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I took a street view with a filter called Noir, with very low lighting as the sun was setting. This created a high tonal contrast in terms of; the difference in  brightness between the elements of the image. Where as the part where the sun isn't shining is very dark and where the sun shines it's light thus creating tonal contrast. Each building has its own tonal value because is the lighting and also the how the building are structured.

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Positive And Negative Shapes

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🏫 CPUT
📍Cape Town
👩🏽‍🎨 Visual Communication Design
🏡 Hometown: KZN - Durban
❤️ : Passionate about Art
♍ 21 September

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

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This painting [unknown artist] shows visual texture. The artist payed attention to detail hence from a far it looks like you could touch and feel the different types of textures.
From the looks of the flowers. It feels as if it prickly and uncomfortable to toch because of the harsh brush strokes the artist incorporate.
The 3 vases feels and looks smooth and slippery when you touch it. That was a achieved by the artist use of different tonal values and also the soft brush strokes.

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What attracted me to this texture or this creation is the fun way they displayed it. The grass art [elephant and zebra grass sculpture] is a beautiful monument and a nice place to take a picture and be one with nature.
The texture of the grass feels prickly and a little bit ticklish. When you look at it, the feel and touch of it looks fuzzy and a bit cuddle of of the structure it's turned into.

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A sangoma, enjoys what they do.
"ingane yobundau" 🧜‍♀️🐍

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This attracted my eye because it was shiny and what girl doesn't like shiny and sparkly things.
The texture in this shoe buckle when you look at it feels a bit rough to the touch because of the low relief method of the place of the diamonds. Also smooth because of the diamonds being hard yet smooth.
The actual feel of the texture is rough which makes the person not love the touch and feel of it because of its rough nature

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Nature is a beautiful thing. The way the cactus looks and feels like it's smooth and bummpy when in actually fact it's prickly and not safe to touch.
The holes on the cactus are where the thorns are. The cactus has those thorns to protect them from prey trying to eat of or nest on.
The xerophytes don't normally grow on populated areas also where it rains, there isn't alot of them around so it's fascinating to see one.

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The red is what popped to my eye. It might be a trash can but it's very bright and eye catching so people don't litter.
The texture of the bin is very smooth and slippery caused by the glossy paint used on. The little circles around the bin are giving it it's bummpy texture. Which is sort of fun to the feel when you run your index finger across it.

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The pebble walkway is something I don't normally walk on nor is common. But I personally don't enjoy walking in it because of the sound and also the unsettling feel of different types of pebbles.
There are different type of textures on these pebbles some are smooth some are a bit sharp on the edges which makes your walk not necessarily enjoyable because yoh don't know what to expect or of you will walk on top of a sharp pebble.

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I found this flower at the campus library as decoration. It looked interesting to be because of the furry tings sticking out of it. At first I thought it wad dust that settled on the artificial stem but no it's the "nature" of it which is fascinating.
The texture looks and feels nice on the touch it's like touching a dandelion which is soft and a bit furry. It wad ticklish yet soft on the touch I enjoyed touching it and sort of tickling my friends on the neck with it.

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Low tonal contrast adds contrast to the shadows in the image taken. This image was taken in an ice cream shop, using the black and white filter which creates the low tonal contrast. Each ice cream flavour has its own colour and also tonal contrast or value. Where chocolate flavour will be darker and vanilla flavour will be lighter because of their tonal values and their colours. Some other flovours have syrups or tops which give it their dark undertones and giving it a dark and light appearance.

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This was a cork I found laying on the floor outside my residence. Which I took a photo of because of its surprisingly smooth-ish texture.
The texture on this cork is grainy and not really smooth on the touch. The oaky feel of it wasn't my favourite but I loved the look of it especially close up because it looks like a tree bark. And each of the grain has its own character some small some big that is what creates it's textural feel.

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WEEK 1.1 : THINKING WITH RUTH E CARTER ESSAY 

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Rough and smooth contrast is a form of textural contrast. There are 2 different types of textural contrast found in this imagine one being rough the other smooth. I'll first talk about the rough textural contrast found in this image; the pebbles and the statues. The statues are made up of Bronze, due to it being outside exposed to all sorts of weather the bronze tends to also errode which gives it that bummpy textural rough feel. The pebbles also have a rough feel since they are all clustered in one place. The smooth textural contrast is created by the fencing and the white paint on it. The paint gives it that smooth contrast and feel. Both rough and smooth textural contrast co-existing with each other makes the picture balance.

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The tree miss is not pleasing to the eye but what drawed me to it it's the fact that it looks like a furry carpet on a tree.
The tree moss's textural feel is damp and soft and surprisingly easy to rip off the tree (I didn't rip it off). The texture of it feels nice it's like you are touching or stroking a cat or a person's hair which is a soothing feeling.
The dampness /moisturiser of the moss is a little bit unsettling but it's weirdly nice and is the reason why the moss feels soft and not dry and hard.

