Best 6

I really love this one of the water. It might be a little bit cliche, but the colors of gray and blue are so pretty in it and it fit the monochromatic assignment so good. I dont usually take really abstract pictures like this one, it's of the reflection of clouds in the water, and I like it because of that. There is really good contrast and lighting in it. It is second only to my one of the blue hand and the uno cards.

This is also another one of my favorites. Well I guess they're all my favorites, its supposed to be my favorite six :). I did this for the analogous colors assignment and I think the colors and the focus are really beautiful, and I think the overall composition is really good. All I did as far as lightroom was to make the contrast a little bit more pronounced. I think that the analogous assignment was my best one by far, since half of my best 6 are from it.

This was my only freeshoot image that I would even consider putting on here. I think its different from a lot of the other stuff I do, and I think that it kind of works for this one. The light is a little bright in the top right corner but it turns out okay. The contrast is amazingggg!

This one is so creepy! I like it though :) I did this for the analogous colors assignment and I didn't follow the rules because its the three primary colors instead but slade said it fit the general idea well enought that I could keep it. I think that it is really pretty with the trees and the dead leaves in the ground also. CREEPER!

I really really like this one. There were all these different trees that were dropping leaves so there were all of these different types and colors on the ground. At first I couldn't decide whether or not it was complementary or analogous, but I think for the most part it is complementary because of all of the yellow and purple. I love it.

This one is by far my favorite picture that I have taken all term long. It was for monochromatic (obviously). I painted my little brothers hand blue with acrylic paint and then just picked out all of the blue uno cards I had out of the deck. the contrast is awesome and the composition just works. BY FAR MY FAVORITE!!!!

Freeshoot

I really did not like this assignment. It was just too hard to find things to take pictures of. I also had a lot going on this weekend so it was hard to find time to take pictures. But enough excuses. Here it is :)

ASSIGNMENT # 4 - CONTEMPORARY COLOR

So it is pretty much amazing that I got this in on time. I liked it but I have had a crazy weekend and week so it was hard to just get some images to work with. But I did! my favorites are the tube and the merry go round, and I kind of like the lime and the leaf. That one is the kind of thing where you either love it or hate it and most people i've talked to hate it. :) but overall I thought this turned out okay! I found a lot of good light and some good colors to work with.

IRVING PENN

So I was gone when Slade assigned this so I am going to blog about irving right now :)

Irving Penn was a photographer who died recently at his home ( he was pretty old). He did photography for Vogue Magazine for a very long time, and his fashion pictures are in my opinion super beautiful. He was really ahead of his time as far as keeping it simple went, and he was very good at using light instead of complicated subjects to make a picture beautiful.

Here are some of his pictures

This first one I think is really awesome. The subject is quite simple and the background is very very simple, just plain white, but the photograph overall isnt boring.n That takes some serious skills in my opinion.

This one is a really good example of Irving's skills to use light to make a picture beautiful. If the light was just coming from the front or right above it wouldnt be nearly as interesting I think. The light changes the way the background looks in every different corner. Very Very pretty/

ASSIGNMENT 3

This was my favorite assignment ever except for hi key low key!!! It was so awesome. The very first pictures I took were of my dirty laundry on the floor, and those are the teal and orange clothes ones. My favorite ones are the one of my Goldendoodle Maggie, and the blue one of my brother's hand and the uno cards. This assignment really made me appreciate how much better I like shooting in color, and it was so great. With lightroom you can make the pictures look a lot better by just doing little things. The uno card one and the oranges one I think both look really good because of the editing in lightroom, but dont worry cause they didn't suck before. This was so great!!!!

Other RETOUCH

ASSIGNMENT 2 1/2: RETOUCH

So I was kind of hesitant to do anything to this one because I liked it so much just straight out of the camera, but I think that adding the darker darks made it look better. It makes the old one look so flat haha