Basics of Digital Photography
Assignment: In teams of two (assigned) document each other, capturing all use of technology throughout the course of one day and post photos to Flickr.
Since Ray and I were not able to schedule time to see the Floating Island, we went on a tour of Soho for an open gallery. Trying to find a gallery open on Monday is quite a task in itself. We originally planned to see the Revel Gallery on Spring St and Mercer St. They were unfortunately under some type of renovation. I knew that Spring St is covered in galleries so we just ventured West until we found something open.
We stumbled upon the Opera Gallery which had paintings, sculptures and collages on display. Some of the artists include Marc Chagall, Miro, Tobiasse, Linda Lekinss, Marcel Mouly, and Fernando Botero.
My favorite pieces were sculptures by Tolla Inbar. What makes her pieces so interesting to me is her use of materials to give the user the illusion that they are not what they seem. For example, Aspiration is made of bronze, but the rope looks to have the same texture as actual rope. Also, there is this illusion that the rope is just standing straight up on it's own defying gravity. Tolla's sculptures magical qualities intrigue me.
Taking photos of technology wasn't very difficult. We did not want to repeat taking photos of each other on the cell phone or taking photos. You just need to keep an open eye out for every little thing. The best find was definitely the copier machine on the sidewalk!
I did very little editing to the photos. For all photos, in Photoshop I applied an "Auto Level" to fix any slight white balance issue and resized to 640x480. Then for each individual shot I did some slight modifications on saturation, hue, or curves depending on what the photo needed.
Finally, we pasted our photos onto a joint Flickr account.
Since Ray and I were not able to schedule time to see the Floating Island, we went on a tour of Soho for an open gallery. Trying to find a gallery open on Monday is quite a task in itself. We originally planned to see the Revel Gallery on Spring St and Mercer St. They were unfortunately under some type of renovation. I knew that Spring St is covered in galleries so we just ventured West until we found something open.
We stumbled upon the Opera Gallery which had paintings, sculptures and collages on display. Some of the artists include Marc Chagall, Miro, Tobiasse, Linda Lekinss, Marcel Mouly, and Fernando Botero.
My favorite pieces were sculptures by Tolla Inbar. What makes her pieces so interesting to me is her use of materials to give the user the illusion that they are not what they seem. For example, Aspiration is made of bronze, but the rope looks to have the same texture as actual rope. Also, there is this illusion that the rope is just standing straight up on it's own defying gravity. Tolla's sculptures magical qualities intrigue me.
Taking photos of technology wasn't very difficult. We did not want to repeat taking photos of each other on the cell phone or taking photos. You just need to keep an open eye out for every little thing. The best find was definitely the copier machine on the sidewalk!
I did very little editing to the photos. For all photos, in Photoshop I applied an "Auto Level" to fix any slight white balance issue and resized to 640x480. Then for each individual shot I did some slight modifications on saturation, hue, or curves depending on what the photo needed.
Finally, we pasted our photos onto a joint Flickr account.
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