Stop-motion Animation Video

Artistic Vs. Commercial Photography

Commercial:

This photograph is commercial because of its use and how it has been edited to be featured on a magazine cover. The image was a good choice for this use due to the subject's pose, looking straight into the camera, and it is is accentuated by the headings for topics that are offered or "sold" within the magazine. I developed the magazine cover background to enhance the photo, as well as editing the photo in a number of ways.  After experimenting with different colors, I chose to add text that would match the colors that were already in the photograph, for example the white and black letters, green to match the subject's draw-string backpack, and yellow to match the tennis racket. I made the photo look more commercial and professional by smoothing the subject's skin and hair, as well as slightly enhancing the color scheme by changing the tints of colors. I even added a bar code and web site to the cover to make it more realistic.  

Artistic:

This is an artistic photograph because it is focused on displaying the subject in a creative and captivating way, rather than on selling anything. I tried multiple techniques in editing the photo to make it even more artistic. First I cropped the photo to display only the most important parts in a visually pleasing way. I enhanced the coloration of the subject's lips and hair to make them more vibrant. I also smoothed her skin to increase the overall almost dead perfection of the photograph. I then increased the contrast and added a rounded vignette to the photo to focus in on her face even more, as it is what is being displayed most importantly. (I also experimented with turning the photo to black and white various ways, but decided that I liked the colored version best.)

This second artistic photograph shows personality in a real life respect, and is intriguing in composition and subject, without trying to sell anything.This photo is a great example of the technique of rule of thirds, which in itself makes the photo more interesting and artistic. I added an orange hue to unify and enhance the feel of the photo. I also added a slight vignette to the photo to dramatize it.

Beauty in Nature

To me, beauty as it relates to is nature is capturing a natural scene or object showing all of its untouched perfection, as well as its imperfections. Sometimes an imperfection may actually dominate the scene, such as a tree that has just been toppled by a storm, and there can be beauty and emotion in that. Other times, a scene may be captured in such a naturally serene and perfect state, it can evoke a spiritual, longing emotion or almost seem unreal. Beauty in nature may also be so inviting as to pull the viewer into the scene, making them want to go there and never leave. I personally find natural photography to be more intense and have more meaning to me than most man-made scenes.

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This photograph of Mount Rainer in Washington is a great example of what beauty in nature means to me. The scene is so beautiful that it's almost surreal and it pulls you in so that you can almost imagine being there right now. My family has hiked into similar places, so it brings back memories and happy emotions for me as well.

Project #7: Portraits

I like this picture because it is a great use of rule of thirds, and what's included for the subject (versus what isn't) makes it interesting. Cam's skin is a nice contrast to the plain, yet harsh black background. The contrasting colors in her clothes also give a pleasing effect. I like the expression of serenity and thoughfulness on her face.

This photo reminds me of Snow White, given the perfection of the pale skin, nearly closed eyes and still, parted lips. The dainty red curls contrast nicely with the grass both in color and texture. The sunlight seems to be taking over the shadow in an attempt to waken her.

I like the intense focus of the penetrating eyes in this photo, as well as the relaxed expression of the lips. The background color accents the subject well, especially her blue grey eyes and deep brown hair against the orange-beige wall.

I like the intensity of this photo. The spread-out hair and piercing eyes make Kelsey look all powerful, as if she is going to consume you. I made this photo a little bit darker to increase this powerful effect and like how it came out.

Project #6: Photo Effects

Daguerreotype:

I really like this photo because it looks to me like some old photo that I would find in a box in my grandparents house. I love how the texture of the stump made the picture look.

Tilt-Shift:

I like this photo because the middle area of the photo looks like a little mini board game. I like how focused that area is and how the colors in it pop.

Project #6

 Reflection

Silhouette 

Chiaroscuro

Shadow

Project #5: HDR, Panorama, and Multiple Exposure

This is my HDR shot. I thought the foreground of the picture with all the trees was pretty, but I also really loved the cool shapes made by the clouds. So I took two pictures of it with different exposures, then merged them together into an HDR to get the best of both worlds. I really like the finished product.

This is my panorama. I have always really loved this view in my neighborhood, but I've never been able to capture it all in one photo before. So I took about ten photos and merged them together into this panorama to capture the magic of the scene as a whole.

This is my multiple exposure shot. It features a picture of my cat, and another of the sky. I merged these two photos together because you obviously don't see cats in the sky everyday, and I wanted to create something very different and unusual. I thinkit turned out kind of cool and creepy.

Four Favorite Motion Photos (Project #5)

Camera Shake:
I like this photo because of the abstract shapes made by deliberately moving the camera. I think the photo looks really intense because I cropped it, turned it black and white, and adjusted the contrast to what i thought was most interesting. The final image turned out very creepy and cool.

 Freeze Motion:
I like this photo because of how perfectly it freezes the action of the icicles breaking apart and falling away form each other. I cropped and edited the colors in this photos slightly, just to make it more focused and appealing.

 Ghost Motion:
I like this photo because you can see the motion of Cam moving her arms and head; how all of it happened. It doesn't leave you wondering what was happening like a freeze motion shot. I just thought that the photo was very striking, and i tried to make it more so by cropping into the subject, and adjusting the contrast and colors.

Panning:
I like this photo of panning because it is unlike others. You can tell that its a panning shot from the streaked background, but the subject isn't focused in one particular place. I love the abstract movement that is shown in the subject, as well as the different faces shown.

Diptychs and Triptychs

 I made these two photos into a diptych because they are both of frosted leaves and bark-chips. I think that the composition as well as the coloration of these photos makes them fit together nicely.

I made these three photos into a triptych because they are all of an artistic lamp in my house which is made up of both geometric and organic shapes. I think that these three completely different views of the same lamp create a full, visually pleasing vision of it.

Two Favorite Shape Project Photos

 This photo is asymmetrically balanced and is geometric in shape.

This photo is asymmetrically balanced and uses both geometric and organic shapes.

Shape Assignment Vocab

Geometeric Shape: Regular shapes most often found in human-made objects, machines and architecture. Circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, and triangles are common geometric shapes.
Organic Shape: Shapes that we see them in nature and with characteristics that are free flowing, informal and irregular. Examples are leafs, seashells, and flowers.
Symmetrical Balance: Equality and correspondence in size, shape, color, relative position, etc. on opposite sides of a dividing line or axis.
Asymmetrical Balance: The placement of non-identical forms to either side of a balancing point in such a way that the two sides seem to be of the same visual weight.
Radial Balance: the balance as the result of components that are distributed around a center point or spring out from a central line.

Color Project #3

Favorite Grid (Project #2)

This is my favorite of the three grids that I made for our second project. This picture was taken downtown at Director Park. The picture is a bugs eye view of a pillar running up to the glass cover of the park. I  love the icy color scheme of this photo, as well as its composition and how the photos all fit together in such a visually pleasing way.

Favorite Jacob Riis Photograph

This is a photo by a great photographer of the late 1880's name Jacob Riis. I like this photo because the great use of rule of thirds, as well as the black and white coloration. I also just think that the composition of the photo is very visually pleasing.

Slideshow of Photos From Framing (Project #1)