Week 2

Assignment : Select 25 high resolution pictures from Abraham Lincoln's era and 25 self-taken high resolution pictures from the modern era.

Craft
To select the 25 pictures from Abraham Lincoln's era, I went to http://www.google.com/ and in the image search bar looked up several subjects such as, "Abraham Lincoln", "Civil War", "Lincoln era", "Ulysses S. Grant", and "Corbett". The key to getting these pictures in high resolution was changing the search settings to extra large images only or large images only. For the other 25 pictures I selected a set of pictures from my hard drive on my computer that i previously taken. The rest of the pictures from the modern era I went around campus and took pictures with my digital camera. After saving the 50 pictures on my usb drive, in class I uploaded them onto the computer and then uploaded them into Light Room (Lr). Using these pictures i made two contact sheets. One sheet had the 25 pictures from Lincoln's era, while the other sheet contained the 25 modern era pictures. I made two copies of the sheets, one for myself for reference and one for the professor.

Composition

I chose this picture as my favorite from the Lincoln's era because of the look on Lincoln's face. He has an unemotional stare that projects strength and determination to me.

I chose this picture as my favorite from the modern era because i took this picture when i was in hawaii and it reminds me of a pea

ceful and humbling place.

Concept

I chose these two pictures as an option to mix together because most pictures that Lincoln is in have a melancholy background and i thought it would be interesting to see him and a couple men from his era on a beach in Hawaii, while the sun is setting.