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Edited Exploration

January 10, 2025 / Scarlett / 0 Comments

Depth of Field

- For the first photo I made the yellow a higher saturation/luminance to increase the yellowness of the minion’s skin. It made the minion go from a more banana coloured yellow to a bright radioactive yellow but not fluorescent. This photo makes me feel like someone has gone from being the most important person in the room and then slowly fading into no one. I think this because the blue overalls are significantly darker than the minion’s body and because Maggie’s head is much brighter than the minion overall. I think this photo feels like how people feel when a person is used to being the spotlight/center of attention slowly fading into the background as the person in the back takes their spot.
- The second photo was made black and white using the White Balance editing feature. Using the “Neutral Gray” option, I moved the dial, so it created more warmth in the photograph. Even with the warmth of the Neutral Gray, the photo still was quite dark, and it made me feel like a memory stuck in time. It made me feel this because the minion is very much the darkest part of the picture, like a shadow in the frame that can’t ever leave.

Perspective

For these two pictures I put the minion into a rock-climbing hold that was on the side of the giant yellow sponge structure outside of the dome.

The first picture I focused on changing the levels of luminance and the definition. Having no experience in editing photos at all I found this very enjoyable as I could clearly see what the changing levels of luminance did to the picture. I couldn’t find a difference in the levels of definition until I moved the marker to its maximum. Honestly this picture makes me feel like it was taken when someone was drunk and dared to do something stupid. It might be the angle that was used or the effect that the editing had on the picture but that’s what it reminds me of.

The second picture has a blurred middle line, I think it adds to the picture because again it reminds me of when someone is super wasted and ended up in a picture doing something they aren’t meant to. For this picture I used the selective colour and changed the darker blues which included the overalls and the rock-climbing, making the hue itself darker, adding a higher saturation and lowering the luminance.

Balance

For the first picture I adjusted the amount of colour and light applied to the photo, which caused the picture to become a more still stuck in the moment image. It makes me think this because images with less colour in them immediately causes me to think of a person or moment frozen in time. The definition of the picture is also as defined as it would allow me to make it, and from what I can see it just made the shadows and dark parts of the photo more defined, adding further to the reason that it makes me feel stuck in time.

This second photo used similar changes to the image only in different directions. Instead of reducing the colouring of the photo I increased it slightly, making the colours pop out more. To contrast that change I altered the photo’s lighting making it darker. The image makes me feel like someone was left behind and is waiting for them to be remembered. The background being super blurred helps add to the effect because although it is super blurry you can see that it’s completely empty, everyone had gone home execpt for this person.

Framing

The first image I altered the lighting of the photo, making it as bright as can be. I then changed the vingette, making it super strong and have a huge radius making a spotlight effect. There’s absolutely no softness to the vingette, meaning the shadow is as dark as can be. It makes me feel like that moment in a movie or tv show when everyone is suddenly staring and laughing at the character. The point where there’s a huge panic going on in their head and they don’t know what to do. A specific point that I’m thinking of is in the 2014 movie, Divergent. The main character Tris is facing one of her fears in the fear simulator and she’s in this glass box. All of the other initiates are looking and laughing at her and that’s what the picture makes me feel.

The second image is coloured black and white with the brightness setting set all the way up. Only one other thing has changed and that is the sharpness of the image. Athough I altered it so all the options are completely at the max I cannot see a difference in the image. Whether or not I move the scales up or down it still looks the exact same to me. This photo makes me feel like I’m in a horror film where the character is going to either die or get spooked really badly.

Leading Lines

The first image has so many changes that I don’t know what they all do. The changes are a difference in the lighting, colouring, curves, levels, definition, noise reduction, sharpness and vingette. The two main changes I don’t understand are the levels and curves which both have something to do with colouring and the RGB levels. The colouring seems to be only slightly changed, the main change that I can see is the brightness of the picture being much brighter. This photo makes me think of someone doing something thrilling and not getting caught. The character is in the drinks cabinet of the cafeteria and you aren’t supposed to be in there so that’s what makes me think of it.

The second photo’s only change is the levels of luminace. From comparing the luminance levels to the change in colours I think it makes the colours dull, not just darker. The photo makes me feel like its the second picture in the sequence, the first one being the first photo the one where you do something reckless and then this one being you got caught for your recklessness. I think this because all the colour has been dulled so it’s like the colour represented the fun and excitement of the “crime” and then with all the dull colours its no longer fun or enjoyable.

Rule of Thirds

For this first photo the only changes are in the light and colour levels. These two changes are very slight, but it still changes enough for there to be a difference. The colour and brightness changes enhance the yellow of the minion figure enough to make it contrast the blank background and the dark blue overalls that little bit more than the other photos. It reminds me of a modeling shoot, with that blank background to help the focal be the minion/model.

The second photo has a very clear difference to the first and that is thanks to the change in white balance. Changing the temperature/tint of the picture to made it feel more like it was taken in a desert. It also isn’t in focus which adds the illusion of the desert, being all windy so the camera could get a good focus.

Negative Space

The first photo has a neutral gray white balance and a change of selective colour, specifically the gray of the keychain. The change of the white balance makes the picture very very wintery gray, like a scene in a movie where there’s about to be snow and the frame is frozen at that moment. Another very specific scene that the colours remind me of it in Hunger Games, Mockingjay Part 2, when Katniss is decked out in her mockingjay outfit about to kill President Snow. The colours specifically in that part remind me of this photograph.

The next photo’s changes are also minimal. The biggest change to the photo is the vingette. With the strenght being as strong as possible at 1.0 and the radius being at 1.0 as well its quite obvious. There is the use of softness but it’s not as strong as the other two, only at .50. The picture makes me think of a target, like in a spy movie when the photo is of their target and it’s all ominous and stuff.

