WEEK DUECE

Assignment: Learning how to use Lightroom, learning how to use the printers, etc.

Craft: Looked for 25 high resolution, extra large photographs of Lincoln and friends via Google Image. Then, took 25 of my own pictures around my house. After taking all these swell pictures, I put them on the Mac via card reader and then saved them to my USB so I won't have to deal with that problem again. Following this procedure, I used lightroom to make a catalog card of all the pictures for my assignment. During this time, the class learned that if you use BW instead of color, you get what is ultimately the same product to the naked eye for 40 cents cheaper. It's fantabulous. After this valuable lesson, we learned how to print just one big picture. You can do this by adjusting the number of rows and columns and then printing only the page that the picture is on so you dont get a large number of other full sheets that you dont want. Also Terrific. I then proceded to print out a picture of the treadmill in my parents basement and a picture of Lincoln, Lee, and Grant standing in front of a tent.



Composition: I chose to print out the treadmill and the Lincoln and friends photos because they were very compatible. I think I can probably get them to mash pretty well. Also, after playing with Lightroom a little bit, I got the treadmill picture to have almost the same dingy oldness as the Lincoln and friends photo. Plus, I kind of like the irony of these prominent figures dressed in thier formal attire seen in an area in which intense physical activity and/or liesure takes place.


Concept: So the whole idea is that I want to make it look like Lincoln and friends are just hanging out in my basement, working on thier fitness like they are best buddies, which was not really the case. Robert E. Lee would not likely be seen on the same scene as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln. So I guess what I'm trying to say with adding the modern things into it is that things have changed. The controversies that they faced are pretty much dead and although as a nation, we still feel the affects of these mens' actions, we have a whole different set of probelms to worry about. The things they were worried about don't matter anymore, so thiers no reason they couldnt set thier differences aside today and hang out in my parents basement and get swole or grab a brewski out of the fridge.