Typography Project

My typography

This is my best picture out of my Typography collection. It is of my friend Aileen.
We had to take parts of Connie Wanek poems, and put them into pictures. We also did Louis Jenkins poems, those are yet to come!

BOTDF concert!

Typography/Helvetica

    Since i wast here for the movie we watched on Helvetica, i am going to talk about what i already know about it, and typography. Helvetica is a font that can be used for pretty much anything. I usually find it a pretty boring, non attention grabbing font, but it can be interesting depending on the context. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design and fixing type glyphs. We will be doing a project on typography. We chose from some Connie Wanek poems and will be taking photographs on our take of the poem, then putting words into the picture from the poem. I chose the poem 'Radiator' by Connie Wanek. i plan on having some one walking away from me on a deserted street, or bridge and having them off center. The words will read:

"If they seem sad, it is only the same sadness
we all feel, unlovely, growing slowly cold."

=)

This is a picture i did for fun. I combined two photographs of my cousins girlfriend. I hope to fix it up more in the future if i have time. I think it is a pretty interesting combination. It looks as if shes watching herself pose for a picture.

Homage to Berenice Abbott

In editing these photographs on Adobe Photoshop, i learned a lot. I had never used Photoshop before. We had to take part of our photographers photograph and put it into our own, or vice versa. My favorite is of my cousins Girlfriend on the bridge. I put her walking on it 3 times, but farther away so she had to get smaller. I also made her darker or lighter depending on where she was, and flipped her around. I had to blur the edges so she didn't look completely out of place. I also changed the color of the whole photograph a few times which is why there are a couple of them.

My Homage Photography to Berenice Abbot

    I am taking photographs to pay homage to Berenice Abbot. Homage is special honor or respect shown or expressed publicly. Berenice Abbot inspired me because i really like her pictures. Also she is a female photographer. I would like to be a photographer so she is a good role model. I have been taking pictures up buildings, like she did. I have also been playing with other objects. My final picture is a shadow on a white wall, with a pink teddy bear in front of it. We had to put our pictures in black in white, so we desaturated them and left one colored part in it to draw attention to that piece of the photograph, this is used in advertisement. Below is my final picture. My model is my friend Aileen, i was just taking a picture of the teddy bear "Senor Rawrrr" when i saw her shadow and i told her to come into the picture more so i could get it better. I like how it turned out, it is very different which is what i strive for. The other close up picture of "Senor Rawrrr" is one of my favorites. I love how pretty the beads are on his necklace, and how they stand out so much.

    Another picture i did for fun was a picture of a tiger i have had. This is the picture that made me decide i want to be a photographer. When i desaturated it it doesn't look much different because the bricks look almost gray already. I would like to find out how to make the eyes a bright green. I think that it would look awesome.