King's Thoughts and Whatnot

Overview: For blog assignment four, we created name plates using inspiration from the colors captured in a photograph of our choosing. After an artsy photoshoot, we took our image and extracted three colors from the picture. Using Indesign, we created our own color palette of nine swatches featuring two different tints for each color. By having a variety of tints to play with, there was more flexibility and options when making our name plates. These name plates as seen below will aid us in brainstorming the construction of our LinkedIn profiles.  Part 1: The Photograph Around the time of this assignment, I had the pleasure of going to the American Association of Art Therapy Conference in Miami. After our long conference sessions we had free time to explore Downtown Miami. I knew this would be a great opportunity to capture the colors of the city. Along the beach, there's a neon district that illuminates the streets at night. The photograph seen below ...

Photostory Layout Design The Process I went back and forth on my subject matter for this photostory. I thought choosing a topic that I'm already passionate about would make the process run smoother. As a theater minor, I was more knowledgeable about the construction and production of "Men on Boats". Unfortunately, I was not able to get any scene shots during their performance for obvious reasons; however, seeing the moments leading up to that first show is still an incredible feat. I wanted to add more pictures to this assignment, but I didn't want to visually overwhelm the page. Trying to decide which photos best represented the story was also a taunting hurdle. In photoshop I improved the quality of my images by toying with adjustment layers such as hue/ saturation, brightness/ contrast, curve, and the paint brush tool. All of the images are cropped and adjusted to eliminate distractions. Paint stains, background people, and colorful backgrounds have been r...

Photostory - Part 1 The most underrated organization on High Point University's campus has got to be APO. Alpha Phi Omega is the co-ed service fraternity whose mission is to provide service through volunteer work that directly affects the community or even the nation. The organization derived its principles from the Scout Oath and the Laws of the Boy Scouts of America as the BSA are their founders. My idea for a photostory is to journey through the process of Alpha Phi Omega including events such as rush, service, big little reveal, and more.  Step 1: The Original Photo This fellow member of APO is sporting apparel from the fraternity. She is holding up three fingers to symbolize the APO sign, extracted from the three finger salute that the Boy Scouts use to represent the Scout Promise: Honor God and Country. Although the image is at a side angle, creating more visual appeal, the railing in the background is distracting from the focal point of t...

Pick up any household object and take a closer look at it. Whether you're turning it upside-down, zooming in close, or changing its surroundings, all of these elements of composition can better "work the shot" and better the overall aesthetic of the object. "Working the shot" involves toying with various fundamentals of design and composition techniques that can improve anyone's photography skills. Although there are numerous techniques, I will touch on my favorites in the following post. In my example, I captured diverse composition elements using hanging light bulbs as my subject matter. Cropping    Small objects, such as light bulbs, often get lost in their surroundings, so cropping an image gives the viewer a straight-forward focal point. By cropping the typical straight on photograph, it produces a more provoking image and also eliminates background noise. The chopped, zoomed-in affect draws attention to the variety of textures from the soft...