Landscape

Landscape, The task of this assignment was to take a photo of landscape. Sounds easy huh? To be honest not really, looking for a place and then having great competition is 2 hard things to put together. In this photo im not sure what kind of plant it it but you see this big green like flower as the main focus. After that the photo leads the photo leads you back to the purple flowers then the green ice plants in front. This photo was done planned out and taken at our very own school. I like this photo even in natural shoot despite the fact it was photoshoped. This picture still turned our really amazing with the help of Ms.Miles for the photoshop.

Extra Credit Culture Part 2

Model: Greg Dawson

Some people say that women are the only ones who wear makeup. But honestly flamboyant and even gay men should be able to use make up as well. Whats wrong with a man wanting to use powder or eyeliner to highlight a few areas on ones face? Here I show a male model posing in a mirror wearing a few simple facial products and make up around him. As you can see he is wearing foundation, powder, eye liner, and even mascara. You see him looking into the mirror checking it over and over again to see if his make up is well put on. A few things I like about this picture is the lighting and the composition. The lighting was brighten up more on his face and on the lamp to show emphasis on the make up he is wearing. Nothing fancy with angles or anything but the lay out of the model and the make up surrounding him brings out the general idea of what is going on. One thing I dont like about this is the angle of cutting out some of his full face out of the mirror. One thing that comes to mind when ive taken this picture is whats wrong with men wearing make up? its 2010 we have cross genders, gays, bis, lesbians and even trans genders. I dont see whats wrong with a male wearing makeup.

Cultural assignment

Model: Skylar Romero


For this assignment we had to shoot about our culture or about our identity in some way. This assignment kept me thinking for a while. Figuring out what to take a shot of. Then it hit me watching a video about National Gay Awareness Day. The Video was about a teenage student doing a Psychology experiment to show straight people what its like being gay. What he had to do was ask a few friends to volunteer and to go around the mall wearing a hot pink T-shirt saying Im Gay. His project was a success because his straight friends got to some what view what its like being gay. In this photo you see the the male model wearing a tape with written words onto it. Words stating "NOH8" and the expression on his face shows that he is in thought and in concern. next to him from afar is a cross with Jesus Christ. The who catholic point of view about being gay is wrong is shown in this picture. You see him semi shirtless and just wearing pants in a white background. You could assume the model could be gay because of the NOH8 sign but hes not just posing. The tape is red because Red symbolized love and since the model is posing to be gay he loves men and seems like he has to live a double life living up to gods wishes as well as his own sanity. I like this picture because it shows who I was at the time living a double life. The lighting and composition is well done as well. The thing I dont like about this picture is the random red dot holding the cross. I didnt realize that was there till now.

Landscape review

For this assignment we had to go online and look around for landscape images that we liked. The image that I have chosen to write about is an image of being in the mountains and its snowy. I chose this picture cause to me this picture the landscape just looks pretty. Its pretty because it seems quiet its shows that snow has fallen and it also makes you assume that its winter. The composition of this picture is really well taken as well. your first focus are the trees in front of the stream of water and then the stream of water leads you down to the rest of the scenery. The view really is astonishing to see mountains,trees,stream,sky and clouds. Another reason why I have chosen this shot is because its snowy. Snow has always amazed me and I have never seen snow in person yet. Snow to me is an amazing thing that mother nature does. Snow is kind of unnatural in a sense because its bizarre in my opinion. Another thing I like about this is the lighting cause its like morning light. The lighting is very essential in this picture because it helps bring out the scenery more.

Point and Shoot part 2

In this photo we have the original to the right and the photoshopped version to the right. I see foot steps walking out of this splatted what you could possible assume maybe paint or blood but I wont say. You also see someone onto the side like as if there waiting for the other person who has left the trail of blood to be done with what ever work there doing. To me this shoot was done purposely because you can tell by the photographer (ME) that this was planned out due to the layout of the area. It was shot out doors or well to put it simpler it was shot out of the ceramic room and we happen to find these foot steps outside and a splatted area and I though hmm maybe I can use this in a cool way somehow. I like the setting of the area and these were my intentions of actually using this setting/location. What I dont like about this picture is the fact there's no props or anything although you can assume something must of happened because of the trail of blood. This was the point and shoot project we did and I learned a lot more about what could be shoot in school instead of always assuming I can go out of school to shoot better pictures.

Point and Shoot Project :D

So apparently in class we had a discussion that taking pictures in school have gotten boring. But then yesterday, Ms. Miles made a point that we are not looking around enough or Broadening our point of view with in the setting in school. To the left we have this picture out side of school and to the right it we have it in school. It is true we have more a variety to choose around when we shoot out of school but when you look at it from Ms. Miles point of view with looking at backgrounds and shapes and colors it actually changed how much we can look at what is around us. The right was shoot near the bathrooms by the Senior Circle and our model Nick was in a tree reaching out, then I had Ms. Miles come in to reach out to him to change the outline of the whole look of the picture. Originally her arm wasnt there but with her arm being there it changed drastically. I like the lighting it brings a good mood especially with the setting that this picture was taken place. Especially the left picture, taken outside of Penn Elem. going up the hill. Both of these pictures had really good elements within them such as lighting and contrast. I guess one of the things I didnt like about the picture in the left was probably the tree branches randomly comming out in the right side of the picture like in the sky, the right picture I didnt like how the hands didnt line up well, I guess I should have taken the pictures better more and such or so.

Natural Lighting/ Portrait retake 2

Model Lance Mom and Baby Sister Jenna <3

So I decided to take two different portrait pictures but between the two I have to say this one was better than the first, well Lighting wise anyways and it look more natural I guess with this one the composition is blahh but over all I have to say this Kind of had a depth of field because behind Jenna is a little blurry and the focus is the mom. This came out better than I expected and as ive stated, this looks really natural like your just seeing the moment in front of you and you so happen to capture the moment of a mother holding her child close to her as the baby takes a rest.