My godson. The color from his shirt makes the photo pop. Link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/splash-the-color/
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My godson. The color from his shirt makes the photo pop. Link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/splash-the-color/
My godson, made his shirt color so that he would “pop”
I decided to choose the splash of color assignment for assignment B. I chose this particular picture, because I thought that bringing out the color of the red, white, and blue bandana would completely make this picture “pop.” 
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/splash-the-color/
I decided to take a picture I captured at Myrtle Beach during the winter time. The picture was already pretty gloomy looking, but this orange shell really caught my eye. I thought it would have an even greater affect in black and white.
Splash of Color Assignment:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/splash-the-color/
I fell in love with the Color Splash assignment as soon as I saw it. My original plan was to use a photo of The Green Monster that I had taken when I toured Fenway Park in Boston last summer but I struggled with it and decided to focus some photos I had taken on my Spring Break trip to Manhattan last year.
To do my assignment, I opened up Photoshop CS (yes, people still use it even though it is nearly 10 years old) and imported my photos. I then created a new layer which was a copy of my photo and changed the saturation on that layer to 0%. This made my top layer grayscale. I then took my eraser tool, made it small, about 9 pixels in diameter and carefully erased around the inside edge of what I wanted in color. Once I was satisfied, I finished erasing the inside edge of my top layer so that the only part of my photos in color were one object in each photo.
When I originally took this photo, I did not plan on having the taxi in the shot. I was trying to get a photograph of the model, standing in the middle of Times Square freezing in the early March weather. I’m glad that I did not delete the shot since I love how I was able to use it for this assignment and make the iconic yellow taxi the focus of the photograph.
I have never actually skated on the ice at Rockefeller Center but loved the juxtaposition of the fancy ice rink in the middle of the city and the bright red Zamboni cleaning the ice.
I took the same shot and wanted to emphasize the iconic statue of Prometheus guarding over the ice rink. The gold color of the statue contrasts well with the grayscale color of the rest of the photo.
I’m happy with how my photos turned out. Once I figured out how to do them, I had so much fun that I decided to do the two extra photos.
For this assignment, I found an app for my iPhone called iSplash (which is free, yay!) that allowed me to edit my pictures and make certain parts black and white, or coloured. It was really hard to do considering I had to edit the photo using a touchscreen rather than with a mouse on a computer; however, I think it still turned out really well! I took this photo in December when there were a ton of Christmas lights and Christmas trees everywhere (I wish they kept them out the whole year….) I guess this picture really shows my opinion about Christmas lights: that they brighten up even the darkest and gloomiest winter nights (:
Another really fun 2 star assignment- Splash the color! I’ve always wondering who once does this. Apparently you can do it in Photoshop, but I don’t have that on my computer. I looked under the “tutorial” section and noticed that former ds106er Anapaula downloaded iSplash Free on her Iphone to complete this assignment. So I did the same.
After downloading it, I started playing around with the program. It’s simple to use. My only “complaint” is that you have to use your finger on the phone screen (obvisiously) and so if you want to do small detailed pictures you most likely will “color outside the lines” and it’s really difficult to make it “perfect”. I’m sure if you used Photoshop, it’s less of a problem.
So I got so into it that I completely zoned out in the library (embarrassing!) I was listening to Pandora and just played around with pictures for a good 20 minutes! So I have several examples. A few I had some trouble with the “coloring outside the lines”, but I think overall they turned out very well for using a phone app!
I have the cutest story about this older (both in their 90s) couple. Married for 72 years and have never had a cross word with one another (according to her). She has alzheimer’s, he does not. Yet, he moved into the memory care unit when she did so they could stay together. That is true and unconditional love! They are both the sweetest! They live in the same unit as my grandmother, that’s how I know them!
This is at a Target in Lancaster, PA. It just made me laugh and smile! I love that the Amish go to Target!
Of course Maggie had to make an appearance!
I made ornaments for my friends as part of their Christmas gifts!
I’ve had a bit of a DS106 lull for the last couple of weeks. I had a bit of a schedule shake up with my partner being injured, but she is on the mend now and I am getting myself back on track. I struggle getting into routines, which I suspect is a common thing really. One day at a time I return to the productive day activities as opposed to staring blankly at Facebook.
As luck would have it I noticed a visual assignment done on the blog Amateur Hour here. I am still avoiding the video and animated gif assignments. I’m believing that it’s going to take me a long time to get one done and that I’ll lose interest. It is a big fat don’t know really, I could really love it so maybe I’ll try next time.
