Friday, March 27, 2015

Friday LENS Post - Variety

I believe that the Roof in the background gives the photo texture and lines in the picture. The man singing and the women on his sides provide symmetry. His clothes also give off texture and color to the photo.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1.My definition of success is having a stable career, happy family.
2.I have given up time, resources, and my youth
3.Parks gave up relationships with his friends, wives and children.
4.Gloria's father was Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, and he was a millionaire equestrian descended from the Vanderbilt railroad empire.
5.He was advised little by little by his boss
6.Parks was offered $500,000
7.He did not agree with Muhammad's principles and philosophies.
8.The Learning Tree, an American classic, was significant because Gordon Parks became 9.Hollywood's first major black director
10.Shaft was the first black superhero, he gave young children everywhere inspiration and a figure to look up to.
11.His choice of weapon was his camera.
12.She said that life with Gordon was too hectic, confused, and unpredictable.
13.Twelve Years a Slave tells the same story.
14.Gordon Parks, jr is Gordon Park's oldest son. He was also a director, best known for the film Super Fly. 
15.My favorite Gordon Parks photo is American Gothic, shot in Washington, D.C.

I will remember that he was a famous photographer who defied the rules of that time.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Repetition

Contrast: 18
Highlights: -46
Shadows: -56
Whites: 13
Vibrance: -22

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Monday, March 9, 2015

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Monday, March 2, 2015

Half Past Autumn Part 1

1. The doctor dunked him in ice water.
2. Born in Kansas
3. That very few Negroes went to college and he should stop trying.
4. 15 years old.
5. He moved to Minnesota
6. Gordon never wet to college or graduated high school. He received an honorary degree from Princeton.
7. He walked into a store and asked to photograph fashion. His fashion career was short.
8. Repeated exposure of photographic plate or film to light.
9. The husband of the woman who told Parks to go to Chicago.
10. Piano
11. An effort to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression.
12. To put his camera away, buy a coat from a nearby shop, go to a fancy restaurant, and finally go watch a movie at a cinema.
13. Ella Watson was the cleaning lady at the FSA office
14. Flemish renaissance art.
15. Learned not to take pictures that went against the state.