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Story with photo - Cheating is bad

This one time, I tried to put a dictionary on my graphing calculator, to help me on the SAT. It didn't really help.

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Mission San Jose High School is having their annual Multicultural week. During this time Mission San Jose High allows students and their clubs to raise funds by selling food during lunch. This food is catered through various restaurants, and is re sold to the students. This year however it is different. MSJ decided to enforce a ticket system, in which you must order tickets to purchase food. Each ticket is worth one dollar, and is refundable. Although, this system has done a great job to deter older students from buying food on campus, who would much rather go out to lunch. Pre-ordering tickets is such a hassle. 

Principles of Design -Balance

Principles of design - Unity

Principles of Design - Variety

 Variety because of the fact there is so manny things going on in this specific photo. Tower in the back, the statue and the bushes.

Principles of Design - Rythm

Movie Monday part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful?
   My definition of successful means having the ability to set clear, specific goals and then work to accomplish them. I personally intend to become a diplomat in the future and deal with international relations. 
2. What have you given up to become successful?
   I have given up a lot of my free times to spend with friends or watch TV to accomplish my goals.
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?
   He gave up a stable, loving family. 
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father?
   He was Chauncy Hallcok Young. 
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?
   He did $10K for the first seven pages. 
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on the Nation of Islam?
   He offered half a million dollars. 
7. Why did Parks refuse the money?
   He felt that it was morally wrong to accept the money. 
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
   It was placed in the library of Congress.
9. What was significant about the character Shaft?
   Shaft was an African-American super figure that people could look up to. He stood as a symbol against racism. 
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
    His choice of weapons was books. 
11. What reason  did Genevieve Young give up for the divorce?
    There was too much going on at the time and they spend too much time apart from each other to be considered a healthy marriage. 
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
    The recent feature film was 12 Years a Slave that told the same story. 
13. Who was Gordon Parks jr?
    He was Gordon Park's son that died in a plane crash.
14. What  is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
    It was Evening Wraps in New York. 
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in 10 years?
    I will remember how he turned down a lot of money, half a million dollars, to do what he believed was ethically correct.

Principles of Design - Movement

 This image represents movement, as you can see its taken out a car window, while in motion.

Principles of Design - Pattern

 The tiles in the picture represents a pattern

Element of Art - Form

This picture represents form. Temperature. -10%

Elements of art - Color

 This picture represents color because it shows the distinct contrast between the ground and the porch.

Element of Art - Shape

 This image represents the element of art because it  shows the various different shapes present. 

Movie Monday Half Past Autumn

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
   The doctor placed Gordon into a tub full of ice (that his sisters bought). He rubbed the ice onto Gordon.
2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)
   He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?
   She said that many Negros didn't go to college as they were not college material. It would be a waste of money for them and they would be as poor as maids. 
4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?
   He was 15 years old. 
5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?
   He moved to Minnesota to live with his sister. 
6. Did Gordon graduate from college?
   Yes, he did. He also received an honorary doctorate from Princeton. 
7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
   He asked Frank Murphy and his wife if he could take photographs of their women's clothing stores for models in formal clothing. 
8. What is a "double exposure?"
   The film is exposed multiple times to impose images; this creates a ghostly effect. 
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?
   He was the husband of Marva Louis. She liked Gordon's photos of fashion and advised him to move to Chicago. He is World Heavyweight Champion in boxing from 1937-1949. 
10. What instrument did Gordon play?
    He played the piano. 
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
    It was to photograph poverty and show the challenges of rural American living.
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?
    He was to go get a top coat from the store, go to the restaurant nearby to eat, go to the local movie theater, and the report what he thought of the film. 
13. Who was Ella Watson?
    She was the first person who he showed his photos of to Stryker. She held a mop/broom in her hand and stood in front of the flag. 
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
    It came after the typical roles of the American people in the 19th century. The woman is similar to his sister, and the man to his dentist.
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?
    It was necessary to photograph the root of bigotry and discrimination, learn about people, humanity, how to approach them, and how the subject is the most important person.
16. When did the FSA shut down?
    It shut down in 1943.
17. After Gordon moved to New York, what magazine did he shoot for?
    He shot for Vogue.
18. Who was the picture editor of Life Magazine when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office?
    It was Wilson Hicks.
19. What was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine?
    He had to follow crime about Red Jackson and his gangs and learned of their allegiance to each other. 
20. Who were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau?
    He mentioned Picasso, Bernard, Van Gogh, and other amazing artists. 
21. How did Parks shoot fashion when he lived in France?
    He asked the models to move while he did with them, shooting at a slow speed and trying to keep them in focus.
22. Where was Parks' concerto performed?
    It was performed in Venice. 
23. Who was Parks' second wife? (Who was her father? What did she do?)
    It was Elizabeth Campbell Rollins. Her father was Ecents Campbell. She became a model. 
24. How old was Flavio de Silva when Parks met him?
    He was 12 years old. 
25. When did Parks meet Flavio?
    He met him in 1943 in Rio de Janeiro. They met again in 1999.
26. Where did Flavio live when Parks first met Flavio and his family?
    He lived in a flavela with his family. 
27. How is Gloria Vanderbilt? Who is her famous son? Who are her ancestors?
    She is a designer and artist, a friend of Gordon Parks. Her son is the CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors are the Vanderbilt family that worked in the shipping and railroad industries. 
28. How did Vanderbilt describe their relationship?
    She said that she felt as though they were connected spiritually. 

Principles of Design - Emphasis

 This image represents emphasis because it makes you look at the statue, even with the bush in the way.

Elements of Art - Lines

 This photo represents leading lines, as you can see with the cracks and railing. Temperature. +10%

Principle of Designs - Proportion

This picture represents proportion. All the bushes are relatively the same, among each other. 

Elements of Art-texture

Top 5 photos by Ranking, Group

1. Picture #10
2. Picture #28
3. Picture #2
4. Picture #5
5. Picture #30

Shutter Speed and Everything Else

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Lens Blog Photo
Fast or Slow - Fast. The shutter speed is fast because the truck moving down the highway seems to be still, or frozen in motion. This indicates that the shutter was set to a really high interval.
Rule of Composition - Leading lines. The rule of leading lines is the rule present in this photo because there are a lot of lines and bars throughout the photograph. This gives depth and sense of dimension.
Element of Art - Form. The element of art is form because there are multiple objects with three dimensional form, such as the trucks and railing.
Principle of design - Pattern. The principle of design for this photo is pattern because there is consistent repetition of objects.

Tuesday with Farley's Kids
Edits: Temp. +1 Exposure. +.75 shadows. -3 Blacks. +3 Vibrancy. +100

The shutter speed was not specified but must have been 1/250. Which is around the minimum shutter speed required.