Assignments of Which I am Most Proud

One of the assignments that I am most proud of is my who am I video.  I am proud of this because it is an important part of my life that I have created a video of.  I can now have this video for the rest of my life.  It was also a fun project because we were able to chose what we wanted to do our topic on.  It was fun to have so many options to choose from.  I wanted something that I could keep forever and would want to show other people.  I am proud of this because I think it conveys the message I was trying to get across to the viewer.  I also think it is something my family is going to want to view and keep for many years to come.  This helped to expand my learning because learned how to have a message come across in my video.  It also helped me to learn more about iMovie and how to use the different tools.   Because I chose a subject that I was passionate about, it was easy to make a video that I found fun to make and one that would be something I was proud of. 

Another one of my assignments that I was proud of was the free choice assignment.  I am proud of this because I think it captures the essence of spring without being too cluttered.  It took me a while to get the background right and not too overwhelming.  I like the layout of the flowers and the fact that some of them are blurred and some of them are not.  I am proud of the overall feeling of calmness that I get from looking at this photograph because it reflects the first signs of spring. 

Most Memorable Experiance

My most memorable experience was the hobbies/interests assignment.  This was my favorite to create because it was more loose and allowed us to photograph what we chose.  For this assignment, I chose travel and because I took pictures in several different countries, the result was many diverse photographs.  I now have many photographs that I can keep for years to come.  I will always be able to look back on these memories and remember the great times I had.  This was my favorite assignment because  I loved to explore different parts of the world that I had never seen before.  This gave me an opportunity to expand my knowledge of the world around me.  Taking photographs in these many different places helped me to expand my learning.  I learned lots about the different countries, including France and Italy.  We learned about their history and what was happening in present day.  I found these facts fascinating an they made my photographs even more fun to take.  I loved to take photographs that I knew something about because that made them even more meaningful than just taking pictures of any random object.

Who Am I

This is a link to my Who Am I video

Freechoice

While taking this picture, I wanted to make sure to get the background in but not make the picture too cluttered.  To do this, I made sure to focus the lilac and blur out the rest of the street.  I also wanted to capture the feeling of spring.  I wanted to capture the scent of lilacs and the warm spring breeze that I was feeling.  I wanted to be able to go back to this at any time and remember what it felt like on a warm spring evening.

Culture Clash

Purpose:

• To create a Clash of Cultures by creating your own Photo montage, combining images from Beijing, China and Yarmouth, Maine, USA;

• To further develop your Photoshop knowledge and skills;
• To create a “surreal” landscape by montaging a variety of photographs;

To know, use, and understand the Four Collage Techniques to in your Photo Montage: Juxtaposition/fragmentation, Point of View, Scale Change, Overlapping

This project helped to teach me about using photoshop and how to use photoshop to paste images together.  Some of the challenges I had was not knowing what tool to use to create a certain look.  I also had trouble being neat and careful around the images as I was using the eraser tool.  I fixed these by starting over when I needed to and experimenting with all the different buttons. Some of the successes were learning about the different tools. I also was able to create an image that looks neatly erased.

Juxtaposition/fragmentation: Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Point of View: The position from which something or someone is observed.

Scale Change: How much something has changed in size. 

Overlapping: When two or more things cover the same space or area.

Inspiring Digital Artist, Michael Oswald

Purpose

To become familiar with 5 accomplished digital artists and to see what is possible in the world of digital art.

Hobbies, Molly

 

The waves flowed on the beach.  The buildings towered over.  The hills went on for miles.  The sun's rays warmed our backs.

Alfred Stieglitz, Famous Photographer's Movie

This is a link to my Famous Photographer's Movie, "Alfred Stieglitz"

Food, Molly

I heard the summer breeze drifting by me.  I felt the rough skin on the pineapple.  I see the sun shinning.  I smell the first day of spring.

Selfie

To create this image I turned the camera towards my friend and me and took a picture.  I think this is a good selfie because we look happy in this picture and it gives me a feeling of happiness looking at it.

Creative portraits

 

Creating this image was very hard because I we had to time it just right.  It took many times for me to take the picture at just the right time.  To do this, my friend had to put some confetti in her hands and blow them towards the camera.  I also made sure the background was blurred slightly so that it was not distracting.

