Admiration.

Although I doubt anyone from Photo 11 is still looking at their blogs or others', I hope someone does see this, for it is amazing!

Beautiful

Portraits - The experience

I learned that it's a lot easier to have a model to tell what do to, which way to pose, in which lighting opposed to things I have no control over. The one thing I had difficulty with on the shoot was the camera I had to work with. Now, some photographers will argue that the camera doesn't matter, but when you can't adjust the contrast and brightness on the camera and nothing you want to do with it works, I'd have to tell anyone who argues that to go jump in a lake (as my Grandpa would say).

I really enjoyed the direct and filtered light, though sometimes I had difficulty adjusting certain settings on my camera, for the most part, the photos turned out alright.

Next time, I'm going to use a different camera.

Portraits - outdoor shoot

I chose those picture first because of the emotional qualities, which are in my opinion, light, innocent and friendly. Otherwise, the formal qulities could've been stronger. The lighting could've been better, the angle; but I like it still.






Now this I chose because the pose of the model was great, I enjoyed the lighting in the photo and because of the foliage behind the model. Again, another sweet, friendly, welcoming photo :)

PRETTY FLOWERRSSS - Nature Shoot

Not my favorite picture in terms of lighting and/or filtered light, but I chose this due to the angle, depth and colors. PRETTY FLOWERRRRSSSSS!!!













I liked the lighting in this one a bit more, there's some more direct light and yeah.. haha, I'm at a loss for words. These are definitely my two favorite though.

Street Shoot - the shoot.

I really love the angle of this photo and the detail and texture of the steps on the stairs. The lines of the bars on the railing, steps and overall shape of the staircase I find really appealing.

I loved the structure of this building, so I had to capture it along with the piercing blue paint, though chipped and old, still beautiful and vibrant. The green shrubs and plants against the run down blue building also keep the color popping.

It as really difficult shootingin this area of New Westminster, because as interesting of an environment it was, it wasn't very active, therefore making it even more difficult for me to photograph complete strangers. The people I tried to take pictures of were seemingly grumpy people and some of them would walk away or turn their backs. Poo-poo heads :P

Street Shoot - my experience.

I found it really difficult being really intrusive and taking photos of people, so the few people I did get in photos were like, me creeping on them. Hahaha! I had a lot of difficulty with this, but tomorrow I shall be adding more photos to the collection and I will be less shy and keep a steady theme going. Yay!

Objects Shoot - Flowers and a Crown

I had liked this photo, but after editing it, I loved it. I adjusted the contrast and brightness of it, and I feel that it made the colors of the color of the shiny petals on this hair elastic really pop out a little more. I also felt that it gave it more emotional qualities, those being feelings of grace, femininity and beauty. Does that sound corny, or what?

Sandy Skoglund

Sandy Skoglund's work is definitely very innovative and in my opinion, the real definition of art in the sense that it possesses both creativity, imagination and is also visually appealing.

I think, obviously, at first her work would've have inflicted shock, resentment and awe from the art community, but given a second glance her work is recognized as creative, elaborate and intriguing. Aside from both criticism and praise, Skoglund was born in 1946, grew up in California and was schooled in the Midwest. Some of the things that influenced her are American and European cinema. The end result of all of this is half a year work to produce one scene, which, in my opinion, is a brilliant outcome. Her work is absolutely genius.

I think what the writer meant in the last paragraph of the article was that her work relies heavily upon emotional response opposed to technicalities of a photograph, meaning the questioning of why it was taken, what makes it the way it is, etc. Her artwork has themes, stories, underlying stories and almost a feeling of tension that translates emotionally, similar to watching a film.

Quay Shoot #2

I have never been so frustrated with an image before!! Honestly, I couldn't find many pictures from the shoot that I thought were good enough to post; but I got lucky, because this image was a fixer-upper!
Again, wow, I chose something for lines, because all I really had other than this that was good, were images of flowers - they are SO overrated. I really had to edit this one. I changed the contrast, edited the grey scale and cloned something out. I feel that this image is somewhat strong and that is because I really like the lines in the wood and the texture of it. I really like that the angle of the lines in the picture and the way it was take isn't perfectly straight. I feel that the direction of the lines help the picture flow and doesn't trap the viewer's eye in a mess of shapes. I had to get down on the ground and really concentrate on trying to get a good shot, so both shooting and editing this image was frustrating, but I think the turn out was decent.

Quay Shoot #1

I chose this picture for a few reasons, one of them being I love, love, love the colors in this and the way the light sort of hits the bottom of the yellow rope. I was seeking out an image that used lines and saw this as a perfect opportunity for a decent shot. What especially caught my eye about this, was the texture - I loved it! The rope is obviously the focal point and to really accentuate that, I even edited it by blurring the background a bit more. I actually got lucky capturing this shot. The rope was running above me and so the picture really just presented itself.

Elements #1

So, yes, this is for a photography class and I chose this picture due to the color contrast between the beautiful pale pink and light brown. Unfortunately, the lighting didn't turn out quite as I would have liked, but still a decent turn out.