Thursday, April 30, 2015

Triptych


 Photoshop: Blending effects, Decreased opacity, Liquification

Camera Raw: Increased contrast, vibrance, saturation
Decreased clarity, brightness, temperature








Thursday, April 23, 2015

Best Picture



Five photographers:

1. http://www.worldinmylens.com/ (information found under the "About Me" tab)
2. http://www.ryanedy.com/about
3. http://davehillphoto.com/contact/ (contains "about" information about Dave Hill)
4. http://mareenfischinger.com/info/
5. http://www.caitlinworthington.com/contact (contact + about the photographer)

Tuesday, April 21, 2015


Students from PE class often find their ways out to lunch earlier than others.



Soon after, students are rushing for meal tickets and food.


Freshmen are buying meal tickets near the N-wing.



L2 oversees the entire event, monitoring trash, checklists, booth locations, and music.



Upperclassmen buy much cheaper food at Safeway.



Thursday, April 16, 2015

Story With a Photo - Chicken


This booth prepared various types of chicken from Wingstop, which they sold for about three tickets per plate. The various chicken wings ranged from fried and mild to hot and spicy, fitting the taste and preferences of many customers. This picture, which was taken on Monday, shows the club quickly and efficiently preparing plates for the moderately long line of customers hungry for wings. To attract customers, the booth set up sample plates of chicken in front of their respective flavors. By the end of lunch that day, most flavors of chicken had been sold out, and the club considered that day's sales to be an overall success. 

You can find this booth between the hot dog stand and Vietnamese pho booth on the exit side of the horseshoe. 

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

MSJMCW Story

Story. Partner - Jason Yu

'Twas the night before Mission San Jose High School's multicultural week (thus the acronym MSJMCW). All the young freshmen noobies who knew nothing about multicultural week eagerly logged onto their computers to order meal tickets, salivating at the thought of mindlessly consuming the most random confections that came to their minds. Throughout the week of spring break before multicultural week, upperclassmen club members and council members had been posting the same semi-stimulating pictures of food with the same exact formats and and overused flyer layouts that have been repeatedly used for years, but the trick nevertheless still works on the noobies we call freshmen. The organizers of multicultural week grin their evil grins as they think about the hundreds of freshmen that will rush to purchase their far overpriced and overrated food products. Their grin becomes an evil sneer as they think about the hundreds of freshmen who will run out of time to refund their unused meal tickets at the end of lunch. They clap for the genius that came up with the idea of meal tickets. Then they go to sleep that night with smiles, knowing that it is going to be a good week.

On the other hand, the freshmeat..ahem freshmen, cannot sleep at night, hyperactive at the thought of a week of overindulgence and whimsical money spending. That morning, 98% percent of freshmen forget to eat breakfast, do their homework, and study for that upcoming geometry test. Snapchat stories are reaching the 30-minute mark as the kids just cannot contain their explosive excitement. Only hours later, the freshmen are lined up at their 4th period classrooms with only minutes before the bell marking the start of lunch.... The bell rings, freshmen charge like animals toward the horseshoe parking lot. Many are trampled as they stampede across campus. Fights break out. Teachers run for cover. The faculty and upperclassmen look at disgust at these mindless neanderthals, but the booth-organizers begin to smirk because now they know: it is going to be a good week.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

The Photo

(Neha Kumar - partner)

1. The picture was taken with moderately fast shutter speed. Highways with little traffic often consist of very fast moving vehicles. Of course, we can imagine that in the current wind and weather conditions, the trucks may be slowing down on the right, all the while observing the flipped truck on the opposite road. The fast shutter speed allows the moving trucks to appear sharp.
2. My rule of composition shown in this photo is the depth. The guard rails with roads on both sides meet at a small point in the horizon, thinning down the line. This shows a sense of depth.
3. The element of art I see in this photo is lines. The road and its lanes as well as the guardrail in the center between the roads is a continuous line that visually stretches for miles.
4. The principle of design I can explain in this photo is pattern. The guard rail has a repeating rung-like pattern unit that repeats itself down the horizon. The repeating unit describes a pattern. Also, the fallen truck has striped blue and white lines that show pattern.



The shutter speed is 1/100


Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Motion


Increased warmth to increase the aesthetic appeal of the photo. Decreased clarity to decrease pixelization and enhance sense of motion.