decided to work together on the same subject of a teacher teaching happiness 101 to a class. I shot a few pictures of her being a teacher teaching and she did the same for me as well. In the end, we both had ideas to present for happiness on how to show and teach it.

Jeff Wall

For the Jeff Wall exhibit, I will be comparing The Flooded Grave and Coastal Motifs. I chose Coastal Motifs to compare to The Flooded Grave because this picture shows a balance between land, sky, and water in a way. It gives visual weight to its conventionally beautiful mountains and to its eerily depopulated industrial bay.
As you can see in The Flooded Grave, it is taken at a cemetary. The trees and graves are spaced apart from each other in a wide open space. It gives the feeling of emptiness to me. You can say that when a person dies, they will be buried in the gorund and covered up. The crows in the picutre give it a weird feeling of death and making it spooky. Then in the foreground, where a whole is dug in the ground. Discovering there is life waiting to be found. I guess it’s comparing life and death. This picture comprises images taken in two Vancouver cemeteries that are seamlessly merged with photographs of a living aquatic system the artist created in his studio. If I didn’t read his article, I wouldn’t know how Wall had taken this picture.
In Coastal Motifs, there are trees in the foreground and more trees in the further midground. Then there are the huge mountains showing how big and open the space is whereas the people living in that certain spot seem so small. Compared to nature, it’s so huge and vast. Then there are the clouds in the sky, it’s captured so well. The clouds fall right over the mountains. It gives me the feeling of something mystical, magical is coming from the sky. I guess it can be a comparison between heaven and earth.

Final Project Theme

For my final project theme, I chose to take pictures of glass structures. It seems that architecture now is using glass to make a majority of their building designs. To me it is very interesting because of the clearness of glass and being able to see what’s inside and also giving off a reflection at the same time. I would like to take pictures of these glass structures at different angles to try and present it in a different manner.

GUNDAMS

I took this picture of my toy models. I think this is a good picture because it shows depth of field. The toy in the middle is very sharp and clear. While the toy on the right side seems to be blurry, but the toy on the left side is not as blurry. And in the background is very blurry. The lighting goes from bright to dim from the left to right side.

Technology Lounge Ideas

For the technology lounge, my first idea is that I want to take a close up shot of a circuit board and then in the background I can use Photoshop with the image of space. I want explain how technology is so advance and that it is out of this world. My second idea is maybe I can take a photo of one of my toy robots. Then I can use Photoshop to do like a half and half composite image, where on the left side is of the robot’s face and the right side is of a human’s face.

Happiness 101 Ideas

After reading the article on “Happiness 101,” I had 2 ideas come to mind. My first idea was that maybe I can photograph a couple sitting outside of a restaurant. It’s a very nice and sunny day and they are enjoying their time together with each other. Or another version of the couple is that they could sharing a drink together, both sipping through a straw and staring at each other’s eyes. My second idea is just a tight close up shot of a couple holding hands together walking along a park on a beautiful day.

Flower Inside

This was a picture that I took when I was in my front lawn. I tried to get a shot as close as I can of the flower’s inside. It was bright and sunny outside, so the colors made this picture even more eye catching because of the bright and vibrant colors of the flower. The colors red and yellow are very contrasty and the sharp and clearness of the flower’s inside is what really catches my eyes’ attention.