Symmetry + Patterns

The first photo has the brightness level as decreased as allowed, in addition to the RGB curves being changed. The effect of these changes cause the photo to be more downcast and dull. Although the colours are still full the RGB curve is lowered which sucks part of the colour out of the image. This photo makes me feel like I’m in the middle of a ridiculous staring contest in a stupid comedy movie. Like the type where the camera slowly zooms in on the faces and switches every few seconds with action stare down music in the background.
This final photo only has one change to it and it’s the shape of the photo. I cropped the picture into a square, zooming in on the minon in the center. No brightness changes, or colour differences. It makes me feel like something someone would put on an album cover or something like that because the pattern on the wood is very chinese culture and in the center is a western minion as yellow as a banana.

Cuban Revolution Journal Entries

On March 10th, 1952, Fulgencio Batista organized a military coup, 3 months before elections were to take place, seizing control of Cuba. This video puts all the blood, sweat, and tears of those who fought in the Cuban Revolution together, as we retell the bloody events through fact based information. What started with a military coup and a dictator ended in a bloody country, free at last.

Or were they?

Code Girls – The Hidden Warriors

January 29, 2024 / Scarlett / 0 Comments

I read the book Code Girls by Liza Mundy for the Literary Non Fiction Unit. Code Girls is an inspirational novel, telling the tales of the brave and smart young women who fought the wars backstage. Rather than following one or a select few people the book follows a timeline focusing more on the events of WWII than people in the war. Code Girls shows how the women helping in the background of WWII actually managed to do some of the most important jobs, including decoding machines from the enemies and even entering active service due to not enough recruits. I was quite intrigued by this book although it is not one I would regularly read. As you continue through my Blog post please note what I discovered.

The first image above shows an outline of the unit, using many examples from Code Girls. I found it helpful to be able to see all of the lessons on two pages as it showed how my thinking shifted or how it expands on different ideas/themes. It becomes easier to connect different ideas and lessons together all while still being separated. I prefer this method to mind maps because mind maps get so confusing once they become crowded. It may take more time this way but it also shows more of my thinking throughout the book.

Town Hall Debate

This page is a prep page for the Town Hall Debate that occurred the next day. We were to pick a central idea from our text, find four piece of evidence – one each – and explain how the central idea and evidence connected. After the explanation, everyone had a chance to ask one question per table. You would then answer said question if you could or you would politely pass on the question. Our central idea was “History takes the tragedy out of death and puts it into a statistic”. I believe our town hall debate skills were a 10/10, we were a united front as we stated our claim and answered all of the questions. The debate was one of my favourite activites we did this unit.

Central Idea Assessment

Directly after the debate we had this Central Ideas Assessment. The requirement was 1 central idea, 4 pieces of evidences, connections and a summary to explain how the evidence related to the central idea. Finding the central idea was less difficult than the evidence to go with the central idea because there were some quotes that fit better than others and some I couldn’t find at all. In my opinion, the hardest part was the connections with the evidence because I kinda forgot about that part and wrongly ordered the evidence.

My favourite lesson we had overall was definitely Lesson 8 – Descriptive Passages. I found it so interesting how authors used the settings to introduce/convey the emotion of the environment whilst keeping readers intrigued. Not only that, but also how it sets the tone in movies, tv shows and videos in general. Rereading or just continuing the book and finding all of the little details hinting at the tone of the environment.

Overall, I found the unit quite enjoyable. I may not have enjoyed my book too much but I did find that comparing my book to our mentor text, Hidden Figures because although Code Girls didn’t have lots of segregation the similarities between Hidden Figures and Code Girls revolved more around gender inequality. This unit was certainly a 8/10 but the book was a 6/10.

Huh? Humawhatism?

October 23, 2023 / Scarlett / 0 Comments

Am I a Humanist? Maybe, but not fully a Humanist that’s for sure. Based on my opinions and what the Renaissance Humanists believed, I have come to the conclusion that I am 84% a humanist. I agree with lots of the ways of the Humanists but I also have problems with them, especially with the Individual Achievements. All it does is set up haters to demolish the feelings of success of those who have great Achievements. It eventually becomes a war zone of competitions, everyone trying to get to the top. It would be awful. I can’t ever get behind that idea. Of course there are tons of other ideas that I agree with such as Secularism and Religion based but when it comes to Individual Achievements I put my foot down and stay out of it.

Am I a Humanist?

^ Link to Pdf above.

50,000 with a side of Death

August 28, 2023 / Scarlett / 0 Comments

I used the story “Button Button” by Richard Matheson, for my found poem. It’s about this couple, Mr and Mrs Lewis, who are offered this button. When you push the button you gain 50,000 USD, but someone in the world you don’t know dies. Mr Lewis truly despises the idea of the button, whereas Mrs Lewis is curious about it. The story continues showing the external conflict between Mr Lewis and Mrs Lewis whom have different opinions from each other, and the internal conflict as Mrs Lewis battles herself on whether or not she should push the button. My found poem highlights the end of the story where the internal conflict is shown more than the external conflict. I showed the conflict by using bolded words and words that have a colour more likely to stand out from the others. The red shows more of the confliction, whereas the more pinky/peachy colour shows the less dramatic parts of the story. I used different word sizes to highlight the importance of the word/s.

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Welcome to Your New Blog!

August 31, 2021 / Scarlett / 0 Comments

When you blog you create posts and posts are categorised according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you. If you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:

An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category.
Body – this is where you share your learning. This can include text, images, embedded videos from Dragons’ Tube or elsewhere. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging? Do they want to keep reading?
Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner

Click on the images below to learn more about blogging:

: How do I make a Post?

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: How do I embed Media from Dragons’ Tube?

: How do I add new categories?

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