Monday, March 2, 2015

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography is when you take a picture of someones face or have them take a picture of your face. Portrait photography is kind of like profile picture because there bth a picture of your face or someone else. its just that a profile picture is the side of your face. It kinda relates to a silhouette too because a silhouette is an image of a person or an object and is filled with one solid color which is usually black. So to make a silhouette you need to start by taking a portrait first.

To make a double exposure in photoshop you need to go file>Scripts>Load Files into Stack, after you can resize your pictures, then you use the dodge tool to make your background white or you can add some textures. Next you crop your images 8 inches by 11 inches . When you have all of your pictures resized and cropped you can place the pictures where you want them to be. Next your going to turn on your blend modes. You click on the layer>Blend Mode> Screen (you can choose any blend mode , it doesn't have to be screen mode). Once your done with that you might have edges and your going to want to make it look like the images blend together, your going to take your eraser tool and give it a soft opacity to make it look like the images blend together.


In my exposed portrait, my symbols were a sunset and a picture of underwater. I chose the picture of a sunset because I enjoy watching sunsets and taking pictures of them, and I chose a picture of an underwater scene because I like using my Gopro at the beach, also I love the water its beautiful and like totally awesome. I think I could've used one picture that was an item or like an animal or something because in my final it looks like I have a pink body, and a blue head with a little bit of texture to it. To me it's pretty bad, I had a third image but we were only allowed to use two so I was stuck with a pink body and a blue head. My third symbol was going to be a wave crashing and it was taken horizontally so it was a strip of wave between the sunrise and my underwater symbols. Then I realized I was only allowed to have two symbols so I just have a blue head and a pink body with some trees by my neck.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Movie Trailer Crituqe





This project was kinda hard for me because I didn't communicate well with my teammates ( Ethan Garrison, Nathan Gardner, and Shanden Matsushima), so I ended up not being in the movie. Filming our movie was a bit difficult to because ours was an animation. We ended up using the green screen a lot. For our trailer plan we each worked on it, but I think Nathan worked on the trailer plan the most. I helped by getting the shots, setting up cameras and tripods, writing scripts, filming, and editing.


The project had requirements that were pretty easy to follow, but our team still failed to follow them all. The requirements were to have the entire trailer 1 minute and 30 seconds minimum  to 2 minutes maximum, a total of 5 scenes,  voice acting script, dialogue, foley,  had to be appropriate for all audiences, it needed to include dialogue and foley, and at the end our movie trailer poster. Our team got most of the requirements except for foley, and it wasn't to appropriate for all audiences. 

Our class critique results were pretty bad. The creativity and requirements were really low, but the audience critique wasn't too bad. I agree with the critique results because our trailer was pretty bad. I've learned that I should help my team more. I also learned that I should communicate better with my team.

HDR Photography

HDR photography is multiple pictures taken at different exposure levels and are layered to make the exposure of the picture balanced. HDR means High Dynamic Range. I like HDR photography because it makes the pictures a bit nicer. Also, you can see some of the darker areas and if the sun is in the shot it doesn't washout the photo. Using the HDR setting on my phone helps me with my sunset or sunrise shots because I can see some of the mountain and the sun doesn't look like a huge flash and the colors look a bit more natural.

If you want to take an HDR photo, here's how. First you need to take your pictures, when you take the pictures you need to take them at different exposure levels (-3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3). Once you get all of your pictures you need to open photoshop. File>Automate>Merge to HDR pro. Your going to wanna check the "Attempt to align" box. After your photos load, sometimes you can see these things called "Ghosts". Ghosts happen because your subject or something in your picture moved. You can click the "Attempt to remove ghosts" box. You can edit your photo to make it look surreal or true to life. Believe it or not, there is a difference between HDR on an Iphone and HDR that you take yourself. The difference between the two is that HDR on an Iphone has only three exposure levels. But when you take the pictures yourself it has seven or more exposure levels.

