Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography, which is also called portraiture, is a photograph of a person or group of people that shows expression, emotion, personality, and mood of the subject. You could show the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included. Portrait photography is related to profile and silhouetting because in the processing in making a portraiture, you need to take a picture of a profile picture then go to and in photoshop, you would need to silhouette the outside.

To make a double exposure, you'll need to take one sidewards profile picture of yourself, then two other pictures that symbolize who you are. Then you import the photos and all that stuff, then open photoshop, go to files, scripts, then load files into stack. Then click browse and find the files you want to use. Then after you press ok, you can mess around with the controls and make something very creative! You would want to make one because double or multi exposure can make other people know who and what kind of person you are.

The first photo shown is a profile photo of me and if you can see the two things that symbolizes me is a basketball going into the hoop and a mountain. The basketball represents that I play sports such as basketball. The mountain represents that I am strong. I put a mountain because mountains cannot be moved right? Mountains are STRONG enough to stay in one place. My photo could of been better if I added a little bit more space in my head for the basketball and hoop. 

The second photo looks like there're a bunch of leaves and trees. Well they are. Mr. Sanderl said that we didn't really need to have a symbolic thing about us. Although, I could of make the yellow parts on my head, I could of erase the yellow part. The top is only yellow because I was in front of a green screen and when I used the dodge tool to make the background white, it made the background yellow. Well that's all. Goodbye.

HDR Photography

HDR photography is a type of picture that you have to take 7 photo of the same thing in different exposure that shows the horizon line, sky, and ground, also known as wide shot. HDR is used for making a boring old photo into a cool looking photo with a lot of details. I like and dislike HDR. Why? Because HDR is cool to make and the final picture is just awesome! I also don't like HDR. It takes to long and what if you move your camera? You'll have to do it all over again. And that's why I like and dislike HDR photography. HDR photography makes any boring photo into a creative, cool, very detailed photo.

There is 6 easy steps to make HDR photo. Step 1: Control the exposure to go to the lowest exposure and take at the most 7 pictures with different exposure. Step 2: Importing photos & organizing Once your done with the photos, Go to adobe photoshop. Step 3: Once your done with the photos, Go to adobe photoshop. Step 4: Automate < Merge to HDR Pro < Ok. Step 5: Make the photo as creative as you can with the tools to your right. Step 6: REPEAT!!! Just follow those easy steps to get a beautiful picture like these. This is not different from automatic HDR.

The first photo I was trying to make the horizon line straight with no cars but if you can see it there is a car behind the bushes because there is a highway right behind the bushes. I was thinking about adding that yellow whatchamacallit (I'm not sure if it's a pole). I tried adding rule of thirds horizontal and it turned out pretty good and I wanted to add foreground and like I just said, it turned out pretty good. The second photo turned out better then I actually thought because the rule of thirds wasn't correct because my little brother was placed right in the middle of the shot and in the left corner of the photo was bad because that is the most brightest spot on the photo and everybody's eyes goes right there. But I thought that I tried to do something different because someone else would place someone right there not doing anything. But I made my brother hold the baseball bat as if he was in a baseball stance. And with the scar on his face maybe that would relate a little more to what he's doing because what if he like got into a accident (in honesty, he did) doing a sport (baseball) he loves (he actually doesn't like baseball). Well that's it for now.

See ya later!

Movie Trailer Critique

Our latest project in G.T. was our Movie Trailer. We all had our own jobs. Me and everybody else all were actors. Mason I can say was probably the director because he put his heart into this. I also put my heart into this... It's just that when Mason tells me to go to Mr. Sandrel's class, I keep on forgetting. I still contibuted really good. The trailer plan I could say was hard. I didn't know what the keywords meant. We all had different ideas on the synopsis and voice acting script but we actually finished it.

The requirements were to have at least a minute and 30 seconds to 2 minutes and 30 seconds and we had to much B-roll and we had to pick which B-roll we were going to pick and we just barely got 2:23. We got 5 scenes or at least 5 scenes in the 2:30 we had. We got the voice acting done with Mason doing it. We got more than enough foley... It's just that all of them were useless. Our movie poster that they chose was mine because they thought that mine was pretty cool so we met all the requirements.

I thought the class critique was pretty good because it wasn't so good and it wasn't so bad but still. Everyone thought it was funny which what we were barely trying to go for but it was pretty cool too. I agree with how we got a 4 because like I said earlier it wasn't so good and it wasn't so bad so actually I totally agree with the score that me, Mason, Micah, and Jason.

Movie Poster Promo

In my G.T. class we have yet another project (wow shocker) and we have to make a movie trailer. It's called the "Men in Black IV" and yes, it is the quadruple of the original "Men in Black". The main characters that will be seen on the poster are Me, Mason Doo, Micah Miller, and Jason Hoy. The poster will be taken place in two places. One will be at Mr. Sanderl's lab and one will be at kapahi park. Jason and I will be looking over yonder and Mason and Micah will be looking like they will punch each other but they're actually just posing.

