Stop Animation

Final Stop Animation Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS36XUhfFzM&feature=youtu.be&safe=active

Natural Landscape

BEAUTY: Beauty is simple but jaw dropping. Things are beautiful if the basic elements are pure and natural. This is why I love nature photos because they display this perfectly. The photo below is by J. Christopher and I think it illustrates beauty because it's simple in that the subjects aren't forced or posed and yet it has a way of drawing you in.

Photo By: J. Christopher

Artistic vs. Commercial

Artistic Portrait:

This photo is more artistic because it's very simple and natural looking. The focus is just on the subject and it shows the raw emotion on her face. It isn't advertising anything or using the subject to sell something.

Commercial Portrait:

This portrait on the other hand, is using the subject to help sell the magazine. It is using her "fame" and "expertise in class" to convince people that the magazine will help them. By the subject looking straight into the camera, it also sucks the reader in and puts the focus on the message of the cover.

Portraits

Environmental Portrait:

This photo was taken of Hailey McDonald, a senior at Lincoln High School. She plays basketball for the school team and I took this in the gym. I like how the two hoops in the background move in a diagonal line away from her head and how they help illustrate what she loves to do. Her shirt, as well, helps tell a story and it shows her environment.

Classic Portrait:

I took this photo of Eve, who is usually my subject. I took this in her pitch black closet and used a flashlight to illuminate her face. I like the mystery of this photo and the lines that the shadows make along her cheeks and below her eyes. The intense contrast is dramatic and gives an eerie feeling to the portrait.

Classic Portrait:

Again, this photo is of Eve. I took it at school using a black, velvet fabric for the background. I really like this photo because it's a beautiful picture of Eve and it shows her personality. In Lightroom, I increased the blacks which darkened the fabric and put the focus entirely on her. I love how this picture radiates happiness.

Classic Portrait:

This is another classic portrait of Kimmy Kavanaugh. I really like how simple and natural this photo is. Her black coat almost acts in the same way as the black fabric in Eve's photo does. The shapes and lines in her face are very interesting to me and I love the simplicity to this.

Daguerreotype:
The daguerreotype is a direct positive process which creates a detailed photo on a metal plate. This was the first commercially successful process. This photo is of the Steel Bridge in downtown Portland. I used Photoshop to layer different textures and designs onto the photo to make it look older.

Tilt Shift: 

Tilt Shift photography uses the art of camera tilt to create selective focus, which stimulates miniature scenes.

#1

I took this photo on a balcony of a high rise building. I liked the sitting area that was on the roof of a building because it was random and miniature looking. 

#2

This photo was taken on a bridge in Venice, Italy. I really liked the colors and the curve of the river. I edited this in Photoshop and used the tilt shift techniques to make the boat look like a model. 

Light, Shadow, Reflection

Silhouette:



















I took this photo down on the waterfront in downtown Portland. My friend, Emily, posed for me on a fountain. In order to get her dark, I made sure that the sun was directly behind her and then in Lightroom I increased the contrast. I like this silhouette because of the shape that Emily is making.


Back Lighting:




    This photo of Jade was also taken down on the waterfront. I took it from the same position that I was in for Emily's photo, but I changed the settings to manual and the sky turned white, making Jade pop out. I really enjoy this photo because it's fun and shows Jade's personality.

    Reflection: 

    This is a reflection of a building in a puddle downtown. I like this photo because you can't really tell what is in the puddle until you look harder. It's also somewhat hard to figure out that it is a puddle.

    Shadow:

    I took this at my house, standing in the doorway. The sun was coming through the open door and it hit my door to the downstairs. I liked the lighting and color that it made on my door, so I put my hand up. The shadow became the subject and the faded branches behind it made a texture on the door.

Schmidt's Photos

Panorama: 

I took this panoramic shot of Lincoln High School in the front patio. I put my camera on my tripod and then moved it while taking several photos and overlapping them. After I took the photos and edited them in Lightroom, I then used photoshop to merge all of them together and to create a panorama of the school. I really like how the picture turned out, with the school being bent, because it adds a certain spice to the boring building. 

HDR: 

I took these three photos on my front porch of my neighbors house. It was a really sunny day and I loved the house hidden behind the trees in my yard. I think the three photos look a lot better overlapped rather than being by themselves.

Multiple Exposure: 

These two photos were taken at Multnomah Falls. I took a close up shot of the water fall. I then took a zoomed out photo of the same waterfall and overlapped the two. It created a very foggy and misty looking photo.

Motion Photos

Slow Motion:

























I took this photo in a pitch black closet. I set my shutter speed to fifteen seconds and held a flashlight in my hand. I positioned myself, turned on the light for a second, turned it off and then moved. I repeated that four times so that over the course of fifteen seconds, I appeared in four different areas.

Freeze Action: 

This is a photo of the bottom part of Multnomah Falls. It is an example of freeze action because everything is stopped, including the moving water. I like the color in this photos and the symmetry.

Total Motion:

I took this photo on the vista bridge at night when only the city lights were lighting the sky. I set the shutter speed to about one third and then moved the camera while it was taking the photo. This created the lines of color which look really cool.

Panning:

This picture was taken on my front porch. The boy in the picture is my neighbor who loves to ride his bike at high speeds up and down our street. It's fun watching him ride every afternoon and so I decided he would be the perfect model for this motion assignment. I set my shutter speed to one fortieth of a second and moved my camera along with him. This created a blurry background but a still Adam.

Diptych and Triptych Photos

Diptych Photo:

These photos were taken at a little restaurant in Florence, Italy. I chose these because I love food and really enjoyed this meal. I also like how there is a before and after effect.

Triptych Photo:

I took these photos on the walls of Ferrara, Italy. My sisters and I figured out how to make shadows on the wall. We had a lot of fun goofing around and I like how they all connect.

Shape Assignment

Asymmetrical and Geometric Shapes:

I took this photo in Florence, Italy during my vacation over the winter break. I like this photo because of the strong geometric shapes and asymmetrical balance. The lines of the building and river lead to the bridge in the background and it gives the photo a very geometric feel. I also really like the leading lines in this photo and the color. 

Radial Balance and Geometric Shapes:



This photo was also taken in Italy. I took it in one of the dungeons in a castle. The amazing part about this artwork is that it is high on the ceiling. It makes me wonder how the prisoner was able to make the markings so high above ground. I liked the shape of the checkered circle and the parts of the wall that have fallen off. I also like the contrast of the black and white and the letters written in the squares.