Symmetrical balance is when an image has the same thing on both sides. Asymmetrical balance is when there are different things on both sides of the picture, looking at the picture the sides balance out. 
The song I chose for this project are "FLAWS AND ALL" by BEYONCE
My social issue had to do with women more so younger girls making mistakes and regretting them. I chose do portray something I could relate to as well as my peers and even many women I know. You make the mistakes and now have the attitude of I did what I did it, shouldn't have, okay now I'm going to have to deal with the consequences while going in thinking you know what they are but don't. You will always have those people around who stare, judge, gossip, especially those who repetitively bring the mistake to your remembrance and you having to accept it because its part of the territory. Sometimes deep inside your your biggest bully but you must put on the "so what" mask.
This was the Haunted Chavez where some thing spooky had to happen on campus. The setting was my initial idea but at first i wanted me outside of myself looking at me trying to scare myself; corny. So instead I played around in photoshop and came out with this. My most difficult decisions in creating this was I think I could have done a whole lot more and I didn't so I definitely regret that. Instead I worked with what I did at the time and came up with devilish looking hands coming out of different place and ghosts trying to come into me. I think I did well on the haunted aspect of things and making everything look definetley haunted.
There is a man in a black and white suit standing on two long tree branches that are standing on top of a tree stump surrounded by other tree stumps and lifeless branches below and foggy gray skies above.
When I look at this picture it makes me think of a scary cartoon or something. This photo is crazy and I can't believe I could do that much destruction to my face. This was very fun to create because it's absolutely ridiculous. I used the photo pass to act like i was in a jail and it worked out perfectly because looking like this, I need to be in jail!
When I look at this picture it make me think does stuff like this really happen behind my back. This picture makes my stomach hurt. Since I'm a Gemini it makes me think does my twin ever haunt me like this or who the heck is my twin. I am not a fan of Halloween or anything that surrounds the word scary and this picture makes me feel... scared. I'm sure this kind of horrific haunting happens on a daily basis and that's maybe the number one thing that makes me the most uncomfortable about this photo. UGH.
When I look at this picture it actually makes me laugh. I can vision that really happening to my face and me freaking out. Although anyone and everyone who knows me knows for a fact my expressions would be a hole lot crazier than that. My face looks disgusting, like it's vanishing away because i got acid or poison on my skin. My chess looks like I've been a smoker the last fifty years and I haven't nearly been living that long. Love my eyes though =)
I interpret “The Scream” as the man in the picture screaming because the ship is sinking maybe towards the sunset. The man looks alone and in distress. Worried that his ship is going down and he does not know what to do; helpless.
This project was an opportunity for us to put the tools we have learned to use. We were to take one of our portraits, and change it creatively using the following: selection tools, layers, adjustment layers, layer styles, blending options, paint brushes and opacity.
In this exercise we learned about Adjustment layers. Adjustment layers allow you to add adjustments to your image on separate layers instead of directly to the image itself. This comes in handy during long complicated projects. In Photoshop every tool is specifically designed to help improve your photo. However, here we took some artistic liberties and explored adjustments creatively.
For our Self-Portrait project we were to take three self-portraits. They were all to be in black and white, and they were all to capture a mood of some sort. We were also challenged to be as artistic as possible, and stay as far away from normal, cliche portraits that we see on personal pages etc. as possible.One had to use the rule of thirds as the base for the composition; One had to incorporate leading lines, and one had to be taken from a more extreme angle.
I was proud of my first contact sheet; I think it came out very well. I think I did the best on the art of the words. The next time I will probably change the shapes of the photos and maybe the overall set up of the pictures to draw grab better attention. Of all the photos, my favorite is the leading lines because it takes the eye way down into the photo. Although, my favorite trick would have to be extreme angles because they can come out very interesting.
Leading Lines draw you to the focus of the photo and takes you around the photo to explain the theme. The leading line is the pavement in the photo leading you down as far as you can see. I chose this leaing line because I love the way this concrete is shaped and it does acually go down quite far.
