Group photo:
For this assignment we had to take a photograph that represented our school. In my group, we chose to portray the many different arts at our school. We chose a photographer, a dancer, an artist and two musicians. When we scouted for places to shoot we all seemed to like this place the best. The hardest part of this shoot was arranging our models. We had a general idea of how we wanted them but we ended up changing it up. The right lighting was pretty easy to find and we were able to set up the strobe lights in a way to give the photo more contrast/detail. Our models were awesome, they listened to us and tried to do what we wanted them to do. once we took our photos we printed them. Only a few of them were really good, the others were just okay. So we just the best and this is just one of them. Overall this assignment was fun and we got to learn how to use strobe and work with a group of models.

Response to Manjari Sharma's Work

Manjari Sharma's work is influential to me because in her portraits she uses subjects that have a natural aura giving them their point of essence. Her capture on the people she takes shots of are unexplainable and I like the way she portrays her photos. Her portraits that she portrays are quite beautiful and the scenery of her photos are also rich. The lighting she uses have great focal points on the subjects because they show their true personalities. Her focus on the people in the portraits are bright and have great contrast and it is very enjoyable. Plus her process of her works are nice. In the assignment that will be assigned to us, I hope I can create a portrait as good as Sharma's.

softening

Reflection: For this assignment we had to add brushes to our self portraits. We had to add each brush in a way that wouldn't be distracting to our focal point and make the viewers eyes move around the photo. For me this assignment was kinda hard. Using photo shop wasn't the hard part but trying to compose the image with brushes was. I didn't really know how to go about placing the brushes in an interesting/flowing manner. Over all this assignment was a little difficult to get the composition right but it was still fun.

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Self portrait:

For this assignment we had to use photobooth to create four different personas of ourselves. Once we had the four different personas we used photoshop to duplictace them and put them together. In doing this we were replicating Tomoko Sawada's work. I found this assignment to be fun because we got to create different personas of ourselves. I think I was succesful because this work replicates Tomoko Sawadas work.

Sequencing:

To begin with, the title of my book is "Polaroid Predicament". I chose this title because I made all of the photos in my book look like polaroid pictures and they tell a story. This assignment was fun but it took a litle while to think of an idea for sequencing. Once i had an idea on what to do it was easy and it worked out the way I wanted it to. Another thing that i had a little trouble with was printing the eight photots for my book. I had trouble because some parts of the photos would be super dak areas while some parts would be super light. In order to fix this problem i had to find just the right balance of contrast for each photo. When i finally put the photos in the book the story really came together. Over all this assignment was fun and I found it succesful.