Friday, February 15, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
5 Websites
The Dead Tree:
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinday/sets/775271/
2.The Photoset includes multiple pictures of the same tree, but taken at different angles and times. The pictures don't only fully capture the tree and its characteristics, but ask the four seasons of the year, and more than one photography rule.
3.I learned that light can give a lot of effect to a photograph. I didn't know it before, but the way light is shown or applied to the picture makes a huge difference on how the picture looks. I also learned that a simple object can be used to make amazing pictures if you use creativity and perspective in your favor.
4.Favorite Picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinday/2633532682/
5a. I chose this photograph because I like the viewpoint. Its incredible! I like how the tree looks. The way its dry, but it surrounded by green pretty trees. I like how even though its far away in the distance, it still obtains the most attention.
5b. I see: Framing, viewpoint, depth of field, diffusion, exposure,
5c.Kevin Day
Storms:
1.http://www.lightstalking.com/storms
2.This was a Photoset of all different types of storms. This Photoset included pictures taken in different types of locations from beaches to farms to cities.
3.I learned two new possible techniques by just looking trough the pictures in this website. The first is that a picture can look awesome even if there is only one shade of color. For example, some of these pictures where mostly purple or blue, but they looked amazing, it was an outstanding effect! The other technique I learned is that paring two contrasting things in a photograph turns out really nice. For example, the beach with a storm, or green hills with a storm.
4.Favorite Picture:
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinday/sets/775271/
2.The Photoset includes multiple pictures of the same tree, but taken at different angles and times. The pictures don't only fully capture the tree and its characteristics, but ask the four seasons of the year, and more than one photography rule.
3.I learned that light can give a lot of effect to a photograph. I didn't know it before, but the way light is shown or applied to the picture makes a huge difference on how the picture looks. I also learned that a simple object can be used to make amazing pictures if you use creativity and perspective in your favor.
4.Favorite Picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinday/2633532682/
5a. I chose this photograph because I like the viewpoint. Its incredible! I like how the tree looks. The way its dry, but it surrounded by green pretty trees. I like how even though its far away in the distance, it still obtains the most attention.
5b. I see: Framing, viewpoint, depth of field, diffusion, exposure,
5c.Kevin Day
Storms:
1.http://www.lightstalking.com/storms
2.This was a Photoset of all different types of storms. This Photoset included pictures taken in different types of locations from beaches to farms to cities.
3.I learned two new possible techniques by just looking trough the pictures in this website. The first is that a picture can look awesome even if there is only one shade of color. For example, some of these pictures where mostly purple or blue, but they looked amazing, it was an outstanding effect! The other technique I learned is that paring two contrasting things in a photograph turns out really nice. For example, the beach with a storm, or green hills with a storm.
4.Favorite Picture:
5a. I chose this photograph because it is amazing, and I think its simply incredible how its simplicity is enough to make the viewer like the picture! Its simplicity is beautiful to me.
5b.I see: simplicity/background, Shadows, depth
5c..Klearchos Kapoutsis
Spinning around a building:
2.I saw how a young girl and a guy created an awesome moving picture that seemed to be revolving in a circle. I saw how they prepared for it, and how they went out into the city to actually take all the pictures necessary.
3a.Kalle Mattson
3b.there is no history of the video that i could find.
3c.I learned that photoshop can be used not only as a photo editor, but as a tool to create certain types of pictures. I also learned that when doing these types of pictures, you should take 2 similar photos in each location taking some steps between both.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The 4 types of magazines
Early Magazine Covers where less extravagant and detailed than current common magazines, and where characterized by looking or being the table of contents of the magazine. These magazine covers did not have any pictures at all. Not even small ones. They simply had the date and name of the magazine, and brief publication information. Earlier magazines didn't even have a cover sometimes. They started a story, or news article right on the from page. Some, as preciously stated, where not covers but a simple table of contents. These early magazine covers evolved into having more pictures and more description, and the latest early magazines, began to illustrate and foreshadow what future contemporary magazine covers would begin to look like.
Poster Magazine Covers where highly characterized by having a title and a big picture. These magazines had a large picture cover most of the magazine, and the title was typically printed right on top of the picture not quite as big as most titles are today. The date and publication information was printed in the top corners in significantly small letters. In these magazines the large illustration was the most important factor of the cover because it was bold and stander out, which made readers remember the magazine covers more than previously. The picture illustrated the topic or theme of the magazine, and carried this theme to the viewers and readers. This type of magazine cover is sort of a classic among magazine covers, and is viewed as the original classic format.
Pictures Married To Type magazine covers, where a combination of the large bold main picture and the beginning of cover lines. Yes. It is true that cover lines where seen and common earlier in the history of magazines, but not until this type of magazine cover came to be, where they significantly important and significant to magazine covers. These magazines featured the large image, the title (which became bigger than in poster covers), and these cover lines which drew the readers into the contents of the magazine, which wasn't really done (or not in the same way) previously before. These covers began to play around and use technical skills. They where no longer just pictures, titles, and cover lines. They began to transform into a form of art, a form of decor, of placing and positioning words shapes, pictures, and colors and backgrounds into the perfect way to create an appealing cover.
