Artistic Statement

For my portfolio you will find and see that some of my pictures are not very nice and they look a little weird. Though this is the first time that I get into a class for art and this is the first time that I get graded for my pictures. You will see that some of my pictures are creative and crazy although some aren’t. I feel that my portfolio is a little weak and I could have been a little more creative to have better pictures and I should have put some more effort for some of these pictures. That in a way it is hard for me because this is the first time that I start to use a professional camera and that I get into Photoshop.

I have learned so many things over the past semester and they are being very useful now that we do these other projects. I have learned things off of Photoshop and the digital camera. Like the different kinds of compositional tricks with these tricks it makes your pictures a little more unique and different from the other pictures. I have learned in Photoshop that you can cut something out and you can change the way that you look to make yourself look a little better and make your picture even better than what it looks like.

I think that I was most successful with the project of personal words. I think that was the only project that came out how it was supposed to. It was even easier because I already had an idea of what it was going to look like although I didn’t think that it was going to look so nice. I thought that the personal words project was easy and exciting. I really struggled with the compositional trick simplicity. I thought that it had to be just a boring picture. It was hard for me to find a simple background and I just was a little confused and didn’t know what to do.

I need a little improvement on having ideas and knowing what I am going to do because without that I will be confused and the projects won’t come out right. I could also have a little of improvements on Photoshop because I still get a little bite of struggles on that. I have seen improvements in me taking pictures. Some of my pictures look a little weird although actually they end up looking nice or a little better than how I had started. Like if I take all the pictures that were when I had started then the pictures would look better and you could see the difference. I love this class because it has given a better idea on what is beauty and what is art and the way that I see the world.

Personal Words

The lyrics I chose for this project is Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis.

"I didn't need the pain. Once or twice was enough. And it was all in vain. Time starts to pass. But something happened with you. My heart melts into the ground. Found something true. And everyone's looking round. Thinking I'm going crazy. But I don't care what they say. I'm in love with you. They try to pull me away. But they don't know the truth. My heart's crippled by the vein. That I keep on closing. You cut me open and I. Keep bleeding love. You cut me open. Trying hard not to hear. But they talk so loud. Their piercing sounds fill my ears. Try to fill me with doubt. Yet I know that the goal is to keep me from falling. Than the rush that comes with your embrace. And in this world of loneliness. I see your face. Yet everyone around me. Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe. But I don't care what they say. I'm in love with you."

I chose these lyrics because I thought of them being so nice and the meaning that they give to you. For example is you just read it just like how it is in a paragraph then you get a better understanding of what she means. This is because we all go through this once in our life and sometimes we are just tired of having all of this pain. That sometimes we just don't want to go through all of this pain again and we are just tired of it. That we shouldn't let ourselves fall down just because of some other persons rumors. I used this song because it has so much meaning to it and for me it has a lot of meaning.

Social Issue: "Don't give up and make the most of what you have to live"

In the very top picture there is this girl that is checking her blood sugar. One the other picture which is the bottom one there is this girl injecting herself. It is pretty dark because of all the colors that I was using. I really like to do this and to inform everyone else about the difficulties of these types of diseases. There are some very different kinds of shades of gray so I was making sure that there would be different shades of gray so that the picture wouldn’t look so dull and simple. There were some dark brown colors and some other ones that were light and that was the only way that I could get the nice shades of grey. In a way it’s a very weird kind of picture though it makes you think so much because of the quote that I put in the picture.

My issue is taking about is that it is hard to live with a condition that you have to be taking care of yourself. My issue talks about taking care of yourself and not letting diabetes or any other diseases take over your life. That in order to make the most out of your life you have to take care of yourself. That it takes a lot of work being able to take care of you. This is because diabetes you cannot eat all kinds of sweets and if you do eat sweets it’s only a little bit. It hurts a lot because you see everyone else not caring about how much they can eat and what they eat. On the contrary when you’re diabetic you have to count your carbohydrates and you have to be careful with anything that you eat. In the beginning it’s hard because you’re so used to eating anything you want to eat and then changing your life in a blink of an eye it’s really hard. Especially when you have to check your blood sugar every day and having to inject yourself because it’s the only way you can be living or the only way you can stay alive. Seeing all these other people not having to worry about all of that and that they don’t have to suffer so much and they don’t have to do all of this in order to just stay alive. It’s better to take care of yourself so that you don’t end up with diabetes because you just didn’t care about yourself. That it's hard to live with diabetes although we should just get on with our life because we have a whole life ahead of us.

Scary Effects

Vampire

Alien

My favorite was the vampire picture. I really liked this picture because it looks so creative and I was able to make an ordinary picture into a vampire with just using Photoshop. The new tools that I learned would be that how i can be able and blend other pictures together. How I can make a picture come out looking like a shaderd glass. My difficulties or the difficulties that I ran into would be painting and making it look like a vampire. I would be able to use photoshop in a place where you can make invitations or for fixing pictures of models.