This assignment is called Splash the color it is a two star assignment inspired by the girl in the red dress in the film Schindler’s List. In the film she is the instrument of conscience or awakening for Schindler. He identifies with her as she moves alone through the jewish ghetto as people are being murdered around her and awakens to the inhumanity and atrocities happening around her. She transforms him from a detached observer into a human witnessing the suffering of other humans that cannot be denied. He looses sight of her as she hides in a building but she returns later on in the story but this time she is dead.
The page linked to the story of the girl here believes that the story is based upon a true story told at the trial of Adolf Eichmann told by Gavriel Bach (Assistant Prosecutor at the time). Bach questioned Dr Martin Foldi who described his experience of the selection process Auschwitz. Incredibly the session tapes for this trial are available on youtube which I think is quite amazing. I decided to have a look at session 1.
It is unsettling to watching someone who has been responsible for the murder of millions of people. What unsettles me most is that he just looks like an ordinary man. In fact he is an ordinary man, one who committed horrendous crimes. He looks on from inside his glass box at the court accusing him of crimes against humanity with quiet detachment. Bach, 50 years on reflects on his experience of the trial in which he also mentions the story of the girl in the red coat.
Wikipedia also mentions unintended similarities to the story of the girl in the red coat in the movie, to that of Roma Ligocka, a survivor who in 1940 was taken to the Krakow Ghetto with her mother. She wrote the novel The girl in the Red Coat.
With that story in mind I found it quite difficult to find an image that I thought would be a modern equivalent of this. Finally I settled on an image I took during Chinese New Year in 2008 It’s an image of a young boy poking himself through the barriers along Charing Cross Rd in London trying to see the parade coming towards him. Although this image is taken during a celebration the metal barriers the boy pokes himself through gives the feeling of containment, of ordinary people being organized and ‘controlled’ by authorities. the boy is the only face in focus and his slightly pensive expression I think adds to the atmosphere.
I used photoshop to create this image turning the original photo black and white then with a layer mask painted the colour back in to the boy and his dragon. As a half chinese person who grew up listening to the adults around me talk about the horrors the Chinese suffered at the hands of the Japanese there is for me a more personal connection with this story of the girl in the red dress and this image. I don’t doubt that my reason for finally choosing it is my childhood memories of being told about the millions of chinese who were murdered. As a mixed race child I can also remember asking what would happen if it happened again and being told that I would probably end up in a camp as I was not ‘pure’. So I suppose for me there is something of that memory in this image too.
Splash the color orignal image for DS106 visual assignment
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Splash the color visual Assignment for DS106 Black and white conversion
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Splash the color final image for DS106 Visual Assignment
© 2013 Oskar Marchock All rights reserved.
This one was cool. I ended up just stumbling across this assignment even though it was one of the suggested ones for the week.
Really not that hard to do. Took me a little time to think of something to take a picture of and then thinking of a good background. I ended up picking the lighter because it was bright and would really jump out against a background. Then I decided on the side of my front porch because I thought it was an interesting background because there was a lot going on. The angle of the shot took me a while to figure out because I wanted to get as little of the wall and as much of the background as I could. Getting the size of the lighter was important too.
After all that, I loaded it into Gimp into two different frames. I made the one frame black and white with the color adjustments and the other one I used to cut out the orange color of the lighter. After cutting the orange out, I copied that into another picture so I could remove the BIC label for no apparent reason. I just wanted to. Then I copied everything I had left, and pasted it into the black and white frame, moving it around so it fit right on the image. And that was it.
To continue my Visual Assignments quest, I chose a 2 star assignment called Splash the Color, from the ds106 Assignment Bank. I used to dabble in color splashing on my iPhone (just for fun), so I already had the App to do this assignment.
I chose the photo I wanted to color splash by finding a subject that was very vibrant and would stand out against a black and white background. This is the original photo:
I emailed the photo to myself so that I could have it on my iPhone and saved it to my camera roll.
I opened the photo in the app Color Splash and painted the birds to be color and the background to be black and white. I then saved the final product to my camera roll, emailed it to myself, opened it on my computer, and uploaded it to Flickr. Et voilà!
Finally, I had to share my blog via Twitter!
#ds106 #VisualAssignments Check out my Color Splash blog & photo! ds106.larahampson.com/canon-ball/
— Lara Hampson (@l_hampson23) February 12, 2013