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First Night Time Sky Long-Exposure (no edits)

Evangelina

Period 2: Principles of Design

  

Emphasis:

Pattern:

I used a single tungsten light on black background with shanell wearing a pattern shirt to emphasize her expression and her shirt. There's no distractions in the background to detract from the floral pattern or any distractions anywhere else on her, other than her piercings. I like her position because it creates a sort of movement in the picture that keeps the eye around the pattern. 

Balance:

In this picture of Yanel and Nathan, I used tungstin lighting on the background and no foreground lighting to create silhouettes. There's a symmetrical balance in the sense of the two being silhouettes, but in their shape, there's an asymmetrical balance. One is taller than the other and they were both directed to hold different hand position. Despite these contrasting features, the picture stays balanced because of the silhouettes. I like this picture a lot, I think I could have worked on the lighting a bit more though.

Rhythm/Movement:

I took this picture of the carousel in balboa park using a really low shutter speed to make the lights explore the page. The circular shape of the lights creates a movement throughout the print and the fencing/column moves the eyes up to the lights. The circular movement keeps the eyes inside the page, not leading it out. I like this picture because of this. To improve it, I think I could have taken a step or two back to include all the lights in it, instead of cutting off the last one or two. Had I done this, there would be no movement off the page.

One thing I like about northern lights is that it accentuates details in cloth and hair. Other than that, there really isn't much I like about northern lights, I feel like the lighting can be really flat and boring and I've never been a fan. I took this picture the best I can and made it darker to emphasize his depressing expression. I made Yanel grab the patch on his jacket to create wrinkles in his jacket so that the northern lights could make emphasis on the wrinkles. 

Period 2: Natural Lighting w/ Scrim

 

 For this project, we had to go outside, wait for the light, then capture a portrait using the natural lighting using our chosen model. To help the lighting with being smoother, we were required to use a scrim, which to my surprise, I liked very much. Looking at the apparatus, I thought it looked kind of useless or obsolete, but as soon as I put it into action, I loved it. I've been using it again and again ever since. The scrim is rad and I'm gonna be using it a lot from now on. I like this picture because it captured something physically unique about Eve while also capturing her subtle personality. The lighting is really smooth and I like it a lot. To improve my picture, I could have gotten her eyes more into one of the thirds, although I got close.

Digital (natural lighting)

 I like this picture A LOT because I didn't even use a real tungstin, I used natural lighting inside the shack on the jetti of mission beach. I'm really proud of this picture because I was able to capture the tungstin effect without using one. To improve this picture, I could have gotten more light into his left (our right) eye to add more emphasis on his face. I could also have gotten his eyes more into one of the upper thirds and also I could ahveremoved the CANON straps from his chest. I like the detail I achieved in his beard, it's rad. I like it.

6th period: The Burning House

My collection for The Burning House project:
     -A picture of my deceased brother, John. This picture stays at my bedside.
     -Personal song journal.
     -Photo album of me with my closest friends.
     -2nd photo album of me with my friends + family.
     -The Genius & The Goddess by Aldous Huxley, a book about a man who falls in love, lets it go, then never gets to feel that love again because the girl passes. It's a book about loving what you have and appreciating it.

Family Portraits

 

 

 

   

For my window lighting project, I made a 4 picture series of my friends Nathan, Yanel, and Eve as a "family". I made mt pictures really dark to insinuate that these pictures are really old and stuff. There really isn't much that i'd fix about my pictures, other than Eve's single picture being a little soft compared to the others, other than that, i'm really proud of my series and how it came out. I love them and there isn't anything else I'd fix about them.

Period 2: Personalities

The point of this project was to capture a persons personality in one shot. I used Justin as my model because he's one of the funniest and silliest guys I know, and that meant that this would be a fun shoot. I gave Justin a little fan to play with and told him to just be himself, automatically he starts acting like a monkey and playing around. We were supposed to capture a persons personality and I'd say I did so perfectly. A few things I would have changed are the composition and a less boring backdrop. The composition is a little unorganized and not the most successful or as successful as it could be and the backdrop is just plain, both could have been improved. Despite these failures, I still think i finished this project successfully, capturing his personality with his action and his prop.

Period 6: Warm and Cool

The project we were given was to capture a shot of something containing warm and cool colors using our phone. I used a bright pink-ish plant as my closest subject and the same plant but a different color as its background. The closer subject is my warm color and my background is my cool color. I like the repeated pattern that was captured in the background (the petals of the plants) in contrast of the unorganized and crazy petals of the warm subject. To make this picture better, I could have organized it a bit better and removed some of the noise from the environment, like the weeds sticking everywhere. But overall, I like the outcome of this picture.