Critique: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

There is this man in the middle of a lake with a hammer in his hand and some wood on his back. He has a black suit on and he is a little bald. This man is on his knees and it looks like he is about to fall or sink into the water. This man has made ripples around him and the wooden walk way to the lake. There are some very nice and calm colors in the background. The calm grey background makes us be able to see the water and the man in the water.
It looks like he is building some sort of walk way toward the water or lake. It also looks like he wants to get to the middle of the lake. The wooden walkway is the leading line that takes us to this man what also takes us to this man is the ripples that are all around him. That’s what is making us look at this man because there is really nothing around him and he is the center or everything.
This picture portrays that it is empty although at the same time it shows us some calm feeling. It shows us that a place like this would be nice to go.

Photographic Effects

My Favorite was the Adjustment layers this is becuase it was very fun and you can change and make your pictures darker of lighter. I would like to work more on adjustment layers it just has so many cool and interesting things you can find on it. I discovered that it is a little fun and easy to change pictures just to make them nicer and it is also exciting.

Portraits

The portrait that I was most successful with would probably be the Costume/Prop. I think that it is the Costume/Prop because the compositional trick you can really tell and it just looks so nice. For the artisitic portrait I tried to portray hapiness. I also captured some hapiness and that the person is having fun. The prop or costume that we used was his footbal jersey this is because he plays in the football team. Yes i really like the way the picture turned out because it is nice and you can see the compositional trick leading lines and you can see the champions sign. I think that the unigue picture is so unique and different becuase who would see that a person would take a picture of someone upside down from a rail. It was such a frustration for me to get a good picture for simplicity with face becuase sometimes its hard to get a simple background. Although it was fun and it made us think and find something interesting.

Contact Sheet

The picture that I like the most is the one titled with "Rule of Thirds". This is because it is the best looking one for me and it was also becuase it was the first one I took since the beginging of the year. The trick that I may be using day to day photographs would probably be macro. This is becuase, we would be able to see the nice textures of things that you couldn't even imagine. The least favorite of the photographs would be Simplicity. This is because it was hard for me to find a simple background but an interesting emphasis. The photo that was the favorite or that I really liked was the Rule of Thirds this is becuase his expression really made it look fantastic.

Compostitional Trick #8 Fill in Flash

Fill in flash really affected my photos although they really didn't affect them that much. Though you could see the difference between where you can see the background and where you can see the background and the emphasis. You use fill in flash whenever you take the picture and you cannot see the emphasis or you cannot see the bakcground. You use it in order to see both the background and your emphasis.

Compositional Trick #7 Drawing With Light

This compositional trick really sets all of the other photos apart because with this you can see the light that you can get in a very hot and sunny place. The feeling that this picture really gives me is that his shirt is so bright that you can see it shine and with his shirt shining you can be able to see his face clearly. It makes me feel that it is a really nice place to have sun and have some shade at the same time.

Compositional Trick #6 Framing

What framing really does is that it makes you see what is your emphasis and it makes you concentrate on it the most. The frame in my photos is okay although the first one isn't very good looking because I could have made him be more in the center. Although the photo right above is okay although I could have looked for it to be a little darker place.

Compositional Trick #5 Extreme Angles

Extreme Angles is a very good compositional trick to know because you can make other people see things in a different kind of way. This is because something that is small or short you make them see it from the bottom from an angle that you have never seen them before. I really don't think that my extreme angles pictures are very good this is because I could of made them look more dramatic then what they look like now.

Compositional Trick #4 Simplicity

What Simplicity really means is that it has a simple background that makes the emphasis be more visible. Although I didn't do a very good job in these two simplicity shots. Though the things is that simplicity does not mean that the picture is boring its that the background is just calm and not a lot of things are happening behind your emphasis. Simplicity is a very good trick because it makes your emphasis more interesting. You would use it to make them look a little better

Compostitional Trick #3 Macro

What Macro really does is that it makes you take a different kind of view of things that are not even important to you. It makes you see the different kinds of textures that you cann't see somewhere else or that you are not able to see. It is good to use this because you are able to see the different kinds of bugs and spiders and things like that.

Compositional Trick #2 Leading Lines

The thing about Leading Lines is that it is like when you see a sidewalk or lines and they take you to something interesting and you just stop and stare at it. What Leading lines do is that they make you just keep or go to the person or thing (emphasis) and it just catches your attention. You would use Leading Lines in order for another person to see what it would take you to it and it will just keep you looking at that for the whole time.

Compositional Trick #1 Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds is a great way so that you are able to put your subject out of the center. It makes it look better than before so that your picture looks a bite better and not just a photograph or a pose picture. It is good to use the Rule of Thirds whenever you want people to see the beauty so that you are also able to see this person and see the emphasis or person.