Final Exam

4. This photograph I took had changed the way I had viewed photography, since the four people that are in this poster were from a different photograph, in which I had cropped out the background. This was also my decisive photograph. Then, I had moved these four people onto the poster board as well as adding some word to the poster board making it an advertisement. 

5. Shapes have only two dimensions, and they are height and width. Forms can exist in three dimensions, which are height, width, and depth.  

6. Repetition usually refers to something that is repeated only once or twice, whereas a pattern refers to something or many things that are repeated several times in the same order over and over again. 

7. This photograph relates to movement, because as you look at the tree in the center, you automatically see the small building to the left, as your eyes move you towards that location in this photograph. 

8. http://karpalphotographer.blogspot.com/2015/05/photo-story.html

I believe this would be my best work based on my last three projects, since I had a lot of information to say about each of the five photographs, and it even brought back family memories that I had around one week before this school year started. Besides, it was one of my favorite trips that I had ever gone on. 

Final Photo Story

I will be talking about a drive I took down to Big Sur back in the Memorial Three Day Weekend last year.

This is a photograph of a road near Big Sur I was near. I really like how the road becomes uphill and it turns to the right making me curious of where it leads to. 

This is a photograph of a blue sports utility vehicle I took at the same location of where I took the first photograph. I also own a blue sports utility vehicle, but that is Hyundai Veracruz, and I am not sure what model or make this car was, but my car was a paler shade of blue. 

This is me at Pfeiffer Beach, which also has a stream that runs though it and connects to the Pacific Ocean. The waves at this beach are intense, but they usually hit the rocks only. I took a photograph of how the ocean looks like from the beach itself. 

This is a photograph I took of some beaches from a higher altitude. Some of the beaches here at not public beaches, so people are not allowed to trespass into them. These beaches might be those private beaches that restrict visitors from going to them. 

This is a photograph I took of a boat that is near a rock. I can also see the waves behind the boat, since when the boat goes at high speed, it causes waves from the back. I took this at the same location as I did for the fourth photograph. The texture of the ocean is also visible from this altitude. 

Student Website Reviews

                                                       

Period 2

Hanson Wang

I like how this photo was taken as if the baseball is a giant. 

Period 3

Jason Stiltz

I like how this photo was taken, since it shows a very vivid description of the butterfly drinking the nectar. 

Period 4 

Kush Patel

I like how this picture was taken, since it shows a panorama of the beach and the rest of the island in addition to the front of the boat he stood on when he took this photo.  

Photo Story

The first picture is of the sunset I took at a beach club in Kona. Since, the time in Kona is three hours behind the time in Fremont, the sunset happened only a couple of hours after landing at Kona. 

The second picture represents a sacred historical park that I visited with my family the next day. This shows an ancient game that resembles a board game. 

The third picture is of me going to South Point later on that day. This is a popular site, where there is a site for jumping off a cliff for a forty-foot dive into the Pacific Ocean. I did not do that, since I just went snorkeling earlier, and I did not bring a spare pair of swimming trunks, and plus, the cliff was pretty rocky, and I could not afford to get injured during this trip. 

This fourth picture is of me at the top of Kilauea, one of the five main volcanoes in the Big Island. It is close to Hilo, and its summit is at an elevation of 4,091 feet. It is an active volcano, but luckily it was not expected to erupt at that time, though there was dried up lava from an earlier eruption from this volcano nearby that was another tourist attraction. 

This fifth picture is of me on the Mauna Kea, which is a dormant shield volcano, and it has an observatory. Its summit is the highest point in the state of Hawaii, and it is the tallest mountain in the world when it also includes its underwater base, which extends to around 20,000 feet below sea level, thus making its overall height of it 33,000 feet, thus making it the tallest mountain in the world. However, since its summit is only at 13,796 feet, Mount Everest surpasses it. The mountain in the distance is the Mauna Loa, which is the largest mountain in the world, but its summit is 150 feet lower than that of the Mauna Kea. it extends up to 16,000 feet below sea level, so it would not be taller than Mauna Kea either way. This is also another shield volcano, but it is an active one. 

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First Commercial Shoot

 Gurbaaz's Picture 

Karthik's Picture 

James' Picture 

Chandini's Photo 

Brian's Picture

Photoshoot with Backdrop

After Editing

Before Editing

I took a picture of James, who was wearing his hood in front of a colorful background. 

