Portfolio Practice Pictures

Reflection Questions:

1) Central Idea of Photo: The main perspective that I'm trying to unravel in these photos is the innocence within a childhood. Children spend a lot of time using their imagination while having the time of their lives with no worries in their lives. But as they grow older, their imagination begins to dwindle as their worries begin increasing dramatically. I want to show children using immense amounts of imagination in these photos as they use their environment to spread their imagination throughout their "childish time span." I used lighting effects on Photoshop to emphasize the importance of our childhood. In these photos, I either put the children on the right side or the left side to draw attention to how there is a gap between our childhood and adulthood.

2) Progression an Development of Theme: My images contribute to the development of my theme because it allows the viewer to understand the importance of children and how they are affected by their environment, it also permits them to view how our childhood is something that truly affects us even when we turn into adults. My idea did not change during the process of creating these images, however, in the future, I do believe that the process will change whether it be the composition or the lighting effects I employ in my photos. I believe that I will try to work harder in order to have a stronger emphasis on my portfolio, a specific attribute that will catch the viewer's attention with just a look.

Proposal for Photography

Portfolio Proposal
Proposed By: Brian Le
Project Title: Serendipitous Children

Senior Art Studio / Photography 3/4

Ms. Miles

Project Due Date: 01/31/2011
Project Description
My portfolio/project will be focusing on the surprises children have when they're having the time of their lives, the uniqueness of how children can bring out the miraculous characteristics of how anyone can be childish no matter how old you are. This style of photography will consist of the children that basically use their surroundings to have a good time, no matter what happens, they're still able to have fun. From the things that appear on the floor all the way to video games, children, overall are able to spend quality time with others in order to bring out their innocence.
Concept
The concept I am trying to apply is to demonstrate the how significant our child lives are, we take it for granted, in order for me to portray this, I'm trying to capture the miraculous effects our inner child self has on us. I would like to illustrate how our innocence as a children is what makes us who we are, a part of our mind that allows us to have intriguing moments. Moreover, our childish characteristics have been neglected as people live in a world where they believe money is the important factor in life, however, our inner child allows us to have creativity and a sense of imagination.
Inspiration
My inspiration was when I realized that children have been maturing much faster than other generations as they spend more time indoors instead of outdoors. I wanted to portray that our inner child is what is truly important because it creates another world for us to explore. My other inspiration was Sally Mann, she took pictures of her children when they were doing random things that appeared to capture an interesting point of view.
Equipment to be Used
35mm Digital Camera, Regular Point & Shoot Camera, Photoshop
Presentation
My presentation will be introduced in huge photos or a photo album that portrays our inner child, in order to so, I plan to get paint and utilize finger painting methods. I also want to try to make it have ribbons and stamps to emphasize on the idea of how important our inner child is.

Sally Mann-Biography

Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951. Mann graduated from the Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. Moreover, she began to start her photography skills in Putney and started her photography debut due to the influence of her father. After her graduation, she started to work as a staff photographer at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Her collections of books: Second Sight, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, and Immediate Family, all portrayed controversial and miraculous photos of adolescent girls, and her three children. Her children were her models when she took photos of them, Mann's primary idea was to capture the essence of her children. The photos she took was when her children were doing something intriguing, she also took photos of her children developing into young adults. After her children grew older, she began taking photos of landscaping, producing another collection, Still Time. Her three other books consisted of her greyhound, landscaping, and her husband which suffers from a disorder. Nowadays, her photographic works are now included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and Sculpture Garden, and the Whitney Museum of New York City, and many more. 

Furthermore, Sally Mann is a photographer that is best known for her immense black and white photographs, starting with her children, and then pictures of landscapes that consists of decay and death.

Blissful Music

Portfolio Proposal
Proposed By: Brian Le
Project Title: Blissful Music

Senior Art Studio / Photography 3/4

Ms. Miles

Project Due Date: 01/31/2011
Project Description
My portfolio/project will be focusing on the blissful characteristics of music, the uniqueness of how music can influence others. This style of photography will consist of the soft music that allows musicians or other viewers to understand that music is truly important in the world, it allows us to portray ourselves by playing, ultimately showing our traits through music.
Concept

The concept I am trying to apply is to demonstrate the miraculous effects that inhibit the way our lives are portrayed. I would like to illustrate how the simplicity of music is used in to enable us to find who we truly are. Moreover, music has been distraught as people neglect the characteristics of music. I would like to develop the photos to show how blissful music truly is.
Vision
I would like the viewers to understand and evaluate the true meaning of music as it influences people to embrace the blissful characteristics of music. My hope is that they will begin to withhold the simplicity of music. Even though music has been here for centuries, it is a significant factor that allows mankind to perceive the music from within.
Inspiration

My inspiration is when I really started getting into music, the fine instruments that allow us to make beautiful music. In addition, watching others compose and play music makes it so much more enjoyable. 

Equipment to be Used

35mm Digital Camera, Photoshop

Presentation 

My presentation will be introduced in some sort of photo album to display that music is something that should be remembered and never forgotten, enabling the viewers to get a sense of how important music is and how is allows us to express ourselves in everyday acts. I would also like to put the photos into some artsy format to emphasize the simplicity of music.

First Test Shot

Personality Test-Period 6

ENTJ!

Timeline Assignment-Period 6

Response: For my timeline assignment, I worked with Mark and Jeffrey, they were good partners because they always were working hard. For our timeline, we decided to revolve the theme of our work around the history of cameras, we had to go on the internet to find various information on the cameras that were established, from the pinhole cameras to digital cameras and doing so we were amazed by the rapid evolution of the cameras, it was astonishing. For our information, we had to use rice paper because it was good enough to be rolled up and moved, afterward we were able to use transparent ink to distribute our information onto the rice paper. That process was amazing as the transparent ink worked effectively and looked like it was printing onto the paper. The difficult task that my group and I encountered was making the pinhole camera. First, we had to make a blueprint of the camera which wasn't that hard. Afterward, we made a smaller version of what our camera would look like. And after that was done, the difficulty began. We used black cardboard to make the interior and exterior of the camera and it was stressful as we had to accurately measure all of the sides to make it look like a legitimate camera. We then used tape to attach the parts together, afterward we used made holes on the top and bottom of the camera to put in pencils that would roll the rice paper so you would be able to see the information. After that process was done, we got foil and poked a small hole in front of the camera with a pencil and placed the foil inside so it would look like a pinhole camera. Even though it wasn't as accurate as we planned, the assignment overall was interesting and gave me new skills to work as a group. Hopefully in the future, I'll get to do another assignment like this.