Principles of Design: Unity

Edits: I increased vibrancy by 8 and
cropped out the excess in the picture. 

Lens Blog NY Times: Best photo for unity

From the Lens slideshow for March 27,2015, we chose the twelfth picture  from Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta.
 We chose this picture because we thought that a lot of the elements such as the lines from the bed and the curves from the mattress came together as a sort of unity. The straight lines of the walls and the curves of the bed create a harmony with the different elements that make up the picture. The wallpaper falling off of the walls and the space under the bed create a contrast to the straight lines, which helps the picture look more unified and less like distinct parts.

Principles of Design: Rhythm

Edits: Cropped the picture and decreased saturation by 3.

Principles of Design: Proportion

Edits: Cropped the picture to bring more attention to the flowers
that are closer to the camera and increased vibrancy by 2.

Principles of Design: Repetition

Edits: Cropped to bring more focus to the line of bikes

Principles of Design: Pattern

Edits: Cropped to bring attention to pattern, increased vibrance

Movie Monday: Gordan Parks Part 3,4

1. My definition of successful is to be happy and content.
2. I would give anything to be what I think is successful.
3. Parks gave up his family and personal life to be successful.
4. A rich businessman
5. He was advanced $10,000.
6. $500,000.
7. Parks thought that Muhammad was going  to influence him and didn't want to represent something he didn't believe in.
8. The Learning Tree was the first major motion picture written and directed by an African American.
9. Shaft was the first African American superhero who inspired other young African Americans to not be deterred by the onslaught of racism in the communities. 
10. His weapon was a roll of film and a camera.
11. Genevieve said that Gordon was always involved in a lot of trouble and she got tired of taking care of him. He held her back from her career and was never at home.
12.  Twelve Years a Slave
13. He was the son of Gordon Parks.
14.  My favorite Gordon Parks photo is American Gothic.
15. I will remember that Parks was the first African American to create a major motion picture as well as the African American superhero Shaft.

Movie Monday: Gordan Parks Part 1,2

1. The doctor placed his body in a tub filled with ice water.
2. Gordon was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that he wasn't college material.
4. He was fourteen.
5. He moved to Minnesota to live with his aunt after his mom died.
6. Yes
7. He worked for a women's clothing story.
8. Double exposure is a photography method that creates a ghost image.
9. Joseph Louis Barrow was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.
10. Gordon played the piano.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to help combat American rural poverty.
12. His first assignment was to go to a theater and watch a movie.
13. She was an African American woman that Gordon took a picture of.
14. His inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was the American Gothic House.
15. He learned how to approach people and take pictures of them
16. The FSA shut down in 1943.
17. Gordon Parks shot for Vogue magazine after he moved to New York.
18. The picture editor of Life Magazine was Wilson Hicks.
19. Park's first major story was about a Harlem gang leader named Red Jackson.
20. Gordon was influenced by Degas, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Chagall.
21. Parks took pictures of the model while she was walking at slow speed.
22. Park's concerto was performed in Venice.
23. Park's second wife was Elizabeth Campbell. She was a model. Her father worked for Ebony magazine.
24. Flavio de Silva was 12 years old when Gordon Parks met him.
25. Parks met Silva in the early 1960s.
26. Flavio lived in a shack when Parks first met him and his family.
27. Gloria Vanderbilt's son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors include Corneilius Vanderbilt, who made a railroad empire.
28. Vanderbilt described their relationship as spiritual and full of connection

Principles of Design: Movement

Edits: increased both saturation and vibrancy, and
then cropped the picture to focus more on the flowers
than the excess space, on camera raw.

Principles of Design: Emphasis

Edits:decreased the saturation and vibrancy so that the emphasis

 is more on the white feather than on the bricks

 that pave the ground.

Principles of Design: Balance

Edits: decreased the saturation as little so that the
picture wasn't as bright.

Elements of Art: Texture

Edits: Cropped, decreased saturation

Elements of Art:Color-green

Edits: increased vibrancy, cropped to bring focus to purple flower 

Elements of Art: Space

Elements of Art:Form

Edits: Decreased saturation to add more feeling of the dead leaves