Project 4: Basic Photoshop and Camera Controls

Project 3:Balance and Contrast

Balance and Contrast

Radially Balanced

In the first photo I took a picture of a flower, having its center be the central point in the picture. The second radially balanced picture I took was of a paper machè craft in a store. It is radially balanced because the pages fan out around the center point in a circle.

Contrast in Texture

This is a close up picture of some pasta. It is seasoned with pepper and parmesan, and those small little dots contrast with the texture of the pasta and that of the plate.

Contrast in Value and Shape

This picture of this flower shows color contrast because the bright blue of the flower contrasts the monotone grey background showing different value. Also the triangular shape of the petals contrast the round/ rectangular shape of the rocks.

Symmetrically Balanced

I took this picture in Murano, and island off of Venice. On this island there are canals that separate opposing sides of streets, and when on a bridge looking down the center on the canal you can see it is very symmetrically balanced.

Contrast in Value

The light breaking through far away in the background contrasts the dark foreground, creating a contrast in value.

Diptychs

This diptych of Kane shows motion and the different angles of one subject.

This diptych shows two different subjects, the sticker and Sophia in the same pose to create similarity.

This diptych has the same lighting and subject to create similarity.

Triptychs

In this triptych I used three separate images of Sophia to show movement and a story of putting on makeup on multiple parts of the face.

In this triptych I used similar images and a shallow depth of field that shows connection between the images.

Kaleidoscopes

Pre-Work Balance and Contrast

Symmetrically balanced

Lauren Monsolier

Contrast in Scale

Natan Dvir

Radial Balance

Nysha Nelson

Contrast in Color

Jessie Petri

Contrast in Texture

Irini Vam

Project 2 Color and Grids

For our color and grids project we used old and new photos to create grids that used complimentary colors, cool colors, warm colors, and monochrome. To create a grid we edited photos and then put them into a grid-template we created in the print module of lightroom. After we imported the grid to lightroom we then edited the grid to help it portray a color technique. We also found one picture we had taken that we thought portrayed a mood and further edited it to make the mood more apparent.

Mood Post

This is a picture I took of a window, where the room is dark and the light coming in castes  an orange glow. I edited the photo and made the shadows darker and the light from the window more of a orange tint. I did this to further show the mood I felt when looking at the picture, a mood of warmth and comfort yet also a small amount of mystery, caused by not knowing whats on the other side of the window.

Complimentary Colors

I took a picture of raspberries and of a holly plant and combined them together in a grid. Red and green are complementary colors, so with the green in the leaves of the holly plant and the red of the raspberries, complementary colors are portrayed.

Cool Colors

I used an old picture of Berritt up against glass and edited the picture multiple times in different ways to make the glass behind her different shades and to have her orientated different directions. Once I did that I combined them in a grid to create almost an optical illusion, and then edited the grid in lightroom to make the overall grid more of a blue tint, creating a cool colors grid.

Warm Colors
I took close up picture of a specific type of leaf. Once I had taken the picture I edited them into different sizes and put them into a custom grid I made. I created an optical illusion in this grid by stacking three of the same picture on top of each other diagonally to create a continuos line, making it look like one leaf. I then took the grid and edited it in
lightroom to make the warmth of the picture more apparent.

Monochrome
I did two monochrome grids. One was of a collection of eye pictures I had taken and the other of an abstract piece of art I had taken a picture of. In both I changed the grid to black and white, picked a hue, and then added a varying level of saturation to make the grid monochrome.

Extra Grid 

This grid shows different pictures of my friend Cate playing with sparklers. I feel like this grid has a carefree happy mood because Cate is portrayed with almost a childish fascination while looking at the sparklers.

Pre-Work- Mood Post and Color Wheel

Color was used to add a mood to this photo. The mood I get when looking at this is almost a creepy, ominous feeling due to the dark red skies behind the brighter lit scene. The dark red is really the color in the picture that helps create the mood. So to make this ominous mood even more apparent I think the photographer could have made the skies a redder tint and darkened the foreground.

Kirk Crippens

This is a color wheel showing primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

Project 1 Framing and Composition

For our Framing and composition project we had to shoot photos with eight specific framing techniques in mind. These techniques were close ups, rule of thirds, bugs eye view, frame within a frame, diagonals, birds eye view, leading lines, and filling the frame. Once we had shot the photos we picked three that best showed the framing technique and then made one to three edits of those pictures using lightroom. After we had all of our edits and original pictures we moved them to a contact sheet showing three of our best techniques and varying amount of edits for each picture.

Close Ups

This picture was taken as close to the eye as I could get with my camera staying in focus, showing the detail of the eye. I then cropped the picture and added focus. This apparent detail in the photo and the closeness the camera was to the eye makes this picture a close up.

Rule of Thirds

In this picture the subject, Berritt, is in the last third of the photo. I edited the picture to make it more horizontal, giving it the appearance that she was farther in the right side of the photo. Because she is in one third of the photo and not in the center this photo shows rule of thirds.

Diagonals

The wires in this picture run diagonally across the frame, showing the diagonals technique. I cropped the original photo to make it so that the diagonals filled the frame and were more apparent.

Leading Lines

The lines on the painting lead to the subject, Jack. I look at the picture from the top to the bottom, following the lines downward toward Jack, which shows leading lines.

Birds Eye View

This picture was taken from a level above looking down Berritt and Camilla. By being above them and taking a picture looking downward it made it a birds eye view.

Bugs Eye View

To take this picture I was almost laying on the ground shooting upward toward the sign, making this picture a bugs eye view. I also edited the color and added more of a yellow tint to give it a warmer feeling, which I thought improved the picture from the original.

Frame Within a Frame

At the bottom of the stairwell there is an opening that looks out over the city. This opening is a frame showing the city, making this picture a frame within a frame.

Filling the Frame

The lollipop in this picture completely fills the frame, you cannot see the edges of the lollipop, making this picture filling the frame.

I had a great summer. Three days after school got out I went to Turkey and then to Italy. In Turkey we went to Istanbul and looked at beautiful architecture in mosques (below is a picture of me looking at the architecture). Then I went to the coast in Turkey and swam in the ocean, took boat rides, and laid out in the sun. My family an I then went to Italy where we saw our old friends from when we used to live there. I visited many places I used to go to all the time like my old favorite pizza place. We stayed in Europe for about a month and when we got back the rest of my summer was soccer and hanging out with friends. Below are images of the architecture in Istanbul.