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.