Week 5

Craft: Carefully, I cut out the two images of people and resized the background. After cutting the images out to my liking, I copied the people multiple times and pasted them. Once placing them into a position that I liked, I dimmed the background to draw more attention to the bright green vests worn by the people in the piece. I probably should have filled in the negative area at the top.

Concept: The neighborhood I chose to do is Bridgeport. The major landmark in Bridgeport is US Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. I decided to use that as the background for that reason. The people that I collected photographs of were traffic officers. I placed them into the parking lot of the background photograph.

Composition: My goal in this piece is to have the viewer’s eyes be attracted to the people. Not any one specifically, but the people in general. I believe I accomplished this by taking the color out of the background and leaving the color in the people.

Week 4

Craft: Through careful use of the program photoshop and tools necessary to accomplish this task, I cropped out the background of the 4 images above and arranged them using the move tool.

Craft: After opening the first picture, I began to adjust it to give this image. I used the transform (command t) tool to increase the size of the lion statue and decrease the size of the other objects.

Craft: After opening the original document, I began to copy the layer of the Asian Man by dragging the layer down to the copy layer tool. After making many copies of the layer, the above picture was the result.

Craft: Starting with the original document, I adjusted the color of everything except for the resturant sign. I unsaturated the colors by using the drop down menu in each of the images in order to have the sign be the main focus.

Craft: In order to accomplish this blurred image, I had to start from the original and work my way to this. After opening it, I used multiple blurs until I discovered this one which seemed to work very well in this instance. I blurred all of the images and placed them in a very distinct order using the move tool.

Week 3

Craft: Through careful use of photoshop, I cut out the photographs of the Asian man, the restaurant sign, and yellow banner. It took a while to find the right place to put each of them, but when I finished I was happy with the placement.

Concept: Chinatown tends to get a reputation of being a stereotypical home to only Asians. When one thinks of the stereotypical Asian, one pictures an elderly male with the beard. Chinatown is not just home to elderly Asian men, but all sorts of people of many races. By taking this photo and having it blend in with the other people in the picture, I am attempting to convey a sense of assimilation. Directly above his head, lies a yellow banner. The yellow banner has Chinese writing on it. The restaurant sign located on the right hand side of the screen is brighter than the other two photographs and probably the most noticeable. When someone thinks of Chinatown, they picture the Chinese writing, restaurants, and stereotypical appearance. Through this project I was trying to convey that those can go seemingly unnoticed. They have also become a part of everyday life for those living in Chinatown.

Composition: The three images I chose to place in the background have been shrunk a little bit and have been blended into the background. The first and perhaps one of the least noticeable is the elderly Asian man at the bus stop in the lower left hand corner of the image. The reasoning behind this was to attempt to have the Asian man not stick out and continue with the concept I was trying to get across.

Week 2

The photograph was shot in Chinatown, IL. The day the photograph was taken, a few people and myself decided that we were going to take a trip to Chinatown. I saw this as an opportunity to take some photographs for this assignment. Chinatown is a very original part of the Chicago area. We got on the bus at the Corner of 103rd and Pulaski and traveled until the Station. Once arriving there, we boarded the train and traveled until the Chinatown stop. After being assigned to go out and take 20 more photographs of another neighborhood, I took 20 photographs of Bridgeport. Those photographs have yet to be uploaded. I went to the White Sox game with my father via a car and showed up a few hours early to take a few photographs.

Craft: I looked for a good position to take the photograph of Chinatown and the City in the background. After a few trials, I determined that this was the best of the few that I took.

Concept: The reasoning behind this photograph made a lot of sense to me at the time I took it. I saw the Willis Tower in the background as we were walking back from Chinatown after fulfilling the required 20 photographs. I saw this as a good opportunity to contrast the typical city view to that of Chinatown.

Composition: In the photograph, many different colors are most own, but the one color that is the most prominent is red. A viewer can easily see red in the buildings as well as many of the signs. The middle of the photograph has the red entry overhang which on the other side reads “Welcome to Chinatown.” Red is seemingly appearing many times in many of the photographs that I took.