• Explain what the phrase Formal Elements means in photography.
• Describe each of the 6 elements discussed so far (line, shape, pattern, texture, tone, focus)
• Give an example that emphasizes each element (you can use your own image or an image from somebody else – but it must be cited!)
• Can an image show just one element at a time? Justify your answer

Typically, the seven formal elements are referred to as: – Line – Form & Shape – Pattern – Color – Tone – Space – Texture Including formal components in your frame can help you emphasize the most important details of the picture and give your compositions more organization.

Lines :
In photography, line is the tool used to accentuate a subject’s features and express a message. In addition to serving as a focus point and depth indicator, lines can also give the impression of movement.

Form & Shape: In photography, form describes how shapes and things appear three-dimensional in an image.

Pattern: Pattern photography makes use of repeating elements. Repetition of colors, tones, shapes, or lines can produce visually appealing images.

Color: One of the primary techniques a photographer may use to infuse atmosphere into their photos is color in composition.

Tone: the brightness levels of a photograph, ranging from pure white to complete black, are referred to as its tone. Highlights are bright tones, and shadows are dark tones. Most photos of nature show a variety of tones, ranging from near-black to white or nearly white.

Space: the process of creating visual space ahead of an object’s motion, direction, or point in order to suggest motion, guide the viewer’s eye, and infer motion.

Questions：

• What was the Pictorialism Movement in photography?
• What was the straight photography movement in photography? Why was it popular amongst photographers?
• How have Edward Weston and Aaron Siskind (above) been influenced by the Straight Photography Movement?
• What makes the work of contemporary photographers Andreas Gursky and Uta Barth abstract? Can they be classified as pictorialists or straight photographers? Explain your response.

Answers：

• Pictorialism Movement in photography is a technique photographers use to make the picture “represent both a photographic aesthetic and a set of principles about photography’s role as art.” they also like to make the visual abstract and painting-like.
• Straight photography is the opposite of the Pictorialism Movement, instead of making it like a painting Straight photographers like “photography that attempts to depict a scene or subject in sharp focus and detail” and making photographs real.
• Edward Weston’s photographs:

• Aaron Siskind’s photographs:

According to Edward Weston and Aaron Siskind’s photographs ( straight photography artists), often like to use black and white tones to represent the mystery in their photographs

shape

value/tone

focus

texture

pattern

lines

focus

pattern

value/tone

shapes

lines

texture

Initial thoughts about the unit. What do I think is meant by “Abstract photography can be defined as capturing images in which the subject isn’t the most interesting element”?

photographers capture colors, shapes, and lines in photographs intense and artistic.

What do I think “Abstract photography can be defined as capturing images in which the subject isn’t the most interesting element”?

I think abstract photography is a creation in different media for example paintings might use lines, shapes, and color to create.  and in photography, i could be using structures and angels to make the photograph. look intense.

Engineering design project-blog post

#1:

• My device functions like: opening the heat lamp to allow the heat to transfer to the plant (helps the plant grow). My user will be the farmers. The heat lamp is a replacement for the sun. This will reduce their workload and help them save more time.
• The energy transfer is light to the chemical. Transform from heat lamp to plant.
• The precedent that inspired me is the greenhouse. It inspired me because, as I said before, I wanted to make a device that uses light energy to transform, which made me think of greenhouses. Greenhouses are indoors. It has a point to give all plants power the grow.
• I’m going to make my device using meanly cardboard. I’m also going to use a heat lamp (at the start, I wanted to buy one, but I decided to use LEDs to replace it.) I also considered using different colored LEDs to see if they would affect plants’ growth time. These two are meanly I will use, but I also need hot glue, soil, etc.

#2:

• as I said, I want to make a light-to-chemical energy transformation. I first sketched how I would like my toy/device to look/run. At first, I build a cardboard box as a container to hold the soil and the plant. Then I made a heat lamp to transform light energy to the plant. But when I was connecting the wires with the battery, the wire lit up on the led (after I discovered the two wires on the led are never supposed to touch each other, I separated them at first, but somehow, they still touched, and I didn’t notice) after that I don’t have enough time to complete a new one, so my device is still unfinished.

• This sketch is what I imagined at first.

Material:

• cardboard box, transparent plastic “glass,” plant, soil, heat lamp, switch

the detailed plan for creating the device

• Making a plan/sketch ( measurements)
• Cut cardboard 20x50x2(length) 20x10x2(hight)   50x10x2(width)
• Use hot glue to connect them together (make a box)
• Connect the led wires to the battery (using three colors(blue, red, and green)this is to see the different colors can affect the growth of the plant (using cardboard to separate the three colored led.

#3:

• My device can improve by making the led work and making everything neater. This is because we didn’t have much time to make this device, so I didn’t make everything perfect; I just briefly made the device. Also, because my heat lamp lit up, I couldn’t use it anymore, so now my device is just a container with some soil. I think the strength of my device is the sketch and the idea.

• Some feedback I have received is making the container smaller, using an actual heating lamp, not an LED lamp, creating a lid for the container, and placing the LEDs at the top instead of on the sides. I also agree with this feedback. If I had more time, I would improve my device by using them.

#4:

• I think my devices had a good design and progress, but it doesn’t work and the LEDs are all broken so overall I don’t think it went successfully. Something I learned is connecting lights and LEDs. I use to think they are very complex but with the teacher’s guidance and friends’ help, I start to think it was not as hard as I imagined. A weakness of the LEDs is you need to be extra careful if the two wires connected to the led touch each other, they will burn themselves. And that is what happened to my device. And why my device doesn’t work.

• Strength: I feel like during this project one strength is the idea for light energy transfer and enjoying the process of making this project (I really don’t think this is a good device

• Weakness: as I said before one of the weaknesses is the LEDs even though it seems easy but there are many warnings to keep in mind. I’m not a person who is good at technical things so connecting the lights took me too much time leading to the device not being finished.

• I don’t think my design meets the specification. Because 1^st it isn’t finished, 2^nd it does not operate, 3^rd the device is broken.

• As I earlier this isn’t the best device, I would make so I don’t feel proud. The most challenging part is the LEDs and cardboard cutting, it is really hard to cut the cardboard sharp and straight, so these two parts took most of the time to make.

Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming is about a girl named Amelia Earhart pursuing her dream to fly. Amelia Mary Earhart was born in her grandparent’s house in Atchison, Kansas, on July 42, 1897. People expected girls to be graceful at that time, so Amelia Earhart was told to be a lady in her childhood. In the middle of the book, Amelia found interest in riding horses in Canada. An officer in the Royal Flying Corps was impressed by her riding abilities. He then invited Amelia to watch him fly an airplane. When she saw the plane fly, she was sure that she wanted to fly one of her own. She tried her best to achieve this and finally succeeded. Unfortunately, in a flight towards one of the last stops on her attempt to go around the Earth, she went missing and was never found.

This is the first central idea I made for Amelia Lost: sexism because at that time women and men were treated differently

I made some impotent notes for the chapter: first flight because it’s when Amelia first tried to fly an airplane.

One of her traits was “wealthy.” Which affects her life a lot.  When his father got fired from his job her family went from heaven to hell.