Photo 1,2 Best Class Ever

Reflection of the School Year in Photo 1,2

My strongest photo I'd have to say was my Keith Carter picture. The picture shows Derek sitting on a bench depressed looking at a balloon. Although it doesn't have the best contrast, I believe that overall it has an interesting look to it and it was the picture that I planned out the best. As for my worst picture, I'd have to choose my out door photo shoot. It just looks really poor and unplanned (which it was). I wish that I thought about it more and also had more time to shoot it.
best: http://bananainess.blogspot.com/2011/05/keith-carter-styled-series.html
worst:  http://photosbyeve.blogspot.com/2011/03/outside-portrait.html


I would definitely have to say that my progress from beginning of the year to now has increased greatly. In the beginning, it was difficult for me to include the elements of art & design appropriately. I struggled a lot with the content of my picture, such as how can I portray a meaning and mood to my viewers. I also learned much about adjusting the camera settings accordingly. For example, setting the aperture a lower number if I want the picture to be brighter and a higher number if I want the picture darker. As for photoshop skills I wish I could say I have gotten better. Unfortunately over the course of photo 1,2, I never really got to learn how to use it that well. One difficulty that I had to overcome during the school year was model managing. For one thing, picking a model proved to be challenging. I learned that using a model that you were friends with was the best. It was less awkward and it was easier to speak to the model about what you wanted to convey in the piece. Another tip I learned about choosing a model, was choosing one that was in the same class as us. This made it easier and faster to dress our model and finish the photo shoot. As for proof of my progression, I'm sure you can see it when looking through my blog, from the very beginning to my most recent project. One thing that you could have done Mr.Galang was asking your students what they would have liked to done. For example, one of the projects you could have done was take a picture that is inspired by you favorite photographer. This could have been done towards the end of the year, after the students have learned the basics.

Fashion

 

 For this assignment we were asked to shoot an editorial/ fashion photo. One was to be in color and one was to be on black and white. For this photoshoot I worked with a partner ( Kayla Demoss). Our concept that we wanted to portray was a more serious sophisticated look for the black and white picture. For the color one, we wanted it to be colorful and vibrant. They way we did this was that we dressed up our model in a "sophisticated" black and white dress. We also wanted her to have a serious look on her face. As for the color photo, we dressed our model in a bright and colorful "flowy" summer dress. We also made her hair curly and wild looking to help convey a fun and free mood. While shooting we found that it was a bit difficult. We would shoot a picture and then we would find that her hand was in a weird position or that the focus wasn't on the dress. Another problem we faced was that every so often we tried to look at our pictures on the camera, and then try to take another, the camera kept locking on us. Overall we both liked how our pictures came out. We both felt that it

looked editorial and we portayed our theme successfully.