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Photo Composition Hunt-Elements of Design

LINES

PETE ROSOS

SINA RAHMATI

THOMAS HAWK

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SHAPE

JULIE MAGERS

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Early Process/New Artist

SALT PRINT

The negative is placed in contact with a sheet of writing paper which has been floated on salt water and then coated with silver nitrate. After exposure to sunlight, the finished print is fixed in "hypo', washed and dried. Unless they have been glazed or varnished, salt prints have a matte surface, with the image actually embedded in the fibers of the paper. Their tones can range from reddish brown to chestnut brown.

SCULLY & OSTERMAN

CARLO CHECHI

http://www.collodion.org/q&a_salt.html

http://www.photographymuseum.com/primer.html

http://www.alternativephotography.com/gallery3/Carlo-Chechi/Salt-prints/Untitled

Stop Motion

Project 10 Utopia and Dystopia

Magazine Mock Up

Cover 

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Project 9 Portraits

Commercial Portrait #1

For my magazine cover, I used a picture of a homeless man that I took downtown. He was setting up his microphone and guitar and his sign asking for money, and when I asked him if I could take a picture of him, he said, "Sure, I love doing this." I loved how happy and open he was and how he was doing what he loves even in his situation. In this picture, I love his facial expression and how he is looking down contemplatively. I turned down the shadows and brightness in this picture to make it look sadder and more thought-provoking. I also cropped as much as I could while still keeping his arms and guitar in the picture. Overall, I love the character in this image and that is why I used it as my commercial portrait. 

Commercial Portrait #2

Commercial Portrait #3

 Fine Art #1

Fine Art #2

Fine Art #3

For this portrait, I loved the sassy facial expression she is giving off. I think the way she is peeking over her shoulder and the way her hair is framing her face is really beautiful. I like that unlike most fine art portraits, it's not a simple sweet portrait. It has character and beauty all in one. I also like the way the shadows make the image even more dramatic.

Fine Art #4

In this photo, I love the way her eyes are looking straight into the camera and feel like they're looking through you. I made this photo black and white but found a good mix of light and dark so that her hair was not blended into the background. I love the color of her hair and how it is falling and frames her face. I like how this image puts a real focus on her natural face shape and focuses on her simple  beauty. I also love how her eyes look sweet but with a story. 

Project 9 PreWork

Fine Art Portrait Photography

 by Purrington Photography

In this photo I really like the use of the headdress and how unique it makes the photo. I like the shapes and the hard verses soft of the headdress against her skin. I also like the bold colors in her lipstick and makeup and how they compliment the headdress. It is visually breathtaking and I like how her eyes are looking down because it allows the other elements of the photo to shine. 

by Tanneke Photography

I find this photo so beautiful because of the clean colors and the use of her breathtaking eyes. Also, the blur of everything but her face really helps the image. I really like how the props are white, allowing her blue eyes and pink lips to be the stars of the image. I love how her hair is places and how the head scarf is placed. I think it shows her beauty in a very simplistic way.

Commercial Magazine Covers

Love Magazine

I love the lighting in this photo, and how half of her is blue and the other half is a pinkish natural color. I love how her hair and hands are used as the main parts of the image and the bow in her hair makes it unique as well. I love this cover because of the use of unique lighting and pose to make it look like not every other cover.

Flare Magazine

I love this cover because of her pose and facial expression, and how it looks high fashion because of the way she is looking. Instead of smiling like in most covers, her face and hair placement looks dramatic and beautiful.

Project 8

Surrealism and Photomontage

I really liked and found interesting the surrealism images that were creepy and really weird. So for this image, I wanted to give it a creepy and uncomfortable feel, which I did by using different faces and blending them into the bushes. I used four different people for this image and each one has a different opacity and layer filter. I did this to add variation to the image so it looks visually interesting. I thunk this photo demonstrates surrealism because of the weirdness and creepiness of the image. 

For this photo, I wanted to go all out on the weirdness because the surrealisms that stood out to me were the ones that were really crazy. I started out with the photo of the statue as my background. I took a photo of a waterfall and cut out one of the strands of water and duplicated it, and put it coming out of the statue to make it look really weird and unusual. Then I cut out a picture of Aubrey's face wearing a mask and put a dark light filter to make the silver stand out and look creepy. I also turned down the opacity. Then I cut out a picture of a mirror that I took in a garden and added it to the wall. I added Aubrey's face in the reflection of the mirror without the stature to make the image weirder. To make the face look more realistic in the reflection, I used the perspective transformation and turned down the opacity.

Project 8 Pre Work

Surrealism:

"The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination."

