Light and Colour

"The Cloud of Unknowing" - Richard Kenton Webb

The painting I will be talking about is entitled The Cloud of Unknowing, and it was painted by Richard Kenton Webb. The thing that first struck me about this piece is the amazing amount of detail contained in the centre section of the painting. This detail then fades out and goes into an outline of the cliffs. 

Kenton Webb has used light extremely well within this painting in order to focus the detail in the centre section running horizontally through the piece. Having the cliffs as a dark strip allows him to use lighter colours to create a high amount of photo-realistic detail. 

The light colours used in the sky of the painting contrast extremely well with the dark colours used in the cliffs. This adds effect to the piece and is also another way of focusing the viewers attention on the detailed parts of the work. 

Light has been used in a very effective way in the sky, by using light colours at the top of the cliffs and making the sky get darker the further out you look, it creates the effect of a sunset, this makes the piece more interesting and gives the viewer something interesting to take in.

Colour Replacement

Above are the two colour replacement photographs I did in Photoshop.

Update

Not posted for a while as I've been doing numerous different things.

Mainly I have been ill and spent the majority of the weekend back at home coughing and with a bad throat which wasn't great. I also forgot my laptop which made the weekend pretty boring.

On the work side of things I've been trying to write a script which isn't as easy as it looks, and in about 15mins I'm off out to attempt some filming with my group.

Nice.

One Shot Film - Writing.

So today I've been doing the task of writing a script for my groups one shot film. Our film is going to be set in a sort of restaurant type place, and the idea of the film is a comedy sketch, based on speed dating. 

Doing this will allow us to bring lots of different characters into the film in a short space of time, and with only one person in front of camera for the whole time it means we wont have to come up with lots of ridiculous costumes for the people to wear. Having only the person who is in front of the camera being able to see the people they are dating means that we can add in audio over the top where they are thinking in their head about what the person looks like. This allows us to create a costume, without actually wearing one.

So now I will begin writing my script, something which I have never done before so am not expecting to be amazing!

Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is a rule which is used to aid the composition of photography, painting, and other visual arts. The rule states that an image can easily be split up into 9 equal sized sections via the use of two evenly spaced vertical lines, and two evenly spaced horizontal lines. 

When these lines are put onto an image it creates four points around the middle section of the picture. These are used to align features of the image, for example the trunk of a tree could be positioned on the right hand line of the two vertical ones. 

It has been said that using this technique creates a better composition and gives the picture more energy than simply positioning the main thing in the middle of the composition.

When using this technique the horizon line generally is in line with the top or bottom horizontal line and other parts of the landscape, for example trees are lined up with the two vertical lines. Doing this makes the image more aesthetically pleasing. 

Reference; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

My camera/ video recorder has been playing up this week so unless it fixes itself during the day then my video wont be up for another few days.

Pixilation Final

Below is my final pixilation piece. The idea of the video is to show different sporting activities, for example, long jump, and relay. 

The soundtrack for the video was also entirely created by me using my trusty midi keyboard and various computer programs. Enjoy!

Design of Items

The item I am going to be talking about is my MacBook laptop. When I bought this laptop it was primarily for the fact I knew the type of programs I would be running on it, such as Photoshop, and different pieces of music software, such as Reason, Recycle, and Soundforge, would be much more responsive on an Apple laptop. I've had problems for years with Windows PC's where they would randomly shut down or crash at just the wrong moment which would cause me to loose music, work, or other important things. 

When buying my MacBook however, I was also swayed by the look of it. The design is superb and the laptop just seems to fit together nicely. It a perfect size where it's neither too small, nor too big. It also comes with some extremely good built in technology such as the camera, and the bluetooth function which allows me to easily transfer files between my phone and laptop. 

People are generally willing to pay for things in attractive forms because the newer devices always seem to have more functionality built in. Take touch screen mobiles for example, some of them do exactly the same as mobiles without touch screens, but people are still prepared to pay more just because instead of pressing a button, they can touch a screen which is a new technology most people haven't had the chance to try.