Final Project Peer Critique
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CRITIQUEOFMYPARTNERPPT.pptEnjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
We got the opportunity to see Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories before the Covid – 19 shut down the state of Kansas.
My six-year-old has had the opportunity to attend Disney on Ice every year since she was one. It has become one of our family traditions with her.
Enjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
In this photo I allowed the loose framing from the lights and shadows to draw the viewers eye to Jasmine and Aladdin. A photographer would use loose framing when the action should take precedence over the finer points of the frame. I felt like the shadows and skaters almost made two focal points in one frame, but the skaters are the main point.
Enjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
In this photo of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. The skater has posed on a platform and appears to not be a real person. I was able to capture this image just off center which allows it to appear natural, but it allows her a relationship to the audience.
I wanted to be sure people knew she was a part of the performance even though the pose I captured does not show her skating in motion like the other photos in the theme.
Enjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
This photo captures Rapunzel and Flynn Rider “flying” through the air on aerial silks.
The position I captures gives a triangle graphic to the photo. It also gives a feeling of looking through the triangle to the audience especially where the light is highlighting the audience.
Enjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
This is the villagers from Montunui and Moana. In this shot I caught two villagers tossing a basket of coconuts in mid air along with skaters in mid air. I feel like there is a good deep optical view with being able to view the skaters across the ice as well as the ones in the front.
Enjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
Color is a strong aspect of modern photography.
Due to this I had a hard time deciding between these two photos. The top photo shows Nemo and Dori with coral reef. The lower one is of Toy Story characters, some on the platform and then the dinosaur and pig on the ice.
When our brains focus on color it uses hue, saturation and brightness to convey the color we see.
The rich colors displayed in these photos are at the top of all three senses. The top photo allows the color of Nemo to stand out more than the blue tones of Dori and the coral reef. The lower image has the green swirls on the screen to catch our eye amongst the brighter oranges, purples and pinks. At the same time the green helps to connect to the dinosaur and the pink to the pig on the ice.
I was fortunate to get the experience of Disney on Ice before the stay at home orders were placed. I have always enjoyed the action and colors of Disney on Ice so I thought it would make a great theme for this project. I really wish I would have had a better camera instead of my iPhone and a more central location to obtain the angles. If I was able to change those two things, I am sure the pictures would have been sharper and more precise and a different outcome.
I tried to capture the movement of the performance while highlighting the best choice of photos. According to Michael Freeman in his book The Photographer’s Eye: A Graphic Guide photography calls on three skill sets: technical, visual, and conceptual. For my theme Disney on Ice assisted with the technical by setting the lighting just right after that I was limited with an iPhone camera, but I was able to capture depth, balance, angles, and . Using the visual skills I was able to capture great frames and compositions to obtain a multitude of photos to chose from. The conceptual was simple for me, I just wanted to capture the beauty, flow, and spectacular moves of the dancers on ice.
While I was setting up this series, I tried to keep a flow going that would take the viewer anxiously from one slide to the next wondering what they would get to see next. In doing so, the viewer will see a wonderful example of what Disney on Ice has to offer and what I was able to capture with each click of the camera.
Photos are the best way to preserve memories and express ones enter self. I enjoy taking photos and enjoy revisiting them after the fact.
Enjoying Disney on Ice: Celebrate Memories
Cindy Sanders: May 9, 2020
ARTS 2001C
In Conclusion
References
- The Photographer’s Eye: A Graphic Guide by Michael Freeman
