Photo essay:
During my time in Egypt I have found out that people are throwing a lot of trash everywhere, the item I saw the most in the streets,school,and even farms were plastic bottles. It was absurd how much plastic water bottles you would see on the ground. I was very interested about this and wanted to show the people that we must stop this. I want to make the people aware of the problem that we have. I want the people to know what is happening with the water bottles they throw. I want them to regret using them in the first place, or regret throwing them on the ground. I saw something that I disliked and I knew I had to be the change if I wanted anything to happen, but I can’t do this alone. I need the help of the school, I need your help if this project of mine will ever work. I need the people to get on board to see this serious problem.
Reflection:
IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT
The challenge I put for myself for this project was getting more people aware of this horrible situation, I want at least the whole class to be aware and I can't put thats all I could do the rest is up to the people reading this. I believe that my project went beyond the criteria, I think I did a really good job in showing how bad the situation is, also I show how it effects us. I made it fun to see and if it is fun more people will want to join in helping the earth with this type of pollution I think I did really well with communicating my project to the world, once I post this project I think this will be a great success. I believe you can see all my idea in my photos. The planning was the most important step in the project, thats where I found all the facts for my project and it was also when I generated some ideas for the project. So it was the most important stage of the project.
In photoshop I used a lot of tools, I also learned some tools to work on this project. I used some of the simple tool such at the change of brightness and sharping, also I used the copy tool. That was one of the newest tool that I have used. I used the text box which was one of the most important tools in the list. The best tool I learned from this project was the tool you showed me last class, I don't know the name but it made the bottles look like they were go around the world, it twist the bottles together.I found a lot of using the new tools but I came to for help with some of my questions, I also searched some things up to find out how to over come the challenge. Yes, first I thought of doing plastic pollution, a general work about it. As I was going through I found it to hard to work with all plastic waster because there was to many. So I picked a type of plastic waster that you can see in any country in the world the most common type. Thats why all my work above is about plastic bottle waster. Well if I had a little more photoshop skill then I could of made it a lot better, that really all I could think of. Maybe if I did it on a major scale which would of been a lot harder and almost impossible with the limited resources provide on this work.
CONTENT & MOOD
It show the feeling I have towards the serious matter, I show this from my reflection and also by my photos. I have taken A lot of time to take these photos.No it does not really have a mood to my project its just a normal project.
There is a major theme to the project, it is that we have to start with recycling our plastic bottles.
This can really link with all the options you have given me above, its give you an idea about my morals. How I feel about the world, also the plastic waste surrounding the world can be a political issue. This project is not cultural in any way. Well my work is no very unusual, I am talking about a problem that has faced the plant earth, many people have tried to do the same but have never succeeded
CONTEXT:
No, this is the first time I really look into plastic waste. It was very interesting and well keep researching beyond the project. Well there are a lot of artists that do the same kind of work. That take about pollution and plastic pollution, the major differences I see between my work and theres is the scale they do it. They as artist have more influential power so they change the world in a larger scale. I think mine would hit a smaller scale.I learned that photoshop can make my photo look really good. That not everything is about the photo, you can change it a lot in photoshop. Also I learned about new ways in taking photos which was very fun experience. It was a great project, learned a lot about the world and about photo skills.
5 facts:
50 percent of the plastic we use, we use just once and throw away.
Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times.
We currently recover only five percent of the plastics we produce.
The average American throws away approximately 185 pounds of plastic per year.
Plastic accounts for around 10 percent of the total waste we generate.
The production of plastic uses around eight percent of the world’s oil production.
All from: http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/07/22-facts-plastic-pollution-10-things-can-do-about-it/
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