What is design?

This is my first entry in Semester 3, now i am studying Electronic Imaging & Design that has another "illegal name" is DIM 2,5. In this semester, i also have to keep working on the blog with 24 entries in this semester and this is not an easy stuff for me because my entries should relate to the lesson that i studied in class. Now let's move to my first entry in this semester.

What is design? this is the question that my lecturer, Thierry, give us in class and ask us to illustrate the definition of design. That's a cool exercise, let's me show you my work.

First of all, i give you the definition of design ( this definition was given by Thierry): Graphic Design is the business of making or choosing marks and arranging them on a surface to convey an idea.

The key words in this definition are: business, making, choosing, arranging, a surface and convey an idea. And this is my illustration for this definition ^_^ ( i hope that you can figure out what i was trying to do)

New art works

In this entry, I will show you my newest designs that I have just finished today.

My girl friend is now doing the marketing plan for Canon IXUS 80IS she asked me to design a cover of any magazine in which Canon IXUS 80 IS is promoted as a hot product to attract more customers. Actually, this is the first time I try to design the cover of a magazine so at the beginning I have so much difficulties and i did not know how and where should I start to design. In my opinion, the use of color and the compositon in this design are not so good but I am satisfied with my work.

The second work is the ads that I design for my team in BE2 class. The product is QGirl New York, a cosmetic line products of ICP Company. This ads was designed to promote QGirl New York on the magazines. I decided to use the very simple design but attractive so I only added the logo and the slogan of the product.

Sunny 16 Rule

In photography, how to get o right exposure is very important and it is not an easy work to do. To day, with the help of new technology and the arrival of DSLR, photographers have much more ease to get the right exposure. However, even the newest DSLR of Nikon, Canon, Sony etc.. can just give photographer the acceptable exposure to their photos. In this entry I will show you how to use Sunny 16 rule as a guide to exposure without a light meter.

Set your aperture to f/16 and set your shutter speed accord to your ISO film speed.
For example: for ISO film 100 you should set your shutter speed to 1/100 or 1/125. Actually, the shutter speed will not exactly equal to film speed but try to set it as close as possible to the film speed

There are the elaborated forms of Sunny 16 rule to use in different lighting conditions :

(source: http://www.camerareview.com/templates/sunny16.cfm)

Sadness....

In the previous entry, I posted the newest pictures of Mai and now, in this entry, I will upload the pictures that were also taken yesterday but with a totally different style : Sadness... Moreover, I also tried to experiment a new style in editing picture called Infrared Film Effect. In these pictures, I do not only want to capture the pictures but I also want to catch the feeling, the emotion of Mai before she goes to Australia: .....

The Last Shots for Mai model

Saturday, 30-August-2008. This day is a very special day since I took the last pictures for Mai model before she immigrate to Australia.
Since last semester when I have started to take pictures. Mai is the model who is very famous on Yahoo 360 with nickname : tokngan that impressed me much because of her profession. Moreover, she always gives me advice to make my pictures better. However,next Saturday, 6-Sept-2008, she will immigrate to Australia therefore these following pictures could be the last shots that I took for Mai.

Place: Trung Son- Phu My Hung
Date: 30-August-2008
Photographer: Khuong Tran


If you want to see the previous pictures of Mai, you can visit my 360 Yahoo Blog:

360.yahoo.com/tn_khuong

Completed Portfolio Assignment

This is my portfolio assignment, I spent almost 2 weeks to finish it. This is probably not an easy work for me. I had so many problems and errors etc because in this assignment, I use tween motion instead of using action script.Moreover, I spent a lot of time and effort to do this assignment therefore I am proud of it despite the fact that it is not so nice Y_Y. Actually, after finishing this assignment, I don't have to touch Flash any more because I am tired now and I am scared of Flash even though the final big project is coming. I need time to refresh my mind to have more ideas for the Final Project.

Note: Because my portfolio is quite big, so please be passion if you want to see my work

Taking Portrait photos with Wide Angle

As we know that, in photography, people usually take the Portrait pictures with tele angles to highlight the model by making the background blur. However, by using tele angles, the model is the dominant object in the frame, therefore the picture look narrow and the model look so lonely. For example:

In these pictures, even I gave space in front of the model to make the pictures become wider but the pictures are still look narrow and the models are still look "lonely".



Last weekend, I had a chance to take pictures for my new friend at RMIT Vietnam. I had a chance to experiment a new way to take portrait picture, I used Wide Angle! ( the following picture was taken with 17mm focal length, f2.8)


In this picture, the background is not blur so the there are much more detail about the environment therefore the picture look more interesting. Moreover, I can combine the low angle with the wide angle to make the model look much taller.

Experience:
- Don't combine high angle with wide angle in the portrait pictures, because that combination make the model look extremely short.
- Be careful in choosing the background. Because the background can not be blur much so we have to choose the background that is simple, united and not so colorful.

reference: http://tinhte.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87589