Final

Final Sketch

This is a bad attempt at visualizing the concept for my final project

Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1
In this Chapter we learned about the history of photography. It explained how it started with film and became digital. They also explained that there were different types of film, color and black and white. At the end of the chapter they answered a good deal of questions about photography. Overall it was a good way to wrap-up the first chapter.

Chapter 2
In Chapter 2 they talked a lot about composition and how to compose a good picture. They focused on the way to make a eye grabbing photo that makes the viewer look all over the picture. They started by talking about the Golden Mean and how the picture should be made up of thirds. It also talked about that sometimes it is ok to break the rules.

Chapter 3
For Chapter 3 the main focus was on how to use your camera. It talked about the parts of the camera, the lens, mirror, the digital sensor array and the pentaprism. The chapter focused more on digital cameras. It talked about the the different types of image sensors. It also talked about the image sizes and the different types of cameras for your different interests.

Chapter 4
In this chapter they focused on the different types of filters and exposure times. In order to capture a photo properly you have to take into consideration all the elements in you image. They talked about the different tools that would help with the exposure, like the gray card, histogram and the light meter.

Chapter 5
This chapter talks about the different types of light. It talks about natural light and the different times of day and how it effects the image differently. The Chapter also talked about how the different seasons and weather conditions effect and image. It also mentioned that there is no perfect light, it all depends on what you are going for.

Chapter 6
This Chapter really talked about seeing with the eyes of a photographer. Reading the world in a poetic way and capturing that in an image. It also talked about how digital photography is pushing the idea of photos in a new direction. They are saying that people are starting to see everything differently and take the idea of photos as no longer just the image of what is really there.

Chapter 7
In this chapter they talk about the different uses of the shutter speeds. They talk about how to capture a clear image and how to make a blurry image. They also discuss different filters that will help with each of the different speeds you use and how they help with the overall idea of the image.

Chapter 8
In Chapter 8 they talked about pixels and image compression and they different printing techniques. It talks about what makes a good print and what makes a good display. It also talked about some key things in photoshop for those of us who make not already know that much about photoshop.

Chapter 9
This chapter talks about the final product and what you get when the shoot is over. It talks about how to work with a photo to adjust little things here and there that you could not before, such as retouching or burning and dodging. It also talks about the best way to present the photo once everything is done.

Shadow Photoshop Inclass

Today in class we learned how to add a shadow to an image

Narrative Social Landscape in Progress

We first had to take photos for this concept without knowing what it meant. We had to make up our own meaning for it. I was very unsure and it sort of became a real landscape rather than a social one. I took shots all over campus and that was interesting but once we found out what the concept really meant I knew I had to do something different. For my project I am focusing on the issue of judgement, judging someone by what they wear rather than getting to know the person underneath. I am taking images of people, people I don't know, strangers. I am looking at how what people think of others based only on what a person is wearing.

What kind of people do you think they are?...

Chapter Summaries

For the book that we use in class we are supposed to do chapter summaries of each chapter that we are reading. I will be doing that within the next week!

Artist Lectures

I have been to the lectures but I need to write about them. They are coming I promise

Class Head-shot Morph

In class recently we took head-shots of everyone. We got to use a really nice lighting kit to get just the right look and it was an interesting process but then we got to do something a little strange after. We had to take all the headshots we took and morph them into one new person. It was a really frustrating thing to do and I was getting a little upset but then I finally started to get it. I think this looks a little too much like me and its freaky but everyone in class is in the shot in some way.

The memory of 9-11

I was in history class at Mountain View Middle School in Goffstown NH. We were all sitting and talking about some topic that I cannot remember now. My teacher was in the middle of a sentence when someone knocked on the door. They handed our teacher a note and she started to get really upset. She didn't tell us what the note said but she walked over to the tv and turned on the news. Just as she did this the second plane hit the second tower. We were all in shock. No one believed that this was real. We just sat in silence until someone started to cry. I couldn't even react, I didn't know what to say or where to look. I just kept watching the tv screen. We were all sent home early that day and once I got home my dad and I watched the news for the rest of the day. I couldn't even cry until I went to bed. I let out all the pain that I was feeling from the day and cried myself to sleep.

Homework #9 Narrative Social Landscape

Homework #8 Seven Deadly Sins

The 7 Deadly Sins project has been both my favorite project and the most difficult so far. I had a lot of ideas from the get go, but I had a hard time making them come to life. I first wanted to do something with Greek gods and I knew that would never work out. Then I had the perfect idea for an image of lust that dealt with feet and I was going to do a whole series of feet. But after starting I realized that it was never going to work. So last second I completely re-did my concept. I had always had the idea of using my lips and mouth for the shots and once I started it really took off for me. It took a long time to get Gluttony and Envy and Lust but the shots came out really great. I was going to make all of the shots black and white but after talking with Julee she liked the color and that made me see the beauty in it. These are my sins...

Gluttony

Greed

Lust

Pride

Sloth

Wrath

Envy

In class Kingsbury Photo shoot

Today in class we focused on Architecture, we went across the street to Kingsbury and tried to capture the spirt of the building in images. I had never been into the building before and was pleased to see how interesting it was. With its hallways of different colors and all the angles. Very cool building. 

Homework #7 Flenaur

For this homework we had to wander around and try to capture poetic moments. I chose to wander around the Theatre department. I ended up in the costume shop and Props loft. I took a lot of photos and was pleased with a decent amount of them, on the computer but when I printed them they were not exactly what I was hoping for but maybe I can do some more color editing and fix any of the little problems I see.

Tidying Up Art In Class Exercise

Malevich's Suprematism 

Original 

My Version

Matisse Blue Nude

Original

My Version

Today in class we played in photoshop. We took famous works of art and created new compositions. 

Homework #6 Color

For this assignment we had to pick a color and then go out in the "world" and find that color. It was interesting because I picked blue and I normally see it all over the place but when I started to take the shots I realized that the blue I see is not the photo worthy. But I found some interesting shots and I think I need to  lighten up some of them but I am overall pleased.

Color Correction for Time of Day

After going through a critique of the time of day shots, I was unhappy to hear that my photo before was a little flat in color. I went back and played with the tones and this was the result. I am pleased and now even happier with this photo!