Collage

     This is a collage of, I believe, Mr. Welsh's car with a surfboard on top. In the background is, I believe her name is Kim? as well as the background of the hill and trees. The windows of the car also shows my reflection in it. There is balance in the lines of the surfboard as well as the lines of the car windows. The main focus is the surfboard because it is shown smoothly across the piece.

     I set different exposure times as well as different distances in which the photos were taken in order to make my piece have a sense of variety and be not as plain. And at the end is a dodge in order to add to that sense of variety I was creating. I felt as thought this piece was successful because I did not just want to put a photo together with photo, my addition of variety makes it more unique. I also liked how it does not necessarily take up too much or too little space, at least, in my opinion it doesn't. One thing I would change is the angles of each shot taken because I had to crop out many parts of each photo because the angles made everything seem awkward.

Final Reflection

     I believe this is my strongest photo.

I believe this is my photo that needs the most work on.

     In the photo that needs more work, it does not have much contrasts, it's very gray and does not quite fit the prompt given to me. The theme was "up-close and personal," however, I believe I took it too frankly and it seems more like a joke. If I were to reshoot this, I would have just made the frame around Eve's jaw and Karl's neck, having the actual frame up-close and personal. I also would have liked to find better lighting, it was rather cloudy that day, either that or I use photoshop to burn in the darker areas of my models. My background also has a lot of excess and unnecessary things that take away from the my two models. Also, originally, the negative for this photo had my models centered, I only used the enlarger to enlarge it in order for me to make the models off center; so that is another thing I would've liked to fix. The focus in my "best piece" is so much more better than this one.

     I absolutely love my "best photo" because it was focused well, off center, has contrast, and the content captures what I was trying to portray, the idea of fun, simple, and cute. Although one thing that I liked about my "photo that needs more work" that I did not incorporate into this piece was my model management. The Up-Close and Personal photo was very staged, whereas the Fashion Shoot was more candid and not staged at all. Although I like candid and unstaged shots very much, sometimes that isn't always best and having a set plan should be made in advanced. (Are you proud of me for putting that, Mr. G?)

     I do not know what could have been changed for a better learning experience for my style. This is because I liked hands on learning as well as visual learning and this class has provided me with both. I was also allowed to work independently in order to come up with thoughts on my own, if not, then I was forced to look for online resources which, I admit, do help a lot.

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     I believe this photographer is gaining a lot of attention in the LA Times because it captures Tijuana's uniqueness as well as associates it with the bad stories about Tijuana.
     If I were this photographer and I were to continue my promote myself through this blog, I would also take well-known or "great" cities and show the uniqueness as well as reveal the downside to that society, creating a theme of "things are not how they seem."

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Fashion shoot

     In this photo is Julianna's body from her nose to her thighs. She is smiling widely and naturally, while playing with the skirt of her dress. There is contrast in the folds of her dress as well as the shadows from her hair and neck. There is also a lot of lines and movement in her clothes and arms, emphasizing her clothes because this is a fashion shoot.
     I attempted to In this photo, her smile emphasizes the idea and theme of this photo; fun and cute, but simple. I had used this model because I believe she is a wonderful example of fun, cute, and simple and her smile is beautiful. I decided to cut off facial features as well as her legs in order to draw more attention to the dress rather than the person.

     I did not like the colored shots more than the black and white. Once I did the b/w photo shoot, I felt like I was out of ideas. I was also not used to color. Gosh, so excited for color and I am too overwhelmed by it to think about it, irony. I am not completely happy about these colored photos but I think they still portray my theme of fun, cute, and simple.

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