Author: seeingadmin

I chose option 3, but then missed the part where it said take a scenic photo.  But, I spent a long time setting this up so I decided that in a sense this could be scenic if you like looking at bikes.

I’ve been looking into portraits lately, and just generally people. I decided to take the critique from last time and created an entire gallery of the color portraits and just focused.

My goal with this project was to take a diversity of images that together capture what someone’s typical day might be like. I wanted to push myself outside of my comfort zone to take a combination of portraits of people, capture nature and the built environment, and finding interesting photos in my own home. These are, I think, the three main aspects of a day: it begins and ends in your home, but you spend most of the day with others in nature or the built environment. In a lot of these images, I tried to play with focus, which I started in the last set of images recreating a dream. I think the power of the photographer is in his/her ability to direct the viewers eye to specific parts of a photo and shape the viewer’s sense of the reality of a photo. I tried to play with that aspect of photography to leave the most interesting part of a photo out of focus. In the future, I want to work on finding good lighting; I found that I had to edit a lot of these photos to make them lighter and even still some seem too dark.

In my first collection of photos titled Relationships, I attempted to capture a variety of relationships between different actors present in our world. The nature of the relationships are as diverse as the subjects of the photos, with some being more complex or abstract than others. For example, in the photo of the bee and the flowers, the relationship is natural and obvious: the bee and flower both depend on each other to survive and I have simply captured a moment in which they interact. In others, the nature of the relationship can be physical, as is the case in the picture of the overlapping white flowers in which the two similarly shaped objects physically entangle themselves with each other. A third type of relationship that doesn’t exist in physical space is shown in the picture of the red ring reflected on a window. Here, this aesthetic relationship is only perceived by our eye and works to create a pleasant visual effect. These are but three of the many different kinds of relationships that exist in our world that we don’t always take a look at and there are most likely plenty more in my photos that I didn’t even intend to capture. As is the case with many forms of art, these relationships are what you make of them and I just tried to capture a few that are not commonly seen.

The main technical aspect of this collection that I tried to employ was to photograph photos with small frames of reference. Prior to this class, I have always been drawn to the majestic appeal of landscape photography or the complex interactions within a photo of a crowd of people and had never really been able to get down and change the focus of a photo to something less commonly viewed. I think this attempt to step outside of my comfort zone has really been beneficial as I begin to see things differently. For example, after taking pictures of many of the flora on the basketball team’s ritual walk to the shopping center to get food before late games, I began to observe more levels of the landscape than I previously had.

One glaring technical aspect that needs to be addressed is the image quality of my photos. Most of them are taken with my phone camera and so certain things such as exposure, focus, and aperture are not perfect and sometimes way off which bugs me because sometimes I see a photo that I have taken that would have been nice had it not been so grainy. I also really appreciate any sort of feedback and have decently thick skin so fire away at anything that stands out.

This collection of photos seeks to explore a wide variation of technique and subject matter. Many attempt to evoke or express emotion; those that don’t might try to highlight something odd in an otherwise familiar setting.