Project 3 photos

I focused on asymmetry for this photo

I found this very colorful rug in Normstroms, and it is my contrast in colors picture.

This is my symmetrically balanced photo.

This picture offers a contrast in texture.

This one doesn't really fit any category, but could be considered a contrast in value photo.

This strange statue could be considered a radial balance photo.

This is 1/2 of my triptychs.

2/2 triptychs. Follow of movement.

1/2 of my diptychs.

2/2 of my diptychs. Shows motion.

Kaleidoscope of tree in downtown Portland.

Same tree

Kaleidoscope of blooming berries

Kaleidoscope of leaves and fence

Project 3 Pre-work

Contrast in Scale- (Feder-Goodbye)

Contrast in Colors - Dennis Hallinan/Alamy

Contrast in Texture- "MYRMECOS"

Symmetrical - Vinayaraj VR

Radial Symmetry- Jan Fidler

Grids and Mood Post

In this project, we learned to do grids with our pictures, to create cool patterns. We also used color to create a mood in a photo. I'm not good at making grids at all, but I tried to make something unique.

Just a repeat of a bike gear

This picture was cropped out images of 9 different sections of a complicated picture I took. It's not necessarily a pattern, but it gives a different perspective and more details of just one photo. Warm Colors.

Original Photo

Another collage of only one photo, warms colors

The lines in-between the pictures was there to emphasize on the cuts of them. I thought this was cool to fit all the pictures back together like a puzzle piece. warm colors

Cool version

Mood Photo:

A mood photo is created by manipulating colors to make it a certain mood. I find different photos to create darker moods (negative feeling) or lighter moods (positive feeling). Most of the time, just darkening the shadows of the picture can give off a more ominous vibe. I had a hard time choosing which photo to show, so I will be showing 5 of my favorites.

This photo is off centered. It makes me frustrated. The photo was taken on the shore of a water canal on the west coast. It was taken while my boyfriend was at school, and I was hanging out near his house in Warrenton. I stumbled across something I didn't want to in a middle of the small hurricane there: graves. With stuff. Lots of stuff. This photo not only tells an ominous story, the colors are also dulled down largely to emphasize on the solemn feeling of it. Only a few indistinct colors show. Red, (middle right hand side) green, and a little bit of blue. Otherwise, it is white, black, and mostly gray. Monochrome

This is a foot. Yeah. The red and blue on it stand out, no doubt about it. There are lighter colors in the grass, yet it's kind of weird. It gives me an unsettling feeling. There's just something off about this picture. It's suspenseful, in my opinion, wondering if it might even be a detached foot or not. I put a light black vignette filter on it. Contrast between red shoe and green grass, color complement 

Now we're getting to my most favorites. This is a picture posed on a beach. I made the highlights lighter, and the colors of the sunset more apparent. The skin is a little more pinkish red, and the yellow shirt is more red too. Red is the color of passion, and it invokes passion and aggression in humans.

This was a photo of a snow monkey in Nagano. It was an OK lit picture when I took it, but I darkened the sky and the mountain range a little bit more. The monkey is already sitting alone with it's back towards the viewer. Snow monkeys (and most monkeys) are very sociable, so finding one staring off into the distance is a little disconcerting. He may even look like he's looking at the ground, depressed.

Only slightly altered

This is one of my favorite photos. It was a nice bright day, so I used the little color in the clouds and blue sky, and intensified the blue. The tower is the Astoria Column. The plane is a compostiable material that you can buy for a dollar, and throw off the side. I held it up to the column, and it made a pretty cool picture. I darkened the blacks, making the column look almost indistinguishable. It just looks like a towering building, and is very intimidating. While the plane is recognizable, and seems to be "flying" through a stormy sky. This, all put together with my hand, a sign of maybe a child's playfulness. I'm not sure what this makes me feel. Uneasy, childish, scared, offended? Cool colors

It was already a nice photo, but adding dark colors made it more...moody.

Color Post

Color Wheel

"From Up North"

This photographer took this photo in the snow. Weather seems to be the main dictator of mood. The mood in this picture is solem, or sad. Even though snow can be a fun thing, the girl in the photo is standing alone in a very cold looking path. It is a very lonely looking photo. The photographer heightened shadows and darker colors, and brought down the saturation of blue-to make the sky look more dark. A black vignetting (at least on the bottom) was placed on the outside to bring the person's eye to the middle of the photo where the girl stands.

