Assignment #25 TED Talk

The TED Talk addressed photography and it's uniqueness, for it's ability to tell a story through a photograph. It began with David Griffin, the photo director for National Geographic, showing some photographs taken by famous photographers. He begins to say that these photographs can tell a story. Throughout the video, Griffin shows more photos, such as elephants in the wild and them being hunted by poachers. These photographs told the story of these amazing creatures and addressed the issue of these animals being hunted. This video taught that photographs and pictures can address real issues and problems in the world as well as tell an amazing story.

I liked the TED talk video and I felt that Griffin did a great job during his presentation. However, I felt that he could have gone more in depth about how a photograph can make you feel and bring emotions to people. I liked the story he told about his son and how he can remember it like he took a mental photograph. I wish he had also gone more in depth about this idea because I find it interesting. In conclusion, I felt that Griffin should have focused this TED talk on how photography emotionally and mentally affects us.

I felt that this TED talk helped me realize that photography is more than just a simple picture. Every time I think about photography, I think about the human mind and how memories are like photographs. When we put all of these photographs together, they tell a story. 

Assignment #24: Wrapped Object

My ideas:
My first idea is to wrap my living room in bed sheets so that it looks like one of those horror movie scenes where everything is wrapped. I like how it will look creepy and mysterious.
My second idea is to wrap up my mom's car with christmas wrapping paper. I think that this will be very funny and I want to include my mom in the picture to get her expression since she will be angry.

Assignment #23: Nine x Nine

Sketchbook 9: Only Black Things

Assignment #21: Double Exposure

Semester Final

Inspiration: Anka Zhuravleva

Assignment #20: Surreal

Real is happening and looks possible but surreal is like a dream, where everything looks real even though it may be bizarre to look real.

When someone says, "That's so surreal," they are saying that something looks or feels real even though it is strange to be real. For example, in my dreams I may see a giant mouse or a tiny lion which are surreal because in my mind they seem real but it makes no sense for them to be real.

This photo was taken by Anka Zhuravleva. I like her use of levitation in her photographs and the subtle look of it all.

This photo was taken by Joel Robison. I really like how his images compare shapes and sizes within them.

I was inspired by Joel Robison's work to capture a surreal photo comparing shapes and sizes. In this photo, I achieved this concept by using distance to make it appear as though one of the girls is either very tiny or the other girl is very large.