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.

Dog!

While I was taking my assignment #5 I was laying on my tummy taking some pictures of a rock. As I was taking pictures my neighbor was walking his dog and the dog started running up to me. The dog is only in these 3 pictures and I did have to adjust them quite a lot since I was bracketing and they were on the darker end but I thought it was cool that it was only in these 3 pictures and it just kept getting closer and closer.

Get On Your Belly! Assingmen #5

This is a picture of my friend going up some stairs at a building at Bingham High School. I didn't get to great of an exposure because there was a creepy car watching us and then started driving towards us so we had to leave but I like this picture because even though I'm laying down under the building you can still see a background yet you can tell its on the ground because of the stairs



This picture is also at the park. My favorite thing to do at this park is go down the slides. Me and my friends always go down them on our stomaches, backs, upside downs, rolling, and anything else we can think of. So for this I decided to go lay on the top of the slide and look down on it like I was going to go down it on my tummy.




This is a picture of my friend's sister's friend's car. It is named the Luv Machine, and it is a beat up pick up truck. The mirror is kinda beat up so I layed under it and started shooting pictures of it. I don't know why I like this picture but I do. I think it may be because it is so simple yet it has a story behind it and just has an interesting angle.




This another picture of a slide. It is a curvy slide so I went down it then layed on the bottom and took pictures of it looking up. This particular picture is cool because if you look at the left you can see my friend's hands and head as she is coming down the slide after me.





This is a picture of a trailer that is leaning against my neighbor's fence. I thought this would be interesting, especially laying down and taking it because it just looks so much different just seeing the tire then the grass and a fence. you can't really tell what is going on yet its a really cool point of view.



This is also my neighbor's mailbox. It has this flower rose pattern on the side of it so laying down it looks different because you can actually see it connect to the mailbox. Also you can see all the bolts and screws that make up the mailbox. You don't usually think of this part of a mailbox, so I liked that I could take a picture of it like this instead of just a normal mailbox.




I dragged my friend Rylee around to help me take pictures for this assignment and she was getting so tired of waiting for me to bracket everything so she went and layed on a table over in the pavillion of the park. I looked over and thought it would be such a perfect picture for this assignment so I told her to stay and I crawled under the table and started taking pictures. Some of them were blurry but this one actually turned out pretty good. Even though it is a little blury, it has a good exposure. One reason I really like this picture is because it takes a moment to realize what is actually going on. To actually see Rylee through the table.




While I was at the park by my house there were some little kids playing on the playground and they had brought scooters and layed them down on the grass. I went and layed down next to it and kind of just started taking pictures. I wasn't sure how they would look but after seeing them I really liked the perspective it had on the scooter. There was a cloud which looks kinda weird on the right side, but it also gives the sky a kind of contrast that I like. I also like the dark on the scooter right next to the silver highlight.

High Key/ Low Key Retake (Assingment #4)

This is a black phone in my office that when I was walking around someone had laided down on the black desk. I found it kind of interessting and grabbed my camera and took some pictures of it. I did have to make it quite darker because I didn't get a dark enough exposure but I think it turned out pretty good. I like how dark it is then right below the phone there is a glare from a light that was on that gives it some contrast and also shows a weird texture of the desk.



So I was doing laundry and I decided to take a picture of all the white towels I was washing and my washing machine. It isn't my favorite, I like the ice sculpture picture better but this one still has some cool shapes to it with the towels and washing machine.




This is one of the pictures I took over spring break. I went in my dad's office and his black jacket was on his black chair, then his black laptop was infront of it. I went and grabbed my camera and thought how great it would be for this assignment! I really like this picture because it isn't a picture that I just found something black and put it on something else black, it's a picture that was just sitting in my house. It was already telling it's own story and I just got a picture of it.



So I was on my way up to a Girl's camp and my mom was driving me up when we passed these cool ice sculpture things! We looked at them and thought they were really cool, so I asked my mom to turn around so I could go take pictures of it for this assignment. The sky was white because of all the clouds that day, so it made a white background for the white ice which was just perfect. But I love this picture! I'm especially proud of this picture because I usually don't just see something while I'm driving and take a picture of it, and I did with this one and it turned out looking really cool.

Taking Assignment #4

Just took some pictures for Assignment #4. Instead of finding white objects and putting them on a white background, or same for black, I decided to walk around my house and find black objects already on a black background and white on white backgrounds. I got some interessting pictures which actually tell a lot more of what goes on in a life at my house then the frames I made. I'm excited to see how these ones turn out compared to my last assignment.