Best of Personal Series

Assignment 19: Best of Personal Series. These are the photos out of all my drafts from my personal series that I thought were strongest to make one cohesive set. They're focused on wall textures, imperfections, and abstract features. I kept them all in black and white with higher contrast to help enhance the characteristics of the walls.

Personal Series 4

Assignment 18: 4th draft of personal series. This week was a continuation of our personal series. I continued my series on close-ups of wall textures. This week, I tried to focus on a specific type of wall--concrete. Whether there was moss, peeling paint, discoloration, weeds,  etc. I wanted to capture them all to incorporate the different characteristics of the walls while also showing show unique the textures and features were. I wanted to reach a picture that was abstract and had an artistry feeling to it while also showing that although it is simply a wall, it possesses many interesting and unique features. In order to boost the abstract look and enhance the textures, I continued to make the photos in black and white with more contrast.

Personal Series 2

Assignment 16: Continuation of personal series. This week we were supposed to continue our work on our personal series, mine being different walls close-up. I tried to improve this week by focusing on more specific aspects of wall textures. I wanted to go for more abstract, painterly, quirky, and imperfect pictures rather than uniform walls and textures with nothing special. I looked for a lot of imperfections such as cracks, drips, discolorations, and writing on the wall and kept away from plain bricks or perfect walls. Additionally, I payed more attention to the editing and upped the contrast a little to help enhance the textures and imperfections of the walls. I kept them all in black in white (again) to reduce the distraction of color and to keep the focus on the wall's texture/imperfections/artistic/classy feel.

Personal Series

Assignment 15: Personal Series. This week we were supposed to choose a style or theme that we wanted to explore in our own series. I decided on the theme of taking pictures of walls/fences. I explored with many different types of walls: wood, concrete, brick, etc. I also chose different angles and places to take the picture (ie. corner, straight forward, etc). I took the pictures close up so that the textures were easily seen and the details of the wall all came through in the photo. While editing, I made them all black and white so I could focus on the simple features of the wall without the distraction of color.

Negative Space

This week's assignment was negative space. The idea was to try to make the focus of the photo the shape of the background/space around the subject. We were encouraged to use silhouettes, shadows, and different objects to get various different and interesting styles of negative space. 

Experimental Series

Assignment 13: Experimental Series. This week's assignment was to choose a style, filter, texture, etc. from the previous week's experimental sketchbook and create a series based on it. The style I chose was from a photo where I made the entire photo block and white except for the shadow. Then I used tint in Picmonkey to make the shadow a certain color. I didn't want any faces so I could maintain a mysterious/anonymous feel to the photos. I also made them of only people and their bodies/legs. The perspective I chose had a common theme throughout the series and I tried to match the different colors with the photos/feeling of the photos.

Experimental Sketchbook

 Cross Process Filter (Picmonkey): Green

Cross Process Filter (Picmonkey): Blue

 Yester-color (Picmonkey): Faded

 Paint Texture (Picmonkey) and Accented Textures filter (Photoshop)

 Lugosi Burnish Theme (Picmonkey)

 Cross Process Filter (Picmonkey): Blue

Cross Process Filter (Picmonkey): Red

Assignment 12: Experimental Sketchbook. For the past two weeks, we have been working on using several of the pictures we already had, doing a lot of editing and adding text to convey emotion. Ideally, the emotions and feelings should be something we have, had, or currently experience. First, we used editing, tints, and mild filters as well as text to communicate the emotions. The text should be specific but also creative in describing the emotion. Our second challenge was to do the same but without text. This shifted our focus to more of the editing aspects and finding the perfect filters and textures to match our photos. I used a variety of filters and textures, and tried to "break out" of standard edited photos by adding multiple editing features and experimenting with colors, lighting and contrast. The specific filters or textures used are under the photo. Additionally there was much done with brightness, contrast, etc. If there isn't anything underneath, that means no specific filter was used, but many other simple editing techniques were combined and used. The first 6 photos include text, and the rest do not.