Finally Loaded! Slideshow Project

Success! The video was finally able to load. My internet must have been affected by the winds last night. RCN tends to be wonky during those times. Anyway, this was an incredibly frustrating project and I wish I would have dedicated much more time to it to fiddle around with the various aspects of the sound and the images. I have worked with slideshows before through iPhoto, but this was my first time using iMovie and GarageBand. I found myself really confused by GarageBand not being able to figure out most of the capabilities that we were learning about or that I was attempting to mess with, unfortunately. It will be really interesting how the next segment goes with shooting footage and putting together a video portrait project. 

Slide Show Compilation

The sounds were a compilation of street noise, so I went ahead and paired it with a variety of street photos. The photos don't necessarily go with the photos presented, so it is a bit of an abstract mashup. I tried to make a narrative going through the day from arriving to Manhattan to night time.

I'm having a hard time getting my video to load.

Sound Mashup

Mostly a mix of street sounds, street conversations, street music, and street protests!

https://soundcloud.com/halesabub/finalhayleytrack

Manipulated Photos

Photo Manipulation:

Before and After

Before

After

Faded effects, center color

Lowered the shadows and the midtones

Raised highlights

Lowered hue

Before

After

Lowered the shadows

Raised the midtones

Lowered the highlights

Very, very slightly touched saturation and hue

Faded photo effect -- center 

Before

After

Cropped image

Sharpened image

Completely raised:

Shadows

Midtones

Highlights

Completely lowered:

Saturation

Hue

Before

After

"Make dull skies blue" filter

Raised shadows

Lowered midtones

Raised highlights

Raised saturation

Before

After

 Lowered shadows

Raised midtones completely

Lowered highlights completely

Raised saturation

Raised temperature

Matilda Photo Narrative

Originally, I was going to be using my friends Flat Stanley project she is lugging around the city for her nephew, however Flat Stanley is made of paper and proved himself to be pretty useless in the wind. It was going to be Flat Stanley goes to Broadway! Because that is what a man shouted at my friend and I as I attempted to take Flat Stanley's photo in front of Matilda. So alas, this is now simply Matilda.

 

Digital Photography

Landscape & Nature

Abstract

Street

Advertisement

The back story for why I chose this type of advertisement is very simple. No I don't have a weird obsession with feet, but coming from the West Coast where cars are our main mode of transportation (not walking) I found that my feet have been much more unhappy since moving out here and require a lot more attention then they used to hence leading me into the world of spa advertising! The slogan at the bottom came into my mind first and I formed the rest of the advertisement around the slogan to make it work together. I stuck to simple and basic for my first advertisement since I have never used photoshop before and found myself a lot more overwhelmed then I had imagined I would be. 

I found this photo through the Google search engine. I wanted a photo with the smiley faces on the feet, but specifically picked this photo because of the way the feet were located because I thought that placing the spa information in that crevice would be a great way to frame the information and make it pop out of the photo. I had a hard time figuring out the type of font and how I wanted the readers to feel when looking at the ad. I ended up using the same font all around, but changed the top information to be in italics in order to have the wording have more a flow with the feet pictured. It still is not the font I exactly wanted as I was looking for something much warmer, but that also would work for the bottom text where I wanted a warm but also abrupt feeling to be portrayed. Needless to say, the font was frustrating!