Final Project Idea

         For my final photography project I am doing dramatic black and white portraits of people that express a lot of raw emotion. I Have looked a lot into it and it looks best with people that have more detail and rougher wrinkly skin because it ads more drama to the black and white. The reason i decided to do this is because a photographer i am really inspired by does stunning street photography of homeless people, and he really captures their emotion so well. I love his work and I am very inspired by it, and its something that I really like so i really wanted to try it for my final project. I know this will be difficult sense I don't live in a place with a lot of homeless people, but there are a lot of interesting looking people that I see walking around. I don't want to try to copy his work but i'm so inspired and interested in it that I really want to do the same idea for my project. A lot of people do this type of photography but the best that i've seen is by Lee Jeffries. I really hope to accomplish getting the raw emotion that he is able to capture so well. I also thought about going even further into this and taking a photograph of all the different emotions like, happy, sad, anger, fear, and so on.

Photo Journal # 9

                 Urban Landscape

This photo of the urban landscape I took with my iPhone while driving through Springfield Mass. Because of moving in the car, the streetlight in the top left corner looks like some type of light sparkling across the sky, I thought that the blur of the light turned out pretty cool.

Science based Photography

Microscopic

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For all 4 of these pictures i took them from under the microscope. They were samples of a root of a willow and the other was a root of something as well. To take this I had to take the lens off the camera and put a different one on that was meant for microscopic photography because it went right into the microscope. It was really difficult to focus, because now i had to do it from using the microscope, and I kept feeling like it wasn't as sharp as it could be, but it actually was. The last photo is the same one as the one right above it, just 4 different pictures pieced together.I also didn't feel like there was enough light at one point while shooting to i held a light up really close to the sample and it helped enough for satisfaction. 

Science based photography

Splash

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This was a photo for the science based photography and i just dropped a light bulb into a tank full of water. this was my favorite shot. 

Science based Photography

Macro of Rock

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This picture is actually multiple photos stacked together. I did focus stacking with this one. As you can see it didn't come out perfect there are still a couple blurry spots where the focus didn't get. I really like this picture but it bothers me about the unfocused areas, if i could i would have gone back and redone it. 

Journal #12 Food Photogrpahy

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This picture i took for our food photography assignment that we had. What i really like about this picture is the reflection from the table in it, and the angle and positioning of what the cook is doing. I darkened the background and boosted the clarity as well. Im happy with how this photo came out. I also took away some of the flour that was on the table to clean it up a little bit more, but i didn't take a lot out so it didn't look like it wasn't real.

Photo Journal #8

Favorite faculty member

For this journal we had to take a photo of a favorite faculty member and I chose to take one of my advisor, Mr. Cyr. I took this photo with my iPhone and changed it to a black and white because I like the way portraits look as black and whites.

Photo Journal #6

This photo was taken with my iPhone of water droplets on a surface that got rained on. I think this photo is interesting and if you didn't know what it was it kind of could look abstract. 

Dark Art Transformation

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This photo i did in the studio with beauty lighting. In photoshop i gave her black eyes, added black underneath to make it creepier, and then i added a layer over her lips that was of cracked dried mud. I really like how the background is so black and dark and the only thing that stands out is her face and some of her hair.

Floating Person

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For this photo i had my model resting on a stool and i erased it in photoshop so she was floating. Then i went in with a smoke brush and added fog to give it more of a dreamy feel. Im pretty happy with the way this photo came out, i just wish the outside, through the doors wasn't so bright. 

Invisible Person

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I took this photo and brought it into photoshop and I made her hair longer and made it cover one of her eyes using the clone stamp tool, then i changed the color of her skin painting over it with a blush green brush with the opacity really low; this was to make her look dead. thenI changed the opacity of her to make her look like a ghost and so you could see right through her. The final thing was adding fog in photoshop so it gave it a spookier feel. I also played around with the dodge and burn tool a lot making it darker and lighter in some areas to add to the spookiness of this photo. 

