1952

These HDR images where created using photoshop by manipulating the exposure and saturation. I wanted to show these tractors in a hyper real setting, making them look important. Both tractors are John Deere and were manufactured in 1952; they have been restored and are used for antique shows and light work. The photographs are intended to show them as strong, new and important.  

Need a little class input....... help please

I kept working and decided that I like these 2 better but cannot pick just one.......HELP please!

Work in Progress

I plan to continue with this and make one of each of our 4 tractors. I really liked the idea of playing with hdr and making them look unreal..... im still not positive on what size I will end up printing them but it will be slightly bigger then 8x10 for sure. Im gonna come up with so other way to display these other then in a normal frame.

final project proposal

Im not quite positive if this is what my final project will end up being but its my plan so far. I want to create a series of hdr photos. I want to use photos of our family tractors in country settings. I have a real interest for hdr photos but have not really had any pratice. Also with the subjects being our tractors it makes this really personal for me. I haven't really given much thought to printing other then that they will be printed. I want them to be bigger than a normal 8x10 but thats as far as I've got. I don't plan to appropriate any material for this project.

assignment 4 Final

I spent way to much time trying to come up with something to do for this project so in my moving around photoshop this is what I came up with. I used patterns and layer masks to make the images that I did it took forever. I used the rock and nature patterns and tried to use the most colorful so you could notice a change. I wish I would of used some of my own images but I wasn't thinking.

assignment 3

 

I mapped an image of clutter. I grouped like brand objects by spray painting over the emblems with their brand colors. John Deere - Green, International Harvester- Red, Massey Ferguson- Orange..... the pink was all the liquids like oil, paint and what not. I did not appropriate anything and there was not really a mood that I was trying to convey. 

work in progress

I have not decided if I will change my markers yet and I plan to connect the dots of the same color to eachother. I got the idea when I walked into a very disorganized barn where they had this mix of tractor parts. So I decided to mapp the different brands (john deere, international harvester, massey ferguson). I also went a step further trying to add more points.

assignment 3 ideas

What do you plan to visually map for your assignment?  Why does this interest you?            - I have spent alot of time this weekend trying to decided what to actually do my project on and haven't come to a definitive answer yet. I'm hoping to do something that incorporates music. Mainly because I have been thinking about music so much this weekend while trying to get use to my XM radio.  
Describe, in detail, how you plan to construct your piece.  Post a sketch or images if  appropriate.
          - I haven't decided if I'm going to go the route of addressing genres of music, bands or lyrics. Right now though the lyrics are pulling ahead. Do you plan to appropriate imagery?  If so, how will you borrow without violating copyright law?
       - I don't not plan to have to appropriate imagery for this project.
Which artists/thinkers/writers have influenced your ideas?
        - I didn't really pick one that had alot of influence but Lee Byron, the guy I picked for the visual complexity assignment was the one that put me on this track of mind. But knowing my luck I'll change my entire idea before its over.

Visual Complexity

I really found Lee Byron's Listening History was very interesting. He followed one users music listening from a website for a total of 18 months. It makes for a stimulating image but the explanation is a little confusing. I think it would be interesting to try and display the same information in a less confined.

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=460&index=17&domain=Music

Assignment 2

I made this image by combine different images that I found online some from the public domain and other free sources and some that were ok to use due to fair use.
 I originaly was not planning on going this route with my project I inteded to make a sterotypical image of a farmer, but was having a hard time getting into it. Also my dad made a comment over the weekend that sparked a new idea and this spit balled from it. Im still not very happy with it and eventually just had to call it quits because I  was making no progress. My dad made a comment about "rich farmers", so i went with it I tried to combine the new equipment thats very expensive and having the money round bale, then the new truck, yet there are these old buildings and small amounts of field showing.
I thought it would work to show that alot of people think that farmers are rich, when in all honesty they struggle, they have debts, they work hard long hours.

work in progress

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Assignment 2 Ideas

What is the concept behind your project?
   - drawing attention to the misunderstood things.  
Why does this particular subject matter interest you?
   -Mainly because I'm tired of listening to people carry on about something when there facts are wrong. so I'd like to use this as a way to showcase their misunderstandings.
Describe, in detail, how you plan to communicate this concept visually.
   - I'm planning to use pictures of things that are commonly misunderstood in agriculture and turn them around to the depict the things that people think is happening. but this is subject to change as I work.
What types of images do you plan to appropriate? How will you borrow without violating copyright law?
   -  I will only use images that I have found and know are not copyright protected.
Which artists/thinkers/writers have influenced your ideas
    -I cant really point out any specific artist this is just something I thought of, but more then likely its based off something I've seen in the past and cant put my finger on.

