Pictorialism
In order for my image to have the Pictorialism characteristics, I edited my photograph with a sepia filter and added a dark vignette to the corners. Considering that the Pictorialism aesthetic is based on photography from the early 19th century, I decided to add some feathering and texture to make it appear older.
JR Big Mac Challenge
This assignment was meant to act as a creative way to utilize materials that are easily accessible like a big mac box as a light reflector. For this photograph, I used a small white box that slightly resembled a big mac box and a phone flash light to shine into it. I focused the light…
Final Book Project
For my final book project, I wanted to capture a realistic representation of everyday life. I focused on doing candid photographs of people and animals because I wanted to capture them in their true nature. I did this so that they wouldn’t be provoked to pose and have a more natural image with natural movement.…
Night Photography
I wasn’t able to go out into the city or near traffic at night. Instead I took photographs of my sibling near my house, utilizing the little bit of light that there was outside during the night time. I attempted to capture a “trick shot” in one of the photographs which I found to be…
Photo Story
For this project, I focused on the theme of being alone/ lonely. The subject is seen walking around by themself in the establishing shot, in the medium shot you can see that he is sitting alone while looking off to the side, and in the close up you are able to see the emotion on…
Environmental Portraits
For the environmental portraits, I focused on my family members and the things that they do in their daily lives that makes them happy. In the first picture is my sister doing her makeup, the setting is in the bathroom in front of a mirror and I thought it would be more visually interesting to…
Natural Light Portraits
The natural light portraits were very fun and interesting to shoot because it was interesting to play around with the lighting from the sun and utilize the shadows created to make the photographs more visually interesting. The first image was taken indoors using the sunlight that came through the window and the second image was…
Everybody Street Thoughts
While watching the movie I got a good sense of what the category of street photography is. I think that street photography is so important because it captures the essence of communities as well as capturing raw feelings and emotions through the candid photographs of the faces of strangers. I thought it was interesting to…
Triptychs
For this set of pictures I documented the process of baking, I chose to focus on the hands because they had a lot of movement so I thought it would be interesting to show them in different ways. I also decided to make these images black and white because I thought it brought them together…
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