Surrealism Final - Project 9

I made this image because I found this photo of the road and though it would be cool to enlarge usually smaller objects and put them next to the cars. So I cut a fire hydrant and mailbox so it look like giant versions on the highway/

I found this photo that I took awhile ago of the inside of a UPS truck. I also found two photos of a cab and a tall building. I thought it would be funny to make the cab big and have is basically driving the vehicle. So its like a car driving a car. Then I cut down this photo of the building and put in in the car to make it more unrealistic and surreal.

Fine Art Vs Commercial Portraits

Fine Art

Commercial Photography
Taken by Marie Claire

Although these photos are both taken of Jennifer Lawrence, they have very different meanings to them. The first one is a simple photo of Jennifer in black and white. It is just of her face and there is no other meaning to it. The second one is very different. It is saturated and pink and looks like something I would see on a billboard. It pops out way more than the other photo. It is selling lipstick. I think the two photos both have very different reasons for being taken and they both show drastically different sides to the model. One is very bright and colorful and one is duller and more simplistic.

Commercial Portraits

Definition of commercial portraits: Taking a photo for it's commercial use like business and sales. It is taken for money and it is often associated with advertisements.

Travis Duncan
I like this photo because of the landscape in the background. I really like looking at photos of snow and I think they way the sun reflects on the ground is really pretty. It caught my eye for the quality and how saturated and in focus everything is which I really like. I think it is a ad for either a snowboard company or a company that sells snow or outdoor gear.

Jon Mold
I lik the contrast in this photo and the value. I think it's cool the way the smoke looks against the black and it is interesting to look at. I think this is probably an advertisement for something to do with a men's product. I would assume it would be men's cologne, deodorant, or body spray.

Fine Art Photos

Fine Art Potrait: The photo has no deep meaning to it that is universally known as it's one meaning. It is the creative vision of the camerman. It can represent reality or events.

Danielle van Zadelghoff
I like this photo because it can be interpreted in so many ways. It is pretty simple but it also has a lot of interesting things going on. I think it could mean that the girl is somehow restricted from seeing. Maybe she is blind or maybe she can't see things for the way they are and so she has that restricted sense about things

Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk
I think this photo because of the contrasting colors of black to the background. I also like the way the girl and the cat are both looking back at the camera. I think it's cute how the girl and cat both have a furry material around their necks/shoulders and I think it could mean the connection between the person and the animal

Surrealism and Photomontage Pre-Work

Salvador Dali

Surrealism: Combinations of unlikely recognizably realistic images. It combines dreams with real life. Unnatural and irrational.

Rene Magritte

David Heger: This photo is of a rainy afternoon. However, it is a little unique. David uses watering can as what is making it rain. It is surrealism because it is clearly impossible and couldn't literally happen. But it is interesting to see these kind of perspectives and how David and other artists use objects tin an unrealistic situation to show an idea.

Platon Yurich: This photography does a lot of surrealism. This photo is beautiful on its own and the surrealism just adds to it. The balloons are showing that the boy is being held up by it. He is flying into the stars and the contrast between the sky and the balloons adds to the detail of surrealism in the photo

Project - 8 Digital Alternative Process

For this project I recreated processes of editing photos that are used but I did them digitally. I did them on Photoshop and I did Daguerreotypes, Cyanotypes, and Gum Bichromate. Daguerreotypes have a warm orange brown look to them. They look older because of the grain added. A picture is made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine and it developed by exposure to mercury vapor. Cyanotypes have a blue tint and they have the soft edges were I used brushes to fill the photo in on a white background. For the real process, you would mix chemicals and water and coat it on a material. Then you use a UV light to get the final product. Gum Bichromate was really fun to make. I did the same thing as Cyanotype but added different colors like warms and cools. You use different chemicals and layer different pictures over it. It has those soft edges and white background like Cyanotypes.

Daguerreotype 

Cyanotypes

Gum Bichromate

School Community Project- Perspective of Place

This is my collage I created for this project. For my photography class my teacher had the students pick a place that represented our community for our city and school. My partner and I decided to go to a coffee shop in our area. I went there and took around 30 photos of the outside from different angles and perspectives. The idea was to put all the photos together in a collage. Even though this didn't turn out exactly as planned I had fun. My partner and I got creative and kept making cool cuts with the photos and making them pop up or stick out. I don't think what we did was exactly what we were supposed to do but I am proud of the interesting things we came up with. I represents our unique creativity and our communities weird personality.

Project #8 - Digital Alternative Process

Daguerreotype: Invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandè Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839. To use this technique you have to polish a sheet of silver-plated copper, use fumes on it to make the surface light sensitive expose it in a camera, use chemical treatment to remove the light sensitivity, rinse and dry it, then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype

Cyanotype:
Produces cyan-blue prints
Engineers used the process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide.
Invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842
Mix equal volumes of an 8.1% solution of potassium ferricyanide and a 20% solution of ferric ammonium citrate. Apply a photosensitive solution to a receptive surface and allow to dry in a dark place. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype 

Platinum and Palladiums:
Platinum is a hand-coated, UV light sensitive contact printing process. The final print will be the same size as the negative used. This is due to the low light sensitivity of the medium. Platinum is one of the iron printing processes, as a compound called Ferric Oxalate is the light sensitive material. Print exposure time 6 minutes. 
Platinum is the more permanent of the two, gives a cooler image tone and better separation in the highlights. Palladium is warmer, and gives better separation in the shadows of the print. Many printers use a combination of the two to reap the benefits of both. In any case, the prints exhibit a very long scale in the mid-tones, possess a feeling of depth (due the fact that the paper has no gelatin overcoat), and are completely archival without the use of fixer or long wash times. 
http://www.alternativephotography.com/a-non-silver-manual-palladium/ 

Simon Howlett
Platinum and Palladiums

Anna Atikins

Antoine Claude
Daguerreotype

Multi Image Techniques

Panorama

Panorama Horizontal 

Multi Layer 1

Multi Layer 2

HDR 1

HDR



For this project we learned about the image techniques of panaroma HDR, and and multi layer. We walked around a Portland Park from our school and we took photos having these techniques in mind. I used Photoshop to edit them and these are my final photos for this project.

Reflections of 1st Semester

Reflection: This semester I learned a lot about photography and got to take many cool photos. Throughout the year I got to research many different photographers work and draw inspiration from it. One of my favorites is named Henri-Carter Bassen. I really like his photos and I find them really interesting. I discovered how much I like black and white photos. The simplicity of them are really cool. I also like the the old-timey vintage feel of his photos. I learned a lot about composition and framing like frame within a frame or contrast and balance. Also about framing, editing, and balances in photos. I feel I can identify photos into these categories and really see how each one uses these techniques. I liked all the projects because I liked going around the city taking photos during school. I think it was project three because I loved playing with colors. I think it's really fun to edit photos and really bring out certain colors. Color is what makes the photo what it is. I've always loved taking pictures and having photo shoots. I feel I have more interest in editing now and making every photo looks perfect and satisfying to me. I still love photography and I feel I am getting better at it and I have learned a lot more. I overall enjoy this class because I love the lowkeyness of it, the ability ot be creative and do my own thing, and the all the stuff a learn about photos. I hope to learn more about editing and techniques of taking good photos.

Project 6: Final Emulation and Photo

Final Emulation Document

Final Emulation Photo

Project 5 - Basic PS and Camera Controls

In this project I went around Portland with my class and took photos of the four following categories: shallow depth of field, deep depth of field, blurred motion, and freeze motion. I learned about camera controls like aperture and shutter speed and applied them to the photos. I sued Light Room and Photoshop to edit the photos.

Project 5 -