#bcsc102

[burlesqueorca]

This image is the product of my first experience with Adobe Photoshop. The image is a restoration of Roberta Laurie's photograph: Victor, Harry and John.jpg. The tools in Photoshop are daunting at first, but after a few minutes of use, they become understandable and intuitive. I am not exactly proud of my restoration efforts, but I was asked to produce a reasonably improved image, and I believe that this restoration is very reasonable. Correcting the saturation was the first and easiest task, and was by far the biggest improvement that I made. Te second tool that I used (and went to town with) was the spot healing tool. I used the tool to remove many white blemishes from all parts of the image. I believe that I was successful at removing most of the noticeable/distracting blemishes, even ones on the subject's faces. The most complicated task was removing the muddy stain. I used the cloning tool to repeat the colour of the siding and make it appear at least reasonably uniform. I think that I made a passable effort to hide the stain. After cloning, I used the healing brush again, to smooth-out the corrections that I made to the siding, and when I continued to the bottom of the house, I made a shocking discovery. The tool I was using uncovered more siding beneath the skirting. I have concluded that this apparition is either a ghost trying to communicate with us, or the manifestation of a sub-conscious, innate urge that I have to redecorate everything. Alternatively, I could have been using the wrong tool.

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BCSC 102 - Movie There are many techniques used when making movies, some which are tried and true, and some which are new and exciting. One of the newer, and lesser known technologies is time lapse video. I have seen this kind of video a few times in the past, but this was my first time filming one. My iPad camera has a built in timelapse function, so I thought I’d give it a try. The idea of a time lapse is simple, it’s basically the same as speeding up a piece of video footage, so that it plays at a rapid speed. Built in functions such as Apple’s, however, allow you to simply shoot a video, and automatically saves it as a time lapse. The feature is cool, because it allows the person shooting the video to show a great deal of footage quickly, and is very effective at showing change over time. I thought I’d give it a try by filming the walk from my vehicle into school one morning. I have mixed feelings about the results. It is certainly interesting to see a walk that normally takes several minutes take only 13 seconds. However, I didn’t have anything to stabilize the video with, so I had to just hold my iPad as i walked. As you can see, the result is pretty shaky, and in it’s sped up form, it’s kind of hard to watch. were I to use this feature again, I would make sure I had some way of stabilizing the video, and getting a cleaner, smoother, result.

[byjuweria-blog]

I don’t own a professional camera, but I want to invest in one in the near future!

I recently handled a Canon DSLR camera (I don't know the model) for a project for this class, we are shooting videos and capturing pictures, it was spectacular!

I have family members who have these types of cameras and they are addicted to it, I can see why now!

In class we learned how to manipulate light intake of the camera, as well as focussing. For me, it will definitely take me awhile to learn the skills of a photography. However I would not go to  school for it, I would utilize tutorial YouTube videos, as well as learning from friends and family.

Photography is one hobby I would love to be good at, I have captured some great photos using my smart phone and a digital Sony camera, I bet it would incredible if I were to use a professional camera!

I am also slowly learning how to edit photos using certain software including photoshop. There are many photos I took during my travels, I plan to put them on the internet after I’ve copyrighted them.

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Continuing from the last post about typefaces:

When I was in junior high school, my absolute favorite font to use was Comic Sans, I literally used it on everything I was writing. There’s a certain fun to this typeface that makes writing on Microsoft word and other docs special. By the time I reached high school I started liking Century Gothic, part of the reason may be that I was reading certain series that used this font. I also became obsessed with this typeface throughout my high school, it became sort of my signature font until towards the end of high school I didn't care for it anymore.

After I started university I grew fond of Times New Roman, mainly because in all of our written assignments must be in standard font which is Times New Roman. Now every time I open Microsoft I automatically change the font to Times New Roman it sets me up for serious writing mode.

Almost all of the books I read are written in Times New Roman, there’s something bookish and serious about this font. I feel like if I saw words written in this font I must read it because it looks important.

I went from using sans serif typefaces to serif typeface, I subconsciously prefer serif for some reason. Besides Times New Roman I sometimes use fonts such as: Century, Garamond, and Georga; they are all serif typefaces.

I appreciate fonts, I play around with other typefaces as well.

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In class we viewed a documentary called Helvetica, it’s about a typeface or font created in Switzerland in the late 1950s by now old men. It’s one of the most popular typeface used in the world, and it’s very popular in North America.

I found this documentary very interesting because typefaces are one of those things that are literally around us yet barely pay any attention to. I personally do notice different typefaces and I find interesting different fonts used in different place, however I don’t obsess over it. What was intriguing about the documentary was the way the people were obsessed with typefaces, and how it was a lifelong dedication for them.

I learn quite a few things from documentary, for instance I didn't know the difference between serif and san serif typefaces. After I watched the documentary I noticed Helvetica is EVERYWHERE. Now I am more aware of the style of typefaces around me and I'm forced to pay attention. 

It’s interesting how some things  that may seem insignificant to us are people’s hard work and life dedication, so in reality everything is truly significant, because we are apart of it or we are users of it.

I would recommend this documentary to family and friends, I think they'd find it super interesting and amusing.

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The caption of this image says: Israeli soldiers arrest a young Palestinian boy following clashes in the center of the West Bank town of Hebron, on June 20, 2014. Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank as they pressed a crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas in their search for three missing Israeli teenagers.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a large issue many people of the world are talking about however that’s not the point of this blog post.

There’s been many reports of Israeli soldiers gravely abusing and mistreating Palestinian children. Many Palestinian children get in trouble for throwing stones at armed soldiers and tanks.

Looking at war photos is extremely depressing for me, so after a long search I came across a bunch of Palestinian kids in conflict with Israeli soldiers which are more bearable to view.

I came across this photo on a website called www.gettyimages.ca where many photos of occupied Palestine (Gaza & West Bank) are found. This particular photo was taken by an individual names Thomas Coex; on his twitter it says: AFP - Chief photographer for Israel and Palestinian Territories.

AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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I find these images captivating; I was once googling 'chess' and 'chess pieces', as I was scrolling down the page I came across these two images. Chess is on of my favorite games to play, I am not good at it, however I find it very fun.

Based on the compositions basics discussed in class, these images follow some of the rules.

I love the black and white (grayscale) tiles and chess pieces, it makes the images strong like it's telling a story. Especially in the second picture, I feeling the chess pieces are posing for the camera.

Rule # 1- Simplicity- Definitely these images are simple, using grayscale colors, the black and white chess pieces and the gray background. It's is very neat and organized, the eye can pinpoint the focus of the picture.

Rule # 2- The object(s) does fill the frame, there's no distractions.

Rule # 3 & 4- Ratio and rule of thirds both apply to these images. It is perfectly symmetrical, and the images fill most quadrants of the photo.

Rule # 5- Lines- These images does use lines, which gives it depth and layers.

Sidenote- It's because of these images, photography is of interest to me.