PHOTO 1 BLOG 2019-2020 - Hope Miller

PART I. I feel that my images for the most part have reflected a good amount of quality and effort. I’ve noticed that the images that I like the most are the ones that requite creativity and thought (I.e. the Blue project, the Three Doors project, etc.). This could be due to my incessant need to take each concept given and transform it in a way no one in this class (in particular) will. However, my quality drastically decreased when I was asked to perform more menial tasks such as the Hotel coloring project, or the project in which we divided a canvas into ninths and applied filters to them. However, I have always reached the deadlines on all assignments, no matter what type they are. With every creativity-based assignment, I make it my intention to take it further than the prompt given. I hope that I have achieved my goals (especially my blue and reflection of the future images), because my main goal is to not settle for the first idea or the most simple solution. My ego won’t let

I was fooled by the first image! I really thought the man on the string was an artistic choice.  I I were to record this image in detail, I would say that this is a close-up image of a girl. This girl is expressionless, but whatever angle you look at her, she is staring directly at you. This image has more of a natural tone, and there is no color that necessarily pops out. Her skin looks quite coarse and uneven, and her lips are greatly chapped or dry. She may have some makeup on. I feel as if this is a closeup of her face on purpose, to make the viewer pay attention to the detail that lies within and subsequently become uncomfortable. If she was standing in the distance, there would be no detail and this feeling of personal space being violated wouldn’t be there. However, if this was just a closeup of her eye, I would just see an eye because that has been done many times before. For some reason, people really like drawing and photographing eyes. There is something off about her,

This image is of a miniature person climbing the face of a large woman (which is what I assume, because the face dons makeup). This person is climbing this face as if they would climb a cliff or a large mountain, with a rope guiding them on their journey. I believe that this is an artistic image created with Photoshop. This scenario couldn’t actually happen if both people were alive, so unless one of these figures is a sculpture, this must be an artistic image, because no one could document this scene due to the lack of variability in the size of humans.  I believe that this image is photoshopped. A person climbing a mountain was superimposed onto a blown-up photo of a woman’s face, and I believe that the string was added later because that would be hard to cut out of a far-away shot of the person climbing the mountain, and the person is not holding the string. It’s as if they aren’t attached to the string.  This image gives me the feel of a movie poster, because they sometimes ha

1. She is trying to portray to her followers and anyone who happens to look at her page that she is adventurous, a free spirit, a traveler, curious about life, and an explorer. 2. She is mildly successful. To one who is absentmindedly looking at her page, the photos of her traveling and doing cool things would make one believe that she is a traveler. But to me, she looks a little fake. By fake, I mean these photos could have been staged. Many influencers ensure that their social media feeds are "vintage" and aesthetic-looking, but like you said in the beginning, this is an idealized version of what her life is actually like. Maybe she travels a lot, but the idealized photos that she posts are likely not her reality. 3. Not to become a conspiracy theorist, but I would not trust this woman with anything of mine. I do not want to ever be near her, if she even exists! The internet is a wild place. She could be a catfish, or a bot. Her bio caption stands out to me because no p

1. What is the general premise of the video? This video was intended to showcase how bad Western society has become in our addiction to mobile devices! We're overlooking key points in our lives to say LOL on our phones! People are dying and it's all our fault for using those damn devices! The devil herself's spawn, I tell you! 2. Is the video effective in conveying its intended message? If you don't feel like reading this analysis, then no, it does not. The creator of this video must be a boomer. By that, I mean boomers (or ignorant older people who refuse to educate themselves and stick to archaic ideals) tend to overlook real prejudices in society and make a big hoot over young people and their damn phones. When giving thought to real problems in our society (the current political climate inflaming discrimination against people of color, rampant student loans forcing college graduates to live out their lives in their parents' basements because most of their