Rough Ideas for Project 3 (Rules)

1. The subject will carry a consistent theme.
2. Balanced composition.
3. Highly saturated in color.
4. Frame and layout will all be the same.
5. Each will be viewed from the same POV.

This is some work I found by Piet Mondrian. This work is obviously very rule based.When looking at the composition, you can see that every piece is very balanced. The use of dull primary colors is also very consistent. In addition, Mondrian uses lines for every one of these pieces (lines running perpendicular that create squares).

Lev Manovich: Points

How digital images differ from analog images.

"They exist as mathematical data which 

can be displayed in a variety of modes -- 

sacrificing color, spatial or temporal 

resolution."

How older technology is slowly overcome by new

technology.

"Traditional film editing and optical printing are being 
replaced by digital editing and image processing which blur 
the lines between production and post-production, between 
shooting and editing....Thus, film may soon disappear -- 

but not cinema."

Even when an old technology becomes insufficient, 

it still finds new roles and value. 

"digital imaging promises to completely replace 
the techniques of filmmaking, it at the same time finds new 
roles and brings new value to the cinematic apparatus, the 
classic films, and the photographic look. This is the first 
paradox of digital imaging. 

How degradation differs between the two.

"in reality, there is actually much more degradation 
and loss of information between copies of digital images than 
between copies of traditional photographs. A single digital 
image consists of millions of pixels. All of this data 
requires considerable storage space in a computer; it also 
takes a long time (in contrast to a text file) to transmit 
over a network. Because of this, the current software and 
hardware used to acquire, store, manipulate, and transmit 
digital images uniformly rely on lossy compression -- the 
technique of making image files smaller by deleting some 
information."

Difference in information 

"There is an indefinite amount of information in a 
continuous-tone photograph, so enlargement usually reveals 
more detail but yields a fuzzier and grainier picture... A 
digital image, on the other hand, has precisely limited 
spatial and tonal resolution and contains a fixed amount of 
information."

Project 2

Sontag-On Photography

The thing I enjoyed most about this reading was how the photograph/ still image was looked at in a different way. I thought it was interesting how the photographs physical characteristics were brought into play; comparing what a photograph is physically with what is in it. The photograph is lightweight, easily accessible, and is of course more mobile than the television. In my opinion, television has dominated still imagery. We live in a very fast-paced, media driven world and I couldn't help but ask myself where still photography comes into play. Don't get me wrong, we see still imagery everywhere. But in a world with you-tube, advertisements, video games, etc; how do the two weigh out? Maybe a bit of a stretch, but is it fair to compare television and photography the same as you would mp3 players and record players? Just a thought.

Another element of the reading I picked up on was how photographs were compared to video and painting. In the early part of the reading, Sontag writes that painting, television, and writing are all interpretations while photographs are more like elements of the world. At the end of the day, aren't they all the same? On one hand I can see where she's coming from. On the other, I'd have to say I  disagree. I think a photograph is no different in the sense that there is deliberation within the process. A painter will set up a canvas in a field he or she feels needs to be replicated, just the same as the photographer trying capture a moment. In my eyes, I see little difference. 

Bridge v. Lightroom

In my experience with both programs, I would say that the two are very different. To me, bridge has always been used as a browser/ transfer program. In other words, I've only used Bridge to convert multiple images at once before putting them into Photoshop, etc. Lightroom seems to be more of an editing friendly program. The template is very user friendly and the adjustments are not "destructive" to whatever your editing. In summary, I feel that Lightroom is better when dealing with a smaller quantity of files while Bridge is better at processing a large amount of files at once.

Picture Two

Picture One