Blog Post 4- Mini Art School continues

Design Basic Index: Cropping Exercise (p. 193)

Survival of the Fittest

Original Image: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18gk4sf8cqyu5jpg/k-bigpic.jpg

 Cropped Image:

 

Doesn’t quite send the same message…does it?

Sometimes zooming in it not the answer. The center of attention went from the predator eating the prey to just the face of the prey, who for all we know is frolicking through the tall grass dreaming about water.

Runners

Original Image: https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/p480x480/969867_620839934600356_772095143_n.jpg

 

To me this shows the turnout for a race and how all these men are competing for the same prize.

Cropped:

 

When I started running my sister said that as a runner, you are constantly competing with yourself to improve you own time. By zooming in on this image I see the determination on this mans face and at least in my mind, the image is improved. Cropping also changed the dimension of the image from horizontal to vertical.

Atlas Shrugged

Original Image: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110206_AtlasShrugged.jpg

 

If you have ever heard about or read Atlas Shrugged you know it’s a story about a metaphorical Atlas and a railroad (plus a whole lot more!). Atlas is offset here and there are a couple of ways to play with this image 

 

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To shrug.” Ayn Rand <3

 

Atlas needs to shrug!

 

Centering Atlas and having the railroad cut off a bit even improves the image and keeps the focus on the “shrugging” theme of the book rather than the sub-story about the railroad.

 

And getting rid of Atlas just gets rid of the fact that this is Ayn Rand’s masterpiece.

Zombies

Captions:

She WILL get him to marry her! Run while you can!

Or

A family that runs together sticks together:

 

Original Image:  http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m-qc-n2QTOTZ8pRq3D5ro1g.jpg

…And they will stick together when they are running away from a crazy man with a chainsaw!!!! Or Zombies…that works too. I added this one for the humor. Cropping it above just showed you that sometimes the zoomed in version doesn’t tell you exactly what is going on in the original picture.

Building- Natural Frame

Original Image: http://remodelshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/unique-building-structures.jpg

 

 

Image is intended to show the unique window this renovation company can insert into your house/ business office. The other objects in the room take away from the focus on the window.

Cropped:

 

Still sends the same message about the uniqueness of the window but now the focus is on the beautiful view you will have when looking out of it…the actual purpose of having a window. I cropped the picture to improve the message this image is trying to send.

Funky building pt. 2

Pg. 194 in Design says “an image need not always reside within a box” but for some reason it took me 5 boxed images and into the 6^th to finally be brave to modify an image not to look “boxy”

Original Image: http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/a-unusual-unique-homes-buildings-17.jpg?w=500

 

Cropped

 

Cropping the image in this manner makes it look more interesting and intriguing. Plus, this is a building!

Reflection: Moral of the story, it's all about how you crop things! Cropping will emphasize where the center is and where the audience should be looking.

Design Basic Index: Typographic conveyance (p. 299)

Looking through the eyepiece of the gun you would see the crosshairs on letter “P”. The reds and the blue in “a” and “b” are the paintballs.

Reflection: I didn't want to do this one on the computer since it seemed like it would be more fun to do by hand. I also only included one example of my work since this post is getting ridiculously long as is. This was my favorite part of the blog activities for this week!

Design Basic Index: Boarder Variations (p. 197)

Original Image: http://www.dead-sea-cosmetics-shop.com/files/images/224.jpg

Reflection: Depending on which boarder you use will make a person want to or not want to look at your final product. For example, I made Image 3 ugly on purpose and it draws attention away from the beauty of the Dead Sea.  Whereas image 3 takes away from the beauty, the boarders around the top two images enhance the beauty and give it a postcard sort of feel, making you want to travel to the Dead Sea.

P.S. The dead Sea really IS this beautiful!