Unique photo

The unique photo I've chosen is this photo. This photo depicts a man standing with a guitar over his shoulder and facing away from a field. This photo shows a lot of variety to hold the viewer's attention. There is a strong emphasis on the guitar as it contrasts the picture's color. There is movement in this photo, the viewer's eyes are taken to the guitar and then move down the dirt road. This photo also plays with proportion because the road gets smaller, giving the impression that it's going further away.

Unity

Exposure +15
Highlights +26
Contrast +32
Shadows +11
Whites +14
Blacks +14
Clarity +24
Sharpening 11

Variety

Exposure +0.15
Highlights +21
Contrast +21
Shadows +16
Whites +23
Blacks +16
Clarity +24
Sharpening 6

Rhythm

Exposure -0.20
Highlights +12
Contrast +12
Shadows +8
Whites +34
Blacks +2
Sharpening 13

Proportion

Exposure +0.21
Highlights +23
Contrast +64
Shadows +7
Whites +14
Blacks +5
Clarity +5
Sharpening 14

Pattern

Exposure -0.15
Highlights +34
Contrast +21
Shadows +10
Whites -14
Blacks +4
Clarity +10
Sharpening 23

Repitition

Exposure -0.35
Highlights +66
Contrast +61
Shadows +10
Whites +29
Blacks +2
Clarity +13
Sharpening 34

Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1) What is your definition of successful?
 My definition of success is setting goals and achieving them.

2) What have you given up to become successful?
 In order to become successful I have given up friend time and sleep.

3) What did Parks give up to become successful?
Parks gave up marriage and a stable home, as his job often kept him on the move.

4)Who was Genevieve Young's father?
Young's father was UN .

5)How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)? Parks advance was $10,000.

6) How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?

7) Why did Parks refuse the money?

8) What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?
 The movie was significant because it made Parks Hollywood's first major black director.

9) What was significant about the character Shaft?
Shaft was significant because he was a black private detective.

10) What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
Parks' choice of weapons was a book about his life.

11) What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?

12) In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
The recent film with the same story is Twelve Years a Slave.

13) Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
Gordon Parks Jr. was the son of Sally Alvis and Gordon Parks, and was shooting a film when he died.

14) What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
My favorite photo is an untitled picture in his Segregation Story exhibition. The picture was taken in Shady Grove, Alabama in 1956, and shoes a mother carrying a child.

15) What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?
In ten years I will remember the impact Parks made as a major black photographer.

Movement

Edits:
Exposure +0.2
Highlights +5
Contrast +7
Shadows -15
Whites -31
Blacks 0

This photo demonstrates movement as the audience's eye  moves along the green plant and then the log, finally drawing up towards the people at the top.

Emphasis

Exposure +0.45
Highlights +33
Contrast +34
Shadows -11
Whites +25
Blacks +8
Clarity +14
Sharpening 30

This photo puts emphasis on the white sink and it's greatly contrasted with the brown wall.

Balance

Edits:
Exposure +0.8
Highlights +24
Contrast +18
Shadows -17
Whites +9
Blacks -2

This photo demonstrates symmetrical balance. One side of the picture resembles the other side identically.

Color Red Assignment

Space

Texture

Exposure +0.60
Highlights +22
Contrast +38
Shadows -42
Whites +43
Blacks -20
CLarity +30
Sharpening 16

Form

Exposure +0.55
Highlights +10
Contrast +8
Shadows -23
Whites +17
Blacks -11

This represents form because the lighting shows off this 3-dimensional shape and emphasizes the multiple shapes in it.

Shape

Exposure +0.55
Highlights +16
Contrast +27
Shadows -23
Whites +6
Blacks -17

Lines

Exposure +0.25
Highlights +12
Contrast +13
Shadows -97
Whites +12
Blacks -54
Clarity +11
Sharpening 8

Half Past Autumn

1) On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
Gordon was a still born. The doctor immersed him in ice-cold water and his heart started beating.

2) Where was Gordon born? (what state?)
Gordon was born in Fort Scott, Kansas

3) What did Gordon's college adviser, Ms. McClintock tell him about college?
She told him she should save his parent's money and not go because African Americans would end up as porters and maids anyways

4) How old was Gordon when his mother died?
Gordon was 15

5) Where did Gordon move after his mother died?
He left home and lived with relatives before setting off on his own, taking whatever odd jobs he could find.

6) Did Gordon graduate from college?
He graduated from Princeton.

7) How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
 He saw photos of migrant workers in a magazine, bought a camera for $12.50 in a pawn shop. He convinced a clothing store in St. Paul to hire him as a fashion photographer. His work caught the eye of Marva Louis, who helped him progress.

8) What is a "double exposure?"
The repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images.

9) Who was boxer Joe Louis?
The husband of the woman who helped Gordon shoot fashion and society photos.

10) What instrument did Gordon play?
Gordon played the piano

11) What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
The Farm Security Administration was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.

12) When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?
He was assigned to document discrimination.

13) Who was Ella Watson?
Ella Watson, an African American in the FSA, was the subject of Parks' American Gothic.

14) What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
Parks was inspired by the segregation he saw in restaurant and shops in D.C.

15) What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?
Stryker taught Gordon how to approach his subjects.

16) When did the FSA shut down? 
FSA shut down in 1943.

17) After Gordon moved to New York, what magazine did he shoot for? 
Gordon shot for Vogue.

18) Who was the picture editor of Life Magazine when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office? 
Wilson Hicks was the picture editor at Life Magazine at the time.

19) What was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine?
The first major story Parks covered was Crime Across America.

20) Who were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau?
Some of the artists included De Gough, Picasso, and Van Gough.

21) How did Parks shoot fashion when he lived in France?
Parks shot fashion by making the model move with him.

22) Where was Parks' concerto performed?
Parks concerto was performed in Venice.

23) Who was Parks' second wife? (Who was her father? What did she do?)
 Parks second wife was Elizabeth Campbell, a model.

24) How old was Flavio de Silva when Parks met him?
 Flavio was 12.

25) When did Parks meet Flavio? 
Parks met Flavio when climbing the slopes of Rio de Janeiro.

26) Where did Flavio live when Parks first met Flavio and his family? 
Flavio lived in a small shack.

27) How is Gloria Vanderbilt? Who is her famous son? Who are her ancestors? 
Gloria was an author and artist, whose grandson was Anderson Cooper, and whose ancestors were rich railroad company owners.

28) How did Vanderbilt describe their relationship? 
Vanderbilt said that they had a lot of love and respect for each other in their relationship.