I was instructed to create an edit in which I overlay a picture from nature with a picture of a person. I chose this picture of Andy during a class to overlay with a picture of a blossoming tree to pretend his thoughts are those of the great outdoors and not the classroom! XD

I found this assignment rather simple to complete, but one unexpected challenge was when deleting some of the excess of the tree picture to overlay on Andy, if I moved the bit to be deleted over the properly overlayed portion on Andy, it would delete the good part too… Useful to keep that in mind for future reference

I’m SO HAPPY with how the picture turned out!!! I’d love to try some more ambitious edits in the future!!!!!

I’ve chosen to learn more about David Hockney and his hit piece, “A Bigger Splash”

1. What is Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that started in the UK and US around the 1950s. The movement was created to challenge traditions of fine art by instead using imagery from popular and mass culture, like advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects.

2. Why is this artist’s work considered Pop Art?

David’s piece, “A Bigger Splash” is considered Pop art because, as David Hockney has often been quoted about in his process of painting A Bigger Splash, he says that when a splash is photographed, the moment is frozen and it “becomes something else”, and that in real life a splash happens “too quickly” and cannot be seen that way in “real life”. This also leads to the inherent irony in Hockney’s process of creating A Bigger Splash, in which he further explained, that he spent most of his time painting the splash, and “the splash lasts two seconds, and the building would be permanent there”. He also explained that that is what it was about and that “you have to look in at the detail”.

3. Describe some of this artists work.

As stated before, he has his “A Bigger Splash” work, which he is most known for. It’s meant as a piece that captures the small, beautiful instants that pass us by to quickly. Another piece of art of his I find is really lovely is his artwork titled “My Parents,” which depicts exactly what it says on the title. It’s another piece of art with vibrant colors that depicts a serene scene, and was considered a pop art piece because it was a look into the intimate lives of two random people, not celebrities, and was given the same amount of detail and care as one would paint a superstar in

4. Why did you pick this artist and why do you like his/her work?

I found it intriguing that his artwork was simply a splash of water in a pool, so I searched to find the meaning behind it and how it stood out to people as pop art. It wasn’t really so much the art that intrigued me, but the lack of a meaning I could find in it that drew me in. The adventure was kind of worth it in the end though!

The process of building the models took the most amount of time by far, easily 2-3 days. (unless you count waiting for the packages, lol, that was 8 days), then I tried waiting for weather which had dark enough conditions, which never happened, so just yesterday, I snapped the photos of the figurines that you see here!

To explain the uses of numbers in parenthesis above, the number represents the number of tips I’ve used throughout the photoshoot, so for “(4),” after the explanation of what I did in the photo that was a tip, I’d notate that by adding the number so you know how many tips I used in total. I know we were only supposed to gun for 3, but I couldn’t help myself, there were too many opportunities to make fun pictures and I couldn’t just let those opportunities slip by

sorry about going further than 3 tips

‘-v-

I think that the second picture here is the best and most interesting, as it shows depth, uniqueness, shadow, all kinds of things, while the others are rather more experimental and unrefined

My favorite picture of these by FAR has to be Ben’s coin flip, I’m VERY proud that I caught this in “One shot” mode, I absolutely N A I L E D the timing!!!

This picture was taken with a TV of 1/200, an ISO of 6400, and, if I’m honest, an unknown f-stop ‘-_-

When taking this picture, I tried to achieve a frozen look to the water so you could see the churning of the water as it splashes into the rocks below, and I think for a first shot, it’s pretty good!

In this picture, after experimenting with a higher TV, I found a good way to keep the camera still enough to create the kind of picture I was looking for, that being a blending of the motion of water, and I think it worked out pretty well!

I’m honestly REALLY intrigued by TV settings and want to experiment more with them… I think capturing a bird flying in a relatively slow TV would be a REALLY cool picture, or capturing a game of ping-pong with a small depth of field so that the ball is in focus, but the player isn’t would be AMAZING. I’m VERY keen on experimenting with different TV’s in the future!

Looking back on these two pictures, I now have a newfound appreciation to my eyes and their ability to perceive light automatically, WITHOUT physical or conscious input, W O W * _ *