In the Forrest words magazine covers where a form of revolution in the history of magazines. These new magazine covers completely changed and transformed magazine covers into an intense combination of creative images and bold, big, creative cover lines. Cover lines in these magazines where more intents and more important than in previous magazine covers. In this cover format both cover lines and pictures became equally (or closely) important. More information is reveled in the cover lines of these magazines, and the design of these covers is much more flexible than previously.
Poster Magazine Covers where highly characterized by having a title and a big picture. These magazines had a large picture cover most of the magazine, and the title was typically printed right on top of the picture not quite as big as most titles are today. The date and publication information was printed in the top corners in significantly small letters. In these magazines the large illustration was the most important factor of the cover because it was bold and stander out, which made readers remember the magazine covers more than previously. The picture illustrated the topic or theme of the magazine, and carried this theme to the viewers and readers. This type of magazine cover is sort of a classic among magazine covers, and is viewed as the original classic format.
Pictures Married To Type magazine covers, where a combination of the large bold main picture and the beginning of cover lines. Yes. It is true that cover lines where seen and common earlier in the history of magazines, but not until this type of magazine cover came to be, where they significantly important and significant to magazine covers. These magazines featured the large image, the title (which became bigger than in poster covers), and these cover lines which drew the readers into the contents of the magazine, which wasn't really done (or not in the same way) previously before. These covers began to play around and use technical skills. They where no longer just pictures, titles, and cover lines. They began to transform into a form of art, a form of decor, of placing and positioning words shapes, pictures, and colors and backgrounds into the perfect way to create an appealing cover.
In the Forrest words magazine covers where a form of revolution in the history of magazines. These new magazine covers completely changed and transformed magazine covers into an intense combination of creative images and bold, big, creative cover lines. Cover lines in these magazines where more intents and more important than in previous magazine covers. In this cover format both cover lines and pictures became equally (or closely) important. More information is reveled in the cover lines of these magazines, and the design of these covers is much more flexible than previously.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Best Magazine Covers 2012
- Formal
- Environmental
- Formal
- Environmental
- Environmental
- Informal
- Informal
- Informal
- Informal
- informal
- Formal
- Formal
- Informal
- Environmental
- Environmental
- Informal
- Formal
Favorite:
Sports Illustrated, Winter 2011: "Swimsuit 2011"
(Photograph by Bjorn Iooss)
(Photograph by Bjorn Iooss)
Landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition makes supermodels into pop culture icons. Such was the case this year for Irina Shayk, a Russian beauty whose bronze skin and green eyes have made her a Swimsuit regular since 2007. Credit must also be given to photographer Bjorn Iooss, who snapped the cover photo with the first-ever Sports Illustrated shoot. Iooss' cover shot came one year after his father, Walter Jr., snapped his eleventh Swimsuit cover.
This is a Beautiful cover! I believe it was vert well done! The light and color in the Cover is amazing! The colors are very vivid, and give a sense of a happy summer day at the beach, which I think is what they where targeting at.
Magazine Tips
5 things I should be thinking about when I design my Magazine Cover:
- The Image in the front cover of the magazine has to be physically attractive so people want to buy it. The Cover must be something new, something that catches the eye. A refreshing cover. (A.K.A make it look amazingly nice and beautiful)
- Remember "Paperness". The picture in the computer screen tends to look very different from the actual cover in paper that you will get once you print the cover, so its good to keep in mind the changes that will occur after the image is no longer just on the computer but on your hands.
- Use clever wording (interesting ways of saying what you want to say in your cover), controlled color, and Isolation to strengthen your cover. Try thinking of it as a miniature billboard. Be confident about your choices!
- Keep in mind who the Magazine is for. This will help you better design the magazine, and better chose what things you want to do to your cover (glow, texture, etc.)
- Make people be curious about the magazine. Make it be different, ignite people's curiosity, make the possible readers want (possible "need") to buy the magazine.
Photoshop Notes
Nestle: tools are stacked on
each other. To access them, you must left click and hold.
USE COMMAND KEYS!!!
Command + = zoom in
Command - = zoom out
Command o = open
Command c = copy
Command v = past
****Command z = step back
Command s = save
Command p = print
>Image
>adjustments>levels
Channel blue
Channel green
Channel red
Moved just the black and
White Hershey’s kiss
Channel RGB – moved just
The brown Hershey’s kiss
(just a little lighter)
Crop
Always crop to 300
Resolution – for now do not
crop selectively – crop the entire image
To turn an image go to
>Image>Image>
Rotation
CW and CCW
CW = clockwise
CCW – counter-clockwise
180= ½ rotation
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