My final collegeboard posting, explaining my concentration!

 

My main idea was to capture how birds view the world so high up, but with an airplane stepping in to take the place of a bird. The personal connection I made with all of my photos, is that I really enjoy flying and love seeing the world so high up. I’ve always wanted to be a bird. And hopefully I will be able to one day. Using all of these elements, including, shape, abstraction, texture, movement, rule of thirds, mood and repetition, and my concentration was fulfilled with everything I could hope for I explored this topic because, I’ve been into planes ever since I went up flying with a Young Eagles pilot. I had received a free ride up in a plane, working at the WAAAM Museum’s, Fly in Breakfast. I could go up flying, provided that I bring along a parent.

 

My concentration starts with the interior of the plane, moving towards the out surface, and then going to the outside, and what you see from the plane. As shown in picture #2, which the nose of the plane is fading out towards the edge of the page, the reason that I’m trying to fade the nose of the plane out so that it looks like the plane is trying to blend into the air. Having the horizon meet with the nose of the plane, never knowing where you will end up. I wanted to explore what people see from an airplane, how each person has a different view on the world. Whether it’s looking at an engine, or from a different point, at the airplane, wondering what it would look like if you were flying in that airplane. I started with a combination of cars and planes, fascinated by how the past has shaped our automotive and aerodynamic prospects. After moving out of that view, I just focused on the airplanes, personally connecting me to the airplanes, by working towards getting my pilot’s license. While I have been flying, there is part of me, that wishes I could be a bird, so I can fly forever. I kept color in my concentration series because you cannot have a world without color. People see in color, and this color brings to life, whatever the person sees in the world. At first, I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep my plane idea, but my teacher convinced me otherwise, so I kept at it, with the planes, moving from Photoshop project to Photoshop project, exploring my options in how I could manipulate the eye, making the viewer’s believe they were actually there, in the airplane, or looking at the piece of equipment. Quite a few of my posts contained pictures that I had taken at my local automobile and airplane museum. There were several days, of trying to figure out whether or not, which photos to narrow down to, and Photoshop if necessary. When I was sick at home one day, I was playing around with my computer’s Photoshop, and I’m currently using 5 pictures in my final concentration that I was just “goofing” with. One of my most time consuming pictures, I didn’t use in my concentration, but I painted the whole background, then layered “soaring” against it, causing the picture to looking like it’s in the air, the viewer, being behind the airplane. The next post up, I photo shopped an airplane going over a canal and sand dunes. Several classmates, didn’t realize that it was Photoshop! Finally, after working with my teacher, I concluded my final 12 pictures, and after having to rearrange them, I put them in order of going from parts of the airplane, to when you look out of the plane’s window, looking down on the world, and how people perceive the world differently. 
Using the movements of natural and artificial light, I created an interesting feel, allowing the viewer to feel the warmth of the museum (pictures 1, 3,6,7 and 8,) the dark feel of the airplanes that’s be shut up for more then ten years (pictures 4 and 5.) I used quite a bit of line and shape in my concentration, angling the viewer to follow the airplanes natural shape. The shape communicated how hard and heavy an airplane is, the body will never move, but the inside of the airplane, like picture 1, the engine has leading lines. I wanted the viewer to lean into the machine and have a closer look, while the mood is dirty, and used. The contrast in the pieces in the whole concentration is high, being that white is contrasted with black, (picture #2), and like picture #10, the white is contrasting with the hard blue/ then moving to the light blue, showing the airplane being loaded with passengers and food, then the bright blue sky above the clouds. The endless blue, the horizon carrying your eye forever. Then, the texture of the clouds in picture #11, catching your eye, forcing you to look towards the light, then moving down, to explore the whole landscape, passing over England. Then the final image, has a pixelated texture, communicating that through the eye, the world may be pixelated, but underneath that pixel are true colors, bright, trying to shine through. My whole concentration is connecting how through the eyes of everyone, you see the world differently, such as seeing the world from up in an airplane.

Hey ya'll! Here are my final twelve images! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week Five: Today, I worked with photoshop and I had to add several layers of paint, top parts of pictures, and other componants to get the picture correctly layered. Being that I'm going to Ireland, I'm going to be taking more "in-flight" pictures on the plane, so you'll be seeing something new! One thing I relly enjoy about this picture though, is that the plane looks like it's flying low over the canal. With the new picture from Ireland, I'll be able to add plane pictures of flying through the air, and scenic pictures of the ground. Everyone have a great Spring Break! :)

Hello and happy Friday! This week I've been working with Photoshop, on the planes. Next week, I will be taking pictures on the plane, when all of the Chambers Singers and I go to Ireland! This will give me some more "up in the air" shots, so I can photoshop the air shots into the planes. I'm going to also take pictures of birds, so that I can layer the birds with the planes, so that I really emphasize the feeling of flying, and being free. For the first photo, I spent a WHOLE class period, trying to figure out how to delete part of the picture, add different layers, make sure all of the layers worked well together, and eventually, I gave up and started over again, because the picture looked awful. So, I painted the whole background and added back parts of the plane that I had painted off. Then, the second photo, I accidentally had pushed a button, (I can't recall which one,) and part of the pictures background turned a dark blue, which looked really nice! But, when I opened the picture today, the blue had turned into evil red wavy lines and ruined the picture. But, being that photoshop and I are on "non-clicking terms" as of now, I'm going to just be taking pictures next week, and not worrying about photoshop. Next week will be exciting!

After being sick for a few days, I decided that photoshop sounded like a good plan. With a bit of tweaking here and there, I'm actually now somewhat one board for my airplane concentration. I'm seeing a little potential, but it's going to be interesting on how I'm going to get areal shots from the sky. Anyway, with the next coming up week, more playing around in photoshop with areal shots + plane shots, trying to go for "the plane is flying through that space" feel.

The places you will go, oh the place you will go.



Hey ya'll! So, photoshop again today with the two trees up to your left.  Plus, adding pictures of my WAAAM experience from the second time I went and then an Alaska Airlines plane, just showing the different ways of flying. Not sure if I'm going to do flying as my new concentration series. My process for the week has been going, if going is the correct word. (Insert beffudled laugher.) I'm still not quite sure on my real concentration series just yet. I really do like the contrasting of life and a death feel. But, we'll have to see.