What is a senior project idea involving photography?
We have to do a senior project at my school. you pick a subject that you liek and then make a project out of it. NOT a report. we then have to make a 7 - 10 minute speech over your project.. i really need help deciding what i can do a PROJECT over with photography. i appreciate it!!
Why is photography art?
Photography is a form of art.What is photography and what is painting or rather, what is visual art? Comic books are unarguably the first visual art form humans have invented, although at that time, comics were not printed but carved onto cave walls. Before comic books, there were eyes and the visual system in our brains. Light waves hit the surface of an object, then get reflected or diffused or refracted into our retinae. This process ends that our brains generate the image according to the visual information but Photoshoped it through a serial of chemical signals. The ideal of visual art is the creation of an image. Photography and painting are but tools we invented to perform the creation of an image. The creation of an image does not depend on the existence of its subject. To say that photography is reliable in terms of determine whether something exists is to say that human eyes are reliable, since cameras are designed according to the part of the structure of human eyes. Are human eyes reliable? There are multiple experiments saying no.The tools we use to create visual art change over time, from stones to herbal or mineral dyes, to synthetic paints, to films to computers. These changes are inevitable and have their rises and falls. The difference between photography and painting lies in the difference sizes of the brush. Painting has a smaller brush while photography has a larger one. A small brush captures a small piece of color, and a large brush captures a larger piece of many colors. With a small brush, it takes thousands of strokes to make up one image while with a large brush; one stroke is already an image. Does an artist cease to present her thoughts because of the size of the brush she uses? Does an image get inseparable to its subject because of the size of the brush?
Help for my chemistry project on photography?
I am doing a chemistry project on THE CHEMISTRY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. can u provide me some links explaining the entire process of photography,( with regard to its chemical process mainly)...like how photographic films are made, how they are developed into negatives and how they are made into prints etc
Difference between composition and focal point in Art/Photography?
Hi Curious, Composition can be described as the selection and arrangement of various elements of a photograph or other artwork to create desired effect(s). Elements are things such as backgrounds, foregrounds, light direction, shadow and light, converging and leading lines, along with the various objects and beings included in the creation of the artwork. The focal point is the most important element or group of elements that define the subject of the artwork. For example: Consider this photograph I took in one of the gardens at Chanticleer http://www.flickr.com/photos/robs-photo-... If you look at this photograph you will immediately find your eye drawn to the building as the main point of interest (the focal point). To help define the building more clearly you find the lines at the edge of the pool that draw the viewer's attention toward the building, trees and shrubs to help give a sense of proportion and clouds and sky that help define the depth of the subject. It is the combination of all these elements that define the composition of the piece. So I would say the difference is that the focal point is the subject of the photograph or artwork and composition is the arrangement of all the elements to express the artist's viewpoint or perspective regarding the focal point. Hope that helps.
How to make a photo mosaic using adobe photoshop elements?
It's a lot of hand-work with any photo editing program. You have to figure out how big you want your project to be, select and do the basic tweaking -including resizing - on all the photos you're going to use and then start dragging the photos onto the new file you're created in the size you want it to be. What you want are instructions for making a collage but, instead of using a few larger photos, you'll use a lot of smaller ones. There are programs from making collages. Shape Collage has always looked like fun but I've never used it. It says that it's free for personal use but, like I said, I have no experience with it. http://www.shapecollage.com/ Microsoft also has a nice collage creator. Even though "2008" is in the name, it's been updated and runs on Windows 7. It costs $19.95 from Microsoft. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/c...
In photography, what is an oblique viewpoint?
Any viewpoint that would not be considered a normal way of looking at a photographic image. As in reflections off mirrors or water, over the top of the head looking down the face, laying flat looking up the side of a tall building, out of a tree down the subject.........etc, etc, etc.
Can photoshopped photography be considered as art?
Re-touching photos is practically an art in its own right, and while it is a technical skill used to produce commercial images, those that are familiar with the industry consider it an art. But no, you would not consider just the re-touching of the photo itself as art; it is an enhancement of the creation of the final photo. Part of the photography process.Consider: hand mixing paint to match a color is an "art", but is really just considered to be part of the overall painting process.On the other hand, if you drop out the photo as a base, there are plenty of photoshop created images that are considered art. Comic books are now made in photoshop (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/11...). And the art of "graphic design" is about computer created art, such as with photoshop.But there is an entire range of art that blends photography with art elements from the design realm. Pictures of thin girls transformed into faeries on flowers. Gothic images dripping with shadows and black ink. Just as you can make a collage and that is art or you can paint on photographs to create new representations, you can use photoshop to transform something based on a photo into a new piece of art.
How do you line up eyes on a daily photo project?
Hmmm..... there may very well be a better way than mine, but this is the only way I can think of doing it: You'll need a decent image editor such as Photoshop, Elements or Gimp (although www.fotoflexer.com or www.sumopaint.com also let you use layers). Open one photo where you really like the position of the face. Make another layer over it (at reduced opacity so you can see what is underneath), and draw in the shape of the eyes and the face - just three ovals, nothing very complicated. Delete the face layer and save the drawing layer as a template. Keep a second copy of it somewhere else in case you accidentally rename/delete it at some point. Now use the template for each photo to size it, move it into position and crop it to the exact same measurement. Each time, save it under a new name (such as the date the photo was taken), and always delete the template layer. A lot of work if you let them accumulate, but no big deal if you do it regularly. Sounds like a very interesting project, good luck with it.
Similarities and difference between paintings are photographs?
Even though this sounds like a homework question, I take a stab. To me, as far as representational pictures (as opposed to abstract), one big difference between a photo and a painting is that a photo is taken with one "eye" and a painting is made with two (usually). What does this mean? Well, one eye cannot perceive depth or three dimensions the way two eyes can. Therefore, a photo inevitably has a flatness despite there being clues to it representing a three dimensional world. There is an inherent impossibility in both painting and photography: How to represent a three dimensional reality on a flat surface. Both do it through various kinds of distortion. For me, the big difference with a painting is that that distortion is decided by a painter with two eyes who can therefore choose to distort in a way that give the feeling or impression or illusion of three dimensions in ways that a photo never can. Of course, many modern painters chose to deliberately flatten the world they depicted (e.g. Gauguin), but others, even modern painters, used all kinds of ways to describe depth while still endorsing the picture plane (see Bonnard, for instance). Another major difference between the two mediums I think is the element of time. A photograph usually represents a fraction of a second, while a painting, even a quick painting, is made over a much longer period of time and must somehow account for that time, describe it in some way. We think of photography as the more "realistic" of the two. But is it really? Do we ever see the world the way a photograph records it? No, we don't. That's why we are so often shocked to see what we look like in photos because in life we never see people frozen in time. Of course, the way a photo is made and the way a painting is made is completely different. One hardly involves the human touch; the other is made completely by hand. But that's obvious, so I thought I'd mention these other two differences.