My Make-Up of the Royal Winter Fair

Gaming, how badly does it affect our kids lives?

In this article i will discuss gaming and the affect it has on kids long and short-term.  Some may say, "gaming is bad" or "gaming kills brain cells", well studies show that gaming increases reactivity but decreases time spent on school studies.  I completely agree with the above statement, i do believe gaming takes up a lot of modern day kids lives.  In fact, almost everyone i know either has an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3 or some sort of gaming console.  This is solely based on the fact that this is the norm.  In today's world it is considered almost insane to not have some sort of gaming console anywhere in the household.  Even some adults i've met throughout my life play Xbox or PS3.  Me for example, i play Xbox 360 almost everyday of the week along with most teenage boys, i wouldn't clasify it an addiction, but more of a time filler.  You see when the average teenager gets bored, they immediately turn to technology like its going to provide with some sort of prolonged activity to engage themselves in without actually having to move.  In most cases this is true, my whole family has an iPhone 4 or higher and even at dinner nowadays my sisters will always end up pulling it out to check their messages or send a tweet or make a Facebook status.  In my opinion gaming greatly affects the life of a teenager, especially one who doesn't know when to stop gaming, this can result in severe drop in grades or worse, flunking out of school and doing nothing with your life.  Only 0.1% of people who drop out of highschool or university or college actually end up making an over average salary in their lifetime.  This ends up being a huge burden on their parents as they are going to need to be financially supported throughout their whole lives or most of it anyway.  So, for conclusion, yes gaming does have its negatives and its positives on a child's life.  But now and then a little gaming could do everyone some good as it relieves stress and desensitize's the hectic lifestyle the world we kid's and even adults live in today.

Multiple Exposure

This picture was also taken from an SLR camera's negatives and i developed the film and chose 2 photos which i thought would look good together.  I then placed them on top of each other and put them under light to expose them and it produces an image over another one.  I like this photo because of how one photo can overlap another photo causing something completely different to what i expected.  I really liked this project it was also one of my favorites.

Solarisation

This photo was taken using an SLR cameras photographs and developing the film.  I then chose the picture that i liked the most and made a Solarisation of it.  I really like this photo because i like the picture and the way it looks, the tone difference goes from pitch black to almost albino white and it contrasts really well in my opinion.  I had a really fun time experimenting with the Solarisation project.

Rayogram

This to some who dont know is not a photograph, in fact there is no camera involved in the making of this type of photo.  To make this photo you must have photo paper and some objects you want to place on the photo paper and you need a dark room.  This photo was simply made by using a film canister, 2 pieces of a popsicle stick, a small stapler like object and a lot of super thin wood.  I like this photo because it was easily one of the most enjoyable projects all year long and i really enjoyed learning about this, the dark room and how to make objects appear just by placing objects on photo paper and exposing it to the light.

Breaking the Rules

In these photos i broke the Rule of Thirds rule by making that the main points of interests to the human eye are not in the middle or above the photo.  I also broke the Golden Section rule by showing that the eye of the viewer is not always drawn to the main point and it is not always drawn to the same point on almost every photo.  I also broke the focus rule on some photos in here, showing that in the photo of the person it shows the reflectino and how it is not in focus and for the leafy photo, only half of it is focused.  For the coca-cola can it shows how the portioning and balance in this photo is awkward.

Renaissance

 

 

 

 

In this photo i wanted to show the Renaissance photo of the Machiavelli portrait.  Unfortunately at this time i was not nearly experienced enough with photoshop as i did not know how to make the background of my photo co-incide with the portrait.  Machiavelli for those who don't know was an italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher. humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance period.  He was widely considered as an official in Florentine Republic and he was a founder of modern political science.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mixed Lighting

In this photo that i took with a digital camera, i used 3 different types of light.  I used an LED light, a fluorescent light and an incandescent light to produce 3 different colours of light emitted onto the photo.  I like this photo because i never knew that different types of light actually affect the way a photo turns out.  I like how the light is extremely bright on one side of the subject's face and then it is a dark tone on the opposite side of his face.

Perfect Studio Lighting

In these photos i took i wanted to show expression and how the light changes in each photo affecting the way a photo is effectively taken.  I really like how the contrast between the light reflecting from the umbrella and the dark from the non-illuminated part collide and there is a middle mid-lit part of each photo.