Hi Everyone,

I am sorry that this part is a little late. For both this post and my movie that is posted right before this, I used iMovie. It was my first time using iMovie and really using a Mac, but I really loved the program. I only used it for this video for the title, but for my 60 second movie I used a lot of different tools and features.

Mini Art School #4

Here's my 60 second video:




I am revising my post add this part. Sorry that it is a little late. For both this post and my movie that is posted right before this, I used iMovie. It was my first time using iMovie and really using a Mac, but I really loved the program. I only used it for this video for the title, but for my 60 second movie I used a lot of different tools and features.

Mini-Art School - Working With Digital Images

Hi Everyone,

Here is my video for the first assignment on cropping:





The next exercise I chose was the Border Variation Exercise.




I chose to crop a picture of apples from a recent apple picking excursion. I pasted it into a Publisher document and then tried to play around with the borders. I liked the first two, which created the white frame and the black border. They both have a certain organic feel because the border is not solid and I think that matches the picture and my aesthetic the best. I think that the black works because it picks up on the shadow in the picture. The third one was just a very thin black line that keeps the focus on the picture and sharpens the border a bit. Then, I tried to pick up some colors in the picture. The fourth picture uses a red and I liked the double line because it didn’t seem as harsh and looked a little more natural. The fifth picture went back to black but used a bigger border. It is a bit more severe, but also a bit more formal if that was the look that you were going for. Finally, I used a green and a dotted border in order to try and blur the edges a bit and keep the natural feel that echoes the natural theme of the apples.

Finally, I did the Conveyance Exercise. This was challenging and while I feel like I understand the concept, I am not sure I can explain it well. The photographs in the video are some I took when I was away recently and tried to find scenes or objects that were examples of conveyance. The focus was on nature.

Mini Art School #2

Hi Everyone! For this week's assignment I completed the Word Portraits Exercise and Activity #2 on p.56 in White Space. I created screencasts for my work in both activities. I hope you enjoy them!

Here is my Word Portrait Assignment:



Here is my White Space Activity with Photographs from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. I apologize for not shutting the screencast off in time at the end!