The Attempt

My second favorite copy of the final landscape photo.

Unpredictable Success in June's Bloom

The orange little tree is the object in focus, whereas the ground and fence are included in the depth of field. The background contains a lot of space to create a larger depth of field. The composition of squared patterns in the fence and the texture of the plants help make the little orange tree a unique subject in the photo. The natural lighting created by the cloudy sky illuminates the little tree's orange leaves. The camera's ground level forces the viewer to be engaged by the random small tree which is actually a branch from a tree that I stuck into the ground to make it look like a mini tree amongst an open space of weeds.

Bathroom Portrait of Ruby 3

At first glance, the portrait brilliantly uses contrast to enhance her beautiful facial features. This is another portrait that is stylized with shadow and natural outdoor lighting, but this time the shot is empowered by the vertical line created by the shot angle. The light vertical line creates a great portrait in which it conveys hope through her face that is full of life yet the darkness conveys a negative surrounding. the line also cuts her face into half as well as the shot's angle which reveals that the artist hides her other side and makes the portrait a bit mysterious. In addition, you can even see her eyes look towards the light slightly creating another line along withe the background's repetition of lines.

The shot could have been better if the outdoors were cut out of photo and if it was in black and white the extreme contrast would create more depth to the portrait. Overall, I really like this portrait and think I did pretty good due to the fact that I did NOT use photoshop to enhance any element.

Bathroom Portrait - Ruby 2

My first initial attraction to this photo was the model's face. I was captured by the beauty and I was curious about what the model saw when taking the photo. The model's slight smile captures her shyness of what may have been asked of her during the shoot. The light definitely makes the portrait more interesting because it gives it life. The pattern of the background does not take away from the portrait, but adds to it composition. The shot angle creates converging lines which creates a more interesting shot. The style is again realistic yet the light has the same strong effect on the portrait.

Bathroom Portrait of Ruby 1

Before us is a photo that makes one stop and wonder what the model is thinking about. The outside light shines upon her face in which it illuminates her facial features. Her eyes are looking out the door of the bathroom towards the light outside as if she is day dreaming about someone. Her eyes do not seem to actually see something, but her eyes tell me that she is reminiscing about the past. The model's eyes stand out the most because they capture something that I cannot see. Thus, it makes the viewer stop and wonder what is it that intrigues the model. The contrast of the darkness on one side of model's face and the light on the other side emphasizes the model's beauty. The tile is hiding in the composition and the horizontal lines that lead to the model's head. The tile background does not pull the attention away from model because its repetition is left in the shadow whereas the light shines upon the model. The style conveyed in the portrait is very realistic (photographic) yet empowered with depth through the lighting. This photo overall reveals a serious side to the model as she is in deep thought about the question I just asked her about her personal life.

SCPA is all about the ARTS (untouched by photoshop)

The subjects in this photo are: Artists

There is a musician, a dancer, and a visual artist.

The magic quantity of three came out better than the six models we desired to have for the shoot.

Patterns appear in the dancer's dress and the leaves on the tree create an artistic and nature collaboration. The photo also presents levels by including the stairs , creating different realms of the art world.

We purposefully composed the photo into threes and placed the subjects on the levels (the stairs). To create the spectacular lighting in this photo we used a strobe light and connected it to the film camera.

Improvements:

The models would have looked better closer up to the musician. I feel like the dancer should have been placed a little less in the background and more in the middle of the foreground and background. In addition, I feel like the photo needs to be a little darker.

Overall,the shoot went really well because the models were very cooperative and patient. The photo was a success at the end, but i felt like I could have printed this photo out better by making it a little darker.

Portraits vs. Snapshots

Snapshots are randomly taken with a random order of elements that are sloppily composed. In contrast to a portrait, it does not show the essence of the model and you are not able to discover any character traits from the model.

Portraits tell us about people by capturing the "likeness" of a person. A portrait is a quality image that also captures a person's character. A real portrait must have at least one element that reveals the model's attitude, features, and unique mannerisms that creates the subject as an individual with their own story. The image must reveal a significant part of the model's character.

A portrait is created by using form, shadow, tone, and light that fit together the way the artist visually desires. How does the Manjari Sharma capture depth through the lens in her own shower? Well, the photographer must make the model feel very comfortable before the shoot, in order to get the model to be relaxed enough to reveal their most intimate moments. The photographer must know how to study people that she does not know to capture the essence of the subject and dissect the truthful moments through the lens. So they must observe the mannerisms, reactions, and expressions through conversation finding what you would like to capture about that person.

