Cally's art

Title of Film or Video: Ways it showed a UTOPIA Ways it showed DYSTOPIA Blade runner ad technologically advanced clones more human than humans dark lighting hunting people Truman show nothing bad lives in a movie set no privacy nothing is real mad max 2 "community" no government no law or justice Utopia is a world where everything is perfect and it's an ideal world where nothing is wrong, on the other side of things is a dystopia, and in this world things are bad, it usually shows a utopia, but with a dark undertone, such as in order for society to be perfect, others need to be put in isolation, or everything is perfect, but if you step out of line you're brutally beaten. I could go on for a while about dystopias, but that's the simple definition, a world where things are horrible and portrays a society that's far from ideal.

For the utopia i wanted to show how even though we often destroy nature, we also embrace it in many ways. We use plants as a symbol of beauty, and love. We often implement nature into art and we use it to decorate structures, show respect, and use it as a gesture of love.  as for the dystopia, i tried to refrain from editing as much as possible. This was due to the meaning behind these. I created this series to show how humanity destroys nature for nothing but its own selfish benefit, so i left the photos natural to show respect for nature and that which we may take for granted. Guess which is which!

This was a short stop motion animation that I did using simple oven bake clay. It was made in adobe premiere pro. I took around 300 photos which i then compiled into a video format by uploading each photo as only a couple frames, creating a stop motion animation. There isn't really any premise to the video, since it was mostly a test to see how to use premiere pro, but in the end i decided to use it as my actual animation for this project.  My camera for some reason had a line of dead pixels, but in order to make it fit in, i decided to overlay a film grain and static in order to then give it an old film feel. I also used to program Audacity to edit the audio a little and make it even more eerie and feel as if the video is a cursed relic.

This was a test animation that I made in Adobe Premiere Pro, i made it by taking a series of photos and putting them all together in order to make a quick stop motion animation, which is effectively an automatic rapid slideshow, that creates the illusion of movement, despite it only being a series of photos

Zero  I love this stop motion animation, because it tackles a really prevalent issue, while also being very visually appealing. Ever since i first saw this short i was captivated by stop motion pictures. I loved how they were able to make interesting and powerful videos using a medium that I'm more comfortable with than using computer programs that are clunky and rely on you working on the back end rather than being able to feel and see what you're doing. The Maker This animation, though the message itself is a little convoluted, the animation itself is amazing. I love it's semi-fluid movement and the actual figures themselves. The overall creepiness of this animation is very compelling to me, and it gives me inspiration as to what i want my animation(s) to look like. The unsettling look of it gives a close resemblance to uncanny valley, and is life-like but not enough, which contributes heavily to the animation's tone and premise. Going fishing - Guldi...

This was a mockup magazine that i created in photoshop, then orginized in adobe indesign. I made a magazine that was supposed to be a magazine about how technology and science can be incorporated in and inspired by nature. the fact is that despite technology and nature usually being viewed as two seperate fields, often times they are inspired by one another. an example of this is that the first ever flying machine designs were inspired by birds. these machines are called ornithopters and they fly by flapping their wings. although none of those have been successfully made, it's an example of how nature inspires us to keep on creating.

ADS These ad designs really appeal to me, since they manage to get their message across really well, despite not using a human subject to demonstrate it as you often see, the layout is very minimalistic as well, which to me is appealing since it doesn't overcrowd the page with information. the simplistic photos also appeal since they are son minimal, but they tell so much about the product. the ebay ad shows its an online store by making a store window display into the screen of a phone as if the phone is the store, and the maybelline ad shows that it's makeup by having the brush and pallette in the picture, since the pallette is in the picture it also tells you what your getting, rather than showing what it's for, since we already know that. Spreads these magazine layouts really appeal to me due to their simplistic designs, and the use of negative space, the use of it makes you able to recognize what the article is talking about, and the addition of simp...

Fine art portraits: These are two photos i took for this project, at first i never really planned for either of them to end up as the fine art portion of this project, but in the end i feel like i did a good job of showing how the fine art portraits can have a lot more freedom of expression, they allowed me to play around a lot more than in commercial portraits and sort of do whatever i want. the photos started out really bland and boring, i only really focused on the subject and failed to incorporate the background into a part of the picture as well. in the end i wanted the photo to less emphasize the person and more so challenge what a portrait is by having them be the main subject, but do most of my work on altering the environment around them.  in the first photo i used the mixer brush in Photoshop to make it look as if everything man made that was on the subject was painted, showing that these objects are pieces of art as well even if we take them for granted. In...

A fine art portrait is a picture of a person that a photographer has taken on their own agenda, instead of for something created by someone else. Fine art photos are ones that people take with the sole intent of creating art. This type of art shows a photographer's style and the way they do their work this type of art allows them to play around with lighting and other things in order to make the photo their own Catherine Opie this image provides an outlook on the harsh reality the queer community faces. often times we have to deal with abuse from both society and ourselves, which can sometimes lead to our inner pain manifesting as outward emotion such as depression and anxiety. David LaChapelle -- Behold to me this image portrays that even if one is idealized, they still face challenges. these challenges may leave you scarred, and you may often be targeted due to your status and popularity. Commercial Portrait Photography ...

