Kaleidoscopes

I loved making kaleidoscopes, it was so fun to mess around with the editing and colors of pictures to make cool designs. Kaleidoscopes are all so unique and interesting and easy to make. Below are my favorite ones I made. 

The original photo for these two kaleidoscopes was a picture of a building and a tree. I loved the colors in the original photo and I turned up the blue tints to make the color even more defined.

I really liked how this picture made a vortex in the middle, and I edited it by turning up the rust color. The original photo was a photo of barbed wire with a sign in the background. I think this is a very unique kaleidoscope because its unlike what you'd usually see for a kaleidoscope.

The original photo was a photo of green moss on a rock wall. For the first picture I turned the moss yellow to change it up and for the second picture I turned up the green to make it more vibrant. For both photos I turned up the darks to bring out more shapes in the photo. I love the geometric shapes that the rock made. These are my two favorite kaleidoscopes that I made.

This photo was originally a symmetrically balanced photo of a plant. I turned up the green tints in this photo to get different shades of green to make it more visually interesting. I love the shapes that this kaleidoscope make.

For these last three pictures, I used a photo of a palm branch with the sky in the background that I took in Mexico. I love the dramatic difference between these three pictures, and I edited each differently. I turned up the blue in the first photo to bring out the sky and the clouds, so that that would be the main focus of the photo. For the second one, I wanted to focus on the geometric shape and the framing of the leaves, so I used the "Cyanotype" filter. I love the feel this gives the photo. For the third one, I like the contrast in the photo. I like how all the photos have a tropical feel even though they are in different filters. 

Diptych & Triptych

I was drawn to this diptych because of the way it looks like the tree is one tree in the middle, and shows a strong contrast of the blue sky against the yellow leaves. I did not include a white line in the middle of this photo because it took away from the forming tree in the middle. I think it is a very visually interesting photo because of the way that the trees are set up merging together. This image shows a tropical feel but at the same time shows a strong contrast.

I really like this photo because of how in the photo on the right, you see the sign and the barbed wire, and then on the left you see both things again, but from a different angle with a different focus. The first photo is also zoomed in on the fence, while the second one is more focused on the sign and the fence. I like how I set this up so it's not just that the second photo is zoomed or focused on the subject, I like that it is reversed.

I took these photos while in Mexico, and I really like how the color of the wood behind the shells corresponds with the color of the straw on the hut. I put the shells on the right side to give the photo balance, so not all the subjects were on the left. I made this photo vertical rather than horizontal because it really showed the relationship between the subjects. I like how this photo really encompasses the tropical feel without using the ocean or sand.

 This is my favorite photo out of all of them, because I love the diptychs and triptychs that tell a story. I found this man painting the inside of a restaurant and I loved the shapes his arm made while painting and the shapes behind him that added to it as well. I love photos with people because the viewer can really form their own story of the person in their head. To me, he looks like a French painter who really has a passion for art. I loved how these three shots captured him in motion, and had him at a different position in every one. I also decided co keep the white wall that he is painting in the picture to show what he was working on. This photo is horizontal because the flow of his arm movements was much better and the picture really worked horizontally.

Project 4

Contrast in Texture

In this photo, I love the texture of the soft hands with the hard leaves. I really love how I edited this picture, because her hand was not actually dirty when we took the photo, but by adding darks to it it makes the hand look kind of dirty and rough. I also like how the leaves are in focus but the hand isn't, I think it makes for a very cool contrast between the hardness and the softness.

Symmetrically balanced 

The way that the tree in the back and the clock lined up was unique for this photo, and I really love how every tree has a mirror on the other side of the photo. I edited to slightly bring out the yellow and green in the leaves but I wanted the main focus to be on the symmetry of the trees and the clock.

Contrast in Value

I really love the strong contrast in this photo. I was on the edge about posting this one because the way I've edited it makes it hard to see what the structure is, but I personally connected with this photo. The photo was originally lighter on the top and the bottom was a light blue because of the sky, but I edited it to make the photo more dramatic. The white part forms different shapes when you look at it because the black and white is so strong. I also like the light in the middle of the black, so the black doesn't get completely lost. I really loved this photo because of the geometric shapes and the visual intensity of this photo.