Final Exam

4)

I believe that this "Semester Final" photo changed the way I viewed photography because it made me realize that I am capable of taking photos that allure other people. It also made me realize that this photo had many rules that were mixed together. The color contrast in this photo made me realize that color is a very important aspect of the photo and without this color the photo will be nothing. It also made me realize that one does not need a 1000$ camera to take nice photos. This photo made me trust my cell phone more because the image it took was amazing. 

5) The difference of shape and design is that shapes are formed at the intersection of three lines and are noticed in and out of the natural world. It is proven that our brain tries to find shapes and patterns in every photo. The form of an object comes from the light and darkness. Form includes three key elements length, width, and depth. The direction and intensity of the light will dictate the form of the photo. Black and white photos will bring our attention to the different shapes and patterns but  not the form because all the light has been taken away.

Shape: Photo Example of Shape

Form: Photo Example of Form

6) The difference between pattern and repetition is pattern is a combination of elements or shapes repeated in a recurring and regular arrangement. Repetition is an object, form, or figure that is repeated. For example pattern in a photo is like trying to make circles and rectangles unify into one great big beauty whereas repetition is just repeat certain elements in your photo to make it stand out more.

Repetition: Photo Example of Repetition

Pattern: Photo Example of Pattern

7) Weebly: http://ethahu123.weebly.com/

Inspiration: http://aliuser.weebly.com/about.html

8) #1: http://ethahu.blogspot.com/2015/06/final-project.html

    #2: http://ethahu.blogspot.com/2015/05/presentation-commercial-photo-shoot.html

    #3: http://ethahu.blogspot.com/2015/05/first-commercial-shoot_8.html

The presentation commercial photo shoot was my best project because I learned how valuable time is and that having fun taking the photo is not the only thing that is important. During that project Andrew, Rudrick, and I had to actually think hard on how to take these pictures and think about the different poses we had to make in order to succeed. This project also changed my view on photography. Before this project I believed that photography was just take a photo and you're done, but after this project I realized that when you manage a photo shoot it has high stress mixed into it because of all the orders you have to make and edits. This whole experience was great and I learned many new rules and photos and also many new rules in life. Thanks Mr. Farley and have a gr9 summer!!!

Final Project

Adidas ZX Flux Ocean Wave

 Wolf Grey 4's

 "Bred Balloon"

 Gamma Blue 11's

 Gold Foamposites 

Student Website Reviews

Period 1:
http://mshenphotos.weebly.com/sampling-the-best-of-the-best
I believe that this is Michaels best photo because of the detail in the photo. The water droplets on the plant gives the photo life and it also gives the photo more contrast. The photo has many bright and vibrant colors which I like.
Michael Shen: http://mshenphotos.weebly.com/

Period 2:
http://ryenteo1.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/2/8/51281721/2971480_orig.jpg
This is the best photo because I love dogs and this dog looks very cute. Out of all the dog pictures this one is the best because the dog has its tongue out. The tongue gives the photo color and vibrancy is a magnificent touch.
Ryen Teo: http://ryenteo1.weebly.com/

Period 4:
http://nicoleliphotography.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/3/0/51301319/1691308_orig.jpg
Nicole's photo shows multiple colors and my eyes keep roaming around the photo. I can see many clovers and the tunnel that is in the middle of the photo. I can also spot the California state flower which is the California poppy.
Nicole Li: http://nicoleliphotography.weebly.com/

Presentation Commercial Photo Shoot

My Website

Inspiration For Sports Photos

Inspirational People:

Brad Mangin
Bob Martin
Walter Iooss

Place: Chadboune Elementary school, and MSJH
Time: Around 5PM
Action shots of various sports

My Five Photos:
1. Rudrik spiking a volleyball.
2. Ethan dunking over Andrew.
3. Andrew diving for a volleyball.
4. Andrew blocking Rudriks shot.
5. Andrew shooting the ball over Ethan.