Assignment 1 untitled(Final)

I originally couldn't decided how to start so I ended up with pieces and parts of my scans and photographs all through together on a blank page cutting and moving things around for something to look appealing. This resulted in my working in progress which I honestly have no idea where the pink back ground came from that was a miss step ( I don't even like pink), but it its also what gave me the idea to use plowed field as a background. Everything symbolizes my life. The fresh plowed dirt is my life, our family farm, agriculture. Then the film pieces, they were a scan of used black and white film that actually contains pictures of scenery from around my home. I decided to make the film appear to be more dated there fore the coloring. I then took pictures, some whole or pieces of them, and insert them on to the film strips in color. But I didn't want them to be sooo bold so I used Linear Light to give them a darker feel yet leaving them easily recognizable. Then there is the Apple Blossom that I cut from one of my pictures its bigger then most of the other objects in the composition and right in the center. I meant it to be the main focal point and new life.
I hope that people can can get the feel of how much agriculture is important to me I love our farm, its the one place that makes me calm when things seem to be in chaos, and no matter what happens its a cycle you go through the motions and try again when you fail.

work in progress

 Plan to change the background to a different image one from a scan .............
had this still as a draft forgot to publish it

George Rush, Darker with the Day

   George Rush's exhibit Darker with the Day consisted of 5 Paintings, all were the same relative size. Meaning the same size canvas secured to the same size of wall. The paintings were monochromatic and depicted windows (in 2) and a still life of a table, chair and various containers (in the remaining 3). on the walls the paintings are mounted on the painting continues so to speak because there are many lines that look to represent tree branches.

   The first 2 paintings of just a window that were on the opposite sides of the same wall were just that opposites one put you in mind of looking out a window at night with the lights on outside. Everything was black excepts for the detail of the window and curtains hanging around it. Where as the other side of the wall had the like day time version. The remaining 3 pieces were all of the same scene from different view points and what ever side of the gallery you started on as long as you went around the room it was like walking around that table.

   Everyone that was viewing the work seemed to be gathered in the center of the gallery, having equal distance from each piece and standing far enough away to view the entire piece (wall and mounted window) as a whole. There was one couple that I watched and I found it very interesting that they chose to view the piece from closer up and were examining  the detail in the table and the containers. Had they not done it I probably wouldn't have taken a closer look to and noticed that all the objects have a very modern feel to then like something you would see sitting in a modern home.

This exhibit I wont lie did not seem that appealing to me when I first walked in because on the plain  window view. It was so dark and depressing, lacking a lot of info in my opinion. the lines on the walls to me made no sense at first and I really had to step back and take shove my opinions aside to take it all in. Granted I still can say this was not my favorite show but the art has more meaning then I originally thought. The use of the negative space in that first window draws so much attention to the actually window itself, it seems so realistic. This detail was a very surprising thing in each painting, very life like. I still would have to say I didn't really enjoy it as a whole but it was interesting to view up close. I didn't really understand the point of having the tree branch's on the walls with the windows being a view from inside a space looking out.

Pessimism

Optimism

Christiane Paul Digital Art

Morphing is something that caught my interests because not only all its uses with the criminal justice system, but the way Nancy Burson makes new images out of several different women. Scott Griesbach I liked his homage to Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger. Mainly because of the side note about the image, "the 'head-on' provocation of questions about power as a motor of the human condition. For him their art 'hits' you like a truck." Also Alexander Apostol buildings without any windows caught my eye, because the way it completely changes the way you look at a building and also what it does to its surrounds.

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