Project 1- Framing and Composition

This project was meant so we could learn a few photo taking techniques. We went on two different field trips and tried to shoot pictures with 8 different techniques. These are some of my favorite photos from each technique that I tried to use. Not all of them are super perfect, or super easy to tell that they are that technique, but I enjoyed shooting and editing them.

Contact Sheet 1

Contact Sheet 2

Rule of Thirds

This photo resembles the Rule of Thirds technique. I shot this photo first as a vertical photo of my hand, trying to just trying to capture my tattoo and my ring. I ended up turning it horizontally, and adding filters on. My tattoo is on the lowest invisible line of thirds, while my ring is in the middle. It's not super easy to see it is rules of thirds, and maybe isn't my "best" in relation to quality of "rules of thirds", but the notion of the photo with my tattoo and ring makes this photo one of my favorites so far.

Frame Within a Frame

This photo is a Frame Within a Frame. I just took a vertical photo of the door near Director's Park. I noticed everyone else was focused on the theater's old building, and seemed to skip over the ominous door nearby. I really focused on trying to make the door seem more ominous and out of place. I emphasized the red parts in the picture (red lock, red tape, and red warning sign). I made the green darker, and put a lot of clarity and sharpening in it.

Close Up

This is a close up I took of my boyfriend. I added +41 vibrance to make his skin and lips look more vibrant. The original was cute, but the colors were uninteresting (see picture below). I zoomed in, and added more shadows to make his hair look darker and stand out less, so instead his lips/smile and eyes stand out instead.

Bird's Eye View

This is Bird's Eye View, but it could also be diagonals. I chose it as bird's eye because it is almost directly above, looking down on a specific object (the penny). I darkened the greens and blacks in this picture, to take attention away from the edges. The penny was the subject of this photo, so it was taken so the penny was directly in the middle. I like this picture a lot because it is a candid picture. I didn't think about that it would be a bird's eye or potential diagonal because of the way the cement is slanted; I just thought it was weird and interesting that someone left a new penny face up on a ledge at Director's Park. There is no original meaning in this picture, but now that I think about it, it could be interrupted as: Finding a penny face up means good luck, but since pennies are worthless in our inflated economy, people would rather walk past and leave behind a sentimental value of luck, because the material penny is worth close to nothing. I also don't remember if I took this penny with me or not.

Bug's Eye View

This is one of my favorite shots from this project. I had to physically get on the ground, on my back, to take this photo. The green plants were not bushes; they were potted plants. I looked ridiculous trying to get the right image from the new building at Director's Park. The glass of the building was already reflecting off of the clear blue sky, so I just made the blue saturation +100 to make it pop. The green plants were darkened too, and the whole picture was sharpened by 150 and had a clarity of +64 to make it a very crisp and detailed photo.

Leading Lines

I took this "leading lines" photo with one of the class cameras. I was very surprised that even though it was a simple camera, it's focus feature was very easy to use, and the picture I had visioned came out perfectly and exactly how I wanted it to. The main focus in this picture became the two screws on the bench. The lines lead out to something that you cannot actually see, since the focus was so great on the screws, that the rest of the picture is a blur. I darkened the photo a lot, to give it a more surreal look. Like most of my photos, I made the green in the background more saturated and "green" looking (I really enjoy the darker, vibrant shade of green). The photo is very sharp and crisp. The back part of the bench is very blurry, and so is the rest where the lines lead. I think it creates a sort of mystery to the picture, since you don't know what's happening in the background.

Diagonals

I have to be honest, this isn't my favorite picture. I liked my original photo, where I was mostly focusing on the construction site, and empthasizing the orange and reds in it. But then I realized it wasn't really a part of any of the techniques. So instead, I cropped out part of it and focused on the traffic cones. I think this photo could also be "leading lines", but since I took this picture at an angle, "diagonals" works fine. I darkened the oranges and the blacks to make the photo seem more vintage-ish. I didn't sharpen this photo as much as I did others, but I still put the sharpening at 57.

Fill in the Frame

I originally took this photo so the whole flower bunch was showing, but then ended up cropping a bunch of it out. I softened the edges of the flowers, to make it seem more...edible, thick, or sweet (it's a hard feeling/vision to describe). I sharpened it by 112, and actually did not play with the colors, besides the exposure to get rid of the sun that was overexposing and washing out all of the colors of the flower.

My Summer

This summer, I spent a lot of time with my friends, but mostly my childhood friend that turned into my boyfriend. We went to my friend Lizzie's beach house for a night, in which we just went around town joking around, and saw the ocean sunset together.

Cannon Beach's Sunset