Portfolio

For my Spring Project, I was really interested in pursuing this grid type of imagery. Instead of regular images where I have to make everything intentional, the intentionality now falls within the making of the grid. Piecing together images to make a larger and more cohesive image is interesting to me. Overall I think what I learned from creating these grides is that each individual image needs to carry a common theme, but the images don't need to be very very similar in order to create a larger image.

Spring Project 2

This week we did another rendition of our spring project. I decided to one grid of flowers and one grid of my dog, because why not! In the flower grid, I intentionally placed the yellow flowers on opposite corners and the same for the pink ones. I feel that the same colors give this flower grid some cohesiveness. 

Spring Project 1

This week we started our spring project, and I chose to do grid style pieces. My idea was to combine images in a grid that shared some sort of commonality. I wanted to have some cohesion to these pieces so, for example, in the bottom grid, I took pictures of greens around the area, not flowers, or leaves, in specific, just plants that I knew would come together nicely as a whole.

Class Portraits 2

This week we continued to draw inspiration from our classmates by using their photographic techniques and incorporating them into the images. We are essentially re-creating their photos, but putting them in them as well. I studied each individual's project on their blog and talked over it with them to make sure I understood the concept, then put the concept into action and created the images with them. This is the second volume. 

This is Laurel. In her project, she used photos of her friends and 'blended' them with pictures of buildings or landscape images. She also used black and white to tie the images together better. 

This is Eli's project, and he used the blurry technique to create a flat kind of image. He used color in certain areas of the background to create some sort of a puzzle, but I wasn't exactly sure what he did with that, but I tried. I think the windows in the background here made a puzzle-ish feel.

This is Brannan's project, he made images that were on a black background, but the subject was a miniature figure. His techniques were using a bright light behind the camera while the subject is on a dark background. Since I couldn't make Brannan mini, I used his hand to create a smaller feel.

This is Jack's project. He used a portrait image of somebody and blended it with a landscape photo from the internet on photoshop. The process of photoshop was super confusing and exporting the image didn't go too well, but I tried and I'm content with how the image came out.

This is Kevin's project. He decided to reuse the light painting project that we dove into a few weeks back. His techniques were flailing his phone flash around while slowing the shutter speed on the camera to give this painting effect.

Class Portraits 1

This week we drew inspiration from our classmates by using their photographic techniques and incorporating them into the images. We are essentially re-creating their photos, but putting them in them as well. I studied each individual's project on their blog and talked over it with them to make sure I understood the concept, then put the concept into action and created the images with them.

Sophie: In Sophie's project she used photos of a group of people, but had one of them resemble a ghost-like figure. She used to paint in real life to create this effect, I just used the drawing option on picmonkey.

Francesca: In Francesa's project, she took pictures of her classmates or friends and turned their heads into animals. She made human portraits into a blend between an animal and human portrait, where the body of the human is present, but their head is an animal's. 

In Jackson's project, he created silhouettes of people, so I did the same, using him as the subject. A good way he found out to make a silhouette was to stand in front of a light source, to make the exposure give a blacked out effect, as well as some touching up in picmonkey. 

For Jimmy's project, he took photos of specifical trees, and more their outline or silhouette. Rather than including the root and trunk of the tree, he only took a picture of the tree from the ground, looking up, so it was more the upper body of the tree as well as the roots, leaves, etc. 

Winter 4

This week was our final week before our portfolio. I tried to refine exactly how I edited the pictures through a more structured black and white using the Levels and Colors sections on PicMonkey. I strived for some more weird and unusual objects I found outside. Not all of my pictures are like that, with the mysterious vibe and all, but I do have some that follow that theme.

Winter 3

This week I continued my urban themed photography. I stuck with the black and white because I feel like it represents what I'm trying to relay in my image. I think these images are showing a perspective on the city, with a bit of a mysterious vibe. I am excited to continue this project and stick with the theme that I have created here this week.