Best Picture

Five Info Pages of Photographers

1. Steve McCurry
2. David Bailey
3. Nick Knight
4. Joe McNally
5. Elliot Erwitt

Second Personal Story

    The Honda is one of my favorite makes of cars. My favorite Honda model is the Civic. It is because it is a strong car, which is why I own two different models of the Civic. I had owned a really old Civic car twenty years ago, until it had a bad smell. Also, I like cars that have short names, because then, it is usually easier to say them, and it takes less time to write the names. This car reminds me of the Toyota Camry, and I did own a Toyota four years ago. This would be my favorite car, though it could be troublesome to seat up to four passengers in this car, since the two Hondas and Hyundai I have seat up to four or five passengers. I took this picture one night at a Honda dealership in Sunnyvale.

Multicultural Week

    Multicultural week is a yearly tradition in our school, which helps share the cultures of the world with the rest of that school for one week. People dress up in traditional clothing, and during lunchtime from Monday through Thursday, they serve traditional foods at the Horseshoe parking lot whenever the weather is fine, except once or twice last year, when it was raining, they had the food stands all over the quad and the area between the gym and locker rooms. On Fridays, they have an assembly, in which, people perform in different groups to do different traditional performances that match those from other countries all over the world. This typically happens in April usually before spring break ever happens, but this year, since spring break was on the first week of April, they had multicultural week the week after spring break. Because of all this, the five days in multicultural week do not follow the normal, typical daily school bell schedule. The periods are typically shorter, except on Friday, third period is longer, because that is when the assembly happens, but there is no read on either of these days, and from Monday through Friday, the break is one minute shorter. However, it is a pretty fun week, and the food they serve may be slightly overpriced, but at least they taste pretty good. This year, however, instead of paying cash directly to the stands, they make us exchange one buck per ticket, and pay using those tickets.

Shutter Speed and Everything After

1. It is fast, because the trucks are already driving at a fast speed on a highway.
2. I think there is the rule of depth in this picture, since it shows a segment under the highway that shows ground at a lower altitude.
3. I would choose texture, since it shows the textures of the asphalt of the road with all the white spots and the rocky surface. I can ever see the texture of the grass at the very bottom under the highway.
4. I would choose repetition, since it shows three trucks, so that means it shows that is repeating each truck.

           

Shutter Speed: 1/120 

Motion

This is a picture of a boy doing a somersault, which involves motion. A part of this picture was cropped. 

Principles of Design-Variety

This picture shows variety, since there are a variety of colors, as well as a variety of shapes and objects. This was not edited. 

Picture that Shows the Best Unity in the Lens Blog Post "Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta"

    I think that the Picture 22 in the lens blog post "Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta" shows the best unity compared to the other twenty-one pictures in that blog post, since the whole picture is all black and white. Also, it only shows Joe Cole holding an acoustic guitar in Coahoma County, Mississippi in 2001. A third things is that Joe Cole is only holding a guitar.

Principles of Design-Unity

This shows unity, considering that the whole picture shows different shades of only brown or gray, which are two colors that are similar in a lot of ways. This was not edited. 

Principles of Art-Rhythm

This picture shows rhythm from the red bars of this cargo container.  This was not edited. 

Half Past Autumn: Gordon Parks

1. My definition of success is when I am fully happy.
2. I have given up some of the things I enjoy doing outdoors as well as some time to spend with my family.
3. He made a sacrifice a lot of his free time as well as the money he was offered.
4. Genevieve Young's father was Richard A. Gillon.
5. He was really skilled.
6. He was offered a fortune.
7. His goal was not to earn the money.
8. It tells the story of a young African American growing up in rural Kansas when racial discrimination was a social norm.
9. He is a fictional character that sort of represents an African American version of James Bond.
10. "It is not you, it is me".
11. It was "American Playhouse".
12. He was Gordon Park's son.
13. They all seem to be equally my favorite.
14. I will remember that he was a photographer.

Principles of Art-Proportion

This picture shows the proportion of the sticks and the dimensions of the boards advertising the campaign for whoever is running for the student elections. This was not edited. 

Principles of Art-Repetition

These bar railings show a repetition. This was not edited. 

Elements of Art-Pattern

These bricks show a pattern. This was not edited. 

Principles of Art-Movement

When looking at the trees, you can suddenly see the small building to the left.  This was not edited.