Photo Journal #5

Flare

This picture was taken with an iphone. This is of my ceiling light in my house. I took a couple pictures of this because i got a different result every time i did it. i like how there is a red circle that looks like its the light but a sunspot. I think the light spot really helps add to the flare photography.

Photo journal #4

Abstract

This photo was shot with an iphone and it was of a cup coaster. I liked the detail in it which i felt made it abstract. I think the lighting of the black background also helps to add to the abstractness of the photo.

Photo Journal #3

Cup out of Place

I shot this photo journal of the cup out of place with an iphone. i set the cup inside the washing machine because thats not where you would find a cup generally. i liked this idea, but I wish you could see more of the washing machine in it. i tried taking it from farther away but this one just looked better. 

"I am Ansel Adams" (digital)

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Digital Tones

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This picture i creates in bridge with raw and changed the tones. first converting it to black and white then made the highlights yellow and the shadows blue/purple. 

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 This photo was done in photoshop and i toned it just like the other but i used cooler colors. i think it was a lot easier to do in raw because i had more control of the variety of tones.

Black & White with color

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This Photo was created as a black and white with color. I wanted to use the leaves changing colors because they really stand out and are striking. this one was created in photoshop.

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This Black and white with color was created in bridge with raw using the adjustment brushes. I liked creating the image better in raw because i could manipulate things easier and it was just simpler for me to use. i really like the outcome of this, and how the colors of the shed pop against its black and white surroundings. 

Layered Negatives

For our film assignment this week we had to layer negatives together to make one picture. I chose one negative that was the background scenery of the trees and the rocky hill, and layered it underneath the negative of the puppy. In the dark room i used 8 seconds exposure, and no filter. i like the fact that the puppy was standing on the grass, and then you can see that in the final pront on the rocky hill, it adds to it in my opinion.

Color Wheel collaboration

With other student in photo 3, we worked together to create a color wheel using painting with lights. we had to do a portrait, design and tracing with each of the colors.

Toning (film)

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Print

I printed out this picture, on a 16x10 and then cut it into 6 equal sized pieces. the top left corner i used red, and only left it in for a couple seconds so the hew wasn't that bright, i wanted it to be subtle. The top right corner i put in red for a little bit until i could just barely notice the red hues coming through, the i rinsed it and put it into the blue. This one is my favorite that i did. I really like how the red and blue shows up in it. The middle left i put in bleach to make things fade away, then i washed it, and then put it in toner and it brought all the detail back and created a sepia. The middle right i put in just the blue. I didn't like how blue it came out, so i experimented with this one and tried to take some of the color out and fade it by putting it into the bleach, then i put it into the toner to try and bring a little detail back. This didn't work so well, the bleach made it look really faded, and then the toner made it spotty looking, like someone spilt coffee on it. The bottom left was in yellow but the yellow didn't show up so then i put in in the blue. The bottom right is just red; the same as the top left just left in the color longer and made the hue much deeper.

Drawing from a photo (film)

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This photo i printed with a 2 1/2 filter, for 7 seconds exposing the light. when my picture was developed and dry i drew in important detail i wanted to keep with sharpie, then i put it in bleach while the picture started to fade away only leaving some really dark areas and the sharpie that i drew. Im happy with how it came out because there is still a lot od detail in it and still looks like a photo.

Reverse (film)

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I used my print from my perfect picture to create my reverse print. to do this, i put my regular print facing down and another paper underneath it, facing toward the side with the print. i thought this came out really cool and looks nice as a negative because if all the contrast in it, it still has a lot of detail.

Perfect Picture (film)

This is my perfect picture in film, i used this one as my perfect picture because i thought it was really strong and detailed and the contrast in it is good as well. I used a 3 filter and exposed the light for 5 seconds.

Glass Challenge

For this Glass Challenge i used these 3 glasses because i really liked the color and uniqueness of them. I had the light coming from the right side where the green glass is, and because of that green light was reflecting onto the blue glass, and i really liked the way that looked.