Natural Light

Natural light.. woops a little late! I took these photos without any artificial light using only the sun, a white board, and snow for these. These were taken to represent the person in them. These are of my girlfriend Alix. She plays way too many video games and is often very grumpy. These photos display these emotions very well!

Photo Final

I tried to get on Nick Wall’s website but his coding is all messed up and you can get to the first page but no other pages. All the work I can find of him is on his movie stills style. I’ve shown you his work before (The High School kids and all of his nature work).

I followed his style only in the method of “My View” Where he traveled the world I traveled Gloucester. I followed routes I would take in my car everyday or photograph things that would capture my eye while walking. He uses vibrant colors as well so I followed that method.
These photos were taken ranging in places from Gloucester's boulevard where I go to school everyday to lanesville where some of my friends live. Even the backshore where I took my first joyride in my car.

The whole idea of his My View is those photos that you take that you want to show the world. You're traveling and you have all this fancy equipment and even though you only get to take photos of celebrities because that's what you're known for. He took photos of his travels to remember them and to show people his path through life and that's what I followed.

The water photo is a combination of 7 photos of me holding my shutter down and taking 7 rapid photos, one after the other. I then combined them and turned the opacity down. 

Composition Photos

For a final project we had to find 5 aspects of composition. I think one of my major downfalls is I'm very bad with time constraints and being limited to only one block to do all this I was rushing. I went all over my school looking and there isn't much difference in the appearance of the different halls. I also wish I had some sort of tripod to help me throughout this.

My first photo was filling the frame, I tried my best to get this photo to be fully inside the frame but it seemed like the best way to do it would be to make the cabinet itself a frame around the fire extinguisher. This created a frame within a frame. My 2nd photo was "frame." I found this to be a frame because the boxiness of the photo draws the eyes right to the light through the windows. I wish I could have made it less warped or fisheye-y. My 3rd photo was leading lines, one of my favorite photos. Like Mrs. Underwood, my photo teacher, said it's got a really different perspective. When you're walking in a hall it all seems normal, but when you get down low it seems to stretch on forever. My 4th photo was "patterns." The periodic table in the photo creates a nice parallel grid with the one red element making a nice break in the pattern. My 5th photo was "rule of thirds." This was done so by having a nice pattern broken by the rail running right along the bottom 1/3rd of the photo and shooting right through the middle. I wish I had taken more time to "flatten out" the pictures instead of having a lot of curved lines.