We put MIB4 instead of men in black 4 because we thought that it was to long to put so we put it in abbreviations and actually it looked better than Men in Black 4. We chose my poster because it actually looked better then my team's one. I added a bevel and emboss to the text and added a stroke. I also added the drop shadow effect but for some reason it didn't look like there was any drop shadow but I think it was because the drop shadow was black and also was the background. I also added some reviews but I didn't in the final one.

The effects I used made an impact on the text by making overall the poster better because the text itself is cool then add a little white stroke around the text then added some bevel and emboss to make the text more bold and stuff. The picture of Mason and Micah looks a little weird because first of all Jason's arm is in the picture and I forgot to erase the arm. Second, Mason's shirt looked like it got painted on. Well it did. The title is called "Men in Black" and Mason's shirt was white and I thought "why would an agent's shirt be white if the title is called 'Men in Black'. The guy is in white and it is called men in BLACK". So that is why it is painted. And that's how the effects make an impact.

Proactive or Procrastination?

To be honest, I'm a procrastinator. I know when stuff are due and sometimes I just barely finish it. I always try not too procrastinate because it sucks. Seriously, I don't like it because it makes my parents mad and I get grumpy when I have to do work. I really want to get rid of this habit. Not only do I blame myself for this, I blame the projects. Usually I would blame myself, but to be honest, some of the projects that I have to do are to hard, a lot of work, and sometimes the team you have is not a really good team. I work hard but honestly, I'm a procrastinator.

My level of productivity relates to my amount of free time by the faster I get things done then the more free time I get. Since I'm a procrastinator, I barely have free time. Sometimes homework that I have to do that are very easy I usually put those to the side then work on the bigger homework like projects or quadruple homework. Then I just forget about it. Then I have no free time and I get stuck doing a lot of homework. So being a procrastinator can take away not only your free time, but it also takes away other people's free time. Not only does it stress you but it stresses everybody else.

If I could change anything about my work habits, I would work on my OWN desk and listen to music while I'm doing math and those things. the desk because I don't have my own desk that I can put my things on. Music because it is one of the things that I like to do and I work faster listening to music.Getting my own desk would be hard and I don't know how to get the desk. The music will be easy because all I would need to do is just grab my small speakers (which is actually pretty loud), connect the speakers to my Ipad (the speakers are also wireless so I don't need that cable to plug into both of them), then make a playlist with all the music I like. I'm sure hat these will work because it will make home work sometimes fun. But I still procrastinate and I will try to grow out of this habit!

My Visual Poem

   

Are you satisfied with your results and why, or how could you make it better?

My Visual poem is about music. I chose music because that's what I like to do. Music has more uses than just listening to it. You can get groovy and dance to the rhythm. Maybe your party is lame and you want to make people happy. So you add music. Music can brighten up your day in any type of way. People listen to music either because they're bored or they love that song. Music can cheer you up even if your happy! Not only did I choose music because it's what I love music. I chose it because it has a lot of ways to make not only people but everything happy!

My special effects affects the meaning, mood, and audience by being somewhat related to music. I tried to make the effects as close to related to music. It probably didn't look good because I'm a procrastinator. I only shot all the videos two days before the actually project. Then I tried adding in the effects on the day before it was due and I tried to make it as great as possible. The audience's mood would be okay because the special effects are cool and there is probably one or two spots that they will wonder about. People may not know but music is important to me and I want to keep it alive.

I'm satisfied with the results of how my visual poem came out. I'm happy because I actually did a pretty good job. There was a couple of places that could of been fixed. But the only reason why it was like that is because I procrastinated. I could've add more background music and nice b-roll. I should've add music because that was the whole poem was about. I worked my hardest on this project and finished it at the last second. I'm satisfied and happy how my poem came out.

Finished News Story

      

   

 Me and my team's profile story for GT is finished. The story is a Profile Story about Mrs. Lardizabal and why she wanted and started music. The story is also about Mrs. Lardizabal's passion for music. The people who contributed in the story is Timothy Blum, Kynan Ledee, Alaka'i Gonsalves, me, Mary Lardizabal, Haley Gokan, Gavin Acob, and all of 1st and 6th period for chorus. Me and my team chose to do a profile story about Mrs. Lardizabal and her passion for music because Mrs. Lardizabal is one of the teachers that works the hardest and she tries her best to help her chorus and ukulele band to the music festival in Anaheim, California. Mrs. Lardizabal makes all these performances and she also advertise all these different stuff like the color run and the rice festival. That's why we chose to do it about Mrs. Lardizabal.

        To me the final to my project was pretty good and we could of done better because in some of the shots were blurry and could use some work. My teacher told us that we would be doing two more of these projects. So now I'm ready to do another one and I know whats coming at me. The final project was pretty good. We had a couple blurry shots and I think that's a easy fix. Just next time we will remember to focus it all the way.

In our class, we voted what story had the greatest quality and that was the best. We got 0% (0) students of the class that graded us 1. We got 7% (2) students of the class that graded us 2. We got 56% (15) students of the class that graded us 3. Finally, we got 37% (10) students of the class that graded us 4. People in my class had to vote which one was better and 11% (3) students chose our team. I think that the scores that we got was what I expected. Next time I want to do better because I didn't know what to do and I think I will do it better.