Time period: 1924-1966

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm

Major Surrealism movement artists:

Andre Breton (author of 1924 Surrealist Manifesto)

"Figure" (1928)

Max Ernst 

"The Elephant Celebes" (1921)

Cool Surrealism Images I Liked

"Bombs Over Baghdad"

By Oscar Cini

"Stirring Up a Storm"

By Joe Webb

Unknown

By Rosie Hardy

Alternative processes

Cyanotype

Cyanotype is one of the easier alternative processes, made by a mix of iron compounds.
To make a cyanotype, Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate are used and mixed seperately with water. Then both substances are mixed together equally. Whatever absorbent material is being used is covered with the mixture and needs to be air dried in the dark. Then the objest or photo being used is placed on the material covered in mixture, and is put under a UV lamp or in the sun. Once the photo is at desired exposure, rinse in water and let dry. This creates a blue background with a white print of the negative or object.

Daguerrotype

 Each daguerreotype is a detailed, photo on a polished, silver-plated sheet of copper, sensitized with iodine vapors, exposed in a large box camera, developed in mercury fumes, and stabilized with salt water. Through this long and intricate process, Iodine fumes react with silver causing a color shift in the plate.

Gum Bichromate

A mixture of gum arabic, a dichromate, and pigment is mixed together and spread on a canvas. The negative is placed on top of the canvas and put under the sun or a UV lamp. A sheet of glass is put over the negative in order to ensure that the negative is constantly touching the mixture on the canvas. Finally the canvas is put in a series of water baths and dried. This process creates vivid colors in the image.



http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm
http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/daguerrotypes/becquerel-daguerreotype
http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/gum-bichromates/an-introduction-to-the-gum-bichromate-process

Project 7

Cyanotype

Before & After

I really like this image because of the unique landscape and the contrast between the water, the buildings, and the bridge. I also like the difference in scale that this image shows. I made this photo a cyanotype because I like the kindof calm but a little eerie mood it gives the photo, and how the faded out edges give it the feel of an old photograph. I used a more see through paint brush for the overlay to give it this sheer and faded feel on the edges, and made the blue darker to fit the mood of the photo.

Second cyanotype

I chose this as my second cyanotype because I thought it was a good subject matter. Many times cyanotypes are done on flowers/leaves and they are very cool so I thought I would try one of those. I chose a much lighter blue for this one to make the leaves stand out in a lighter color but to have the berry bundles darker. 

 Gum Bichromate

Before & After

I really love how this gum bichromate turned out. I used the more advanced process, where you change the yellow, magenta, and cyan color in the image and then paint over the layers. I also added a darken layer and a lighten layer to the image. I really love this image because the normal photo is fine, but in the gum photo you can distinctly see the different colors that were changed and it is just so much more visually interesting and unique. Each of the colors stands out while not being tacky, which I really like. Overall I enjoyed making this photo and will probably make more of these in the future.

Daguerrotype

Before and after

What I really loved about this image is the mood that the original has. I asked myself which of these techniques would best enhance this mood and the daguerrotype definitely was the one. The sad and lonely image of this homeless man sitting by himself overlooking the water was the perfect one to do this on. I used a more light brush so that instead of harsh lines jutting out the side of the image, there is a frayed feel almost like it is on paper. I made rhis a mid-dark brown so that every part of the image was still visible while also enhancing the sad mood. I really like how this image turned out and how it looks like an old daguerrotype photograph.

Second daguerrotype

Before & After

I also really like this daguerro because the dark brown color reflects off the water and enhances the background. Also, the water behind the two people is light, and their color is dark, so it really pronounces them in the photo and even though they are the smallest thing in the picture, they stand out. The frayed edges add to the feel of the photo and I think it is a very visually interesting daguerrotype.

Project 6

Multiple Exposures, Panoramas, and HDR

Multiple Exposure 1

For this photo, I layered three separate photos of Aubrey reading a book in different positions. At first the photo looked like a normal multiple exposure photo, but then I put one hard light and one linear burn effect on two different layers, and obviously adjusted the opacity until it came out how I wanted. This resulted in an unusual multiple exposure and I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but after a while it grew on me. I like how visually interesting it is and how different it is from most multiple exposures.

Multiple Exposure 2

For this photo I took three photos of Aubrey in different positions on a couch and merged them. I like how it gives the effect that she is waiting for someone and I think the three pictures work well together to convey a message. To edit this photo I added a hard light effect on one layer and a stauration effect on the other, which is why that saturation is strong in this image.

Panorama 1&2 

                           

Both of these are the same image of the east and west of Portland. On the top image I used an inverse layer and turned down the saturation on the photo. This edit gave the city a dreary and troubled mood. In the second picture, I obviously did not inverse it, and I turned up the purple color hue. I liked the way this color complemented the colors of the city, and was an unusual take on the picture.

HDR

For this photo I thought HDR would be a fun thing to do for this picture I took of a stop light. Because of the distinct and bright colors, I thought HDR could bring those out and make a very visually pleasing photo. I turned up the saturation just slightly and slightly turned down the brightness. These effects made the lights stand out more and provide a cool, vibrant, and fun HDR photo.

Semester final

Project 5