Friday, May 20, 2016

Dystopia: An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

Utopia: an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect



Monday, April 11, 2016

Photography 1-2 Project 8 Two Portraits

Photography 1-2 Project 8 Two Portraits
Fine Art
Working away
In this I attempted to work with natural light, however I found it difficult to find a good spot. For editing I worked with vibrance, saturation, and contrast in this photo.












Hardened
I also attempted to work with light in this photo, and capture an emotion which the viewer could enjoy. In this photo I lowered the saturation and worked with the shadowing and contrast.














Commercial
Confidence
For this photo I increased the saturation and cropping and also worked with vibrance and contrast to give off the impression that he's an athlete which could be used as a magazine cover.





















Pre-work:
Fine Art
Jay Terry
I like this photo for its tone and and use of gradients, and captures this man and give the viewer a idea of what he could be.









Russ Elkins
I like this photo and its uses of black and white. I also like the stark contrast between shades and the dark background which brings forward the figure. This photo seems to hold a lot of emotion and backstory which captivates the imagination.










Commercial
Wired Magazine
I like the use of posture along with magazine layout which provides the viewer with a good idea of whats inside. I also like the saturation of this photo.
Gentlemen's Quarterly
I like the use of lighting in this photo and the work with saturation and exposure. It also displays what is in the magazine.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Surrealism Project &

 Off the Edge

I created the this image by combining a combination off different photos. Through the use of cropping, rotating, and color balances, I was able to create this image.

Project 7 Surrealism

Surrealism: Surrealism was a movement which began in the 1920s of artists, who experimented with ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination and creative thinking.


 Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte













 Jerry Uelsmann
 Christian Hopkins
Chema Madoz

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Project 6

Gum bichromate
Cyanotype

Gum bichromate is a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates. Gum printing is traditionally a multi-layered printing process









A Cyanotype is a printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple  process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints.

Use of Textures



















Wet-plate process, also called collodion process , is an early photographic technique invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. Wet plates are generally gray scale.The imperfections in each photo caused by debris, scratches, and changes in chemical reaction are what make them unique.
Wet Plate

Alternative Process through Digital Means






Gum Bichromate

I created this gum dichromate by layering three colorful brush layers onto the photo. I then lowered the saturation so that the photo was almost back and white, while to outer part of the photo were more colorful.

Cyanotype

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. I created these by using layering and brush tools in photoshop. 
Then I added the blue filter to create the cyanotype.



   


Wet plate

I created this wet plate by adding textures to the photo and tinting it light brown. Then I added the framing to create an historical looking photo.