Week Fourteen/ Final Project

The semester is coming to an end. It's amazing to see everything we learned. Time went by so quickly. The slideshow was quite tedious. I had to keep rearranging everything to make sure it was in the right order. I used Picasa to make my slideshow. My only complaint is I wish it gave me more options with my text. It was difficult not to cover the photo too much or have the text not quite readable. I enjoyed the class and I appreciate everyone's comments and critiques. Good luck, everyone.

Week Thirteen

The timing was actually perfect for this assignment cause I was taking so many pictures cause of the holidays.  The first picture and the last picture were taken with my SLR camera, the other two were taken with my android cell phone.The first picture is of my brother. He's a junior in high school and extremely difficult to photograph. He hates taking pictures, so i'm very happy with this photo. :) I got him when he didn't think I was looking :) The photo shows a side to him a lot of people don't see, which is why I especially like this photograph. He's very sarcastic, very goofy, a little dry, and exceptionally witty. At home he has a seriousness about him, that not many people see. A boy surrounded by three sisters, he's got a sensitive side, contemplative side, not a lot get to see. With the photo I added a color filter, and I blurred the skin a bit to make it appear softer. I also cropped a portion of the photo, because I did not like the background.

The second picture is of my aunt and my sister. We were out to lunch and I was snapping pictures after pictures. They were getting very annoyed with me. This photo I snapped before they realized I was going to. It was an intriguing moment. Its hard sometimes to photograph more than one person, not having them pose, and have their emotions resonate one another and capture it at that exact, perfect moment. We were chit chatting, they were getting ready for me to take a picture and I appeared to not be ready, but I was watching them, and I caught them making this expression, and snapped. They seem relaxed, and calm and so many other emotions I can't quite pin. I darkened the edges of the photo, and messed with the saturation and contrast. I also had the camera on vintage mode to give it some more warmth, you can't really see the warmth once I made it a B&W.

The third photo is of my boyfriend watching TV  I had my cell phone on the "cool" setting. He was wearing a vintage t-shirt and just the way the lamp was and where I was sitting I felt the "cool" setting added to the mood. I had sat down on this chair when I looked over at my boyfriend, and saw a potentially great photo. I didn't do much more editing other than having the camera on the cool setting.

The last photo is of my youngest sister. We were playing with her make up and hair, just experimenting, curling, straightening, etc. I love most the way this photo made her face and eyes look. I thought about cropping so the focus was more on her face, but I kind of like the way her face is a little off the center of the page. The angle I took the photo makes her features look much softer. I again made the edges of the photo darker and I chose to make the photo black and white.