Final Portfolio

This is my final portfolio. Enjoy.

This year was great. This class was amazing and very helpful. I learned many things from how to use Lightroom and Photoshop to composition techniques. Every project was fun and full of valuable experience. My favorite project was probably the surrealism project. I really enjoyed using photoshop and learning about all it's tools and stuff. I am going to be sad once I leave this class because Photoshop and Lightroom are really expensive. I'd say my least favorite project was the HDR/sci-fi project, it was good idea but it just didn't work out for me. Overall, it was a great year.

Project 11 - Stop Motion

Just a little slice of sunshine for my peeps

Project 10 Magazine Mockup

Space Kids makes it's debut

Porject 9 Commercial Portrait, Magazine Cover

I made a few magazine covers. These photos were shot outside of Lincoln High School. I first used Lightroom to edit the brightness and contrast, as well as other aspects of the photos. Once in photoshop I was able to turn these photos into magazine covers. The 1st photo I tried to mostly capture the subject as he was posed against a telephone pole. I played with the lighting until I was happy. For the second cover, I took a more modern approach. As for the final cover, I just found this photo amusing and decided I will edit it.

Cover 1

Cover 2

Cover 3

Portraits

Commercial portraits/magazine covers and fine art portraits

Complex magazine. I like this photo because of the originality and  editing of it. I like the how must of the colors are pretty light. The font of the text is appealing. 

Complex magazine. I really like the editing of this photo, it is also very original. The aren't too many colors, but is still appealing. The two colors contrast each other so the cover of the magazine is more flashy and fun to look at.

Fine art portrait by Tejal Patni. The guy in this photo really stands out from the background and the yellow tennis racquet brings out the other colors even more. The photo is pretty dark which gives it a more serious tone. 

Fine art portrait by Jody Ake. This photo is a daguerrotypes.

I think that fine art portraits focus more on the subject rather than the background. They are also have better lighting to focus more on the person .These two are also a lot darker than the magazine covers. The magazine covers are more flashy and gripping and are focused more on the whole photo, not just the subject.

Project 8 Multiple Image Techniques

For this project we had to shoot an HDR photo, a multiple exposure photo, and a panorama photo.

Original

HDR edit. The original photo was shot at a very long shutter speed and then copied 5 times, each photo set at a different contrast in photoshop. Then I changed the gamma correction and other things.

Motion edit. To make this photo I shot multiple photos of the swing, in photoshop i compiled the  swing photos into one. Each layer has a different opacity, giving it the impression the subject is moving.

Panoramic. This photo was shot with an Iphone 4s. It was later edited in photoshop and lightroom.

Original

HDR

Project 7 - Alternative Process Through Digital Means

For this project I had to make daguerrotype and cyanotype images. A daguerrotype is a photograph that is distorted to make it look really old. A cyanotype is just a photo with a blue tint. 

Original

Original

Daguerrotype

Cyanotype

Project 6 - Surrealism and Photo Montage

Saffron

Skylights 

Surrealism

Surrealism: a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter

Andre Breton and Max Ernst are both very well-known artists from this movement.

Andre Breton

Max Ernst 

Project 5

1st Semester Final - Emulation

For our semester final we had to emulate a photo. Here is one of my emulations.

Project 4 - Balance and Contrast.

For this project we went into downtown Portland to shoot photos. We focused on pictures that had a contrast in scale. color, and texture. We also made kaleidoscopes, diptychs, and triptychs. Photos were edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Flower kaleidoscope

Face kaleidoscope

Crow kaleidoscope

Clock tower kaleidoscope

Another flower kaleidoscope

Water tower diptych

Car triptych

Seductive diptych

People diptych

Photographer triptych

Berry triptych

Contrast in color

Contrast in texture

Contrast in scale

This photo demonstrates a contrast in color, Jeff Hahn

This photo is an example of radial balance, Alex Brannan

This photo shows a contrat in texture, Timo Meyer

This photo shows a contrast in scale, Gabriele Caretti

This is an example of symmetrical balance, Versaweiss

Project 3-Color and Grids

For this project we went into downtown Portland and took pictures of colorful things. Then I edited them where color and pattern are the main focus and put them into grids.

This is a 6x6 grid, using complimentary colors. Originally the photo was  of two blue garbage cans and a red brick wall. I changed it so they were bright blue with an orange wall, and purple cans with a yellow wall.

This 4x4 grid also using complimentary colors. The picture is of a  plastic statue that was originally green. I rotated the photos to make it look like an LSD trip. 

This is 3x3 grid of photos I shot downtown. They all have the same editing job of a turquoise tint and a light grain.

This is a 5x5 grid of the same shot of potatoes. I edited each row a different color to give it a rainbow effect.

I really enjoyed working with complimentary colors so I created an extra  6x6 grid of photos with complimentary colors. This photo was originally red and blue.

For this I took the 6x6 grid above and copied it 36 times to make another 6x6 grid. I didn't want to make it complimentary colors so I used blue, light blue, and violet to make it a "cool" picture. I think it could be used as a fabric design. 

This is a picture of some leaves on the sidewalk, I made the reds and yellows a little brighter to make the picture warmer.