photo mosaic

-artist statement.

In my portfolio you will find art created uniquely by me. Throughout this year I have learned a variety of techniques that I was unknowledgeable of until I came to Ms. Cook’s digital photography class. My artwork ranges from straight forward photographs to more abstract and angled photos. I feel very strongly about my portfolio and I think that it was a great success. Over the months of being in digital photography class I have created a lot of creative photos.

At the beginning of the school year I did not know half of what I know now. I never knew the amazing things that Photoshop itself could do to a picture. I have learned new things ranging from F-Stop to shutter speed. These are very important tools to taking a good photograph. This class has expanded my knowledge on taking photographs and also editing them.

Within editing photos on the Adobe Photoshop program, I feel that I was best at creating filtered images with very different effects. I was most successful with taking very meaningful photos. The tasks that I struggled with were creating a different looking background due to always taking the photos on campus. I could improve in the future by planning further ahead and bringing props to detail the setting of the photos. Some of my influences have been other great pictures that I had seen.

These gave me an idea on how I could make my pictures look as well as theirs. Other influences have been my feelings at the time of taking photos. I have seen growth and improvement in my poses because before learning about all of the tools that could be used on the camera I used to take pictures that I like to say are specifically for “MySpace”. I feel like this class has been very fun and at the same time it has taught me a lot of things that will be useful artistically.

adjustment

self portraits

In my self portraits I wanted to express the emotions that I was feeling at the time that the photographs were captured. While I was taking my pictures my attitude towards capturing my emotions in the pictures did change. For example in my picture with my personal prop I made a serious facial expression but the mood that I was in was happy. The photograph that I feel was most creative is my element photo because the colors are very nice when they are black and white. I think that the writing on the brick wall really accents the picture because it is one of the very few things that is white. The thing that was difficult for me was finding the right amount of natural lighting so that the picture would not be too bright or too dark. This creativity plays a great role into the success of my self portraits because without it my photographs would be very bland.

In these photographs the setting was not planned but when I came upon places with nice lighting I decided on a pose and a prop and began to take photos with different expressions and poses. To strengthen the composition of my photos, I had my photographer take the photos from different angles and positions. Things that I did not do that weakened my photos was change my facial expressions. The majority of them are very serious. In my opinion the photo that has the strongest composition is the rule of thirds photo. This composition is the strongest because It was taken from a very nice angle and it has a wide variety of different types of grey, black, and white colors in the background. The portrait that I would change the composition on is my personal prop photo because I feel that it could have been taken from a lower angle.

I honestly think that my light picture was too bright. During taking the photographs my partner and I often changed the ISO and the shutter speed to fix the lighting. My knowledge with the different features that were available for use on the camera helped me drastically. My weaknesses were finding the correct location with the right lighting. My overall strengths during taking my photographs were how I posed.

I feel that my portraits were a success because I put a lot of thought into them and they turned out to be really good. I think I did well with the costume because it was very creative and it added black and white colors to the photo. If I had to do the same assignment again I would have changed the poses and faces that I made in my photographs. My favorite shot was the one where I was walking but also leaning on the brick wall. This was my favorite because I felt that the writing on the wall added white color and that overall this picture looked very peaceful. My least favorite was my light picture because you could not see my face due to the brightness.