Processed Concentration 12/4

Concentration Prelim

These photos are scattered from all different locations and times, but I think the people set a tone to the picture. I hope to recover some of the photos I took in Charleston this summer. I also hope to go out and take more photos of people soon.

Concentration Questions

2 Concentration Questions

The central idea of my concentration is people and their surroundings. I want the people to bring a sense of life into the photo. I want the backgrounds to be interesting, but not distracting. My goal is that the people convey the central tone/mood of the piece.

My work in my concentration demonstrates the exploration of my idea because I hope to photograph a plethora of people. I want to do more candid photos because there is more life in those photos than staged photos. That is not to say that I couldn’t explore adding more depth into my staged photos. This is because when I have done staged photos in the past, but I have focuses more on the beauty of the person rather than the artistic depth of the piece. So, if I were to explore staged photos that would be my goal. For example, in my picture of ML the lighting and the background are very interesting, yet the photo still highlights her beauty. I hope to capture a whole range of emotions, despite the fact that I am typically drawn to photograph the joy and laughter of people. For example, the pictures of the children at the fountain, really capture a childish happiness. I think that is because I think capturing joy within a photo can really move people. I am not glad to capture the more sad emotions, but I am interested in seeing where I find them. I want to focus on having a variety of locations in which I find people, I think that will make my photos more interesting, but it will also allow for me to find different types of people. I think it will also be interesting to explore ethnicity, possibly my work could have undertones of culture to them. I really hope I can add an element of story telling within my photos.

Multiples Process 11/5

Multiples Prelim

I took these photos in all different locations, I think a lot of them might have been in Disney or Ocean City. But with a lot of my photos I focus on the close I am a big fan of detail in photographs. I also like to have a central focus in the picture with a background that emphasizes it, I guess like many photographers. With the photos of the light posts I captured the multiples, but I also like that the light posts gave the photos a lot of depth. A big part of that was the fact that the boardwalk did have twists and turns, allowing it to appear like a horizon in the background. There is one picture of the lights where I stood on the wall at a slanted angle and I think that makes the photos more interesting you kind of feel like you're not looking at it the right way, plus the light in the background gives it a cool look. I really like the texture of the picture of Gracie's hands I like the darkness surrounding the fingers which highlight a lot of the details in her nails, but I also like that the little babies are blurry. I think the fact that they are a little blurry makes the photo more interesting. I really like photo of the water from the fountain, it is one of the moments when my camera really amazed me when it can capture something that is moving so fast and make it look frozen, sure it is also about timing and angle, but make camera does most of the work. I like the way I edited the sky to look because the dark edges of the sky really bring the center focus of the photo to the water. I really like the texture in photos of the conch shells, I like how there are so many of them and most of them are showing the dark brown outside, but you get to see the beauty of the shell from the inside. I guess this would be one of the "prettier" photos and less artistic. I plan on maybe going into store to take more photos of multiples or maybe just finding some multiples of nature, but I really like the multiple lights. I just think taking pictures of different lights is very interesting, but I plan to change my technique and angles of the photos.

Multiples Research

Natagiri Pass Path

(No date given)

Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita, National Geographic

I like the way the multiples add depth to the picture. I like the combination of the trees and the steps that give the photo a sort of angular feel. Yet, there is also a sort of haze over the photo. I think it be through the fog coming in the left, the direction of the fog also gives the photo depth. I think all of the colors give the photo a lot of life.

Lone Shark

March 9, 2013

Photograph by Denis Nezhentsev, National Geographic

I really like this photo, this different from a photo that I would typically like because I am a fan of strong colors and defined lines. But I think the contrast of dark and light is very good in this picture. For example, how it is very light, almost white, at the top of the photo, presumably the surface and as the water gets deeper the picture fades into a darker grey. This is also a different take of multiples because multiples are showing depth, but not so much an angular depth showing distance. The fish really create a focus around the shark, through the shark is faded and more in the background it is still the central focus of the picture.  The colors of the fish in the front make the photo not even appeal real. The mood of the photo is very relaxed, due to grey, yet one would think a shark swimming within a school of fish would cause chaos. 

Self Portrait Process 10/21

Emotional Portrait Prelim

I took these photos in my backyard. I plan to take more in a better location soon. Taking photos alone with my tripod was very difficult, because I had never used this setting on my camera before, so a lot of my photos didn't turn out because my camera wasn't focusing on it's own very well. I liked taking photos with my hair down because I feel like it give the photo more life. So, when I take more photos I want a better location and I will have my hair down the whole time. Through I really liked the fence in my photos and the role it plays in most of the photos. I think the fence makes it look like I am escaping or I am trapped.