Portrait Techniques

Alter your perspective.
In this technique, you have to take a picture from a differnent perspective than normal.  I think this would be fun to use in my work because you get to achive very different shots just by moving  your camera around.

Breaking the rule of thirds
In this technique, you can choose the best placement for object by selecting what makes the biggest impact on the viewer and which flows better in the photograph.  I think it would be interesting to use because it is fun to see what placement is the most effective.

Get close up
In this technique, you would cut out part of the persons body or face so that you could get close up.  You can also just chose one particular body part which could add interest and intrigue to the photograph. I think it would be fun to discover what you could do when not photographing the face directly.

Introduce a prop
This includes adding in items for the subject to wear or hold to make the photograph more interesting or have more movement.  I think this might be a little bit of a challenge to make sure the prop will not be taking away from the attention of the subject but I think it will be fun to use props to create a mood or say something in the photograph.

Famous Portraits

dorothy horan, best known as dovima, with elefants (1955) by: richard avedon
I think the photographers style is to take pictures of action or to document important events.
I chose this photo because it made me wonder more about why it was taken and what was happening when they took it.  It intrigues because it is different from all the other portraits I have seen so far.

Marilyn Monroe Hollywood CA 1962 by: Arnold Newman
The photographers style is to take profiles of people faces in black and white.
I chose this photo because it is taken from a different angle than most portraits.  It is more serious than other portraits as well.

Miley Cyrus for Vanity Fair by: Annie Leibovitz

This photographer took mostly pictures of celebrities in unusual positions and situations.  I chose this photo because it is a picture of a familiar celebrity but she looks much different than usual.  The artist has but her own spin on this person and has made them look unique and unusual.

History of photography

 

While creating this poster, I learned many things about the history of photography and the people who were involved in developing the photography world.  For example we learned that The first digital camera invented was built in 1975.  I also learned that introduced the Brownie Camera (a simple, low-priced, point-and-shoot camera) in 1900.  I also learned that Henry Fox Talbot he was not only a famous photographer but also also an acclaimed mathematician, astronomer, scientist and archaeologist.  The last thing I learned was that Lewis Hine also was critical in the changing of the country’s child labor laws.

Shadow

Because I did not have any natural shadows, I took this image in the evening with a lamp.  I had to place the lamp on the couch so the shadow from the ring would show up.   I had to place the camera very close to the ring so that it would focus.  I also did this so that it would not include anything in the background.

City of lights

Purpose:

• To strengthen your creative problem-solving skills so that you are looking at things in a different way;
• To find letters of the alphabet in everyday objects to create a word;
• To become familiar with basic photoshop tools.
  
  
   This project has helped me to learn the basics of Photoshop which is very useful for editing photos in many different ways. I also learned to look at everyday objects a different way so that it looks like something else to a viewer. This made me look at things differently and really think about what I was seeing through my camera. This helps to be creative and innovative.

Unusual perspectives

I heard the crunch of the snow under my dog's feet. I could I feel the cold snow rushing past my face. I could smell the smoke drifting out of a chimney near by.  I saw the snow flakes falling softly onto my dog's back.

Composition, Background simplified

This photo shows background simplified.  It shows this because I blurred out the background instead of making everything in focus.  I wanted to just show the paintbrushes and not everything in the background.  I did this so that my photo was more simple and not as cluttered.

Shapes, Organic and Geometric

 

I took this picture by getting close to the handles of the scissors so that you could not see the blades and could only see the handles.  I also tilted the camera.  I think this made it more interesting because the scissors are being viewed from a different angle than normal.  I took this picture because I thought the scissors looked interesting and liked how the colors went together.

I enjoy photographing nature.  Things such as flowers and tree or mushrooms.  I also like to photograph things at the beach.  I also like to take pictures of interesting things found in cities, such as signs or benches.  I like to take pictures of friends and family or my pets.  My motivation is when I know that I will have something I really like as the product. It motivates me to be doing something interesting and fun. I like to have certain rules for an assignment so that I know what I am doing. If my teacher is receptive to questions, it helps me feel more comfortable.