As a senior at the University of Michigan, my college career is quickly coming to a close.  I have had 4 incredible years in Ann Arbor, filled with some of the most memorable moments of my life.  I have met so many great people and made so many great friends.  For my photo essay, I […]

This week has been an interesting and fun week of photography.  Taking pictures and analyzing photos and images has been thought provoking and brought out some more of my creative side.  I’ve always enjoying picture taking and trying to capture the right moments, saving the emotion and memory of people and things in a photo. […]

Block M

While watching the Masters of Photography documentary about Diane Arbus, I found myself intrigued and confused at the same time.  I liked the concept of the photographs with the narration throughout the video.  The narration being a recording of Diane’s own speech, even though it was rerecorded by someone else, was really neat idea and it played […]

I wanted to play around with brightness and contrast.  I utilized an article on a website called Steve’s Digicam’s entitled Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Sharpness to get some ideas and perspective on how Brightness and Contrast work.  I realized I had some great photos I could utilize from my trip this past weekend when I traveled to ...

Park Ave, NYC

To create this Gif, I used Photoshop.  I began with a blank slate and used the Custom Shape tool to create the arrows in each corner.  I then duplicated the layers, moved the arrows around so they would point towards the center of the image.  I did this twice.  For each layer, I used a ...

All I can say is that I’m confused.  I really had no idea what was going on from start to finish.  I knew right off the bat that these people were living in some sort of facility, whether it was an insane asylum, rehab center, test center or some sort of other observation place. The ...

Design has gotten off to a great start.  I was able to brush off some of my old Photoshop skills and have some fun as well. I’m really looking forward to doing all the daily creates and designing some unique things. As far as my creates, here is what I made: In honor of our ...

In honor of our trip to the Final Four, here is my own design! I started by getting pictures of each of the starting five players, Coach Beilein and the Michigan Block M.  I then used the text tool in photoshop to type out Michigan and find a font that I liked. I chose Impact ...

The concept of minimalism is very cool.  I think its because of the simplicity of the images that make this form of design so enticing.  Some of the posters I looked at had such little going on that they were somewhat tricky to identify.  I came across a lot of superhero posters, which was fairly ...

Welcome to Westeros, one of the Seven Kingdoms in the HBO series Game of Thrones. To do this poster, here is what I did: Found a picture of Westeros online In Photoshop, I outlined the kingdom and Select > Inverse and deleted the landscape I used the gradient tool to make my own gradient from colors ...

Found a picture of a ZERO DARK THIRTY poster here: http://www.impawards.com/2012/zero_dark_thirty_ver8.html Typed out “The Time We Got Osama” with the text tool in font Helvetica Neue.  I opened the Text Tool Toolbox and played around with the spacing between the letters in both the vertical and horizontal directions. Then I did Layer > New Fill Layer > ...

For the color splash daily creat, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with an American Flag.  It is such an iconic figure and I knew the colors would stand out really well on a black and white background.  Here are the steps I took to create this image: Open Image Duplicate Layer On ...

Scrolling through the Albums Without Sound website I was really intrigued by all of the designs.  Some covers were better than others, but I found them all interesting and cool.  The concept was really neat and I thought the whole idea of a random Album Title, Picture and Band brought some cool pictures and text together. ...

It’s one of those transition weeks, the segway from the Audio section to Design. Coming into audio I wasn’t really sure what to think.  After our first few class discussions about our lack of listening to radio and audio pieces, I didn’t know how well the section would go and even how much I would ...