Digital Photography Portfolio

This photo was taken from the very first project, the Elements of Art. It is a photo of a tree which I thought had an interesting texture. However, I felt the original colors of the tree did not pair well with the much calmer shapes and patterns it had. For this reason, I made it significantly cooler, to make it overall feel very dreamy.

This photo demonstrates the rule of odds to some degree. There are five yellow petals. I believe this photo looks very eye-catching because the pink and yellow are more exotic colors, as opposed to green in the background. This photo came out better than I expected, since it was taken on an old IPhone. I think the worse quality made it look like a watercolor nature painting.

The Photographic Alphabet assignment was the most time consuming for me. Since I had to find letters in plain sight, I had to expand my creativity. The main aspect this project helped me with was with cropping out unimportant details and rotating.

Looking up: I have a tube light at home. I decided to make the photo slanted because so it would give a sense of speed, or zooming through, since light is the fastest thing in the world. I was debating whether or not to add vignette, but I decided to skip it since you could see some of the texture from the ceiling./p>

For this unseen project I decided to use the smoke detectors. After purposefully looking for things that go unseen, I learned that a lot of smoke detectors at Paly are detached to to the ceiling. For my edits I colored in the wires but I think I should have dimmed the background to make it stand out more.

During this project I went into the dark room and utilized a red light to create a shadow of the skull. I specifically used the red color because it is symbolic of death, which is similar to the theme of the skull. The edits I made on this photo were pretty insignificant - I just made the blacks darker to blend in the silhouette of the table with the surrounding darkness.

This shot was taken at the parking lot, of a rider doing a wheelie. Originally I wanted the bike rider to move parallel to the camera but I made the creative decision for him to ride towards me to create a sense of “almost falling” which the feeling you would get doing a wheelie. I think I would have liked for him to take of the lanyard for the photo.

My action sequence was just walking. I like the background of the photo, it creates a city-like view, especially with the palm trees. I think I could have spaced out the frames more or just simply added more frames since the objects are too narrow. In addition, there is a little bit of blur between the figures I think I should have been more careful with the editing.

I really liked this subject blur shot because it captures both the expression of the players and the movement of the shuttle. For this photo, I entered the big gym during a PE class and put my camera on the ledge of the stairs, which is why the background is so crisp. Furthermore, it is perfectly exposed. I think I should have had a more clear subject in the photo, there are a lot of things going on from the shuttle to the two players, but I guess that also captures the essence of badminton’s fast pace.

Getting a good panning shot was difficult because I had to find a balance between the speed of how fast I moved the camera as well as the shutter speed and aperture for a good exposure. I got lucky with the fire truck coming through and it brought vibrance into the frame.

This is my experimental slow shutter shot. It was a way to communicate the everyday interactions between students. It was overexposed so I had to tone down the exposure significantly.