abstract project (digital and black & white)
This project was meant to focus on patterns and oddities that we could find and photograph them. First we took digital, color pictures that we then photoshopped to make appear even more strange. We were meant to look at the picture and not be able to immediately tell what it was we were looking at. The five digital photographs that are posted use a different method of distorting the image in some way. These are color filter, solarize, cyanotype, vingette, and sepia. Of these, I think that the color filter is most successful because no one had any idea what it was when I showed the picture to them and I like the graphic-ness of the image. Also, I think that the vingette is the least successful because it is not as interesting as the others. For the black and white photographs, I think the most successful are the up-side-down reflections because I think they are very cool and interesting to look at. The least effective photo is probably the manhole cover, because you can tell what it is, though I still think it is a solid picture. Overall I enjoyed shooting for the abstract project the most of any we have done because the pictures that result make you think and really stop to look and figure out what is going on in the photograph.
portrait project
This project's objective was to use an entire role of film to photograph one person in a portrait type style. I had a few problems with this project in terms of my film, as the first role I took didn't turn out and then the second time around my subject (my sister) was quite angry with me for making her pose for another role of film. On top of that, my second role of film turned out to be very thin and hard to work with in the dark room so I was not able to develop almost all of my photographs. But, nevertheless, the ones that did turn out are pretty good, my favorite and most successful being the side profile of my sister drinking out of the mug. I think the contrasting elements of the image make it interesting. The least effective is probably the last photo because it's too grey and my sister looks like she is about to kill me. Overall this project was a bit of a failure, but I at least got a few good shots to develop properly.
urban project
In the style of Robert Frank, I was supposed to photograph an urban area. So, off to San Francisco, I stopped in the Haight and did my best to try to convince people to let me take pictures of them, as Frank took many photographs of people. Alas, many a person turned me down, so I only ended up with two people actually looking at me, though I managed to capture people candidly without asking their permission. The other photographs provide evidence that there was once recently a person there: pairs of shoes, a cigarette stub, a couch. In this way I tried to make up for my lack of subjects. I enjoyed this project even though it was nerve-racking to ask people to photograph them, and I think my most successful picture is the second one with the man with dreads looking a music in Amoeba. My least favorite is the one of the sofa, as it is not as parallel and symmetrical as I envisioned the image to be when i took it. Overall I think this project turned out really well.
color project
The colour project was meant to help us understand the colour wheel and how different colours are related to one another and how they work together. The pictures I posted are of complementary, split complementary, monochromatic, and analogous. Of those there, I think the complementary photo is the most successful just because the red metal object is interesting on its own. Least successful is the analogous - I think the colours should have been more prominent in a project solely about colour. Overall I think this was a solid project.
architecture project
This was our first project. It was taken at school and the object of the project was to demonstrate how our school is environmentally friendly. My favorite of this bunch is of the turf; I think the depth and areas of focus make it more interesting to look at. The weakest picture is probably of the roof. I wanted to get the solar panels in there but we couldn't get a very good angle on them to make for an appealing photograph. Though in the end I think this project turned out fairly well.
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