Final Project Idea

At first I wanted to do my final project on dance because it is my favorite thing to do, and pretty much what my whole life is, (other than school). But after I was thinking about this and just how broad it was and how it just didn't feel like a good assignment to do for my final project!! So I was thinking about other stuff to do. But one thing I was really excited to do with my dance idea, was take pictures of all the dance shoes because there are so many different types and they tell so much about what I'm doing at dance. So I started thinking about that and how my dance shoes tell a story about me. But what about other shoes? What story do they tell about people? so for my final project I want to take pictures of shoes. All kinds of shoes about different things in people's lives. Like dirty shoes, sports shoes, dance shoes, clean shoes, new shoes, old shoes, all kind of shoes! I'm really excited because I think I can do a lot with this and can take it in a lot of different directions and show a lot of different stories.

Assignment #8 Redo

These are my self portraits that aren't suppose to be me. This is me posing like my friend with my hair all crazy and I would never do a pose like this or my hair or act like this or anything. That's what makes this picture not me.



This one is me sitting outside of a garage doing my homework... I never get the chance to just go sit outside in the first place. and secondly I never get to just sit down and do homework. Usually I am doing it during class, or on my way home, or during dance breaks. So this shows something odd for me yet it seems so normal.


This is my last self portrait and this is me asleep on the grass. This is not me at all because I hate sleeping! I wish I didn't have to sleep, it is such a waste of time. Also I do not sleep as peacefully as this picture seems. It takes me forever to fall asleep, and when I do I sleep crazily. I really like this pictures point of view though how it is on top and you see my back then a little of the side of my face, but even my face gets covered a little with my hair, but it still tells something not about me.


This is Ashley laying down. I liked the composition of this picture but the focus isn't exactly as sharp as I would have hoped. But still I decided to post it because I think the contrast is good and I like the actual picture.


This is my friend Rylee. She was really tired and was in front of a metal box thing.... I like this picture because I like the contrast and the detail in the background, but it doesn't distract from the actual picture. I also like how you can't see her face but it tells about her so it's a portrait.



This is my friend laying on a table. I did this picture for the assignment get on your belly and I liked it so decided to redo it and try to make the focus better and the lighting. I like this one better because I got the actual focus better and the lighting is good and I like how if you look up close you have no idea its a person but when you back up and look at the bigger picture you see what it actually is meant to be.


This is my friend Jasmine in front of a door. she found a pair of glasses she liked and was making silly poses. This shows just who she is because she is just so random and serious about it.


This is also Jasmine in front of a brick wall. She was looking up at something that was on the ceiling and I liked the picture so I started shooting pictures.


This is my friend Ashley. She loves having her picture taken! So she kept posing and this was one of them that I liked because it shows how she is yet you can't really see her face so I think its different.


This is her posing in front of a brick wall. I liked her face in this because she just loves posing for photos. I liked the highlights on her face too.

Redo

Well I'm not sure what to think, so far I have taken pictures of my two friends and plan on doing a little more shooting before I turn in the final assignment. I feel like I did better because I actually got pictures with different backgrounds, which I wanted to do in the first place. I sure hope it turns out better. Some of the pictures aren't as good as the other ones posing wise, but actually photography wise I feel like I improved, so I guess that is what matters, but I still hope to get some better ones later this weekend.

Our circle Friend KFZ

So me and Sami didn't have anything to do one day so we made this dinosaur bookmark. His name is vqibrnahgoly wmtecdjspux or KFZ for short. It was an adventure finding glue and figuring out how to put him all together. And we accidently made his nose his face..... But after we made him we took all these pictures of him and decided to post him on our blog. I must say for just messing around these images are alright light and pretty focused. Hopefully this means we are getting better at taking pictures for photo!

Retake

For this assignment I'm going to retake portraits. I feel like if I had more time I'd be able to do more with this assignment and now after seeing more portraits and seeing mine I have some more ideas which I think will turn out better. I really would like to retake the picture of Rylee I did on the On Your Belly Assignment so I'm excited to retake that and try getting the focus just right. Hopefully this turns about better than my first one and I can get some better pictures. I really did like the white backgrounds I used for all of them though and think I may try that again but maybe with some different colors or black in the back to see how it makes the portrait different.

Assignment #7 Numbers

#23- My brother loves drawing in the sand so me and him were writing in the sand and I wrote a 23 and took a picture of it. Even though I wrote this number for this assignment it still tells the story of how my brother loves writing in the sand because he was writing numbers all over.


#16- My friend's little brother had a squirt gun and he kept squirting me with it. So my friend stole the squirt gun and wrote this. I like the exposure in this picture with the brick kind of background then just how the number is written.



#0- I like that it is a blank wall showing zero yet on the sides you can still see something. To me this really represents zero or the emptiness zero represents. Because you see how other things are outside then just the blank wall and you really understand that it is empty.



#6- This is a pile of 6 dead flowers. I like how in this frame the flowers are pointing towards us and the brick is slanted. I think it really adds to the picture because things don't end up perfectly straight and everything. It is always a little different and slanted.