First Commercial Shoot

 PC: Mansi

PC: Ethan 

PC: Aarti

PC: Priyanka

PC: Aarti

Triptych

Original

Photoshop

 Camera Raw

Best Photo

MSJMCW Story

 The coordination it takes to do ballet is magnificent

 The inside scoop of how the Indian people dance. They move majestically through out the gym like one 

The famous dance group of tinikling crew just finished their dance.

My psychology teacher showing off his fighting moves.

Mr. Hui showing us his sword skills in a very traditional sword fighting scene.

Senior Bhangra cheer. YA

Story with a photo - International Mountain

This is a photo I took in Switzerland in the afternoon. The journey from the bottom of the mountain to the top was one for the books. First, we took a trolley up the mountain which showed the scenic beauty of Switzerland and the ride took 30 min. Later, we walked 30 minutes up the mountain and reached this point where I snapped the photo. This photo will always remember because of the effort and how nice the photo came out.

MSJMCW Story

During this multicultural I have experience multiple foods all are different in culture. During lunch my friends and I would go to each booth and give the server a high five for there service in serving other students on there on lunch time. The food can range from burgers to Indian curry to Chinese food. On Monday I told myself that I would try a food that I would never normally eat. So, I tried some Indian curry. When I tried the food my mouth went on a journey across all the spice world. It was very pungent in turmeric and was very spicy. This week has also let me experience and became friends with many new people from every grade group. Until now, I just realized that some freshman's are actually down to earth and are not little kids that think they are the top of the school. This really changed my mind on how I should treat some freshman's I know. This week will always be the best week in my high school career because of the extended lunch and cool kids on the block.

Principles of Design: Form

blacks: 12

white: 21

contrast: 12

vibrancy: 12

exposure: 43

Principles of Design: Repetition

The bench has a lot of holes which show repetition. 

 whites: 12
blacks: -5
vibrancy: 14
clarity: 21
exposure: 12
contrast: 21
saturation: 8

Principle of Design: Pattern

This photo represents pattern from the different white rocks and black rocks.

black: 12
whites: 2
contrast: 19
clarity: 32
shadow: 12

Shutter Speed and Everything After

Paired with Hugh Smith

1. This truck was taken with a slow shutter speed because it is not moving at all. I believe it already stopped sliding on the road when the picture was taken.
2. One rule of composition is the use of diagonals. The truck is at a diagonal angle and the trucks driving in the opposite direction is also slightly angled.
3. One element of art that describes this photo is line. The lines in this picture are clearly depicted by the lines of the trucks and the outlining of the road. Also, the metal protector shows us the roads that are separate.
4. One principal of design in this photo is color. There are many colors in this picture including red, white, blue red, green, and black. All these colors give the sky a good contrast to the photo.

Photo with Farley's Kids

Shutter Speed 1/250

Variety of the Fittest

Photo 4

This photo has a variety of pictures and symbols that show that this person still likes the black and white lifestyle. The beer and food posters represent the white lifestyle. The pictures on top represent the black ways such as Malcolm. X. 


X marks the spot ;)

Principles of Design: Structure and Emphasis

The structure of the Thinking Statue gave contrast to this basic picture. The colors of the bush, sky, and bell tower all blends in together with the statue.

Exposure: 15
Contrast: 25
Highlights: 15
Shadows: 12
Whites: 0.1
Blacks: 1
Clarity: 4.9

Principles of Design: Proportion

This picture shows many bushes that look the same height but in reality they are not.


Exposure: +27
Contrast: +56
Highlights: +45
Shadows: +5
Whites: +34
Blacks: -14
Clarity: +67

Movie Monday Half Past August- Part 3-4

1. What is your definition of successful?
2. What have you given up to become successful?
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father?
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?
7. Why did Parks refuse the money?
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
9. What was significant about the character Shaft?
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?

