Still Life

Still Life

Artist Statement: This week I worked on taking photos of still life. I used Edward Weston as my inspiration for this weeks work. I set up a small station inside where I took each photo. I placed the food item on a small white bowl and used the zoom setting on the camera to focus close up on the image. My intention of these photos was to work on the lighting and to see what would happen if I changed the angle of the light. Each photo is pretty similar except that I tried to create a different light structure in each one. Then I edited each photo in black and white so that I could capture the lighting nicely as well as having each photo be cohesive with one another. I think think weeks photos where challenging but I would like to work on becoming better at taking still life photos in future classes.

Abstract Photos

Abstract Photos

Artist Statement: This week I focused on taking photos of small details that I notices on the street. I tired to express texture with in each of my pictures as well as a repetition of patterns that surrounded the frame of the photo. Lastly I edited all my photos in black and white to make them cohesive with one another. 

Best of Spring Series

Artist Statement: This week we worked on editing and touching up our last photos that we wanted to post. These are the best photos that I feel I edited well. I also made a few new ones to add to the collections. In each photos I would replace the main focus of the picture and use a new photo that has a different perspective in it. Creating this series was a fun way to experiment with new technique of editing photos together. 

                                                               Final Draft


Artist Statement: This week I worked on taking photos of different scenarios then trying to combined them together to make it almost look like an optical illusion. I also wanted to work with color this week to see if it could change my perspective. This was the last week for editing news photos and next week I'll be closing the best out of the series.

Spring 2

Artist Statement: This week I chose to take photos of different people in a natural environment then I tired to to edit other photos of people into the original photo. I edit each photo in black and white so that they all cohesively go together. Editing one photo takes about 20 minutes because I spend a lot of time trying to photoshop each photo together. I have enjoyed making these photos this week and I will try to make a better batch next week. 

    

    

   

   

  

Spring Series 

Artist Statement: This week we started our spring series. I decided to create collages based on real life pictures. I took photos of my surrounding and then I also took portraits of a few of my classmates. I took their faces and or eyes and cropped it to fit a certain part of the photo. Then I meshed both photos together then edited them in black and white. This is just the first week of photos and I will be trying out new ways to edit my pictures every week.