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   Lyrical Triptych Reflection

           

In this project the assignment was to make/create three lyrical triptychs. Lyrical triptych is three images that are related with each other; they represent the same thing. In this project I need to create these images with also narrative lyrics from a song of our choice. The purpose was show with these three images the meaning and even emotions of the song with some of the lyrics and the images itself.

            Well in this project like in every other we first looked at some of the models from other classes in the past; giving the class different types of ways and topic/themes that we could pick to make this project successful. There were some models about relationships, family, love, hate, pain, religious, friendship, etc. then to make a list of something important to us or that we like go on the internet and find a song, take a couple of sentences that will already describe the story the song is narrating and make three different portions. Then find as many pictures as wanted to create our triptychs. In addition we needed to match these images using adobe Photoshop, to make it these entire different images one and relate. I really like how we got to play a lot with the tools and make the project the way we wanted. It needed to be a 300 resolution and 7 by 5 and use almost all the tools; I used cut and paste some of the images, but also magnetic lasso and the magic wand. I made multiple copies, changed the sizes, I rotated some images, flipped, and changed the opacity and many others.

My theme was about love but not any kind of love a love who will one day leave and never come back. For my first triptych I used a young girl in a wedding dress going kind of out the church, also trumpets from a different picture, different dates from a calendar (which I repeated a couple of times), and a wedding ring on the floor. For my second one I used as background a path of railroads somewhat in the wood where it seems a long way to go. In addition a shoulder who I repeated 3 times in different sizes and some darker the others to make it seem like he is leaving; fatting away. And last a woman at the front who is the main character (that’s why she sticks out the most) calling or reaching out for him. And for the third one (the last one) I used as the background a garden with a tree which is dropping petals everywhere to make it seem peaceful. But there are three military guys who are the same (just repeated) with rifle ring the last shot of the honorable man who died. There is the main character in black and a shoulder handing her the last thing she ever will have from her love a “fold up flag”.  

I choose this story not only because I like romantic things but also because this things do happen in real life and its sad. Though it’s a sad song I choose it because I also love it. I am a very romantic person when I want to be and so I wanted to choose something about me I really like that I don’t often show.

I really loved this project though it took a long time to do it and I was also having a hard time at first to do it right. I would do this project all over if I have to but better though I am satisfy with my work. I think that I will be using triptych next time I would like to ether send a card or create a story for someone.

Larimar Santana

Graphic Designs                                                                                               11/24/10

                               Photographic Truth Reflection

            The assignment was to find a theme I liked and it could be historical, from a movie, TV show, etc. I needed to find this in the internet. Google.com and gettyimages.com were the web sides I used the most. First I found my topic, then I needed to go on the internet and find six pictures from/about my topic and then save them in my files. In this project I also had to change the size of each image to 300 resolution, and 7 over 5 in inches. He had to take pictures that will relate to the images to make the image look real. Now photographic truth means the real truth of the photo. For example I can take a picture from anywhere and add myself or/and anything else in it to make the picture look real. Now the work put into the image is what makes it looks true, and others believe it so.

            When doing this project I need to choose six images from the internet. I chose to have my images from a TV show I like to watch called Criminal Minds. The first image was the whole team discussing a crime in the meeting room, and I was behind one of the ladies seating on the right hand corner. And I seem to be holding some purple folder and looking in it. Like this are other images some seating and in others standing, though there is one where I am giving my opinion about the case. There’s one where I am looking at a dead body on what appears to be a farm (the body was outside of the farm next to a tree). There was in on of the images that I had to take a picture of myself and since my body didn’t blend in with the image I had to do more; I to the body of someone else from the same show and putted it in the image then I took only the head of the picture I through myself and putted it on the body in the image I had selected. It was a little hard because the body, head and image had different colors so I had to use the tools call, magnetic lasso, another lasso in the tools, look in filter for “blur” to blur the body and head a little bit. I used many different tools; I needed to play with these tools and the image to make it work and look real.

            The theme I choose to work with was a TV show call Criminal Minds. This show is a show I like a lot because it relates to what I want to be in the future and what I want to study when I go to college. I want to work in the forensics field. The people who know me might think that since I like this show so much I probably got invited to be part of one of the episodes. In the image I took my “character” serious because I know that what I want to do in the future, and because I also knew that like that the image of me will blend in more in the image.

            What I have learned about photographic truth is that, not all the pictures and images we see on TV, magazines, and internet especially aren’t always true; because the same way I made this image seems real there are others who do the same. I really liked this assignment because it allowed me to understand the real meaning of photographic truth, and it also helped my learn how to use better the tools provided to me. I think that if I get to do the assignment all over again ill be please to do it though I most say it was difficult. It’s not easy to just put someone/something in an image you have to make it true, real, natural. But I will be glad to do it again.