Assignment 6

Composition: In this image I wanted there to be emphasis on the two subjects so I put them in the center of the frame and made them darker than the background.

Concept: This image is about the love between man and dog. I wanted to show them interacting and having fun together to show that they have love for one another.

Method: I knew that for one of the images for this project that I wanted to show the relationship of a dog and his owner and my friend was playing with his dog so in order to capture this image I took pictures of the two of them playing together.

Motivation: My goal for this image was to show love between a dog and his owner and have the image look candid so that I could capture the actual emotion.

Context: This image describes that even though dogs are animals they can still have emotion and love their owner.

Composition: In this image I wanted to have emphasis on the poster so I lightened the greens in the image to make the poster lighter (which was its original color) and then used curves to up the contrast in order to make the writing on the poster stand out against the really light background.

Concept: I wanted to have an image that was about love without using the relationship between two people to show it.

Method: In order to come up with the idea for this image I brainstormed and made the poster then had my roommate hold it in different positions to see where I liked it best.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show my project idea without using people interacting.

Context: In this image I wanted to influence people to love spread love to others.

Composition: In this image I wanted to show the interaction between the two subjects so I included their arms in the frame.

Concept: This image is about the love between best friends.

Method: I didn't really have much of a method behind this photo, I was hanging out with them and they were talking like that to each other for a second and I took a shot of it, it just worked out perfect.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show the relationship between friends and I wanted it to appear that they weren't aware of the camera.

Context: This image is about the love between friends and how comfortable they are with each other. Some people think that it's strange when people of the same sex are affectionate (hold hands, kiss, ect.) and love each other, but I wanted to show that there can be love between people that is just friendly and that touching each other, as they are in the photo, is just a way of showing their friendship.

Composition: In this image I wanted the hand to be the most dominate part of the photo so I made the background really dark and put a lot of light on the hand to create heavy contrast. I also wanted the word love to stand out so I made it red while the rest of the image is black and white.

Concept: In this image I wanted to show the theme of the series without using human interaction.

Method: For this image I brainstormed and made a couple sketches. I then looked up "love" and "I love you" in different languages.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show love in many different languages.

Context: This image shows that although there are many different ways to say love, the emotion is always the same no matter how you say it.

Composition: In this image I wanted to make the heart stand out against the black piano keys so I made the contrast really intense and dodged the heart to make it really light.

Concept: For this image I wanted to portray love with using only inanimate objects.

Method: In order to come up with this image I cut out a heart and placed it in different settings around my house and picked a spot that looked interesting.

Motivations: My motivation for this image was to symbolize love.

Context: This image shows that you can take something ordinary like a piano and a cut out of a heart and turn it into an interesting piece of artwork.

Composition: In this image I wanted to include their body language to show their closeness.

Concept: The concept of this image was to show the relationship between a father and son.

Method: For this image my dad kind of did most of the work for me. I told him I needed to show the relationship between him and my brother and he did different poses for me and they worked out really well.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show a father and son interacting and having fun together to show their love for each other.

Context: This image shows that no matter how old someone gets, kids will still rely on their parents to take care of them to some extent. In this image the fact that my brother is looking at my dad is showing that he still looks up to him even now that he's 26.

Composition: In this image I wanted to have emphasis on the subjects so I made them really dark against the white background.

Concept: The concept of this image is the love between a matured, married relationship.

Method: In order to capture this image I had my parents stand in front of me and told them to "love each other," and then my mom started telling a story about their wedding and there was a moment where they both laughed while looking at each other.

Motivation: My motivation of this image was to show the comfort and love between a couple that has been together for a really long time.

Context: This image shows that once married for so long (20+ years) a couple starts to work together as a unit, while still being their own person. The fact that you can't see a line where one of them starts and the other ends helps portray this idea.

Composition: In this image I wanted the two people to be the main subjects so-it was hard in this setting- I tried to put as much light as possible on the two of us to help make us stand out.
Concept: The concept of this image is to show a younger couple and the love between them.
Method: In order to come up with this image I brainstormed different ways to show a physical relationship.
Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show how a lot of times younger couples' relationships tend to be more physical.
Context: This image shows the relationship between two younger kids and their affection for each other. I wanted to show as much emotion as I could without showing a lot of their face.

Composition: In this image I wanted a lot of contrast so I used curves and did a lot of burning and dodging.

Concept: In this image I wanted to show the relationship between siblings.

Method: For this set of images I did a lot of pictures like the one below this, which is what I was planning on using, but then when we were leaving he picked her up to say goodbye to her and gave her a kiss and I quick pulled out my camera and captured it.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show love between a brother and sister.

Context: This image shows that you can depict emotion without seeing someone's face.

Composition: In this image I wanted to show the three of them interacting so I included all of them in the frame.

Concept: This image is about the love between siblings.

Method: For this image I tried to think of siblings that I could use and I think that little kids always make cute pictures so I asked my friend if I could take images of his little sisters and I took pictures of them hanging out together.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to show siblings love for each other and how comfortable they are together.

Context: The way that Nathan is hovering over the girls give a feeling of his protectiveness over them but their faces expresses the fact that they enjoy each other's company.

