Typology Photo-Editing

Hello all! I know it's early for Valentine's Day, but these heart candies work great for a typology project, inspired by Hilla and Bernd Becher's typology artwork. For this, I tried to have a variety of colors with different sayings, but still attempting to keep them in the center and angled in the center. I must say, the most challenging part of this assignment was understanding the histograms and adjusting the levels. I had to be creative with my light source in order to take decent pictures, but it was still quite difficult. Adjusting the levels balances the lightness and darkness of the picture, and brings out the contrast, but still enabling a smooth image. I then cropped the picture to the correct size, and fitted them onto this grid, comparing the images right next to each other. I definitely respect digital art lovers and workers more, understanding how much time, concentration, and perfection that goes into these pieces of art. This project really had me exploring my not-so-savvy tech skills, but still being happy with my results, nonetheless! I hope you enjoy!

Urban Landscape Animoto Video

So this video is comprised of my Urban Landscape photos that I took and edited. The song in the background is Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen, and it really transforms the video. When looking at these photos, they just seem like ordinary, or even run-down, local places. However, when adding music, and even some captions to add more feeling to the video, it changes one's emotions, and how we see things. This is actually something that I like to bring out in this blog, because its purpose is not just for education, but it's to relate to people about how music can change how we hear, see, or feel things. Disregard the trial banner, but I wanted to make this video as long as it needed to fulfill its feeling and song portion. Thank you- and enjoy!

Urban Landscape Photo

This photo was my favorite of my Urban Landscape Album, edited in Pixlr Express. As a raster-based image, it contains pixels that make up the image online. When taken from my Android, the resolution was 2268x4032, with 9.14 megapixels. After I uploaded them onto Flickr.com, I looked at the megapixels and resolution again, and they were the same, since I had selected it to be the original and in original size. Since there was no change between uploads, there were no interpolations (resizing or distortions of the number of pixels). For this particular photo, the main one that is used is the picture of the full lighthouse with the sidewalk, and I overlapped it with another photo I had taken that is angled upward, having a more dramatic effect on it. I used a filter application to make it seem broken into three pieces, with the middle piece the only one in color. I then used other adjustment tools to darken shadows, lighten highlights, and sharpen the overall quality. When overlapping the image with the other one, I zoomed in on the angled lighthouse and faded it, so it seemed as if it were in the middle of fading between scenes of a movie. Editing this photo made the original seem as if it were seen on any typical day; however, this updated image makes it seem more in "the now", or even if you were there to see it up close and far away. For anyone looking for a good photo editing app- take a look at Pixlr Express! It's free, and definitely worth your while. If you're one to take selfies and upload them on Instagram, this is a HUGE step up from that- trust me, you'll like it.

Welcome!

Hello all, viewers and lovers of art of sorts, welcome to my blog Tuned In! Have you ever had a moment when listening to your music, whether it be Billy Joel, Kesha, Black Veil Brides, Miranda Lambert, or even Bach, that you asked yourself why you like their music? Why do you feel connected, or maybe drawn, in a way to it that makes you feel a way that you choose to feel? We may not know it, but we choose to feel a way when we listen to some music. Sometimes it's when you're sad, and you listen to sensitive music to make you feel even more sad, just to get it out. In the end, it's a reliever for us. Or maybe you listen to country music to feel a sense of freedom, the kind that the singers express through their words. Or maybe you just listen to music to drown out the world, and commit to the personal world in which you'd rather live in. Either way, this is where I share my moments with music, and maybe even some practical reasoning into why we humans feel so emotional all the time. I hope this blog creates a sense of relatability, and maybe some education along the way!