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Visual Intelligence
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Freud
Unconscious
Emotion
Temperature
Non-profit ideas
Gestalt Psychology
People attempt to impose a singular meaning on images Visual perception is the result of organizing visual elements into shapes or groups People have a need to create clarity and order in their environments
Visual Tension
Figure-Ground
Proximity
Proximity
Proximity
Similarity
Similarity
Continuance
Continuance
Continuance
Closure
Closure
Visual Elements
Dot
Tension
Line
Lines
Shapes
Aesthetics
The study and theory of beauty and of the psychological responses to it (Neudfeldt & Guralnik, 1998)
Upper-middle
Lower-middle
Representational art, Norman Rockwell paintings Religious art, paintings with vivid colors
Low culture
Quasi-fold
Volume
Size
Contrast
Golden Proportion
Fibonacci spiral
Balance
Movement
Bokeh
Abstraction
Texture
Pattern
Point of view
Questions to ask
What drew you in first, second? RO3
Lighting? Color? Detail? Emotion?
PHOTO SMACKDOWN
Shoot photos INDIVIDUALLY CU that the average passerby would miss #smallthings Well-framed photo #framed Face CU #face Proximity, Similarity, Continuation, Closure (2 out of 4) #(name) Upload to public Twitter #photosmack and category hashtag. Photo of one your classmates No staged photos, No image editing Due before end of class