Image and Sound

I did not know how to make a loop video so I used this site.

     In this video, I combined 2 things I love. I chose the sound of bells because that is just my thing. I walk and jingle. The photos I chose were of tapatio being poured. The lighting is light because I decided to vilify the greatness of tapatio as well as bells. The bells also have a "magical" feeling or essence, contributing to the great condiment.
     I believe this video is 75% successful because it is rather too simplistic. However, I like the idea of tapatio and bells.

Looped Image with Sound

Shadows

     In this photo, Marisa and Briana are lying on the floor with their eyes closed and watercolored shadows shining down on them. They represent homosexual couples. Rather than being enveloped in darkness, they are showered by rainbow droplets, vilifying their love.

     I believe this photo is 85% successful because of the creative thinking of using colored shadows. However, I would have liked the shadows to be more vibrant as well as have more colors shine through. I also feel as though I could have been more creative with the use of colors.

Photo Competition

3 Strangers

     While taking pictures of my strangers, I did not want to have a series that was not necessarily cohesive with each other. I also did not want to take too much of their time by having them do outrageous or interesting poses. Instead, I took pictures of employees at the mall and had them pose with an object related to their work. The Cash for Gold girl is posing with her fake money. The Wetzel's Pretzels girl is posing with her tongs. And the Verizon Wireless salesman is posing with his phone.

     I think these are successful because they are simplistic. Also, there was only one requirement to take pictures of strangers, allowing me to be as minimalistic or open as much as I'd like.

Symbolism

     In this piece, Darrian Major is on the ground, bleeding water from her suicidal wounds. Her hair is also drenched in water. There is an emphasis on the cuts, its red draws attention to itself. I did these things in order to symbolize rebirth and renewal. In literature, water is used to symbolize rebirth and renewal. However, in this photo, there first is an end. This end is the decision to cut herself and end her own life. While her body has met its end, her being or soul is reborn, possibly being the afterlife.

     I think this piece is 75% successful because of the use of symbolism of water and rebirth as well as the after life. However, I feel that my choice of background could have been better as well as the quality of the cuts.

Head Replacement

 

     In this piece is a person with a light bulb for a head. This was done due to the comical "light bulb idea." This piece has a sense of unity and balance because there is only one main figure in the photo. There is only a focus on the light bulb, emphasizing the "idea."

     I did not think this piece was that successful because the light bulb does not necessarily look like it is her head. However, the assignment was to not use photoshop as much, therefore, allowing me an excuse to have a not-as-successful piece.

Point of View of a Living Thing (Other than Human)

     For this assignment, I chose to do a series in the perspective of grass. Because I do not know what the vision of grass is, I chose different lightings and angles. Each piece has its own sense of balance. Most of which are asymmetrical and there is 1 piece that is symmetrical. All of which contribute to the calm mood of what grass elicits. I also wanted to say that the grass within our school is what watches us in all that we do, and so, I incorporated a few humans into the piece.

     I believe these pieces are successful because they all have the same mood but are not the same as each other in any way.

Aberrance

     In this piece, there are 6 girls standing against a brick wall (Left to right: Darrian, Briana, Christina, Kayla, Marisa, and Eve). There are 5 pregnant girls and 1 girl who is not pregnant. I used repetition and balance, creating the "normality" in which aberrance deviates from.

     I believe this piece is 90% successful because it represents aberrance in society in which teenage pregnancy is drastically increasing, having people think if it as a "normality." This is why I have the teenager that is not pregnant, different from everyone else, making her a nonconformist to society. The 10% that is not successful is the way I went about making them pregnant. Their tummies are not exactly "smooth" and very much fake looking.

Commercial Photography

     In this photo is an empty bag of Rice Krispies Treats along with a few of its crumbs. The lighting that I used was "doorway lighting" in order to create a kind of calming mood. There is movement in the plate and crumbs. And the contrasting yellow, makes the blue wrapper, stand out more. 

     I felt like this shot was successful, however, I was at a stand-still with this photo and another photo because the other photo showed the actual product, along with it's chewy texture. Whereas, this one showed the desire for the product and not necessarily the good things about the product.

8* Lighting

     In these photos are my friend, Darrian and my wooden sword. The purpose of this assignment was to explore the effects of different lighting. I chose this model and position because I believe that this model could be given several different moods or emphases. In some photos, Darrian is seen as strong, sad, angered, or proud. And in some photos, the emphasis is change around, from her face, her figure, or the sword.

      I felt as though this photoshoot was very successful, I even went over the requirement of 6 photos. However, I did not like how the positions of my model were subtly different in each photo. But that's a minor issue and could not be helped.