Makenna's Blog

1. I determined this subject as my project because I liked how it was almost a perfect rectangle and I thought that it would be interesting if I changed it into something that looked nothing like a rectangle without barely any straight lines. 2. I took about eight pictures and each one was at a different angle. 3. The challenges I encountered was when I went to edit the photos and started layering them on top of each other, I realized that having the trees in the background and a lot of other uneven things, it was very hard for me to layer a lot of pictures on. This is because I could only make all the cubes on the portable itself. 4. Given the opportunity to do the project over, I would probably pick an object or scene that had a lot more straight lines and a lot more that I could do to it.

       Art, music, and theatre classes need to be incorporated into students' everyday life because they offer plenty of creativity. It also opens up plenty of new learning opportunities. Art promotes self expression and opens up areas for new ideas. Music helps students express their emotions aloud, in front of everybody. It teaches them to be brave and to listen as well as developing their creativity skills. And theatre teaches them to be confident and how to work well with others. All of the things that music, art, and theatre teach you play into the qualifications for any job you may be applying for. Taking away art, music, and theatre from schools could potentially harm the students. They aren't able to express themselves in a way they might not be able to anywhere else. 

My image portrays the message of how love is unpredictable. This is because the dice is resting up on the rock and the other one is in the air bouncing and nobody has any idea what number the dice will land on.

ORIGINAL BLURRED BACKGROUND This tutorial was pretty easy to follow, given that I already knew how to use the blurring tool. My image ended up looking just like the finished product in the video. This effect can by used on any image, even if you wan to blur the whole picture. Overall, I think it was a great tutorial, even for someone who doesn't know how to use he blurring tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azsfUXCxtO8 COLOR CHANGING  I think this tutorial was really helpful and it was super easy to follow. It doesn't look as realistic as I would have hoped or as realistic as the image in the video. There was one step in the tutorial that didn't work, and even though it wasn't an important step, it could have made the process a little easier. The effect can be applied to most images but the image has to have a clear and defined object to change the color of something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gpO2VNPJzw

PART 1:         I think that my images are good considering the level I am at right now. I also think that I am also very focused on what I am doing and I am very motivated to do my best and I always make sure that I am doing my best. I always made sure that everything was done to my best ability and I made sure that I followed all the directions and I always turned everything in on time. I also went through many ideas for each project before I made a final decision. I always try to look for locations to take photos and come up with ideas to follow through with when we had a project. I always make sure that I shoot more pictures than required because I never know what ideas I could come up with and I always want to make sure that I have enough. I don't think that I ever gave up because a shot was too difficult to take or the project seemed too hard because I was always determined and I never gave up if I thought it was a really good idea. I always have a positive ...