Story Time With Libby!

Hello Beautiful People, https://www.instagram.com/p/CcwtBAtO_er/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link This week was an interesting experiment and a little challenging. I wanted to play with some photography techniques to add to the story I wrote. I worked with framing and hierarchy to add focus in different ways. This story was about remembering times in my childhood and I used my little cousin as my subject. This is the first time I used a full body in any of my photos to show in the stories, and it was an interesting choice on my part. First, I played around with framing to see what I could get out of my photos. What I did was crop one of the photos so my little cousin took up most of the viewing space, with little background to surround him. As Lupton and Phillips wrote in their book "Graphic Design The New Basics", they discuss the reasoning behind cropping other than just cutting the picture. They claim that "by closing in on a detail, cropping can change the focus of a pict...

Hello Beautiful People, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cceid0WOhSl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link This week was an inspiring way for me to reflect on this project as I was focusing on "Nostalgia and Documentation". I am aware that my project is a little nostalgic in itself where I write stories about the photos I take. I create the time and place that you can imagine being in the photos. However, my mission was to hit that theme on the nose with my story.  The story I am telling in the post is during the fall of 2021. The person that is explaining their account of the day is a memory. Since the stress of life was weighing them down, the memory was something they reflected on. It expressed the feeling of the day itself with the weather, and how that impacted them.  The sky with a jet stream, giving the person a calm feeling I tried to express the process of remembering by describing the scene, and how the person felt. A time that they missed and felt clarity. This is what I tried c...

 Hello Beautiful People, https://www.instagram.com/p/CcMr9YuOjvg/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet  This week, my focus was on creating rhythm, scale, and texture within my art piece. I did my best to take some photos of these specific strategies and write a small story to create the world. My main focuses were on symmetry, scale, and texture as I believe they were the easiest to describe. The way I used symmetry and scale was in the form of a line. Even though the line is easy to create, it holds meaning and creates many visual illusions.  Symmetry and scale using the line of the bridge In this photo, I used the symmetry of the railings to show the movement of the path. The railings give the image that the bridge is a small space for walking. By using scale, the light is small compared to the wooden planks near the foreground. The railings start out big near the front but they get smaller as they go into the background. This creates the movement of going forward whic...

 Hello Beautiful People, Allow me to introduce myself! My name is Libby and I am a Freshman at Lawrence University. This is my first time using any blogging site. I know, shocker! I am pretty new to this so my first blog will be my roughest. However, I do believe that I will get the hang of it and improve with the more blogs I post.  Anyway, you might be asking me: Why am I here on Blogger and creating blogs? What is my intention? What is the point of me doing all of this? Well, my reasons are pretty simple. First, I am in a class called Art Phone Smart Phone that deals with art and social media, both things that I enjoy quite a bit. I always had a passion for art ever since I was little. I would draw pictures, I would paint, I would write little stories, I would act for fun, I would take photographs of anything that interested me, you know, things like that. Since I am majoring in Psychology and minoring in Studio Art, my passions and way of life are grounded in these fields....