These are two photos that I had made for my photography class. for this project we aimed to recreate a surreal style of art. these photos show surrealism, since they show situations that can not exist in real life. The first photo actually glitched in the middle of making it, i liked the way it looked so i screen shotted it and overlayed it over the image that i had been working on. i also mirrored the image up and added a filter to it to make the sky look weird and impossible. The second photo I was experimenting with what I could do in order to make the sky look weird, so I cropped out the sky, and replaced it with an image which i then used a ton of filters on in order to make it look as  trippy and weird as possible. after that i thought that i needed to add something that would make people question it in some other way, so I added a giant hand, there's not much more to it than tha

Surrealism was a movement in the 1920s that focused on the minds natural ability to skew and warp reality in unlikely ways. the surrealist works often focused on dreams and fantasy worrlds where things weren't necessarily normal. a famous story of Salvador Al Dali is how he got the ideas for his works. when he was running low on ideas he would try to take a nap, but in his hand he would hold a key above a metal dish. this way so when he was just about to fall asleep he would drop the key and the sound would wake him up. Frida Kahlo -- Without Hope, 1945 Salvador Dali -- The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946 Although surrealism is often paintings as i show above, it can also be used in photography with the use of tools such as photoshop, we can create similar surreal scenes that might convey similar emotions. David Lachapelle -- Rape of Africa Man Ray -- glass tears,1932

Cyanotype  is the process of making a photo by processing in iron compounds. in order to make a cyanotype photo with a digital camera, you just need an inverted photo, the chemicals, and a canvas. in order to prepare the canvas, you brush the chemicals onto it and make sure your work area is dimly lit to avoid accidental exposure to light. then you put your negative on top, and sandwich it between two pieces of glass to prevent movement. then all you need to do is expose it to UV light (such as the sun) Dagurreotype  is the earliest photo processing technique known. It involves using a polished silver plate exposed to halogen fumes, which makes the plate photosensitive. to create the image, you put the plate into the holder, and remove the opaque protecting cover, which allowed the plate to develop an invisible image. in order to make it visible, you would expose it to the fumes given off by heated mercury in a specially made development box. Chlorophyll Process Th...

For this project me and my group partner (Amanda Taylor) had to take photos of a place that represented the lincoln community. we chose the shop room for the theatre, since in there it's a tradition to sign your name on the wall when you're a senior. and because of this there are names from kids all the way back to i think the seventies. using the photos we took, we then made a collage out of them by physically printing and pasting the photos.

Ruth Chapman PantlessDan via reddit Photo Lithography is briefly summed up as printing an image manually. this means that you isolate certain colours and make a stencil out of the selected colours only, then you paint on the colour to a surface by hand using the stencil. this process requires you to layer the stencils in a certain order, to get the desired result. you can use this technique to print onto almost anything. it just requires you to have the stencil and the nessacary ink to print on the material. original gallery (rosie emerson) Cyanotype is the process of making a photo by processing in iron compounds. in order to make a cynotype photo with a digital camera, you just need an inverted photo, the chemicals, and a canvas. in order to prepare the canvas, you brush the chemicals onto it and make sure your work area is dimly lit to avoid accidental exposure to light. then you put your negative ontop, and sandwich it between two pieces of glass to prevent moveme...

This was a project for my Photography class, in it we were experimenting with ways of using multiple photos in order to make a single end product. We did photos that used HDR imaging, panoramas, and multiple exposure. I used my camera instead of my phone, so I had to do all my edits in Photoshop, this means that i took 3 photos for the panos and stitched them together using Photoshop. since i only took a couple photos and i used a small tripod, i was not able to get smooth shots, this is why the table in the last photo appears bent. for the HDR images i took 3 photos each with a different exposure length, this caused each photo to bee able to be combined to make an end photo that showed all values without anything being overexposed or underexposed. for the multiple exposures, i simply took a couple photos and overlayed them on top of a starting photo.

these were 5 photos from the semester that i felt were my best. Each photo showed something that i had learned and improved on. the first photo showed an understanding of rule of thirds that was used to bring an aspect of geometric shapes into an organic photo. my second photo showed how i learned to take photos that emulate other photographers. it also allowed me to take a darker and dustier looking photo that didn't emphasize anything specifically. for the third i learned a lot about editing photos in light room. it let me experiment and create an image that appears alien through only changing the colours and light. my 4th photo showed an understanding of masking in Photoshop. i created a mask that included everything but the nail, and i applied a sepia tone to the mask. the last photo showed an understanding of colour as well as emphasis on a portion of the photo. overall i feel that the thing I have improved on most this semester is both editing as well as shoot...

these pictures were for my photography class where we were experimenting and learning about several types of camera controls. by this, i mean how to use manual controls to make an image look like it has blurred motion, frozen motion, shallow depth of field, or deep depth of field. in order to shoot these, i had to put my camera into manual mode, and i had to change aperature, exposure, and shutter speed. this allowed me to get the achieved look, without editing.