Bresson

1. What kind of photography was Bresson best-known for? What subjects was he interested in?
documentary. He as interested in shooting photography of people while they were in common life. He shot plenty of pictures in this topic. Especially, he portraits objects without interrupting.
2.what did you learn about Photography form watching this documentary? Be specific. Think about how he chose his subjects. what were his technical strengths as a photographer? What made his pictures "special"?
Good pictures show love and story. stories varies with different people. The pictures he enjoyed to take are the ones evoke strong emotion. Those pictures make viewers to ponder the stories behind. I learned that portrait shooting will be improved by leaving free space between object and surrounding. The more emotion the pictures contain, the more viewers will enjoy.
3. Use three words to describe Bresson's photography. Only three. Be unique! Be vivid!
reality. pensive. Emotion.

Video review

We watched the video during class on Friday. It talked about some really neat technique about Photoshop. One of those talked about how to turn the figure into transparent. First, you need to make a new layer out of the original background. You can select the layer levels, correct the level setting. You can select the magic tool the select the figure which you want to alert. You can change the property setting opacity from 100% to 0%. The figure will be invisible.
Another tool we learn is the “sparkle” technique. You need to combine a dark layer and a random texture layer. Then by using guassian blur, you will have an special effect of sparkle. Use level to decay the background color; you will have a sparkle picture. Add this layer to the picture you want to make the effect of, you can transform the sparkle layer any time.

Depth of the Field

By computer editing.

Camera picture

Five favorite places at school

Front office

the gym

cafeteria

student parking lot

softball field

Those places above are familiar with most of the PAA students. We spend majority time at this places when we are not in class. Seeing these pictures, I have a lot of memory coming up to me. I remembered I was getting my schedule at school and running to my classes. Even though I do not have PE class any longer, the PE class was impressive. After all morning classes, I always cannot wait until the lunch time comes. Time goes fast when we are simply eating and chatting with friends. There is a place you have to go twice everyday if you drive. Of course it it the student parking lot. Somehow, the softball field is spectacular. The green grass and sunshine energize students. Those are the places I enjoy at school. Sure there are more area fascinate me,  but I am pretty satisfied about my top five choices so far. 

outside five pictures

The picture has contrary color. The object is in the middle of the picture to attract views' attention. The imagine correction makes the picture better. The picture has more color layers. It used to be just simple yellow of the flower. After the correction, the orange can be seen on the flower.

The rose color is faded. It makes the rose's color layered. The leaves on the background make the rose more attractive for the viewers.

The best part of this picture is the leaves. Although the middle object is not large enough for viewers. But it still attract attentions.

The rose bud is the contrast with the leaves background.

I like the soft color of the rose. It doesn't like the red rose that has a bright color. The background is vague that accentuates the rose's color.

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