Maria Pineda DTC 201

This is the photo I have chosen to represent my entire narrative. It was a bit difficult to get my photos to be "perfect" especially because I have not mastered my skills with the aperture and shutter speed settings and because my brother would not stay still, but I tried my best to get at least good photos. Also, it was kind of hard to decide for just one photo because there were a couple that I really liked, but I finally decided for the one below especially because it shows my brother's curiosity for exploring the natural world around him :)

These are some of the photos I took for my narrative project for which I decided to photograph my little brother while I was taking him for a walk to my favorite place by the river. My idea was to just let him be himself while enjoying the natural world around him. With these series of photos I took, I wanted to show how kids and nature are made for each other. Kids don't care if they get dirty playing in the mud, if they get wet playing in the river, or if they rip their jeans while climbing up a tree. All they care about is exploring this amazing and mysterious environment. They want to connect and interact with this natural world. It's like they find a new toy with every natural element they come across while exploring this environment.

Over these last two weekends, I have been practicing taking photographs using my DSLR camera and figuring out how the aperture, the shutter speed, and the ISO work. The following are some photos I took while I was experimenting with the camera.

For this project, I took inspiration from Cartier Bresson's photo of some kids playing with what has been left of their world during war. I love the way kids are so innocent and the way they can find adventure and fun in anything just like they have done in this photo with that huge whole on the wall.

This week I have successfully completed all of my ten logo designs. I really like how they turned out after facing the hardest decision of choosing a color palette and typeface that could go well with the design itself. My final design is the Graphix Design logo for which I decided to go with a gray-scale palette as well as a more simple typeface for the word design because I did not want to take away the emphasis from the word Graphix. When I first started designing this logo using compound shapes, I could not get it together the way I wanted, so I decided to use the Pencil Tool and just draw the logo. Also, I changed the brush stroke to one that creates this kind of thick to thinner stroke because this made the logo look simple but not that simple in a way. I loved working on this project especially because it strengthened some of the skills I already had working with Illustrator. :)

When I first started putting together my logo designs on Illustrator, I was sticking to the idea that they had to look exactly the same as they did on my sketches. However, once I started experimenting with the Pen Tool as well as with the different things you can do with the strokes of a shape, I decided to make my logos look just a little bit different so that they could go well with the chosen color palette as well as with the particular typeface I chose. This is the sketch for the first logo I started working on with Illustrator. This is how the logo turned out the first time. This is the final version.