Balboa Park MOPA: Beloved Daughters Exhibition. Field Trip #2

I went to the Beloved Daughters Exhibition in MOPA Balboa Park. The exhibition was done by Fazal Sheikh. This exhibition was really really hard to view because of the little writings written on the wall. I felt sorry for all of them. They were all pictures of women in the country of India. And as most people know women and India are treated wrong and abused too much. The pictures were really clear but all of them had this color of sadness. There was no bright colors to any of the pictures. The pictures had this sad look to them. There was also no smiling from any of the pictures which made it more sad. 

The exhibition was in sections. When I first entered it was the elders first, then walked towards the adults aged around 20-40, then the children. The ones that I payed most attention to was the wives the ones aged 20-40. When I read the writings on the wall they hard to read because all of them had issues with there lives whether the issue is abuse from the husbands or just not be able to produce a boy. They were ostracized and forgotten from there families if they weren't able to produce a boy. And example I read from the wall was this person by the name of Krishna. She married a person that drinks a lot and abused her for most of her life. On top of that she had no boys which made her life a total mess and and much more harder to live. All the pictures were hard to look at after reading what was on the wall. 

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman's approach to art is very interesting. She likes to use make up as a way of portraying it as art. I have seen make-up used as a part of art but she takes it to another level. Not only she likes to put make-up and take pictures, she likes to act in her pictures trying to get the viewers to think of what she was trying to do. She has very many pictures of her depicting other people. Sherman is sort of in a way like a caricature towards the people she is trying to imitate. There was one part of the video where I thought it was interesting where she had the make-up on and she was wearing something formal. This is where she poses as other characters like old, young, mad or sad. She really seemed that she liked the one where she was the old lady. Just a change of looks and actions can change the way a person looks. If she smiles perfectly and if her back was not bent over then she won't be able to look old but rather young and sophisticated.

In the video Sherman mentions that she likes to over do the character. It brings sort of a comedic scene or another way of portraying the character. Like for example her eyes would be crossed eyed or she would alter her nose to make it bigger or have this dorky look. Since most of her works are serious she wanted to have fun in a few of her pictures and look dorky. Very few of her pictures are simple, most of them are very complex and have this load of make-up on her. If I would of stared at her works I would have never known that it was her in all of her pictures. The power of make up is very powerful and can change how a person looks dramatically.

Food Close-Ups

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Chris Mayne

Chris Mayne is very interesting a good photographer. There are a lot of things he showed us and the photo's he showed us. The first thing he showed us was his picture of birds. He took a bunch of bird pictures but from many different angles. He taught us that patience is rewarding because finding that perfect picture can take a long time to do. Mayne personally like to get down flat on the ground and take his pictures that way. He mentioned that it gave him more stability and less shakiness from his hands so he can take a perfect picture. What I thought the best pictures he took were from the Hummingbird. When the hummingbird was taking the nectar from the plant I thought that was cool to see its wings not blurred from him capturing the bird. It is not everyday you get to see a hummingbird's wings in motion and be able to see its wings clearly. 

Not only he mentioned his pictures it is the equipment he used. He loved to use his cannon cameras. But it was not only the camera's that was important to him, it was the his other equipment like different types of holders. There was one holder he showed us and I was able to try it on. It was a holder that was able to make it more stable than use two hands. It rested on your stomach while you hold the camera, making your stomach almost like a third hand. It was also cool to see the different lenses. I got to look inside the lens and looked at how powerful and clear the zoom power was. It was an overall fun experience to see a professional photographer and his photo's and what he used to make those photo's perfect.

Quiz 2: Infrared Photoshop

Quiz 1: Bleaching Quiz

Bleaching quiz.

Composite Project

I wanted it to be simple but yet intimidating. The font in black, I used a Pincoya Black and the font I used in white were the Men in Black. I used a carpet as a background with a sepia tone and a black and white tone.