concentrations,and my second blog entry

All of my concentrations are based on chess. I chose this topic because chess is a sport that I really enjoy. so far i have only finished 2 of my 12 concentrations.  for my first 2 concentrations it can be clearly seen that chess is the main topic. they both feature friends of mine in the chess club. In one of the pictures I show my friend thinking about his next move. (In chess thinking and strategizing is the main point of the game). In the other picture i show my friend in the high point of a chess match. He is taking a piece of the opponents pieces hoping to gain an upper-hand in the game. in order to make these pieces i had to take a camera to the chess matches. Then after I had finished my match i took out my camera and started taking pictures of my friends playing the game. Then once I had 2 pictures that i liked i got them of the camera and started to photo-shop them. in the first picture i just turned the contrast in the picture all the up. In the second pictures i first cut out to piece i wanted to stay the same and then filtered the other part (i Liquified it).  i chose the biggest brush and went over that specific part of the artwork and then pasted the other part back on it. by doing this i gave the perspective that nothing but the chess pieces had the focus. kinda giving it the impression that nothing else except the chess match mattered. After that i turned the contrast up until i liked it. These artworks were inspired by my interest in chess and all the other works that i have seen dealing with photography. I intend to have my all my other concentration works deal with chess, and they too will have higher contrast levels  
                      
                                                                              Concentration #1

                                                                            Concentration #2
                                                      

concentration project- sports in action

My concentration works will be about sports and how they are seen when they are in action. I chose this topic for my concentration works mainly because i thought that it would be very cool. My choosing of this topic was inspired by many things. It was inspired by my love of sports, my teacher, and all the cool things i have seen on the internet involving sports.


For my first topic i plan one using the sport chess. Maybe take a picture from a weird angle making everything look.... then i plan on using photoshop to make it look sexy

For my second topic i am planning on using soccer as my main idea. maybe take a picture and photoshop it to exemplify how someone who is taking a penalty kick sees everything

For my 3rd topic on plan on using basketball and then photoshopping the picture