The thought process of my experiment was that I wanted to have a nice background but a nice portrait at the same time. So I tried my best to place her in one of the rule of thirds points. I put the word "dream" because I wasn't too sure on what word would work with her face. I made her bigger because it wasn't in the rule of thirds mark. The thought process of my landscape was that I wanted my coconut tree in it so I put the camera so I could see the tree and the part of the town too.







Monday, January 26, 2015

Movie Poster Promo


The main characters in the movie poster are Nathan, who plays Baymax, Ethen who plays Hiro, Shanden who plays Wasabi, and Leilia (me) who plays GoGo. Nathan will be doing a pose of him bent down trying to pick up a soccer ball because in the movie baymax attempts to pick up a soccer ball but fails to pick it up and just keeps kicking it forwards. Ethen who plays hiro will be just smiling and watching baymax tryna pick up the ball. Shanden who plays wasabi will be posing in a stance like hes about to slice someone. Leilia (me) who plays GoGo will be posing like I'm about to throw one of my disks.

My title is Big Hero 6. My poster has the actors names and who they play. For example: Leilia Panui as GoGo Tamago. I kerned my title and added layer effects. Kerning is adjusting the spacing between the letters and the distance between words. We use kerning because it  makes words more interesting to the eye, it makes words cooler.

The impact the layer effects and filters have a good impact. When my title was just words without layer effects and filters it was really boring. Once, I put layer effects and filters on my text it looked much better. It really poped out of the page, I added a drop shaddow and a color overlay. I also kerned my title. 

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Proactive or Procrastination?

I have to say I'm a little a bit of a proactive but I'm mostly a procrastinator, because depending on my mood I can be lazy, but I'm mostly proactive because I get lots of home work and there's lots for me to do at my house. Once in a while I'm a procrastinator because having all this work gets tiring and boring so I end up putting it of and doing it later.

    I usually have lots of free time but I end up doing all my work at the last moment, I put my work of to the side because there's always something fun going on at my house. I don't wanna miss out on the stuff that happens at my house. So I usually have very little work time and lots of free time because I put off all of my work. Lots of my time usually goes to helping my family, or playing with my little cousins. That's why I don't have lots of productivity time.

    I would change my work habits by learning to finish all my work first then going out to play or whatever.  I would change the amount of free time I have because I have so much free time and I just waste it. I don't really do much doing my free time I usually waste it on social media or tv. I'm going to star using my time wisely and use it to catch up on work.

    Tuesday, November 18, 2014

    My Visual Poem




    My Visual Poem Was on the oceans. I think the visuals make an impact because my visuals are of the beautiful beaches of kauai. I had pictures of Anahola beach, Shipwrecks beach, and another beach but I don't remember the name of it. I have to say that my visuals were kinda awesome because I took them myself.

    For my special effects I used transitions and the kens-burn effects. The trasitions change the mood because it gives my Visual Poem a little kick and excitement and it's not as boring when the B-roll is just being switched really quickly. I think the audience would enjoy my transitions because there mostly fades so it fades in to another picture so it looks pretty nice.

    My finished poem didn't really turn out how i wanted it to but it still came out pretty nice. I'm not sure if it was long enough or not. Also some of the B-Roll i planned on taking didn't really work out. I'm just happy I completed the assignment.

    Thursday, October 23, 2014

    Finished News Story


    My teams story was on Henry Panui . It was on how he was able to balance the time for his job and surfing . My teammates were: Jasmine Laplante, Tessa Jensen,  Me, and Daileen Barton. Tessa's mom also contributed to our news story because she drove,  Me, Tessa, and Jasmine to my house to film. The people we interviewed also contributed to the story because they took time out just for our project .

    The final product didn't really turn out as i thought it would but it still came out okay. I think  we could've put a little more effort in to the project it would've turned out better. Im okay on how it turned out . I mean its not the best it has very little b-roll , but at least we got it done . Not exactly the best news story but I'm fine with it . 

    With our critique results I understood why we got low critique results. Our critiques were mostly two's, three's, and one's. We lacked requirements,  like B-Roll. We had B-Roll but it wasn't the right B-Roll . Instead of video it was picture B-Roll . I definitely agree with our critique results.