Brian Tang

Happiness 101 Photo

2007-05-21T18:44:00.001-07:00

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

2007-05-04T21:05:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-04T20:40:00.001-07:00

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

2007-04-19T08:04:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-18T05:47:00.001-07:00

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

2007-04-18T05:32:00.001-07:00

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

2007-04-15T13:25:00.000-07:00

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.

King of the Park

2007-04-14T04:30:00.000-07:00

This picture I took when I was walking in the park. I asked the permission of the woman to see if she would let me take a picture of her dog. She said yes and I was excited. I captured the dog while it was kneeling down on all four legs with its head up high. What caught my attention in this picture are the dog’s big eyes. Giving me a dramatic feeling that it’s staring into space looking graceful. Also the focus on the dog is sharp and clear while the people in the background are blurry.

Laserpitum siler, Laserwort

2007-04-12T19:46:00.000-07:00

This photograph was taken by Karl Blossfeldt. To me, this photo gives me the feeling something is falling from the sky. At first, I thought they were snowflakes. Then I enlarged the image and realized they weren’t snowflakes. Each object in the photo are cluttered together, feeling like the objects are coming towards you. The other image in the background seems like the inside of an umbrella. Still not sure what the photo is, but it suppose to be part of a fertilizing cluster magnified four times.

Sweet Flowers

2007-04-12T18:47:00.000-07:00

My friend made this bouquet of flowers. The colors of pink, purple, and white go along very well with each other. The colors compliment each other giving it a romantic feeling. A client came in to my friend’s store and requested this bouquet to be made. My friend and I worked on it together, while she made the flowers and I did the wrapping and layout. It took a while to make because it contained 100 flowers in the bouquet. In the end, the design came out very beautiful, so I took a picture to capture the work that my friend and I accomplished.

Yukio Ozaki

2007-04-12T18:14:00.000-07:00

This photo was taken by Yousuf Karsh. The lighting in this picture is dramatic in way. It seems there is lighting in the background and probably a light source coming from the side. As you can see the light on the man’s face, it gives me the impression that something special is going to happen. The man seems very happy that a lady is talking to him or giving him a kiss. The two in the picture look happy and sweet together.

Lights

2007-03-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

I took this picture of a car's headlights. I wanted to show the details of the headlight. This kind of headlight is a projector kind of style headlight, not what kind of lights we use to have on cars back then. This kind of headlight makes driving safer. I wanted to see the details and it has many abstract shapes. Without me telling what it is, many people wouldn't know what it is.

Sunset

2007-03-13T15:35:00.000-07:00

I think this is a good picture because it shows the sun setting. I was at a gas station when taking this picture. It just shows the light of the sun shining on the car, at the same time it makes the car look bright. It brings out the shine on the car of the red paint job. The sun casting a huge shadow over the car, where it is very bright in the background and dim in the foreground.