Lasso Tool Project

The objects in the photo are my head and Grandpa Popeye and the purpose of this project was to get familiar with the most popular tool used on photoshop and to be informed on transferring a picture into a different picture's background.

Process: I used the magnetic lasso tool out of the three lasso tools in photoshop to create this image. I chose to use this tool because it is an edge detection tool which makes it easier for me to grab the edges, especially since I am new to using photoshop.

I liked manipulating the image above because it was pretty funny to have a picture of an aged Popeye and my head is just sitting there on his shoulder. I wanted to create a funny photo and was pretty successful yet the photo of myself could have been lassoed a little neater. Overall, I was able to select and transfer the image to the Popeye picture successfully, but I will have to practice doing it a little more to perfect my skills.

The power of sunlight and shade

Before Photo of "It's a Sunny Day"

This is digitally shot outside with the white board blocking the sun coming from the South. The focal point and object in the photo is me, myself, and I. The purpose of this project was to create photos similar to Richard Avedon's style of using the sunlight and shade to create aesthetic portraits of people in the Midwest.

The picture is only lit by the power of the sunlight and it creates a "blank" background that works to illuminate the model.

Outside lighting makes the appearance of the photo soft and makes the model glow overall.

During the process of shooting the photo, a white or gold reflector was used to control the sunlight that slipped over the boards.

It's a Sunny Day- Photoshop Design

This photo was shot digitally outside and then I decided to use photoshop to design it. I did not have any idea what kind of design that I wanted to do and my clothes were so plain jane that it was hard finding brush designs that collaborated with my photo. In the photo you can see me with a red t-shirt and a black hooded sweater just cheesing real hard. In the background I used five different type of brushes and three different colors (red,blue-violet, and yellow) from photoshop to create my designs. I started using the brushes where the focal point is (me) and then I worked my way down. At the last minute I decided that I wanted the top portion to be different so I grabbed a huge brush and smacked down over my head. The result of the design was circles, angelic winged brushes, and and paint smears. The big circles above my head actually pulls the attention away from me, which is not what I wanted to focus on. I was really trying to make the photo look like an advertisement magazine page that promoted drug prevention for teens, but I failed to make that communication and it looks more like I am in cartoon land!

This is my first studio lighting group photo. I arranged purposefully to have an ensemble but have them all looking in a different direction. There are stripe and checkered patterns in the photo that don't pull too much attention away from the overall photo. The contrast in the
The focal point is on the guitar that the girl holds up in her hands.
The feeling in the photo is greatness in the hands of the girl. The boy on the left creates an implied line connected to the guitar while the boy on the left creates the impression of a "whatever" attitude. The three harmonize letting the guitar take center stage. The value contrast did not come out exactly the way I wanted, but it was close to successful. I wanted the left guy to be as dark as the guy on the right. The photo leans more on the low-key side of light value which was intended in the process of printing it. Overall, I think the photo was composed very well and I am happy about the instructions I gave to my models in the photo. I love this photo because it fulfills the intentions of making the models look like a teen band on an album cover. I wanted to create an album-like photo of a band that was out of the norm and grabs attention. The only thing that could have been better is the lighting, but it was a success regardless.

Influenced by Tomoko Sawada

In the first square you can see a granny with cat eye glasses and in the square next to it you can see a school girl with more modern glasses cheesing as she takes her school i.d. picture. The girl with the sloppy bangs (below granny) looks grouchy and the girl (girl with hair all down) with the mole looks incoherent and dazed. The process of putting this together in photoshop seemed hard at first, but after I was given the instructions of creating the photo then I was able to do it easily on my own. I actually had fun changing my appearance and I wish I could have done more of a variation with my clothing. I usually dread self-portraits, but for this project I was actually excited about creating a self-portrait of myself as more than one person. I was able to go from an elderly women to a little school girl. In addition, to creating multiple disguises I was also able to learn more about using photoshop.

Photoshop Project

I used cropping tools and this tool on photoshop used to widen or narrow an object to change the girl in the background. You can see that the girl has a black smear near her shoulder which was caused by the stamp I was using to copy the color. The smear was put there purposefully to make it seem as though she is an allusion that he is looking back on, but no longer real and present. She was someone that was once erased from his memory.