The meaning of a photograph

This is the photograph I shot in the morning at my house. When taking this picture, I thought human life is just like the drops of water on these flower buds. They looked so beautiful and sparkling. However, as the sun rose, they would vanish and did not leave any trace. Human life is as short and fragile as these dewdrops. The person you meet and talk to today could have an unexpected event just after that and you may not never see him/her again. You never know what will happen tomorrow. On these days, many people only run after position and power without knowing that their lives are as frail as the appearance of drops. When they die, they couldn't bring anything except their soul. On the other hand, there are also some people don't respect and love their present life, they always want to find something that they think more beautiful, better and fresher in a very far place. They don't know that the happiness is already besides them. So I want to say that since our life is very short, we should show consideration for things and love people besides us,or we will regret when we lose them.

practice shooting panorama

I shoot this panorama from my home town in Dong Thap province. How is it?

blending practice

Again, I practiced blending images together from files I found on Black board. I wanted to make the audiences feel that the viola sound of this artist both melodious and sad. So, how do you feel?

Vietnam's poster

This is the poster that I see on Luong Dinh Cua street. It is used to commemorate 62 years since Uncle Ho proclaimed the declaration of independence on September 2,1945. The poster is pretty impressive as it uses red and yellow, the flag's colors of Vietnam, as the main primary colors. The first thing I notice on this board is its wide red part. Thought it's simple, I can see the expectation of a developed country by the images of the pigeon flying to the city, where there are only modern buildings and skyscrapers.

playing with font

First, I chose a text that I wanted to apply font for. Then I tried using many fonts to find the most relevant one for my text "help".Edo

Paint Peel MF Initials
Later On
Weathered BRK

I thought Later On is the most suitable one because of several reasons:

Foremost, I chose the sans serif font since it can express the unbalanced feeling of people who need help.
Second, not similar to those font above which have thick strokes, Later On font has a very thin stroke that can also represent the weakness of the victims.
Finally, if you look at the font carefully, you can see that the stroke are not straight and smooth. It looks rough and corroded, that connotes the difficult and disastrous conditions of the victims.

blending layers

Though this is not the first time I use layers, I always have troubles when using many layers at one time. In this image, I want to make fire around the eye, but it’s hard to do that. First, I used different cloud filter and red color to create a red color around the eye. Then, I chose hard light blending for the eye layer which is above the filter layer. It creates a pretty good effect for my purpose. However, the fire occupies just half of the eye. After that, I also did the same thing with a reverse side to make the fire occupying the rest one. But the result is not as good as I want, no matter what I do with the second filter layer. Finally, I can just do the image like this:

stealing metaphor

When the teacher asked me to find a metaphor stealing, I really had no clue what it is. However, I still looked for some images with several key words which have the same meaning with stealing. Finally, I thought of plagiarism is also a kind of stealing, a stealing of intelligence. I found this drawing at www.history.ucsb.edu/.../classes/plagiarism.htm . I started to look at carefully the picture to found the idea of a powerful sentence. I saw one hand in the top book was taking a piece of paper of the bottom one and vice versa, another hand in the bottom book was also taking a paper of the top one. It looks like if we steal some one else 's idea, one day that person would do the same thing to us. Furthermore, I found that two hands and books here has created a closed circle. So I decided to use the sentence "The circulation of cause and effect" to warn people not to stealing some body 's things. It is not good for other people, and also not good for you either. Moreover, the radial blur effect behind the text represents for the constant movement of causality. "It you do harm to ones, soon you will get a worse result back".