Best Photo
I like this photo because of the repetitiveness of the chairs and I like the slight blurriness. I like how the foreground is more in focus compared to the background, making a sense of space and depth.
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Capturing Light
For my capturing light assignment, I photographed Christmas lights that are hanging in my backyard through a pair of glasses I have. I took these photos at night and there was no natural light out. There’s almost no shadows in the photos. In each photo, I tried to capture the circle shape and for the first and second photo I attempted to use the rule of thirds to line up the circles. For the third photo, the circle is more center, but theres this outline of little and faint lights around the whole photo which I thought was interesting. This circle shape almost makes it feel like you’re in space, or in another world. It looks different and I think that’s why they’re enjoyable to look at.
Photoshop Practice
Bike Pictures
Color
Around School
Mirrors and Reflection
All the photos I've taken for the mirrors and reflection assignment were taken inside of school, either in the courtyard or in the front of the school. I adjusted the levels of each picture and I used the Camera Raw Filter on each one. I also changed photos 9 and 10 to black and white, and I used the spot healing brush and clone stamp to remove an unwanted item in the reflection of photo 8. I would either hold the mirrors in my hand, or place them on the ground or propped in a tree to get a photo. In photos 1, 2, and 4, I held a stack of three to four mirrors, so I was able to get these refracted pictures without having a broken mirror. For photos 3 and 8, I created a box of mirrors around the flower in order to see the flower's reflection from different angles. My favorite photos I took are the ones where I held the stack of mirrors, since the beveled edge on the mirrors created this cool effect that I wasn't expecting. Almost all of my photos focus on nature, flowers, or greenery. I was capable of blurring reality on a few photos, specifically photo 4.
Cyanotypes
Once we selected the photo we wanted to create a cyanotype with, we created an inverted version of the photo on photoshop. Then we painted light sensitive emulsions on watercolor paper in a dark room so the light wouldn't affect our paper. Then the next day we placed our inverted images on top of the water color paper and clamped it down with clips and plexiglass. We went outside and placed our cyanotypes in the sun, and after around nine minutes we went back inside and washed the yellow solution off of our papers. After that, we rinsed it in hydrogen peroxide in order to make the blues even more vibrant. Then we let the photos dry and our photos were done.