Lesley 6008 - Image Project

Grade: 4/5

Baseball game at Manzanar

Subject: Information Literacy /Research /Social Studies


Choose one of the pictures for this project.

This moment in time has been captured in a picture. Now capture it with your words.You are a spectator at an historical event.  Write a blog entry  capturing this moment in time.  Include the details of who, where, when, etc; but go beyond this and tell about the emotions of the event, the reactions of the people present. In addition, write three comments to your blog, at least one as a participant in the event.  In the case of some photos you may use a fake name.


You need to research facts related to the event and other events going on in the United States and the world that would effect this event.  Interview spectators or participants in the event and get their reactions and comments. Here are just a few of the questions to get you started. 

Crowd awaiting Titanic survivors.

Homecoming, Calument Co. boys
Chilton, Wisconsin,  Sept 20, 1919

Baseball game: Why is the location important?

Parade: How did the U.S. do at these Olympics? Where were the games? How did they travel to the games?

Homecoming: Coming from where? 

Titanic: Survivors? Lost? Heroes? 

U.S. athletes: Who were some of the participants? What were some expectations for the games?

Parade for Olympians in
New York 1912

Critical Thinking: Students need to look and think beyond the facts and put themselves in the shoes of the spectators and participants at the event.

U.S Olympic athletes coming on the
 field in Stockholm,  1912

Using Photoshop Elements I resized all the photos to 72 dpi (originals were 800 dpi) then cropped most of them to 4" x 6".  This created a more manageable size for loading in a blog.  In a couple I focused the attention to the participants of the event.  In  Homecoming I selected one section of a large panoramic photo.  All photos were taken from the Library of Congress photostream on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163080055/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2968834791/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3006359682/sizes/l/in/set-72157608675448396/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2332832827/sizes/o/in/set-72157623212811048/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3971750310/sizes/o/in/set-72157622493565296/

#40 Funky Photos - Pixlr

original

black and white

This Thing got me excited. I have worked with Photoshop for 8-10 years and spend way too much time experimenting. I wondered if the effects I have done with Photoshop could be done with the online editors. I found the tools in Pixlr very familiar to me and I easily found what I wanted. I began with a yellow hat flower picture I found on Flickr. (original by EssjayNZ)

kaleidoscope

My first funky isn't really funky, but is a version I have made before.  I made a duplicate layer. Then lowered the hue and saturation to make the  top layer black and white.  I then erased the flower parts on the black and white to expose the color in the layer underneath.
You see this effect on cards, posters, etc.  I made a set of four to put in my bathroom using four different yellow flowers.  I also added the name of the flower.

Second funky.  I used the kaleidoscope filter.  Adjusted the  sizing to a larger number. This photo is green and yellow but the effect is still very interesting.  I will have to try it with a photo having more colors.

Third funky.  I used the emboss filter on this one, then used the vignette to tighten the focus on the flower.

vignette

I had more problems getting the pictures to the blog and aligning them the way I wanted than I did creating the different images.