Unseen Spectator Reflection

Reflection:
           Our intentions in this project were to capture the predator prey relationship by using the model wolf and deer. We also really wanted to retain a wintery, cold feel in our project that is why we decided to make this photo black and white. I believe we were able to capture a very ominous scene with our use of the fog machine and different camera angles. We felt that focusing on one of the model animal would really evoke the ambiguousness of the photo but still evoking the predator prey relationship. In our photo we focused in on the wolf thus blurring the deer. Although it may be hard to make out the deer in the photo I feel that it adds to the obscure aspect of the photo as well as the predator prey relationship. The wolf was meant to be the unseen spectator as he is supposed to be stalking his prey, the deer.  I felt that our sculpture was well put together and allowed us to get a sense of realism in out photos (especially the use of the fog machine). I felt that I was able to not only contribute to the photography aspect but also the sculpture parts of the project. But I believe that all together each group member contributed equally. Comments on our photos were that our photo evoked a feeling of anticipation, coldness, winter, fear, ominous and mysterious. We were told we could improve out photos by cropping and limiting the view in the photo. We were also advised to lighted some of the darks.

My Artistic Voice - guided free write

Habits, I tend to use similar colors in my project primarily blue. I also like to create pictures with symmetry and focus on one object, person, animal ect. I love making art because of the great feeling after completing a project/series of pictures that I am proud of. My favorite series/project was from last year in intermediate photo which was my picture book I made. this was my favorite because i felt as an artist that project exemplified my abilities and interest as a photographer fairly well. I like to work in digital photography. I tend go back to are focusing in on one object, I also like to focus on scenery such as landscapes what not in my projects. I felt that the predator prey relationship was a good idea that came from my voice and was a contributions to the project. Especially the setting being in the snow. I believe as an artist I am able to express my voice without using words but rather my art.  

Diarama - Notes and Outline (Lizzie, Maggy, Charlotte and Ethan)

Landscape:
Snowy land scape (trees, forest) with predator stalking prey as the unseen spectator

Desert lion stalking gazel

Ocean with shark looking from below up to a fish/human


We are gonna choose between this three

Water & Symmetry

Reflection

Conceptual Intentions:

      The purpose of this series was to evoke light as a character within our photos. I purposefully used the reflection of light off water to create symmetrical pictures (not all my pictures are symmetrical). I approached each day differently taking my photos at different angles, distances, lighting, objects and so on until I found that capturing lights reflection off water was very intriguing and thus the rest of my project was based on the foundation of using lights reflection off water. I felt that this project allowed me to explore my photography new techniques when taking pictures. I thought this process was very meaningful because I was able to find what I was most comfortable with taking pictures of and I really appreciated that the topic was so broad thus allowing me to really experiment when taking my pictures.

Stretch and Explore:

     Through out the project I was constantly changing what I was taking my photos of and how I was taking them until I found something that really caught my interest. As the weather, lighting, and environment changed I found new ways to take photos. One day it was raining and I used the opportunity to take photos. The photos I took that day ended up being what I used in my series. I think that I could have taken pictures outside of school when it rained during the duration of the project because I could have definitely taken some cool photos off campus, but I am still very happy with how my series turned out.

Light as a Character - Water, Reflection and Light

In this project our goal was to use light as the main character within our photographs. For each photo I wanted to use water and reflection in order to evoke light as the main character within the photos. The first photo I used the reflection of the building on the water to create two halves of the picture creating a symmetrical picture. I also did this with the second picture. The third picture was a reflection off of a bench which I then flipped creating an abstract reflection off of the bench. The next photo I used the reflection off of the water droplets to really drag the attention of the viewer to the reflection in the three water droplets. I also used water droplets to bring out light as a character in the next three photos. I in almost all of my pictures used depth of field to grab the attention of the viewer to the object that I wanted to be the main part of the photo. I also got fairly close to the object that I was taking a picture of to accomplish the same goal as using depth of field. I was really happy with how all of these photos turned out!

Light as a Primary Character

I think that in each of these photos light plays a role as a primary character. In the first photo the dark background really evoked light as primary character. The dark background forces the viewer to focus in on the light making it a primary character in the picture. The second photo uses light as a primary character through the reflection of the saxophone. The reflection of the light off of the saxophone draws the attention of the viewer to the center of the photograph. In the last picture the dark side of the building contrast the light side of the building which draws the attention of the viewer to the lighter side of the building making light a primary character .

Digital Photography reflection

Exposure triangle photographs--what are the strengths of of these 3-5 images

I think that the strengths of these 5 photographs is the variation of color and lighting. I think that the lighting in almost all the photos really makes each one (to me at least) strong in certain aspects. I feel that using depth of field to get certain parts of the photo in focus and some out of focus really adds to the composition of the photos. I think that using a low ISO also added to the sharpness of some of my photos further separating the difference of the in focus and out of focus parts of each image.

High key/low key--post one high and one low key image, what works about them

I had a lot of trouble taking a good high key picture so I am leaving the results of my attempts at high key pictures out of this post. But I was able to capture a, in my opinion, good low key photo. In this image I believe that the use of a very high shutter speed I was able to capture the actual flames of the fire in my image. I think that the darkness of the image really evokes the brightness and orange/yellow flames of the fire.

Off camera flash / studio lights--2-5 images, address how the use of light serves the image