Elements of Design

This is my Elements of Design Photography project. For the elements of design, the purpose was to take pictures that consisted of shape, texture, color, space, and lines. For the line photograph, I didn't want to take a picture of a single line because it would make the photo really boring. So, I found something outside of my house that has crazy lines but looks pretty. For color, I wanted to get something with a beautiful mixture of colors.. it isn't a variety of colors, but it still looks good. As for texture, there isn't a lot of nature that consists of texture so I had to put something together that would draw our eyes to it. So I picked a simple, very light texture background & a shirt that stands out due to the colorful polka dots. I didn't have a picture that illustrates shape, so I had to wait till I got to school to look for something that uses shape. I found these benches that are shaped into a square with a circular trash can in the center. I thought it was perfect to get a shot of! & lastly, MY FAVORITE, is the space photo that shows isolation. I'm not really a huge person when it comes to nature, but when I looked into my yard and found this blooming, beautiful flower with the dead one in the background I thought it was perfect for space. The flowers' stem stretches making it further from the rest of the plant which categorizes it as isolation. Overall, I am enjoying digital photography. It was hard putting it all together & adding graphic design.. but in the end, I was satisfied. I am looking forward to continuing digital work in photo class. The end result, GORGEOUS!

playing w/ photoshop [:

Playing with Photoshop was the title of this project, we had to take a picture of ourself and add things that Ms. Miles wanted us to put. I don't really like taking pictures, so I just did a funny one :) It was required that we don't put the picture of us in the middle, so I put mine to the side. Ms. Miles wanted us to pick a letter from our name & add it to our picture; I picked "J" of course becase that is the first letter of my name. Secondly, we had to put a number; I picked three b/c it is my favorite. Thirdly, we had to add two filter effects to our photo. I used the colored pencils effect (i think), it made the background look more cool. And I also used the grain effect for the layer of me. I used three different layers: 1) the background layer. 2) the photo of me layer. 3) the layer for the number & letter. Overall, I am happy w/ the way my work came out. I now know how to work w/ photoshop more. I am excited to do another task like this!

fashion photos :) favorite...

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TEEN VOGUE: Ms. Miles assigned her photography 1-2 class a Fashion assignment. In my group was Israel, Bianca, and I. I decided to use Bianca as my model & her pictures came out BEAUTIFUL! She looks very pretty :) I decided not to use the strobe light because I wanted to use the outdoors as my background. For the picture that has Bianca posing with the tree, I wished I worked out better lighting. However, she still came out pretty. When it came to editing these photo, I wanted to do something that magazines usually do. They add a description of the clothing and state its price. In the end, I like how everything turned out.

OBAMA project.

In my photography 1,2 class our teacher wanted us to get a picture from the internet of our president elect, Obama, and make adjustments to the photo on how WE view him. The layout of just Obama has a brick-like look to it and the reason for that is because Obama is strong. He has a lot of strength for stepping up to run president. I put the word "CHANGE" across the image because once he is president it will be a year of change. Our first black president-- it's amazing; we will finally be able to look into our history books later on and see a black man as our president. THAT IS CHANGE, a BIG change. Finally, we will have a young president-- that is change.

JOURNALISM: teen pregnancy

TEEN PREGNANCY-
Cynthia, age 15
Too many teenagers in our generation are becoming pregnant and giving birth. Many teens don't plan it, it just happens. Becoming pregnant is an extremely difficult process, it takes strength, dedication, knowledge, love, ect.

According to pregnanteenhelp.org the United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $7 billion annually.
Also from pregnantteenhelp.org check out these statistics that make you say, WOW!"

-750,000 teens will get pregnant a year

-Unmarried teenagers having children account for 24 percent of all unmarried expectant mothers.
-More than 2/3 of all teenagers who have a baby will not graduate from high school.
-Billions of dollars are spent taking care of teenage mothers and their children and they are more likely to be in the poverty bracket. On the flip side, millions of dollars are spent in prevention programs.

On a good note, teen pregnancy has been declining since the 1990's.

To prevent teen pregnancy, the best way is have safe sex or staying abstinence.