Make it flash

1. The “event” that I chose to photograph was a soccer team sleepover. 

2. I hoped to communicate to the viewer that really anything can happen when a bunch of teenage girls get together and that really any mood and action can be captured unexpectedly. Also, in the shot with my friend (black and white) I wanted to  capture how fierce she was looking. The moment in which I captured it she was happy but that split second I captured her stare. I feel like the black and white effect intensified her strong stare. I wanted to capture how puppies play as well, and the typical “lax bro”. 

3. I wish I could’ve have created a picture with my entire team going crazy after eating a lot of junk food. I could’ve have taken that picture, but I did not want to get the camera wet since most of the girls, including myself, were swimming. 

4. The surprising shot that I captured was the one where my friend is staring deeply into the camera. I was really surprised because a few seconds prior my friend had been laughing her head off and jumping on a trampoline, so it was interesting to see her have that serious face for a split second that I happened to catch. 

1.  The title of my images are Who’s the Bear? and Message in a Bottle 

2. The image with the bear is all of my photos just layered on top of each other. The other image the only image that is mine is my brother. 

3. My goal was to make the roles of a teddy bear and a child switch and for my brother to seem like he is floating in an ocean. 

4. During this unit, I learned the new Photoshop feature of changing opacity and flattening layers. 

5. My favorite part of my photo was how my brother with the teddy bear came out. I really liked how it came out because I thought it came out realistically. Also, I like how it makes people think of how the world might be switched. What if humans were the teddy bears? 

6. I could use improvement on erasing around images to make it more realistic. Also,  I needed to not change the hue of my brother’s shirt when he is in the bottle. I forgo I could have increased the green in the image. 

7. If I had to start over I would have taken the images with my brother and the bear at a time of day when the shadow is behind them and not visible. 

8. One piece of peer critque I used is to change the shadowing on my brother’s legs in the bear image. Changing the shadow of that area made it look more realistic and more believable. 

1. I decided to make most of my nature shots close up, because I really wanted to focus on a specific branch on a plant. Most of my shots or of plants just in my backyard and in the woods near by. For the photo that includes the dock going out into the pond/ bog I wanted to capture the beauty of both nature and human interaction together. In photoshop I brightened some of the flowers to emphasize the focus of the picture. Also, at first most of my pictures were very dark, in some it was barely visible what the image of, so I would play around on photoshop with the brightness, lightness, hue, saturation, and contrast. Also, for my very bright flower I made the background mostly black and then fade around the outside of the flower so that it would create an interesting affect on the brightness of the flower, to show how bright plant life can be in a sometimes dull world. 

For my images of the presence of people I went around places near me to find where construction was going on. The images show how the presence of people completely changes the landscape, and it also shows how it can make for an interesting picture. I focused a lot on the machines in the area with human presence. Also, I showed a large portion of land where humans have completely destruction the nature. To get some of the shots I went into prohibited areas, or climbed up really high mountains of dirt. IN photoshop I brightened most of the photos, added some contrast, and then de-saturated it.  For some I increased the saturation for a cool color effect. 

2. Out of my nature shots I feel like my most successful shot was the ones of the pink flowers because I liked how I used the aperture and really captured the vividness and beauty of the flowers and the buds. 

Out of my human presence shots I believe my most successful shot was the one of the truck with the chains on the wheels. I think it really captures the power that humans have over some aspects of nature, and I really liked how the black and white affect made it seem somehow more important. 

3. If I could change something for my photos I would have changed all of them with when I went to take the pictures. The day I went out to get the pictures it was very dark and cloudy. I would mostly likely would also change the vantage point of where I took the pictures where they cut down the trees. I would have liked to go when no one was at the site so I could get the best vantage point which would capture all aspects of the site.