Independent Project:

Independent Project:

1. The project is to create one image in pixelmator. It can be abstract, patterns an edited photo, etc. But is has to consist of editing or creating an image in pixelmator.
2. When you do those two photos you need to keep track of the steps you create/edit the photo in. 
3. With those steps you wrote down make tutorials for the image. These tutorials should have step by step instructions to complete the photo and step by step screen shots of the photo as its be created. For example, you would have: "Step #1 - Open a new project in pixelmator with measurements of 5" wide and 7" high." And with that first step you would have a screen shot of a blank pixelmator window with the correct measurements. 
4. The two tutorials have to be at least 10 steps long with a screen shot for each step. 
5. For an example of what the finished project should be please check out this web page: http://www.pixelmator.com/tutorials/ticking-space/
6. Post the tutorial to your blog. 
7. If the assignment doesn't make sense or if you have questions please call or email me at: 503.253.8109/lilbro9@gmail.com

Homework for 11-30-11

My thoughts about the assignment:

       I was a fairly difficult assignment. In the past I have shot the same object a 5-6 times, but never 75! So this was a pretty new experience for me. I found it was challenging to figure out different ways to portray the same object multiple times. The assignment really made me think about how I could best show the object in different light, places, etc.

       It was fun shooting the bowl because it was a odd shape and sense it is transparent I could show light coming through it in different ways. Also, because the bowl is a fancier object it was a cool contrast putting it in places where you wouldn't tend to find a glass bowl, like the middle of the street or in a yard. 

       On the other hand the hat was fun to shoot because I could do a larger amount of things with it and not have to worry about it breaking, like I did with the bowl. Although the hat was a simpler and it was harder to portray it different ways.

      I hade a really fun time doing this assignment. It stretched me in different ways, like figuring out different ways to show the same object. I think this will help me in the future when I am shooting other objects, I can use the knowledge I learned here to shoot better images. 

Thanks for reading!

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass 

Homework for 11-16-11

These are my attempts at self portraits. I used: ink, colored pencils and water color. 

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass 

Homework for 11-9-11

This week I did research and wrote a paper on, Joe Cornish, a British photographer. He is best known for this large scale landscape photos and his variety images from around the world. 


Paper:1112 GWS 11-7 CS2 Joe Cornish Paper PDF.pdf


I also choose ten of my favorite Photos of Joe Cornish. Here they are:

I really like the highlights of violet in this photo and the reflection of the sky on the water.  

Even though this is a still photo, it really displays a lot of motion and that is what I like about it. 

I love how this photo is almost a gradient, if you will. The sunrise on one side displays a mid amount of light, the middle is fairly dark and the right side is light and has a nice early-morning fell to it.

I like how this photo shows just a tad of that dawn/dusk orangeish light in the sky, while still keeping the great purple and blue colors. 

I like how this photo seems vary natural, it just looks like a creek you would see on a hike. It really shows a great photographer when he can make the natural really unique and beautiful. 

I just love everything about this photo and I would love to have it hang in my room someday. I love how it has that orangeish dawn/dusk coloring to it, I like the industrial feel it has to it, with the metal and city lighting. I just think it is a really well thought out and produced image. 

I like the vineyard type feel the picture has, it makes you feel like your in the countryside of Italy or something of the sort.    

This is the same bridge as in two photos above. I liked both of the images so much, so I just put them both on here. Among all the things I mentioned in the other photo of this bridge I like the accents of purple and yellow and the water reflections.

This photo is vary simple, yet very complex. Because it is a pretty close up picture you can see the textures in all of the rocks really well, I like that a lot.  

This image is also vary simple, but I really like that, in fact it is my desktop picture right now. I like the reflections in the water and how they are not complex enough to get confusing. 

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass

Homework for 11-2-11

These are portrait shots that I had to take of a strangers. It was a tad awkward because, well they are strangers and it's kinda a weird thing when some random person comes up to you and asks to take your picture. All weekend I was staying in a hotel at the beach so the people I shot were the employees that work there. 


So here they are:

This is my end product of the "vintage effect"tutorial from the pixelmator website. I got this effect by blurring, adjusting contrast, adding other pictures of textures over the top of the photo and changing the blending modes. 

Thanks for looking! 

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass