Assignment #7 Diptych

for this assignment i found a cool shape that i thought would make an interesting diptych and i shot it twice, one in soft light, and one in very low light. it wasn't quite night yet, but pretty close, my camera died before i could take a final night shot. bummer. Nonetheless i am happy with the cool shape of my photograph.

Assignment # 6- Black and White Portraits

 This is Ashley, She is obsessed with Bollywood.

This is my face again. For this self portrait i experimented a little bit. I used Baby powder to throw before the shot to try and create a slight mask which slightly confuses the viewer. I did this because  think it is interesting how people even if we think we know someone completely, there is usually always a layer which fuzzes a true perception of who they are. How we see people depends on our lens of preference and often times we neglect to acknowledge its there.

BW test

Assignment #5- Portraits (color)

This is Shawn, I didn't know him before this assignment, and it was a little awkward asking a stranger to take a picture, but it was a really good experience for me. I am usually pretty awkward at making people comfortable in front of a camera, but i did better than I thought I would!

 

This is my roommate Allie. I wanted to explore a digital version of double exposure.  At BYU, being naked is scarce. I don't mean naked only in the physical sense of the word. People tend to put on their best face and refuse to show their imperfections.

Someone I'm not--someone that wears a mask. To me, it seems that especially in the visual arts department, people try to put on a a persona that isn't really true to themselves. I have felt that every time i try and become something i'm not, it only pollutes my original, true, and genuine self. In a way this picture is a promise to myself that as i continue forward as a visual arts student, that i will stay true to my own instincts and creative processes.

Assignment #4 Color theory

complimentary colors:orange and blue.

analagous colors: orange, red, yellow.

complimentary colors: yellow and purple

complimentary colors: yellow and purple

complimentary colors: blue, green, blue green.

analogous:green

when i thought of color, i thought paint. so i decided to paint my roommates...faces...
It was really fun and interesting to paint the different colors. Finding my white balance was really important for the colors to have the affect i wanted in the final image so it was helpful to know how to set my custom white balance.

Assignment #3

My assignment:

Camera's idea of Good:

What i learned: patience is KEY in photography, you have to be willing to to take some time to take the right picture.

Assignment #2- Numbers

Seven

There are Seven Harry Potter Books

 Sixteen

the Vermeer  painting this was based off of was painted in the 1600s

 Nineteen 

In Mormon Culture, at age 19, the Men serve missions

 

Twenty Two

this is a catch 22. either you eat the beans and get bad gas, or you don't eat the beans and you remain famished

Thirty-Eight 

okay this one needs an explaination...during my process i decided to use the numbers behind the camera, so for frames 35 to 50 i used the number of the frame to tell me how many steps i had to take for the next picture (i.e. after i took this picture, i took 39 steps for the next picture)

 Forty-Five

(see explanation above)

Fifty Five

At first i thought this assignment would be a piece of cake and i was set on keeping creative juices flowing for all 100 frames. once i hit about 60, i was pooped, i simply did not have the energy (but mostly time) to find any more creative ways to show numbers. so i took some fabric and just shaped them into the rest of the numbers.  In all honestly, i hated this assignment. but nonetheless it was good for me. I think what i learned most from it was that the tripod is my friend if i want any chance at high quality pictures.