Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Nature Series 1/5
These are the before and after pictures of the first picture in my nature series. This was taken with a point and shoot camera. In this picture, you can see the structure of the plant which is really interesting because it has a nice pattern to it. The plant begins to close in the deeper you go into it which is clear to see with the angle that I had taken this picture. There are scratches and marks on the plant which I thought were interesting as well because although it shows the plants imperfections, it accentuates its beauty.I wanted to upload the picture before I had photoshopped it because it shows how much adjusting the contrast of the picture makes that much of a difference. The entire picture pops up more and grasps the audiences attention all through the color, angle, and structure of the photo.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Angle Assignment
This is a picture of my friend Janay. I don't know why, but I had noooo difficulty with this assignment unlike all the other ones. Once I stepped outside the classroom, I had so many ideas and this picture is just one of them. This was a good experiment with angles because I had Janay crouch on the floor with the picture in my head of someone climbing up a building. When I got to the computer, I flipped the picture and it now looks like Janay is climbing up something. I wanted to photoshop a building into it so it would look like she was using super powers to climb up the building, but I couldn't find the perfect one so I decided to leave it like this. Overall, this turned out really good and helped me with angles.
3 Landscapes
I actually took these landscapes earlier in junior year. I wasn't satisfied with the flower pictures that I took for this project so I went through my old files on my computer and came across these 3. The first one I took was from a trip I had to Arizona. It's one of my favorite sights to see everytime I go up there. There's this certain spot on our way up there where the sand is just so smooth, you just want to get out of your car and just mess it all up. I love how it looks "summery" and the sand looks extra brown and it looks good with the blue sky. The second picture that I took is at seaport village at Marina Bay. This one is pretty special to me because I always go there to think. The water looks AMAZING because it's not just one shade of blue. The rocks are also different colors which vary from light brown to gray. The third picture I took is from the top of the ferris wheel at the del mar fair. I took this last summer and I love the way the lights pop out and you see the motion from the rides. There are hundreds of people and if you really think about it, it's amazing how you can capture so many lives in just one photo.I photoshopped each and every one of these and its pretty cool how much photoshop can change a picture.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Landscape Written Assignment - Joseph Bellows
I chose to do my landscape written assignment on this photograph taken by Joseph Bellows. I had a number of pictures to choose from that all caught my eye, but when I saw this particular picture with the buildings and lights, it made me feel a certain way that's hard to describe, so I knew it had to be this one! I love everything about this picture. The fact that there is no spot on the whole picture where you don't see a building with lights on. I'm also really glad that this photo is in black and white. If it were in color, I think it would have taken a lot away from the picture. The fact that it's black and white allows the lights from the buildings to pop out more which has an amazing affect.
This picture is also very mysterious. It's obviously a city, but you can't tell from this one picture where or when it was taken. Bellows has got me to think that this photograph is to show how many lives fill these cities. Millions of them, all with different stories. I also picture this place to be a busy but comfortable place to be. I also love how it's not taken from the typical skyline angle. It has a little bit - but not entirely - a birds eye view. I'm in love with everything in this picture!
Friday, May 7, 2010
Natural Lighting
This natural lighting assignment is of my best friend Aaysia. She is a very special person to me because of everything that we've been through together and the fun memories that we have shared. In this picture she is wearing a blue shirt that looks really good with this natural light. Her face is glowing and you can see that she is thinking about something that is very deep. When I took this picture, the wind was blowing and you can see a piece of her hair that shows us that. The image is in focus and is not abstract. It would have worked well if I just focused on Aaysia and had everything else in the back out of focus, but either way I think that this picture turned out good.
Timeline Project
I was in a group with Carmen and Briana for our timeline project. It wasn't a very difficult project for us to do because we had a pretty good imagination and knew what we wanted it to look like from the start. We started off with first getting all the information that we needed from the web and wrote it all down. It kind of sucked because I wrote really sloppy and I couldn't even read my own handwriting! So I typed it up on word and printed it out so that it would be easier for both me and my group mates. After we got the information we had to decide on how our timeline would look like. We didn't want it to be just the average lookin' timeline with sharpie on white poster paper, so we decided on using chalk on a black cardboard. We spent a period sharpening the chalk. It was boring and tedious and it wasn't really necessary, but it's all gravy.
When we actually started writing on our actual timeline, I started to get worried about how we would be able to write all our information down with chalk because of how bulky it was even though we had sharpened it. I realized after I had wrote the first thing that it would be extremely difficult to read if I continued writing with chalk. So I scribbled it out with chalk and made it look like it was meant to be like that. We then cut up the words that we printed out (which wasn't our original plan, but it worked out good) and then glued them onto our timeline.
The end result looks beautiful! Extremely colorful and unique :)
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