1. My definition of success is to be able to be doing what I love to do.
2. I have not given up anything because I am not successful yet. 
3. Parks gave up his relationships to become successful. 
4. He was a UN Ambassador for Great Britain, USA, and France.
5. Parks only wrote 7 pages of his book and he was offered $10,000 for those 7 pages.
6.  Parks refused the money because Parks was afraid that Muhammad would influence him if he did do the story.
7. Parks refused the money because Parks was afraid that Muhammad would influence him if he did do the story.
8. The move The Learning Tree is significant because Parks was Hollywood's first black director.
9. Shaft was a black superhero that many African American people looked up to.
10. Gordon Parks chose his 35 millimeter camera as his weapon. 
11. Genevieve Young said that they probably divorced because of the turmoil that Gordon was in at that time.
12. The recent film with the same story is called Twelve Years A Slave.
13. Gordon Parks Jr. is Gordon Parks son.
14. My favorite Gordon Parks picture is American Gothic.
15. In 10 years, I will remember Gordon Parks as a activist that successfully protested and brought light to problems in America. I will remember his trip to Brazil and sharing his relationship with Flavio, and I will remember the hard work and dedication he put into his work to make it unique. 

Elements of Art Color

contrast: 4
white:-14
black: 13

Gordon Parks Period 3

Gordon Parks

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
   The doctor plunged his body into an icy tub of water.
2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)
   He was born in Kansas.
3. What did Gordon's college adviser, Ms. McClintock tell him about college?
   She said he shouldn't even try to attend college, that it was a waste of his parents' money, and that very few Negros ever went.
4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?
   Gordon was fourteen.
5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?
   He went to live with some relatives. but was soon kicked to the curb to live on his own.
6. Did Gordon graduate from college?
   Yes.
7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
   He went to Frank Murphy's and straight up told them he wanted to photograph fashion.
8. What is a "double exposure?"
   It's the repeated exposure of a photo, which usually means the photo looks like a ghost image.
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?
   He was an American professional boxer and a World Champion in the heavyweight category.
10. What instrument did Gordon play?
    He played the piano, and composed classical pieces.
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
    Their purpose was to combat American rural poverty.
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?
13. Who was Ella Watson?
    An African American cleaning lady whom Gordon photographed.
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
    His inspiration is what is now known as the American Gothic House.
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?
    He learned about humanity, and how to approach people. He also learned the people in front of the camera are always more important than the photographer her/himself.

Principal of Design: Shape

This photo shows shape because it makes you see all the different types of shapes in the photo like the cylinders, rectangles, circles, and lines.

Edits:
Exposure: -1
Contrast: 31
Highlights: 73
Shadows: 100
Whites: -62
Blacks: -31

17 Photo Assignment Photo from Lens

Best Photo: Picture 5

This picture is my favorite picture because it has one of my favorite birds. The eagle shows that the team has a sense of power and freedom. It also has one of my favorite colors which is red. The lighting in the background make the eagle stand out even more and the color of the field blends in with the players. This photo is my favorite because it has a random bottle of soda. The sparkle on the field shows that the grass in artificial and the lines are pre-made too. The sky also has a hint of yellow, orange, and blue which looks very appealing.

Top 5 Photo Ranking by Group

#1
Picture 10

#2
Picture 28

#3
Picture 2

#4
Picture 5

#5
Picture 30

Multimedia Fest 2015 Poster Questions

Why is this poster good?

This poster is better than our original one because we clearly showed our Photoshop skills and our masking skills in Photoshop. We also took more time into making it look more appealing to the eye.

Why is it better than the last one?

This one is better than the last one because it is more appealing to the eye and it shows our Photoshop skills and making to blend in the pictures. We also implicated many small key things one may not difficult. The picture that we had to put into the laptop took a long time. We also changed the font color and size, change the style of the poster, and made everything look better.

What did I do to create it?

I worked together with my group to decide which background color is better and how to crop the photo into the laptop. I also decided what font size and color it should be and searched up how to produce the arrows on our poster. All in all we worked hard as a team and this project was a team effort and everyone had a part on it.  