#11- This is my friend's phone and her sisters phone. They both have the exact same phone except they both have different stickers on them. I like the idea of the same thing yet different and they are right besides each other. My favorite part of this picture though is the highlight on the tile on the right top corner. I just love how it has that highlight because it gives it that contrast.


#18- I like this picture a lot. I was laying under a trampoline while my friend was on top of it. I like how the sky is in this picture in the background yet it isn't super bright because the trampoline covers it a bit. I just like the texture in this photo too.


#9- This is my absolute favorite. It is me doing my scorpion (dance pose) and it looks like a number nine. This was my friends idea and the lighting and everything about it just look really good! I'm really proud of this one print.


#14- So this is a knife and a fork which shows 14. I just like this picture because they are every day things and they are parallel just as if they were about to be used for dinner and they are on a dinning room table. It means all these things.


#4- This is my feet and my friends. I like this picture because she is wearing socks and I'm not; her pants are light and mine are dark. My pants are rolled up and baggy and hers are straight. I like how they are so different but then they are right across from each other and make 4 feet.


#7- So this picture is 7 bananas. If you look close the open banana has 7 peels coming out of it. My friend's little brother wanted a banana so while we were getting him one I took a picture of this. This picture just stood out to me when I exported all my pictures.

Taking Number Pictures

Today me and my friend have been taking pictures for the number assignment. It has been bugging me I can't do retakes or erase but oh well. Hopefully they turn out good! I'm excited to print them and see how they look, I think we got some pretty interesting ideas!

Portraits (sorta)

So these are pictures I originally took for my portraits assignment, but then they didn't really work out as portraits. I really liked the pictures though so I decided to put them up anyways. These were my favorite 2 of all the pictures I took of them. The first one is my friend who I asked him if he was to walk out of his house where would he go, and he went to his chicken coop and got in and started talking to his chickens. It was so funny but it shows who he really is. The second one is my best friend and we went to a playground at a park by my house. It was really windy so she was trying to get her hair out of her face and I just loved it!! Her expression is just so how her personality is. Both of these pictures show what I wanted to tell bout my two friends and even though they are a little too far to be portraits and they are more like "snap shots" I still really like these 2 pictures.

Assignment # 6 Portraits

This is my little brother right after school. He has the cutest smile I love it, and hes always smiling so I think this tells a lot about just how he is.


I am usually never depressed or sad, so this picture really shows who I am NOT! I look like I'm crying and I'm not like that at all.


This is a girl from my dance studio and she is always smiling and having the funnest time whenever I see her. I like this picture because it shows how she always is when I see her.


This is the 2 girls together from my dance studio. They are the best of friends and always laughing together with their inside jokes. I think this picture shows a lot about them because they are just 2 cute girls who love to smile and have a lot of fun.


This is a picture of my friend Samantha. This is one of my favorite pictures because I actually got pretty good light and she is just this really silly person and I love her face in this picture. It so describes how she really is.


This is a girl from my dance studio and she loves listening to music. She was listening to her ipod during one of our breaks so I got my camera and started shooting and these pictures turned out really nice.


This is another girl from my dance studio on our break and she had a jar of peanut butter she was eating. I like her expression while she was almost eating this peanut butter.


This is my friend Samantha again with my puppy. My puppy loves her and loves when she rubs her belly so I liked this because it shows something other than just Samantha but then it shows her with her hair all in her face and bending down and just different. I like also how one of her is standing then this one is closer to the floor.


This is during our dance break as well. I asked her if she would pose for a portrait for this class so she sat down and started thinking. I really like that she isn't dead center in the frame and also that it's more high key because she kinda blends into the wall then her black shirt brings her back out.


This was me and Sami posing after school one day. This picture isn't really me because I'm not really stuck up or cocky and that's what I was trying to look like. I wish I would've had more time to shoot myself because I had a lot of great ideas just not the time, light, or anyone to help. But this one turned out better than I thought, and not too bad.

Portraits Assignment Examples

This is a portrait photograph done by Steve McCurry. I liked this picture because it tells me a lot about who this little girl is. She looks so happy and excited but then she is dirty and curled up close to herself. I really like the idea of McCurry's photographs, especially about all the ones he took in Africa. We all hear about kids in Africa but he went and photographed them and shows us what they really are and it's really cool.




This is a painting by Davinci. I have always liked this painting ever since I remember seeing it when I was little. just how its a portrait yet it is kind of fading out. I also love the expression on her face. It's gorgeous. She looks so caring looking down at something and she looks so happy. The face is entirely sketched in as the hair and shoulders slowly fade out. I like how this painting is focused and how beautiful it really is.



Looking at portraits done by painting and photography I have gotten some better ideas of how to do my portraits assignment. Hopefully I can get some good portraits that express something about the person and are close enough and are not to dull. After looking at these I'm going to shoot some more tonight and hopefully get some good ones of my family and friends.