Visual Assignment: My Cabin at Camp Magic MacGuffin

Pitch a Tent in Camp Magic MacGuffin: Help create Camp Magic MacGuffin! Visualize the tent or cabin you’re staying in; show us what Lake MacGuffin looks like!

My Cabin at Camp Magic MacGuffin

Feelin' Rustic!

Click here to see it on Flickr.

I was really excited about Camp Magic MacGuffin, and I wanted to set up at my cabin right away! I threw together a quick little shelter inspired by a trip to Mexico I took several years ago. Then, with the help of Photoshop (a popular place to visit), I crafted a sign to warn paserbys that things might get crazy while I’m at work. I pulled out my laptop (on loan from katsushiro on Flickr), proudly erected the Camp flag, and called it a day. Wooh!

Visual Assignment: My Cabin at Camp Magic MacGuffin

Pitch a Tent in Camp Magic MacGuffin: Help create Camp Magic MacGuffin! Visualize the tent or cabin you’re staying in; show us what Lake MacGuffin looks like!

My Cabin at Camp Magic MacGuffin

Feelin' Rustic!

Click here to see it on Flickr.

I was really excited about Camp Magic MacGuffin, and I wanted to set up at my cabin right away! I threw together a quick little shelter inspired by a trip to Mexico I took several years ago. Then, with the help of Photoshop (a popular place to visit), I crafted a sign to warn paserbys that things might get crazy while I’m at work. I pulled out my laptop (on loan from katsushiro on Flickr), proudly erected the Camp flag, and called it a day. Wooh!

Draw it.

I was able to come up with one more assignment idea, Draw it! This one asks the students to take a picture, whether it be there or one from the internet, and get some experience with Photoshop by converting it into an image that look drawn.

I actually got the idea for this one from a previosu assignment that I did –  Da vinchi Invents the Kitchen Sink. When I worked on that assignment, it required me to figure out how to convert my chosen images into a format that looked hand drawn, which took me a little bit to understand how to do. That being the case, I decided to provide a simple tutorial on how to do this.

Tutorial for Photoshop:

1. Import the file you want to work with. (File > Open)

2. Now we want to make the image black and white. (Image > Image > Adjustments > Desaturate)

3. Create a duplicate layer ( Layer > Duplicate Layer)

4. Invert colors. (Image > Adjustments > Invert)

5.  Change the blending mode to Color Dodge. The layers pallet should be in the bottom right and will have a drop down menu (mine is originally on “Normal”)

6. At this point, the majority of the image will be white with a few black spots (maybe). Dont worry. Go to Filter > Gaussian Blur. From here you can just slide the Pixels bar to make it lighter or darker based on your personal preference.

My example:

Before:

Lion

After:

Photoshop converted drawing of a Lion

 

Visual Assignment: Portrait of a Gentle Cat Feeder

Fat Cats Make Art Better: Using this site: http://fatcatart.ru/category/klassy-ka/ as a platform for ideas, and using Photoshop (or something like it) as your tool, place a fat cat into a photo of a classic art piece. The goal is to make it convincing: make the art become on with the cat.

Portrait of a Gentle Cat Feeder

"I hope you have milk in that bowl."

I’m a little down in the dumps lately, and thought a DS106 assignment might make me feel better. Well it did. :) I took “Portrait of a Gentlewoman” by Antonio da Correggio (who I think is too old to fight me over copyright) and pasted the picture of a fat cat begging for food on top of it. The question then becomes not, “What’s with the bowl,” but rather, “What’s in the bowl?”

Return To The Scene Of The Crime

Take a photo from the past that you took in a particular location. Return to that stop, and take another picture, “framing” the original within the current view

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Fantastic Four My Best friends from high school and still growing strong are time apart doesn’t erase the memories we had, love them.

Buddy Photo

Find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that you can carry around with you. Use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. ie: going out to lunch, going to the movies, etc.

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This is my favorite picture of Waddles. I was taking him to practice on the first day of practice and it was the first day of spring. I loved the way the flowers looked beautiful and blooming, i had to take a picture. Assignment Value two stars **.

Find Yourself

Find your name in the environment around you. Look for your first name, parts of your first name, or even the individual letters that make up your name in the environment around you. Take photos and crop them together. Share. Enjoy!

My favorite cousin went to Spain to study abroad and found this store. I am not sure what the sold their but it was pretty cool to see that my last name is common. I was always made fun of and question about my last name since I am Dominican born and raised and without a common spanish last name. Assignment value two stars **.

 

 

Fat Cat Makes Art Better

Using this site: http://fatcatart.ru/category/klassy-ka/ as a platform for ideas, and using Photoshop (or something like it) as your tool, place a fat cat into a photo of a classic art piece. The goal is to make it convincing: make the art become on with the cat.

Most of all, enjoy! :0) And remember, fat cats make art better.

This was my first completed assignment for ds106, i was very pround until I compared my work to others. I would do this again this was very fun. I looked up famous painting and stumbled into this art work Whistler’s Mother.

Whistler’s Mother is the truncated name for James McNeill Whistler’s very famous portrait originally known as Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother. Painted in 1871, it’s one of the few American pieces on this list – although it is owned by a Parisian museum and therefore rarely seen in the states.

then I found a fat cat on google

I place the cat on the lap, I felt like something belonged on her lap. I feel that I should have change the image of that cat more so it could blend in more. I feel that I spend the most time on this photo. This assignment is worth two stars **.

A Whole New World

Take a picture of your subject (grandparents, pet, yourself) and put it into a totally different background in which they appear abnormally too small or too large. Think of Honey, we shrunk the kids…

I did this assignment because I thought it would be easy, as it was. I just wish that i would have done this more creative as I looked at other assignment that has been done before mine like in YUE blog i must say Love her editing in this picture is so awesome, made me wonder why i played it safe and didn’t go outside the box i might revisit this assignment and do it again me riding a dog as if he was a horse or something.

With this assignment I didn’t do much I took one of my personal pictures and shrunk it while I left the background how I found it on google I moved my image in different places and angles until I felt that it looked more natural and blended well. I defiantly feel that we should take advantage of the course and never stick to what seems easy but more daring that way you learn something out of it. This assignment was worth two stars**.

Splash of color

Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List.

You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google

I feel that I took the hard way into doing this assignment I know that there is many apps and programs that will help you keep an original color however I did not do that. So what I did was using photo shop and two layers one I stripped the color and the other i just deleted what I did not want leaving the dress to stand out. If I would have done it the other way using specific programs my lines would have been sharper. This assignment is worth two star**.