John Henry's AP Art Blog

  Materials: Once again I am using photoshop but time I did take the original photo. Processes: I took the photo, added a threshold to the whole piece. I then added the circles and squares and put a gradient on those. Ideas: Once again I was trying to isolate the athlete fro the outside distractions, which I have done better in this pice than the last.

SI 9  Materials: I used photoshop for the whole piece, I got the photo off of a copyright free website and then changed it in photoshop. Processes:  After experimenting with using threshold, inversion, and isolating the subject, I created a circle around the player. I then used the inversion and switched that to a hue while darkening outside of the circle. Ideas: I was really just trying to isolate the athlete here, which I did by adding the circle, and inverting the whole piece and darkening the outside of the circle.

Material: Photoshop 2021 Processes: Cropped to photos of Giannis Antetakounpo (I spelled that wrong) to contrast the emotions and brought in a court at the bottom but faded it out with eraser and a gradient. I then put a peaceful picture of a stadium in the cool letters and a full picture of the stadium in the warm letters. Ideas: The lettering includes a warm green and a cool green the contrast the warm emotions of passion and anger versus the cool emotions of being calm and composed. I also wrote in "The choice is yours" to make the piece feel more lie a poster and give the viewer a hypothetical option.  

 Materials: Photoshop 2021 Processes: Cropping, a color fill and color gradient. Ideas: The right side shows the excitement of scoring a touchdown through the warm color red while the left side has the fans  blurred showing that are necessary and he is the same regardless of who is watching.

 materials: iPhone 6, Adobe Photoshop processes: On photoshop, I dropped the picture of the background while I tripled the subject and used a warm and cool gradient on the outside layers. ideas: Here, the subject shows excitement that can exist in the absence of fans with the empty seats in the background and the visibly excited subject in the foreground. Finished SI#5 Progress #1 Progress #2

materials: iphone 6 processes:cropping, filters ideas: trying to capture an empty stadium or just an empty section, will  potentially photoshop in a photo of an athlete or try the printmaking technique “It was good because it gave people a chance to talk about things that might be on their minds—the hype, the pressure. I think it’s good for them to talk about those things. It increased our performance a lot. It helps us get issues out of the way before they even start. … When you feel it, it’s how you deal with it. You have to prepare yourself as well as you can.”  – KOBE BRYANT AS QUOTED IN “THE MINDFUL ATHLETE” 

Materials: Cannon Camera with the wrong lens Processes: Adobe Lightroom photoshop Ideas: I put "noise reduction into the photo to take out the details and have a somewhat sense of simplicity in a play in football that is in no way simple.