Self Expressions

When I look at this picture it reminds of when people go on the Maury show pictures with ghosts in them. I now realize how easy it is to tell someone you caught a ghost in your photo. This project taught me to never believe someone when they claim they caught a ghost in their picture because they could have just easily photoshopped it.

When I look at the next picture it reminds me of a movie called From Dusk Til Dawn. There was an evil vampire in the movie with identical red eyes, I guess thats the reason that movie is the first thing to come to mind when I see the picture.

The thing I like most about my image is the sky. My favorite tool in photoshop thus far would have to be blending options and opacity. I feel good about my photoshop knowledge so far, I feel like Im exactly where I should be.

surrealism

The very first step I took into this project was creating a theme. I used the theme sports and it was the bases of my project. Its a picture on the moon and I rearranged the planets and turned them into different types of balls. I also used the lens flare to make sort of a supernova. I chose to use Yao Ming as my alien and I added a ladder from the basketball that Yao Ming comes out of. I took a picture of myself so I could show some emotion, and act shocked to see the alien

Metaphor

The pressure of school is like a vice and my head the walnut the pressure is forced upon.

I chose this metaphor because it explains how I feel about school and the pressure of graduating. Overall I think my concept was good. The project was alot easier because I actually put thought and brainstormed before I started. I also feel great about the composition, I think I did a great job putting things in place.

Iso

Iso is the speed of how fast the camera pulls the light into a picture. I didnt successfully use the tool correctly as you can see in the photos. If the project was done the correct way the light in the pictures would differ in every photo. The reason you would change and use iso instead of flash is because with iso you can get the exact amount of light you want in the photo. When using fast iso you have to be very steady because the pictures will be very blurry.

Fill in flash

Fill in flash is a camera tool. It can be used to add light to pictures taken in dark places, or it can be used to take away uneccessary shadows. In the first photo of myself the fill in flash was on and you can see clearly there is no shadows in the photo. In the second photo the fill in flash was off and now the natural shadows that should have been in the first picture are now in the second picture.

metering

The objective was to take two photos with metering. Metering is when the camera measures the light in a picture. In the two photos I took, I didnt accomplish the objective. If I would have did it correctly you would see a major difference in the light of the two pictures. This tool helps you when there is lots of light or too little light.

We then followed this tutorial found at http://www.voidix.com/eye_manipulation.html to give us ideas and practice combining images, reversing natural laws, transforming objects and using Photoshop to create a realistic surrealistic scene. The one thing Ii liked most about this tutorial was when we went and added shadows behind the leavesto make them look more realistic

Effects

In this project the objective was to add effects to pictures we had already taken. The different effects we had to play with was glow, cross process, and emphasis. Out of all three of them, my favorite effect was emphasis. I photoshopped the picture and I added an effect called plastic wrap, which makes everything in the picture looks like its wrapped in plastic.

Frames

In this assignment the objective was to take a photo that contained both myself and a frame. My favorite picture out of both of them was the last one because the other looks more like a mugshot then an artistic picture. I feel that the shadow of the shadow coming across the picture adds an artistic feel.

color

The objective of this assignment was to take a photo capturing color. I like my photo because I feel that I used color well in the picture. The thing i could do better in the future is make sure that there is nobody in the background the next time

Group Collaboration

In this assignment the objective was to take a group photo. The thing that was most difficult about taking the group photos was composition and finding ways to pose with the entire group. If I had to take another group photo, the thing i would do differently is changing the way we posed it was to simple.

Haunted Chavez

In this project we had to find a place in the school and create a haunted scene. In the begining I was going to have my scene set on the football field with scary and ghostly football players but as I got more into the project my ideas changed. I chose the auditorium because I knew no one else would think of the auditorium. I think overall as far as ideas I did well but the lighting in the photo could be better.

The lyrics i chose for this project are ,Im grindin until Im tired cuz they say you aint grinin til your tired so im grindin with my eyes wide lookin to find a way through the day a light for the night, dear lord you have took so many of my people im just wondering why you havent taken my life, like what the hell am i doing right; by Dwayne Carter also known as lil wayne. I chose these lyrics because sometimes I find myself asking the same question. In my lifetime I have lost people who were very close to me and when it happens you ask yourself this question. Sometimes we loose people who we love and are good people but its apart of life, bad people are not always the first ones to pass away.

The social issue I wanted to touch with this project was gay marriage. In society, people tend to treat people who are gay or homosexual less as they would treat others. Im not homosexual or anything I just feel that people should be accepted no matter what they believe in. Its unfair when people disown or down someone for who they believe they should love. As long as someone is happy it shouldnt be a problem.

I took a picture of a happy female couple and my lines were ''and you care because''. The point I was trying to make was that they were happy together minding their own business so why would you want to take that from somebody.

Adjustment layers

In this exercise we learned about Adjustment layers. Adjustment layers allow you to add adjustments to your image on separate layers instead of directly to the image itself. This comes in handy during long complicated projects. In Photoshop every tool is specifically designed to help improve your photo. However, here we took some artistic liberties and explored adjustments creatively.

He’s screaming because he’s scared. He sees a monster in front of him and his only two options are to get eaten or run off of the dock. I can tell he is very frightened because his hands is on his face and his mouth is wide opened.

Compositional trick# 4 Extreme angles

In this photograph in order to get an extreme angle I climbed on top of a wall and I had the camera-man tilt the camera to add a little more of an effect on the photo. My favorite thing about this photo is the way my shoes standout. Even though it has nothing to do with compositional trick, it adds a little more to the photo. What i could have donr better was angle it a little different so i capture the sky, it would have added a little more color to the photo.

Self Portraits

For our Self-Portrait project we were to take three self-portraits. They were all to be in black and white, and they were all to capture a mood of some sort. We were also challenged to be as artistic as possible, and stay as far away from normal, cliche portraits that we see on personal pages etc. as possible.One had to use the rule of thirds as the base for the composition; One had to incorporate leading lines, and one had to be taken from a more extreme angle.

The self portrait project was one of my favorite projects because we actually had the pictures taken the way we wanted and i was able to express myself a little more. My strongest photo would have to be the extreme angles photo. My weakest photo would have to be the rule of thirds self portrait because i could have did a better job at using the rule of thirds.

Contact Sheet

I think my contact sheet came out good. I did well using macro and catching the texture of the tree. I could have used the rule of the thirds better because the image of the shoes is not really on the thirds. Of all the compositional tricks my favorite one was leading lines. Leading lines is my favorite because I like searching around for leading lines that lead to an emphasis.

Compositional Trick #4 CROP

In this photo I changed the composition by cropping out most of the backdrop. I like the original picture better because there is alot more going on and a lot changed just by cropping out what i cropped.

Compositional Trick #3 macro

The macro funtion allows you to take pictures of very small objects and it allows you to create a depth of field within the photo. Depth of field is how far you can see in the photo, a shallow depth of field means you cant view that far into the photo. A deep depth of field means you can see deep into the photo. What I like most about this photo is how great I used the depth of field.

Compositional Trick #2 leading lines

compisitional trick #1 Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is a compisitional trick that you use to position your emphasis outside of the center of your photo. Its basically breaking the picture down into thirds and positioning it where the lines intersect on the thirds. In my photo I could have used the rule of thirds better by positioning the objects a little further up and maybe capturing just one of the shoes.

extreme angles

In order to get my extreme angle, I climbed on the stairwall and had my photographer kneel down to spice it up. I like that my shoes are the closest thing to the lens of the camera its just something the eye isnt used to seeing.