Vertical

Walking barefoot is so nice, you ever notice that? It feels so good, with the right weather of coarse. But the flowers, oh look at the Forget-me-nots they radiate, and infest, your gardens. So beautiful. I wonder what it's like to be a bunny, you know down close to the ground? I bet it's nice.

Stop Motion Final

I found some things to be easy and hard about creating stop motion. Some easy things that I noticed was once you got a good idea and good props scenes would just flow together. However I found it troubling the amount of images that are required for this, I knew that there was going to be a copious amount of images required for the movie but I didn't quit recognize how expansive the scenes that I was creating needed to be to add audio. It was because of this that I decide to create the 'old time' style of movie with the black and white images and text box panels.

Art Exhibit

One thing that I learned from being involved in the art exhibit is never pick a piece that others told you to choose, It's your show you should pick pieces that you like, but feel free to ask people for their opinions. One challenge that I faced was matting and framing my pictures, it wasn't that I found it impossible I just think it was difficult for me because there was a higher penalty if I did something wrong.

A Walk In the Woods

It's a beautiful out, I wander with no destination in mind. The sand surrounding the pond is cool, it feels good under my bare feet. Suddenly I find myself falling, sliding down a sleek slope of loose sand. I come to a sudden halt as I land inches away from the edge of the pond.

Self Portrait

To Be

To be or not to be,

such a heavy question

I find there are those,

that want to say no

but say yes

Then there are others,

ones that want say yes

but say no

To be or not to be,

I wish that one day

people want to say yes

and are able to say yes

Stop Motion Practice

I learned a lot from this simple practice, I discovered that it takes a good bit of patience for stop motion photography because as one photo lasts about 2-4 seconds that means that you would need over 1,000 photos to make it close to half-a-second. This can be difficult but I find it very rewarding when you toil over the images and be able to create these quirky little videos.

Cinematography Vs. Stop Motion Photography

Cinematography, basically, is the art of creating a motion picture. It is a type of media that can portray many different type of stories. Cinematographers have to use their knowledge of camera angles, lighting exposure, if in color then saturation and if in black and white the contrast. It is with all these tools that a cinematographer can tell a story, or express a pathos to the viewer.

Stop motion photography is a similar form to cinematography, while stop motion is not continuously being filmed it can be used to tell a story on it's own. What stop motion is is when a photographer takes an image of an inanimate object and moves it in tiny increments. This is so that when all the images are put together and played together it gives off the illusion of movement. Sometimes this process is used on animate objects as well as inanimate. One thing cinematographers and stop motion photographers do have in common is that they need to control the exposure, camera angles, lighting, contrast and saturation of the images.