Assignment 5 Writeup Part 2

Image 1: flowers
-Others interpreted this image as a constructed reality of the subject painting the flowers.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would use a tripod to eliminate blur.
-If I were to use this image as a jumping off point I would do a series of people painting different things in odd places.
Image 2: film recreation
-Others interpreted this image as hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would try to use different subjects instead of just myself so that it would resemble the film still more.
-If I were to use this as a jumping off point I would do a series I would do other film stills from the movie Dazed and Confused.
Image 3: illusion
-Others interpreted this image as a constructed illusion.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would try other positions with the subject. I would also try adding more people.
-I could do a series of different illusions using other things. Such as the sun, do images where it looks like people are playing with the sun.
Image 4: collage
-Others interpreted this image as an in camera collage.
-If i were to reshoot this image I would play with lighting more and add other things to the image.
-If I were to use this image as a jumping off point I would do a series of images of different collages that reminded me of different events in my life. This one is full of items I've collected at different concerts I've gone to.

Assignment 4 Writeup Part 2

Image 1: milk and cookies
-Others interpreted this image as an advertisement.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would play more with lighting and try different positions with the cookies and milk.  I would also add text to the image to give it more of an advertisement feel.
-If I were to use this image as a jumping off point I would use different objects and play with their reflections using mirrors, water, and other shiny surfaces such as the counter top in the image I have now.
Image 2: fashion
-Others interpreted this image as a fashion shot.
-If I were to change this image I would make the bottom right corner be covered by the sheet.
-If I were to use this image as a jumping off point I would do more fashion images in different outfits and in different settings.
Image 3: snapshot
-Others interpreted this image as a snap shot.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would use a tripod to eliminate blur.
-An idea for a jumping off point would be to take different images of my friends interacting.
Image 4: film still
-Others interpreted this image as a film still from The Little Rascals.
-If I were to change this image I would maybe add the movie title.
-A series of images I could do would be different characters from The Little Rascals

Part 2 Writeup Assignment 3

Image 1: door
-Others interpreted this image as being picturesque in an unpicturesque urban landscape.  The door gives a rural, more organic feel; where as the brick wall looks urban and boring.
-I don't think I would change this image, I like it the way it looks.  If I were to do anything I think I would maybe increase the contrast.
-For this image I could do a project about doors and what they mystery of what is behind them.
Image 2: Construction Site
-Others interpreted this image as something picturesque in an unpicturesque environment, however it was supposed to symbolize the cultural phenomenon of putting up new structures and destroying nature.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would use a tripod and try to make the image as a whole more in focus.
-An expansion of this picture could be having a lot of images of different structures and having an intense sunburst behind it.
Image 3: book shelf
-Others interpreted this image as cubism which is what it was supposed to be about.
-If I were to reshoot this image I would use a tripod and try to make the image sharper.
-If I were to use this image as a jumping off point I would do a series of different angles of the library.
Image 4: shadow
-Others interpreted this image as a change in time.
-I don't think if I were to reshoot I would change much about this image.  I might play with the lighting a little bit and see what kind of interesting shadows I could create.
-A jumping off point for this image would be to do a series with different ghostly figures in different environments.

In Progress Crit

Final Project-brainstorm

Bese Saka "sack of cola nuts"

Peace

for these images my idea was to create different symbols using different objects and somehow incorporate different images that implies what they mean.

Another idea that I had was to do a series of images that portray the word "love." I would the different kinds of love using relationships between people. For example the mature, eternal love between a couple that has been married for many years; young love between a young couple; love between siblings, family, friends, mother/father to child etc.

Assignment 5

Composition: In this image I wanted the focus to be on Andrew and the flowers so I decided to make them darker than the white background.

Concept: For this photo I wanted to make it look like he was painting the flowers on the wall.

Method: In order to create this image I made the flowers out of paper and taped them to the wall. I brainstormed to come up with it.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to create a scene where the viewer can tell what is happening with only seeing one picture.

Context: My image is about imagination. I tried to make it look like the flowers were painted with only one stroke of the brush.

Composition: In this image I wanted to recreate a film still from Dazed and Confused but I didn't have anyone to model for me so I used myself and laid them all next to each other.

Concept: The concept for this image goes with the saying hear no evil speak no evil see no evil so I have 3 different images of someone covering their ears mouth and eyes.

Method: In order to come up with ideas for this image I watched Dazed and Confused and found a scene that I wanted to recreate.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to recreate a film still.

Context: This image has to deal with being a good person, if you try to avoid evil then it will avoid you.

Composition: In this image I wanted to include a lot of the surrounding scenery because I wanted it to be obvious that he was sitting on a wall.

Concept: The concept of this image is illusion. I wanted to make it look like he was sitting down but the illusion is that he is on the wall.

Method: I found images on line of different forced perspective images and got the idea of creating an illusion by the placement of subjects.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to create an illusion so that people have to take a second glance to realize that he's not really sitting on the ground.

Context: This image shows that sometimes you have to look twice to see what is really there.

Composition: For this image I wanted to include all of the objects in the image while making it look like an in camera college.

Concept: The concept of this image kind of goes a lot with live music. I included ticket stubs, glow sticks, and the butterfly headband that I wear to a lot of concerts that I go to.

Method: In order to come up with this image I looked through all of my old stuff that I've gotten from previous concerts.

Motivation: My motivation for this image was to create an in camera college that was interesting and shows my interest in live music.

Context: This image shows the culture behind the music that I am into.