Multimedia Poster 2015

Linkin Park Concert Poster

Period 3-Semester Final

Period 3- Semester Final

1. My favorite picture is number seven because it shows the shadows of the two animals, reminds me of my favorite video game Slender Man, and looks like the leaves on the top of the picture are the ceiling to the animals.

2. The best photo from that album is number five because it shows that no matter where you are you can have an impact on war, the photo looks like it was cropped with two photos, and the beach looks cut off by rocks for some reason.

3. http://ethahu.blogspot.com/
I believe that my best work came from the blog post on Friday September 26 titled Rule 3: Lighting
The photo was simple yet magnificent because of all the colors surrounding that small square area. It was perfect because of the different colors on the tree such as red, yellow, and green. The colors gave the photo life when I took it. I would have spent more time on researching the area and trying to not get the building portion of the picture. I believe the building structure in my post was impeding me from producing a good grade.

4. My three rules of composition were: rule of thirds, lighting, and composition.

5. My beautiful photo

This picture shows the two rules of lighting and composition.

6. Your first rule is "get closer".

7. Working in groups can help one expand his knowledge on a subject. When one needs help with something one can just ask his group members next to him. Working as a group will inhibit that persons communication rule. If the group has a large task at hand, they can split up the work to finish it more efficiently. The group members can give feedback on there group members skills on his part and critique him.

8. Some disadvantages with working in a group are: some of the group members might carry over the others person job so that person does not need to work as hard as the other members in the group, some of the people in the group can not function well with so many people, it will limit creativity within the group, it might take the group longer than desirable time to finish the project, and the group members might not like the people in the group.

9. My favorite work is produced by my fellow group mate named Connie. http://chouconnie88.blogspot.com/ Her picture of shallow depth of field provides a great example of what it means. 

A Little History

10. My master of photography was Robert Frank. Robert changed the way people look at the photos because his photos were so simplistic but yet extraordinary. Robert Frank was awarded the Hasselblad Award in 1996.

 

11. Dorothea Lange's most famous photo was called Migrant Mother. The photo was taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California. She was employed by the federal Resettlement Administration when she took that photo. 

12. Henry R. Luce was the creator of Life Magazine. They first issued a Life magazine in November 23, 1936.

13. In 1947 Robert Capa founded his company named Magnum Photos with his fellow friend David Seymour.

14. Robert Capa took the picture Fallen Soldier in the beginning of the Spanish Civil War on September 5, 1936. 

Album Cover Recreation

"Muggin is the way of life"
-Ethan Hu

OG LINK: https://gm1.ggpht.com/YZC9P245IJyPzvaOzBUtGJsekuBpspBEuvQzw1qaDhTJPt0GhVfHx-h-MmtF1BXvfSN02ClPfZ3wv2dKFSIIHk_aK44W70BEKNJtrpA9pvewzLSyEuKcvGKmdaIpZ-8qcsJYusB3WQiev6NXcq9BfspTEwfsNWGeO2pxln6LwzyZe5DCWROcwW5DQT9nsjf1lNLNl-9GNv4wMRG2SJKTI34_3VH-xxMWUZ6mTdRV0L2zIGAvaqZlMAaxgJujzZ8tfwUzukditYFM1dwOBa8TYguHBiSQmwwSx5byUw_yNrJRFI-SayHrypEO2t7gd5N51RVXjoWDxAJarVkrwCZ813B2EVEtqq24jcyvFavPwCAcLhaFgBp8Be5ksHdOEfeLL2c4DCUAbw0EwbOxpbD6-jDWkubzv8-d8z9LXRyPIMxiK-y76EQZzgVIuydnjgh9Qzr0RgDaZeJevpnFzha5kR0LkCKudiIMnVnjSsVl2ZdA3pyGazbM7sFZcBdEjYCI7k1xutkv0iCQT61DqhI6scLGGzOfQ4WpPz6kwfA1He_usVzDYbAmu1vlF243BPHXIa5VMkUz=s0-l75-ft-l75-ft