Day 2

'Terrible Photos' assignment due today before class starts up in the class Google Photos "Art116 Bad Photos" shared album!

 

 

Intro to the elements of Design & Composition

- The visual world is described by a specific vocabulary that crosses all art disciplines

 

Composition is the arrangement of visual elements on the picture plane. In art we accomplish this when framing an image while shooting the photograph or when altering an image in the darkroom or image editing software. In general composition helps the photographer define the important elements in the image. There are many ideologies concerning composition two of the classic ideas are the "Rule of Thirds" and the Golden Ratio.

Orientation

Golden Ratio

Rule of Thirds

        image credit

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How to use a Mac Computer

Login name = student

Login pass = artist

1) Desktop

2) The Dock

3) Top Menu

4) Making a new Folder 

5) Renaming files and folders on the desktop

6) Opening a program

7) Opening a file

8) Saving a file

9) Closing a program

Using Safari

1) Tabs and Windows

2) Searching

3) Downloading an image

- tools --- size --- large

- get images that are at lease 1000 pixels on the smallest side

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The Adobe Capture App

- What does the app do?

Adobe Capture CC is a versatile app that lets you create a variety of digital media files. The files it generates can be used in software programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. The app can translate a photograph in six different ways, it’s most important feature being it’s ability to create a vector image from a photo. Vector images are scalable and are used often by graphic designers.

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Materials - turns a photograph into a 3D texture that can be applied to virtual 3D models. 

Type - Compares a photograph of type to Adobe’s type database to provide you with the closest vector font available to the font in the image.

Shapes - Turns a photograph into vector shapes. 

Colors - Looks for the 5 most prominent colors in a photographs to create a color bar (schema) for that image.

Patterns - Turns a photograph into a complex pattern

Brushes - Turns a photograph into a brush that can be used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

- Download the app

Project 1

Experiment with Imagery

In class

Step 1: download the Adobe Capture App & Google Photos App

Step 2: find an image on your phone. Using the app alter your photo as a; material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush.

Step 3: go outside the classroom and take a photo in the app and alter the photo as a; material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush.

 

Outside of class

Take 5 images using the Capture App make a material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush of each.

- upload your favorite 5 experimental images to the class 'Art116 Assignments FA22-1' Google Photos album by the beginning class on Mon Sept 5th

 

Day 1 Welcome

Why art? 

 

The perception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reality

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* "Art" in college should really be called "Visual Studies". Visual studies (art) considers the elements and visual language used to communicate. Understanding how to communicate using images is a powerful and important skill in the 21st century. 

 

 

How do we experience "art"?

 

 
Traditionally we believe humans understand the world through 5 senses; Smell, Taste, Touch, Sight and Sound. (There are some researchers claim we have 9 or 11) 

 

 

Through the centuries we have derived various forms of communication based on these senses. Where smell, taste and touch certainly have their place, our main forms of communication utilize sight and sound. 

Lets consider Site and Sound:

Sound

vocal communication 

 

    •    Awareness of the presence and location of sound.
    •    Discrimination of the sound from others comparing differences in pitch, rate, intensity, and duration.
    •    Identification, including attributing a meaning and monitoring the sound.
    •    Ongoing comprehension including remembering and re-using the sound.

 

There is a difference between "hearing" and "listening". What is it?

 

 

Visual

image based communication (includes text)

    •    Visual discrimination: the ability to discriminate dominant features of objects.
    •    Visual memory: the ability to recognize something when it reappears.
    •    Visual spatial relationships: the ability to perceive the position of objects.
    •    Form constancy: the ability to categorize similar objects with different features.
    •    Sequential memory: the ability to recognize a sequence of objects when they reappear.
    •    Visual figure ground: the ability to identify an object from surrounding objects.
    •    Visual closure: the ability to identify a whole figure when only parts are shown.

 

 

 

There is a difference between "looking" and "seeing"

 

 

 

*What I find interesting is that humanity managed to develop language. Language if fully developed is a form of communication that integrates a vocal component and and image component seamlessly. Beyond that, our ability to understand what we are thinking (to organize our thoughts) is based on utilizing this system. It is also interesting that the same system has been designed differently for people living in various locations through out the world.

 

 

 

Visuals in business: Keller Visual Strategies

Art Jobs & Art Tracks

So what is art? 

- art is produced in a variety of 'mediums' both 2 dimensional(2D) and 3 dimensional(3D)

Dave McKean Drawing/Illustration

Andy Warhol Printmaking

Pablo Picaso Painting

Pendleton Ward Animation

Rodin Sculpture

Banksey Street Art

Greek Vase Ceramics

Jerry Uelsmann Photography

Glass

Graphic Design

Google Photos

 

 

The Google Photos app helps you organize and store your photos in the cloud that you can access on your phone or computer. It can also be used to organize images in albums that can be shared with other people. You will be using the Google Photos App to upload most of your assignments and projects for this class through out the semester. 

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1. Download and Install Google Photos App

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2. Open App and sign in with your Hartwick gmail account information 

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3. At the bottom of the screen you will see "Sharing". This is where you can find the albums for the class. Put your images for the bad photographs assignment use the “Art116 Bad Photos” album.

Assignment due Wednesday:
Take 25 photographs exploring Hartwick with the camera on your cellphone. The goal is to take 25 terrible photographs. You need to break all the rules. Try taking a picture while running or getting so close the image is blurry. Take images from a high angle, get low, get close, get far, hold your camera at an angle instead of perfectly horizontally.

Upload your favorite 25 images to the “Art116 Bad Photos” album

 

 

Semester Long Project: Visual Diary

[assigned] Mon Aug 29th

[due] One image uploaded 1 hour before class starts (Mon, Wed, Fri)

For this assignment you are required to take a photograph that represents the "moment" you are experiencing before each class. How you interpret this is up to you. 

Share this image up on Google Photos in the "Art116 Visual Diary F22-1" album.

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