Welcome VISU1311: Visual Studies I, Fall 2017

Welcome to VISU I, we are glad to have you join us! We are here to challenge you, perhaps annoy you but we anticipate seeing brilliance too.

Make sure to visit CANVAS for course materials, handouts, etc.

This VISU I blog will be a place for you to post your project assignments in order for us to keep a record of student work.

You will post all reflective writing to your own blog. We will direct you when we want you to post projects to your blog.

 

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Project #1 Gestalt

As someone who has absolutely no experience with cameras or photography, his project was incredibly challenging. I enjoyed looking at the world from an artists perspective but with an all new media. Learning about the technology that comes with photography is a difficult task for me, but exciting to learn. While taking these photos I kept in mind the ideas of repetition, continuity, proximity, ect. I enjoyed experimenting with color and light and I believe the images turned out pretty good for a first time photographer.

 

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VISU 1311 Project #1: Anthony Daniel

As an English Writing and Rhetoric major, I don’t have a lot of experience with photography. I did photography for yearbook as a senior in high school and therefore mostly present images from an objective way of documenting what I see, rather than taking what I see and coding it through a unique perspective. This project was incredibly difficult for me and really challenged my thinking and creative process. Each time I went out I had a plan and each time I finished, what I was shooting had changed. The collection I discovered in all my photographs is ,I believe, a solid representation of what gestalt is. I tried working a lot with shadows and nuanced contrasts with light. Some of the guidelines that I set for myself was that I would only use natural light and that I wouldn’t edit any of my photos, so each of these photos showcases interplay between sparing uses of natural light and darkness. Therefore all of my pictures are from outside on South Congress and heavily feature nature. The set also utilizes the principles of gestalt, such as grouping, containment, repetition, proximity, continuity, and closure, all in their own way.

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continuity, proximity

 

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VI$U 1311 PROJECT #1: JOMANA AL-ABED

I was interested in relationships between colors and the time periods we associate them with in photographs. I chose to photograph images that challenges the difference between reality and perception– whatever I present to the viewer will be accepted as truth, even though SoCo is easily recognizable. Keeping this in mind, I explored places in South Congress that appeared to be timeless to me. I also explored the tones of each era; the warm, inviting and ‘rebellious’ content of the 80’s compared to the empty and unsettling vibes of the 60’s.








 

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Visu 1311 Poject # 1 Justin Saenger

Originally I struggled with this project as I am not a huge fan of taking photos myself. However once I went out after it had rained and it was still overcast I started noticing how vibrant some of the colors on south congress were, especially the green of all the plants. So while I was out there I was really appreciating the all the varied and vibrant greens and there for I decided to document all the colors I liked during the overcast day.

Line, Grouping, Color, Repetition
Line, Grouping, Color, Repetition
Line, perspective, texture, color
Line, perspective, texture, color
Grouping, Proximity, Color, Personal Favorite
Grouping, Proximity, Color, Personal Favorite
Grouping, Proximity, Color
Grouping, Proximity, Color
Repetition, Grouping, Containment, Color
Repetition, Grouping, Containment, Color
Line, Containment, Perspective, Color
Line, Containment, Perspective, Color
ISO Dates
ISO Dates
Bridge Collections
Bridge Collections
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VISU 1311 Project #1: Elisa Sofia Robles

    I was very lost with this project as I’ve never used a camera or even photoshop for that matter but I ended up having a lot of fun. One of my biggest challenges was the Gestalt theory because I’ve never heard of it before. So this was basically like a whole new world for me. I jumped between a lot of themes and like geometry, people, and buildings. I decided to stick with lights/reflections. From that I went into a different direction, I didn’t want to only take pictures of the lights or reflections I saw, I wanted to create a scene that all of my eight pictures could put together. I used the principle of continuity throughout my pictures. I had the idea that I could somehow arrange the images from lightest to darkest to create a sunset-to-night effect.

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Proximity, Continuity
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Containment, Proximity
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Grouping, Containment, Proximity
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Proximity, Repetition
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Continuity, Containment, Proximity
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Grouping, Proximity, Closure
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Repetition, Closure, Containment
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Lightroom Metadata
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Lightroom Collections

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VISU 1311 Project #1: John_Griffin

It being my third year living in Austin, I’ve become pretty familiar with South Congress. I think the grandeur of the popular city street has almost entirely worn out for me, and at first I struggled to find things I really wanted to focus on for this project because my surroundings had become so mundane. It wasn’t until the 3rd of 4th time I went out and shot pictures that I started looking past the typical SoCo sighting and gathered a more focused point of view – one that gave structures more character and and created separation from its surroundings. I used many shapes, lines, and angles to really unify the details of structures and hone in on architectural details.

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continuity / containment
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containment / grouping / proximity
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proximity / grouping
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ISO Dates / Folder organization
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collections
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