Wednesday, April 16, 2008

You're telling me this now?!

Copyrights and you:

As an artist, you have rights and ownership of your own art the moment you make it until forever. (duh) And that was because our consitiution set us up with that, and HAS been since forever. But, of course now with new legislation rapeing every part of our consitution, (although some bits have been for good) a new legislation called Orphan Works is going to release your art away from your owner ship after a time and essentially, let other people take it and make money off of it. I feel very strongly against this, all of my art works are my children- i would NEVER, EVER, let them be taken away that easily. Of course, big companys are set to make money of this legislation- because if you want to keep copyright of your art, you're going to have to get it registered and pay big money to do so. I feel very appaled and against this sort of legislation. I know the government is trying to look out for us, but this is rediculus- they're allowing big business to rule and obviously this isnt what our country was founded on, and most definately not based on THEFT.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605&page=1

Thursday, April 3, 2008

I really dont know what to tell you.

Children born at a very young age, some times are very pale, light and blue eyed, but as they grow- they change eye color, hair and skin tone as they're exposed to the world. Eye color though has a bit more variance. Eye color is something you cant change unlike your hair and skin tone. Unless you put in contacts- then the color would change but temporarily. But, eye colors have so much varience. Each persons eye color has a slight varience some are hybrids in mixing afew colors in one eye or a varience in one eye versus the other in having two diffrent colored eyes.

as in Aniridia, there is no color in the eye, the people have essentially one large pupil and close to no iris. Heterochromia is the two diffrent kinds of irises. It can happen in several forms in having two compleatly seperate colors or in sectors. It can be in blocks or in stripes such as the one above. Those shifts in color is interesing because they usually have similar colors and are unnoticable untill you really look.
Also, in Albinism, those people end up having red eyes and have issues with their vision, but the color is very intense, and has no black pupil. Most commonly the eye is pink and red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

Shades of Grey or to the likeing.

black and white photography is the use of light, playing with lights and darks of a form and using them to your advantage to get a great exposure. In making prints you take the negatives- and use the light to either make those shadows and bright spots subdued or stronger making a more dynamic picture. despite the connotations that grey has, photography takes it and turns it around. Obviously with the issues that it can be done badly and the photo would fit into the traditional blah, black and white photo. But with the right lighting and combinations of shadows, an image can be brought out.
Even with color photography, the general idea still applies, lights and darks but now you also work with hues and tones to bring another level of image. Its really the lights and darks that change and modify the photograph and adjust the feel of it. with black and white, it leaves more to the imagination and allows for more expansion of the image.