Final Portfolio

The year in review:
This year in Digital Photography 2, we explored and learned several new editing, shooting and composing techniques. In the beginning of the year we focused more on how to compose photos and good shooting techniques. Then we began to go into more editing techniques and how to adjust our camera settings. One of the most beneficial skills that I learned in this class and will almost definitely use later in my life is how to edit, adjust and created images with photoshop. What we did with photoshop this year was create surreal images using multiple photographs we had taken, we made kaleidoscopes and for one project we edited five different images in different ways using photoshops tools. My favorite project was definitely the portraits because I love shooting images of people. Here is a link to 22 of my favorite and best images from this year.

Stop Motion

Magazine

Izzy Messer

Alex Mcvey

Alex Mcvey

Alex Mcvey

Alex Mcvey

Izzy Messer

Izzy Messer

Izzy Messer

Izzy Messer

Izzy Messer

Fine Art Portraits

Magazine Cover

Commercial and Fine Art Portrait Contact Sheet

Commercial vs. Fine Art Photography

              All of these portraits are interesting and beautiful in their own way. They're all trying to capture a certain aspect of a person/people and what that aspect means. The commercial portraits are trying to sell or advertise something. The fine art portraits are trying to illustrate the human condition, and there is a story that goes along with each image. The magazine photographs are again trying to do something completely different. They're trying to capture the personality of the person who will be featured in the magazine, not tell their stories in an image or sell whatever they're wearing but let the reader know a bit more about the person before they read the story.

Magazine Cover-Richard Avedon
I like this photo of Jean Shrimpton because it captures a bit of her
personality in addition to her beauty. Also, the background and
the pink around her face make her face obviously the subject.

Magazine Cover-Irving Penn
Vogue always has interesting beautiful photos with interesting and beautiful
 people as the model. I really like this one specifically because its very
but a little bit sassy. In addition the way that the image is lit is very dramatic
and makes Kidman glow and her dress shine. 

Fine Art-Sravan Gondipalli
I like this image because of the interesting lighting. The bright
whiteness of his face is very interestingly contrasted by the shadow
of the fence. Also the models facial  expression is very expressive
and interesting. 

Fine Art-Kyle Thompson
This image is one of my favorites. I think the way the smoke is
lit and the contrast between just lying down and relaxing in a fancy
dress. Also the fact that she's just casually lying in water makes the
photo interesting. 

Commercial-Dave Hill
As far as commercial photography goes(which I am not a very
big fan of) this is a good one. I assume that if this picture was
going to be used in some sort of advertisement the advertiser would
be trying to sell the fiat. The way that the photo is set up makes the fiat
jump  out at you. Dave Hill went about this by keeping all the colors
around the bright orange car somewhat dull and muted, making the car pop.

Commercial-Michael Jones
I'm not especially fond of this picture but the way that it was composed
is a very good example of what I think a commercial photograph
should look like. The women is obviously the subject, but more specifically
the dress is the subject. Michael Jones makes this clear by using a light
white background, and a pale model to make the color and texture stand
out. He also positioned the model in a way to best sell the dress which I
think was very smart. 

Project 8: Multiple Perspectives

HDR

Original

Panorama
To get this panorama, I used my camera on the manual setting and a tripod. I took several pictures of this landscape, with the edge of each picture overlapping with the previous image. I then imported all the pictures into photoshop and used the photomerge application to create this panorama. 

Multiple Exposure

Project 7: Cyanotype and Daguerreotype photography

For this project we explored through photoshop how to create a cyanotype and daguerreotype style photo digitally. You can usually achieve cyanotype and daguerreotype through film photography but by using brushes and photoshop we created images in these styles digitally.  Cyanotype photography is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue color to the image. This process was popular in engineering circles well into the 20th century. It was a simple low cost process which made it easy for engineers to make large scale copies of their work. Daguerreotype photographs are images that were formed on a highly polished metal surface, normally Sheffield plate. This technique was more common than the cyanotype technique. Using photoshop, we were able to recreate those two printing styles digitally.

For this project, we looked at surreal paintings and what surrealism was and tried to create our own surreal photographs using multiple images we had taken.

For this picture I began with the background which is an image of bristly brushes in front of a forest. I then added the girl, and changed her to black and white to make her seem ghostly. Next, to create the tire swing/mountain part of the picture I edited in the swing and I made the edges of the tire kind of sketchy on purpose to make it seem less solid and real. Then, I used an elliptical marquee to make the mountain circular and move it into the rope swing. Finally to try to unify the image I put a texture over all the images I'd put in and added a gradient. 

Overall, I did a fair bit less with this image than with the previous one. I took the background of the flowers and got several images I had of the girl, edited everything away from her body so it was just her. I made her much smaller than the flowers and placed her all around the top of the roses. In order to unify the image, I added a texture over all the pictures. 

Surreal Paintings

The project we are working on is a study of surrealism, and creating surreal pictures with our photographs. To do that, we must first understand classic surrealism. Surrealism is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. To me, surreal paintings and photographs are very dreamlike and portray something impossible and a little disturbing but still very beautiful. 

Salvador Dali

Max Ernst

Project 5: Basic Photoshop

Semester 1 Final

\

Project 4

 For this project, we were asked to shoot 5 pictures that fall under the categories of: Radial balance, symmetrical balance, contrast in scale, texture, and color. Additionally, we were suppose to create 2 triptychs, diptychs, and kaleidoscopes. This was the result:

Rose
Radial Balance

Lookin Up
Contrast in Scale

Mirror
Symmetrical Balance

Land and Water
Contrast in texture

Red House
Contrast in Color

Flowers and Their Petals
Triptych

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Tryptich

Highs and Lows
Diptych

Sister Faces
Diptych

Look Up
Kaleidoscope

Petals
Kaleidoscope