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.

Night Landscape Process 10/6

Emotional Portrait Research

Little Girl by Dean Conger, taken in 1977

Source: National Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/photogalleries/in_focus/photo5.html

This picture immediately caught my attention as soon as I saw it, I am not sure if it is the positioning of the little girl front and center of the picture, or simply her expression. All of the browns and the deeper colors stand out against the white snow, which is something that make the girl stand out. I think it is the black hood brings my attention straight to her face, an expression that sets the entire mode for the picture. This girl looks very content, her expression shows no sense of worry or lingering unhappiness. The picture has a relaxed vibe and I think that is what also sets the tone as very happy. It appears that she is sending her 'hakuna matata' vibe to the observer of the photo through her hand gesture. The mood of the photo is slow and easy, there isn't too much to take in, but then you have the detail of the building in the background along with the other children in the distance

Peruvian Boy by William Albert Allard, taken in 1982

Source: National Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/photogalleries/in_focus/photo6.html

Though the focus of the photo is more to the right, it is very noticeable you can tell that the photographers main focus is on the little boy. The brown and green more faded colors in the background cause the blues in the boy's outfit to really stand out. The colors present his environment as a very washed out rural environment, and his tattered clothes reveal that he already does not have a lot. Thus through the colors and his surrounding an empathetic mood is being set. Yet, the expression on the boy's face sets the mood of the whole photo. He has an expression of sheer horror on his face that makes my heart hurt. His emotion is not presented as a stereotypical type of crying/sadness.  The tone of his sadness is seems to stem from betrayal, his face reveals his shock as well. That what ever just occurred is not something he even considered as a possibility.The little boy's face creates a mood of sheer anguish within the photograph.