Light Assignment.

 

Abstraction.

This is the underside of a leaf that I found in my town's Bird Sanctuary. I really liked that pattern and color that it had and decided to zoom in to only focus on that. I feel like this picture focuses on form and line and it really distorts the object.

I took this in my local supermarket. In class we were shown an artist that made things look abstract by standing farther away from it. One example of this was shelves in a supermarket. I decided to try this idea/concept out to see how it would look. 

I was in my kitchen last night getting a little "midnight snack" last night and started to go through utensils and other tools around the counter. I found this cheese grater and I really liked the texture to it. It also had repetition and an interesting surface that I though would've looked like a really interesting abstract picture. I set a light on it and played with the white balance to get that orange/reddish hue.

This is the same cheese grater as the one before. I was holding the light and trying to take pictures at the same time and noticed that when my camera was unfocused, it created this cool diamond shape pattern on the grater. It looked so pretty and it reminded me of twinkling lights that you'd find on a Christmas tree.

These are bleachers at my high school. I was driving around town trying to get ideas of what to take for this assignment and as I drove by my school, the bleachers caught my eye. I thought that it would be a good subject to use because it had a lot of repetition and the lines that it had/created added to the form that I thought would be good for abstraction.

Goals For This Semester.

I've recently started getting into photography within the last couple of years. My main medium has always been drawing or painting, but something about photography just captures me. A really good friend of mine is a photography major at FIT and has kind of my inspiration to try it out. Her pictures are fun, energetic, upbeat, with a hint of nostalgia to them and I could never get tired of looking or watching what she does.
I took a film class in high school and also in my first semester of college. I really enjoyed working with film and being in the darkroom because it made me feel more attached to my work. Plus, I feel that there's a certain kind of 'magic' element to working in the darkroom that makes it so addicting. I kind of consider myself to be computer illiterate, and I've always shied away from photo shop or anything digital for that matter. It really intimidates me, not going to lie. I hope that this class will help me become more confident with working digitally as well as strengthen my photography skills. I'm still new to this medium and hope to learn as much as I can to make me become a more well-rounded artist.

Scavenger Hunt

My friend wanted to help me with this assignment and took me to this skate park near her house. I kinda crept on some strangers and took a couple of action shots. I chose this one because I like the composition. I love that he's airborne and the fact that he has his arms stretched out just makes him look like he's flying.

This particular evening the sky was just gorgeous. I wanted to take some shots of the colors in the sunset and wound up with this. I really like the simplicity of it as well as the silhouettes of the trees and train station.   

I chose this shot because I really liked the angle. I also liked how only the hand was in focus rather than her whole body.

I really like that his head isn't in the shot. It sort of abstracts him. I like how he's placed in the air, it's almost as if he's dancing or something.