Soften Face Assignment

Brushes Assignment- Period 6

Reflection: Within the "brushes assignment", I had a difficult time getting my composition to be what I wanted it to be. The thing was that I didn't exactly know what I wanted in the picture. I knew that we had to make ourselves the focal point, but getting the right amount of colors and the specific type of brush was the difficult thing. During the process, I believe I got the hang of the brushes, but I still had trouble getting the supportive colors and brushes. I decided to use green and black because the colors seem to have a great mixture and the contrast seemed to go along. My idea was to get some circles that had repetition so I decided to use green circles in the middle and black circles on the bottom. Afterward the top of the picture seemed too plain so I wanted to get something that would support the focal point. Using the ink brushes, I felt like that was the best part of the photo, even though the focal point is supposed to be the best part. After putting a couple of ink brushes on the top, I decided to use the eraser to remove some of the ink that was used in order to portray a blackish smoky substance on the top. By doing so, I was able to make the photo somewhat dirty. Overall I had a difficult time doing this assignment and I felt like composing the photo was chaotic. In the future, I would definitely like to do more of these assignment because by doing more, I would get a better idea of composing my work and will most likely help me in the future.

Photobooth Assignment

Personas!

Reflection: In my photo-booth assignment, Persona, the process was really interesting. As I was making hilarious faces with various props, I had a fun time doing this assignment. Having different personas was something I've never done before and by doing this, I was able to familiarize myself with photo-booth, it was a lot easier than I expected. I used the same smiling face, but with different props, I believe that by making different faces, the "personas" wouldn't have a huge impact on the viewer. In my four photos, I wanted to have different personalities such as a cool, sensitive, hardcore, and an asian. I believe by doing this, I was able to conduct a well-formatted piece. As I was cropping the four pictures, I had a difficulty with the settings because I wasn't able to set the right inches. I believe the best part about the assignment was putting on the props and looking into the camera and making funny faces. I believe my work was unsuccessful, however I don't like how the pictures turned out. Even though I passed the requirements, I feel like I wasn't able to make a great piece. During the future, I would enjoy and hope doing this assignment again. 

Portfolio Pictureees Part II

Like a Child

Reflection: Within my portfolio, Like a Child", I wanted to express the childish attributes of the children that are displayed in the photographs. I was influenced by Sally Mann, at first I wanted to take scenery shots like Mann did, however the scenery that was around my environment was too boring, so I decided to do my project on children. I used a regular digital camera during this photo-shoot. The shallow depth of field that is used in the photos were all done by photoshop. I had to re-adjust the photos around by using the lasso tool and the filters such as the blur. I used the gaussian blur and the lens blur to have that depth of field. At first I tried getting the children to pose for the camera, but the shots didn't turn out so well. However, as they started to stare off and away from the camera, I was able to capture their personas and how they acted usually. During this assignment, I wanted the children to be "joyful" so I could have the spontaneous feeling that Sally Mann used to express her children. My main focus was to get the focal point on the children and what they were doing, by doing so I can show the childish attributes that are being expressed by the children. Nowadays, children grow too fast, I wanted to display that being a child is fine, it's a part of life of which you shouldn't skip, but to embrace it and enjoy life as it is. The pictures were displayed in a figurative aspect, however I believe by showing it in an abstract aspect would have a better emphasis on this subject. The contrast of the pictures had to be bright to indicate the happiness of childhood. The photos were taken outdoors because I liked the scenery that was outside, the inside seemed too dull and it wouldn't capture the moment. I believe my work was somewhat successful due the fact I was able to capture the moment of the children having fun, but I think I wasn't able to put enough emphasis on the subject I was covering.

Portfolio Pictureees.

Sequencing

Save the Earth

Reflection: Within my scrapbook "Save the Earth", I decided to pick these two photos for my reflection because they seemed to be the most interesting. For these photos, I used a shutter speed of 250 and a f-stop of 5.6. For our sequencing my objective was to have a consistent background, so I decided to shoot near the trash can and have some buildings in the back to make it have contrast, however it didn't turn out as I expected. I wanted to focus on the piece of rolled up paper because it signified the trash that the person in photo one was throwing. If the viewer is able to see the whole scrapbook, they'll see that throwing your trash away is a necessity because it's a puts a huge impact if the trash isn't thrown into the trash can. My work was portrayed as into a figurative aspect because I believe it would be best explained in figures rather than abstract. The photos seem to have a lighter tone than the right side, I intentionally made the right side darker because the person that is helping the Earth is somewhat mysterious, I felt that making the mysterious figure would make the topic more exciting. The images I took weren't done intentionally, at first I had no idea what to do for a subject, but as I looked around the campus I saw a lot of trash, so I decided to do pollution. The images were taken outside because I wanted to display how everyday people are mindlessly throwing trash around as they please as the Earth is slowly dying by pollution. Honestly, I don't think my work was successful because the color contrasts were dull and I feel like I wasn't able to send the message out thoroughly.

Studio Lighting

The Simple Things

Reflection: Within the photo "The Simple Things", I used a shutter speed of 250 and a f-stop of 4. I decided to use this title because the simple things such as a flower is what makes life worthwhile due to its texture and beauty. This assignment that was given to me was interesting but at the same time it was hard to print due to the dark background. I decided to do a close-up because it would put a better impact on whoever is seeing this photo, nonetheless showing the flower and Mark close up made the photo a great sense of texture. The value of the picture had a lot of shadows and not that much light source. While printing, I had difficulty dodging Mark's right face, I believe his the right side of his face is still dark, but then again it's acceptable. My focal point on this photograph is the flower, I wanted to show the simplicity of life. This photo was displayed in a figurative aspect, however having an abstract form of this picture would be interesting to do. This work was done intentionally because I wanted to portray how the simple things in life is what truly matters. I believe my work was a success because I was able to capture Mark while he was posing for the camera with the flower, having the flower there is what made the photo "spark."

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