Berg+-Portrait+of+a+Place

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Photograph #1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/yosigo/26205000654/in/dateposted/

This first photo is representing a landscape. Based on the bright color scheme, the evoked mood is more of a content/calm emotion. This photo comes from flickr, and the username of the person who created this photo is Yosigo. The artist’s clarity of all his/her photos are amazing. Most of their images are taken outside with natural lighting. Looking through all of their photos, I noticed that the images all have their own boldness and mood. All images are different, yet have one similar quality: clarity. In the specific image I chose, the artist uses leading lines and rule of thirds along with natural lighting. The title of the image is “unknown” and the username (as mentioned above) is Yosigo.

Photograph #2

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This photo represents cityscape. The portrayed mood of the photo is boldness. Now, though I may be completely off, I feel as if the photo brings out one specific building and shows the differences of all of them. The artist of this photo, Paul Raphaelson, has all of his images in a similar tone. They are mostly groggy and have a darkened (not very dark) feeling. To each photo, Paul puts in effort to give the photograph a story behind it. In the photo I chose to present, the artist uses leading lines as the street leads into the photograph. Along with leading lines, the artist uses a little bit of rule of thirds as the photo can be seperated in different ways. Paul's artwork is different in many ways but is still always stunning to the eye.

Photograph #3

http://opacity.us/site194_northville_state_hospital.htm

This third image is showing a little bit of both landscape and cityscape. The vibe that the image gives off is depressing and creepy. The mood itself tells the story of the photograph, as it is an old psychiatric hospital. This image portrays leading lines, and partial rule of thirds. The photograph has no specific artist because the site is based on many abandoned places with many different artists. Though they are all created by different authors, they all relate in a way that they can tell a real story and show the story.

The mood I want to portray is more of a calm/content mood with more of a natural lighting space. I picked a calm and content mood because it's something that everyone has of their own, so I would like to show an image that is just soothing and nothing too intense or exotic. Also, for the type of place that I want to illustrate, I think I want more of a landscape so I can really capture the real lighting and natural affects. The printmaking technique I hope to use is the gloss gel medium technique and I want to print onto glass. I choose glass because I feel like looking through something (for an example a window) it's more of a content feeling. The picture I will print on will be no larger than an 8.5 x 11.

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