Landscape research photo

when researching landscape photos, this picture really spoke to me. I think it's mostly because of the reflection of the photo itself in the water that makes it so interesting. I love all of the different colors that are presented. For instance, the tress are orange, the grass is green, and the sky is a cloudy blue. the colors make a really interesting clash . What I also notice in the photo is the ripple of water in the whole calm river. It's like this tiny thing disturbed this peaceful setting. What's really cool about Landscape photos is your capturing what is exactly there. It's not like taking a photo of a person where you dress them up and try to capture and emotion, but landscape shows you all it has. Then it's up to the photographer to capture it the right way.

fashion picture/identity

For this assignment I remember you saying that we could combine our identity photo and our fashion photo. Well I personally think that this picture shows both. Firstly, the reason why i think this photo shows identity is because in California, people know us for the sun and the beach. I think that this picture shows Ashley's "culture/identity" because it's representing that come trait linked to being from here. Nextly, I think that this photo shows fashion because, Ashley's advertising her bathing suit along with her cardigan. I really like this picture not only because of the setting but because of the colors present. Because the sun is going down in the background, it creates a "glow" on the rocks. Also, when you get further down on the picture, the undertone of it changes to a bluish color. If i could go back and fix this photo, I would have added better lighting on Ashleys face, just because it seems kind of dull. But overall taking this picture was a great experience and I'm starting to become really interested in fashion photography!

The Portrait Issue

When reading about portraits, we were introduced to Manjari Sharma. This inside excerpt, shows us where Sharma started out and where she went from there. Shrama, growing up in India, came over to America at the young age of 21 to study at Columbus. For Sharma, taking portraits was just a test and trial for her, but she noticed that her and her models were able to get more into their work as they went along. It became easy for her and her models to share the most intimate of conversations, while also enjoying a cup of tea. Personally, I like the work that Sharma does in the shower, because I think that it really captures a person naturally. A person just doesn't just merely see a person nude, but they see inside the person instead.

bringing the arts together

I thought that this assignment, was very intimidating to accomplish yet fun to do. because we had to use the strobes to capture better lighting, it became harder because, you had to know what to set the camera at, and where to plug the things in. there was also became a challenge when we had to decide where to place our models. this part became very time consuming because you needed to capture your models in a certain way that would represent what SCPA is all about. But, I think that once we got past all of the kinks, we were able to get a couple of nice shoots on the digital camera. But our good luck streak came to an end when the digital camera died, and we had to use the rest for film. but even though this project was meant for film, we didn't use the strobe for the film which we should have. unfortunately, one of our group members accidently lost our film, so all we had were the couple of digital photos that we took, which were mainly just test photos. though i really like tthis image and because everyone is like doing an acton, i think that it just really expresses how powerful the arts are.

portrait photo

for this assignment we had to capture natural lighting on a models face. but unfortunately, where i went wrong with my photo is that there is an excess amount of light over one of my models eyes, which makes her look like she has bags under them. I think that if i had my model a little further away from the door way, then this photo would have come out better. I really like portraits, because i think that they really capture who the person is. The angling of this photo brings you close enough to the person to show you who they are inside. If I got to do this assignment over, then I would have had my model face the camera more and maybe not show any expression on her face. Though, I do like how the wind gets entangled in my models hair because I think that it adds a nice element.

put yourself in a picture....

In all honesty I really liked doing this project! I found it really fun, and I think as I get better, I will be able to add new elements to my photos. For this project, I really wanted to add myself to a funny image to make my picture funner. I didn't find this assignment hard at all. I think it was mostly because all of the assignments that we were already working on for photo shop. I really am learning and remembering what to do.

face softening

Before starting this face softening project, I didn't think that it would really make a difference. But when eventually starting the assignment, i found that it was really cool and that it actually worked. This assignment was really fun, and it was an interesting technique to learn on photo shop. I really like knowing how to do this, because now i feel like it will really add to the quality of my images. Photo shop is just a great skill to have these days, because it really comes in handy.