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What attracted me to this cushion is was more of the uncomfortable feel after laying my head on it.
The strips on it where making it feel uncomfortable since they are popping out of the cushion. The textural feel of it didn't feel nice at all as you lay on it because it was a bit scratchy against my skin. But when you look at the cushion as a whole it looks beautiful and comfortable as a cushion should be nice soft and inviting so you can lay your head to rest. This one was more of a decorative cushion then the one you would normally lay on. Overall I didn't like the feel of it.

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This image was taken at Sea Point on a sunny day. The colour scheme is more of your neutral tones, natural tones. From the beach sand to the mountain. The colour contrast here is divided by the white buildings which gives it this effect of foreground and background. If it was sand through out leading to the mountain there wouldn't be any foreground and background contrast. The clear blue sky also makes the image not boring and neutral but it makes the background pop to the viewer.

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Playing arcade games is very fun especially if you want to wake up your inner child. Arcades are usually dark and dull and the bright lights and buttons are the ones that make it more vibrant and add colour to the whole place. The PAC GAL machine is a beige colour which is dull and boring, the reds, yellows, blues, oranges brighten the whole machine. Thus creating the bright/dull contrast.

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This image was taken using a camera hence the high quality of the picture. Zulu traditional beads comes in many different bright colours. The colour contrast here are your warm colours which are from her skin, the bright yellows, reds, oranges from her beads and also some of the money notes on her head. The cool colours such as your greens, blues are also seen in the beads and money notes which create creates a warm and cool colour contrast which makes it pleasing to the viewer.

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Despite the back lash from society when they saw this Vogue February cover, it's my personal favourite. After deep diving what the photographer's purpose and vision was, it literally all made sense and it was the most beautiful work I've ever seen.

This first all black, all African Vogue cover captures the true essence of a BLACK South Sudan idealogy of women, in sense of their rich melanin skin. The colour black represents boldness, power. It's powering seeing black women in the fore front cover of a fashion magazine, in an industry dominanted by white people. Black beautiful women are now in the centre of it all. The fact that they also glamourise "black beauty" where as before they didn't even look at black skin and black people.

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Geometric contrast involves man-made objects, examples of geometric things are straight lines, circles triangles etc. This building is an example of a geometric contrast because of how everything is straight and there are no curves, it's just lines no inorganic shapes nor objects were incorporated in the making of this building. The rigidness of this building is the emphasis of geometric contrast, the use of squares and rectangles and straight boarder lines.

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Comparing the shell to the mountain. By placing the shell side by side the difference in scale makes the large shape appear smaller and the smaller shape appears larger in this case. The reason being the shell is closer to the camera which makes it bigger then the mountain in the background but when the shell is placed side by side the mountain it will appear smaller. This is opposite contrast of scale because of how the image was taken. The shell is very small compared to the mountain.

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As we all know March is a month when women are celebrated. Vogue used a strong, black well-known and loved model [Naomi Campbell]. The tones are not too loud yet neutral. Their colour scheme is a play on warm and cool colours. The black is not over powering compared to the February cover.
The hints of black on her clothes and the natural hair has symbolism. The use of black in the clothing gives off this strong feel of independencey, boldness and even the rigid manner she is posing symbolises that she is powerful and a "superwoman".

The mood conveyed in this cover is "being a mother" but I feel like Vogue never captured the true essence of being a mom. Vogue has sort of glamorised motherhood. Of course being a mother is "superpower" and she is a superwoman this was not achieved in this cover. Reasons being her posture is too rigid and zero connection with her daughter, this is not how a mother would normally hold her child. In other words it's not natural and giving off that coddling and loving feeling between mother and child.This cover is not displaying to the viewer that she is a mother and loving it.

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The juxtaposition of old/new, the old looks worn out which has more character compare to the new converse. As we all like new things and treasure them, but we should also appreciate and preserve the old where it has more memories, character also definition. The contrast between the old and the new will never end because the new also becomes the old as time goes by.

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The Vouge February cover represents a challenge to the Eurocentric fashion gaze, which has been stereotyping Africa as a continent in need of charity and lacking creative autonomy. Vogue has managed to shift this stereotype by creating this all black, all African Vogue cover.

The use of tone in this cover is dark which gives a monochrome look. The use of blue neutralises the boldness and the extreme use of "black" on the models and background. The mood conveyed in this cover is powerful, bold and it was achieved by the uses of very dark undertones, dim lighting, the models themselves, overall the use of "black" on the whole Vogue Cover.

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Strong contrast between the black t-shirt /vest and white text, the warm colours on the t-shirt and also what the baby is wearing tones down contrast with the foreground elements while still appearing eye catching. The green plant also added some colour to the image and not making it too neutral yet not making it too colourful for it loose it's subtleness.