My Choice

I really liked my partner portrait of my model Hilary. I like her picture of her being mad. I really like the lighting and how it came out on my model. I really like the lines of the windows and the wooden pillars in back of her. I also really like how my model gave me emotions that I could feel and see. I like the value and space in this photo because of the lighting and the sun giving the picture a ton of value; the windows also gave the picture feel of space in the background, which you normally don’t get when doing portrait photography. She was the emphasis of this picture along with the balance of this picture.

Photoshop altered image

I like this picture of a tree taken from a lower angle upward. I photoshopped the contrast and brightness so that it would bring out the texture of the tree a lot more than it normally would. Black and white gave the focus on the tree rather than if the picture was in color. I like the patterning of the tree in the picture because it supported the texture of the tree. There is great value in this picture from the black and white contrast. There is a line from the bottom of the tree to the top of the tree. I used photoshop to burn the top of the tree to give it a darker shade, and also darken the sky from it's light being too harsh.

Photo in the Style of the Photographer Studied

I took this picture on the first day of getting my Christmas tree. I like this picture because it has asymmetrical balance with the rule of thirds just how Diane Arbus did it. Naturally, your eyes are drawn to the tree just how her picture was, and it showed a ton of value. This picture shows value with the lighting especially in black and white. It also has balance to it, from the tree and the door, to the small tables; they give the picture a nice balance. I tried to create space in this picture by moving the furniture around in my house. In this picture, your eyes are naturally drawn to the tree, which is emphasis.

Best Actor Head Shot

My partner was Hilary, she did a very good job of creating the depth of feel I was looking for. I took this picture asking my model to pretend that she was taking her yearbook photo for her class yearbook. I asked her to be however she is and just do what she feels is appropriate. I like this formal portrait because it emphasizes on her, and nothing else. I also like the value in this picture because the black and white emphasizes her because there is no color to get distracted. I really like the value in this picture, there is a good quality of color and shades of gray in this picture giving it a nice feel of value.

Self Portrait

I took this picture of myself while looking up. I wanted to emphasize myself as the main subject. I wanted to show space because I was taking the picture from a lower angle rather than at point blank. I like the line of my clothes and how they go up to my face. I like this picture because it’s just a formal portrait, no distractions but the person. All of the emphasis is on the person, in this case me. You can also see the texture of my jacket and sweatshirt in this picture. I really just wanted to take a relaxed picture, I just said “this is me”, and just took the picture and this is the result.

Enviornmental Portrait

I took this picture of a teacher helping a student before the school hours, working on problems. I asked them for a picture and they stopped what they were doing and helped me. I thought this would be a good environmental portrait because it shows students and teachers helping one another. I like the negative space in the background because it shows the room and how big it feels. I also like the balance in the photo; the two women balance each other out nicely. There are lines that are made from the desks pointing toward the camera.

Candid Portrait (Mercy Girls)

This picture was of two Mercy girls dissecting a pig in a biology class. I really like this picture because I asked them to take a picture but instead of looking at the camera, they just continued to go about their business rather than turning toward the camera. I like the negative space in this picture, along with the emphasis on the two girls working diligently. There is an indirect line from their eyes to their experiment, which gives off a line in the picture. There is space in the background; you can feel the distance of the room as it goes back (another line) and leading to the other students doing their experiment. The two students are the emphasis of this picture emphasizing them which makes this a candid portrait.

Scanner Art

In my scanner art, I took a towel of Holiday Inn, a Jumpman symbol, a cross-country medal, and an iPhone cover to make kind of a collage of myself. I used the Holiday Inn because it has a baseball symbol on it and baseball is huge in my life and also traveling and staying at places such as the Holiday Inn. The Jumpman symbol of the Jordan company is special because sports in general and idols are huge in my life because I grew up playing them. I took a picture of one of my medals in cross-country because it shows how far I could accomplish something. The iPhone cover to me was how much technology we as people rely on, so I took it because I love how technology works and am intrigued by it.

Shutter Photo

I took this picture from my house one day. I took it playing around with the different settings that you could choose from. I like this picture because I has a great sense of depth of field and I like looking out into the bay from my house. I like how there is a line from the street going downward, and a line of trees going down the street. I like how there is balance with the roofs of the houses with the street and the trees on the street. There is a lot of negative space here, looking out into the streets to the city near the bay. Besides the obvious line of the street going down the hill, there is a line formed by the trees leading out to the city and into the bay.

Ansel Adams Nature Photography

I used this photo compared to Ansel Adam’s photo of his endless road. I tried to mimic his photo give that feeling of an endless stretching road. I took this picture in San Francisco on a dirt trail which lead down to Golden Gate Park. I liked the space, and the line in this photo because the space showed a good depth of field and gave the feeling of being alone. I liked the line of the trail leading into an endless trail just how Ansel Adam’s photo was formatted. I wanted to emphasize the trail and how endless it felt when just looking down it. There are many lines that the branches create along with the line of the trail. The lines create shapes within the branches which give this picture a different feel to it.

Principle of Design

I took this picture in my backyard; I really liked the variety of the two flowers that balance each other out nicely. I took this picture with the idea of space, and color from the elements of design. I liked the negative space in the background along with the colors of the white flower and the purple one. I liked the emphasis on the flowers in the picture along with the color and space. There is a ton of colors in this picture, there is the purple and white flower along with the green bushes in the background. There is a lot of negative space in the background with the sun’s light in the background

Element of Design

This image was taken before a dinner one day about the topic food. I really like taking pictures of things that people want or to eat, so I took this picture to capture that feeling for hunger. This photo I like because it shows lines. It has many lines such as the ribs going up the plate to the bread, and back down to the potatoes, it shows basically a triangle shape. I also took this picture with the feel of texture; I wanted to capture the texture of the food to make people hungry. This picture has color also, the dark shade of brown of the ribs, the light color of the bread, and green from the vegetables. I like the balance of the plate also; the ribs, potatoes, and the bread balance each other out.

Sunprint Image

For this sun print image, I took my phone, a huge blackberry, and my belt buckle on the film and let the images expose. We took this image in a courtyard at Mercy as the sun was rising at around 7 A.M. I photo shopped this picture using a gradient to give this image a unique feeling to this sun print. I like the color and shape in this picture, along with the variety of shapes with my phone and belt buckle. I like the color of the gradient, which gives it a cool blue, and a yellow shade for colors; I like the shape of the phone and the belt buckle and how they came out so clearly. I like this picture for variety, the two shapes give the photo variety in shapes. This picture also shows proportion, it shows the size of the phone compared to the belt buckle.