Still Life Recources

1)
http://www.illustratedphotography.com/photography-tips/still-life-photography
2)
http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/still-life-photography-tips-techniques/
3)
http://www.thephotoargus.com/inspiration/35-superb-examples-of-still-life-photography/

Art Show Piece

For my art show reflection, I chose a water color painting by Samantha Allard. The painting depicts a teenage girl with a saddened expression. I believe the painting shows the element of emphasis, due to the girl being the focal point of the piece with pretty much no background what so ever. Another element the piece has is contrast because of the lighting of the painting. On the left side of her face it is well lit, while on the right, it is dark. I feel that the mood the artist tried to convey was sadness, due to her face.

Black and White Portrait

For this assignment we were asked to take a black and white beuty portrait and convey either an emotion that represented their personality, or any emotion you wanted to. We also had to use the lighting and emphasis of the face of the person, that Irving Penn used in his photograph of Al Pachino. I chose Anna to be my model, and at the start of the shoot I wanted to portray the emotion of lazyness/tired. However, while shooting, I found it very difficult to not get "dead eyes" when doing so. Instead I changed my emotion to sadness/depression. I did this by tilting her face till half of it was black, and the other half brightly lit. I intendid the black side to show the darkness, depression, and gloom that was slowly enveloping her. Another technique I used was taking the photo higher than her eye level. This helped emphasised how it feels to be depressed and sad, because when your in that state, you often feel more lowly than those around you. The thing I do regret about this photo is that the top right corner of her face is lit and that it makes her face slightly deformed looking. The other regret is that I didn't make the left side backround dark like Irving Penn did. Overall I am very pleased with how my photo came out.

Black and White Portait Contact Sheet

Personal Book

For the assignment we were to create a miniature book that had to refelct our personality, what we love, and who we are. The way we had to Create the bok were with photos (either taken or cut from magazines), paint, markers, colored paper, anything that reflected you. I chose to represent myself as a city girl, since I have lived in a city all my life. Throughout my book I put things you would find in a city, such as: skyscrapers, graffiti, rats, taxi's, ect. For the first picture I kept to the theme of "city life" by putting me by a wall of graffiti, that spelled my name and a rat with a peace sign. This resembles my understanding of rats (since I own one myself). That although notorious to big cities and seen and ugly discusting vermin, they are actually really nice, peaceful, cute animals. For the secound and third picture, this keeps to my theme, by putting photos of e on a city building and looking thorough and at a ity. This represents my love for city artwork and cities in general

B&W Portrait Resources (Eve, Anna, Karl)

#1) http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/rules.html

#2) http://www.photography-now.net/listings/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=447&Itemid=334

#3)http://www.studioonashoestring.com/30/low-key-portrait-lighting-tutorial/