Holiday Spirit Elliott

The smell of pine
ornaments on the tree
colored lights wrapped gently around the tree
the smells and slights of christmas have arrived

Photographer Assignment

Food Elliott

Thanksgiving dinner.
The lovely smell of italian food.
Pasta being eaten by everyone at the table
No complex meal
All simplicity, that's what thanksgiving should be.

Robert Frank Photo Project

This project meant for us to go in depth and research a photographer, it was to get a good understanding of their background and what they did for work during that time period. Below is a link to my project of Robert Frank:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/103015408@N08/10996106345/

Out of Window Elliott

One lamp post lights up a street corner. Lights light up a home across the street. A car sits in the driveway. Parked next to a basketball hoop. The window reflecting a queen size bed. No noise is heard whatsoever.

Spooky, Scary Image

No noise. Total blackness. Nothing but myself and my camera. No smell but the carpet. and blackness going back to the wall behind my bed. Yet to discover what is back there.

Hobbies Elliott

When I took this photo I set my self timer. I set my laptop in the back next to my monitor to give the idea that I really like computers. I just let my self do my own thing. The picture just made itself and I was very happy how it came out.

David Hockney Collage Assessment

We were trying to communicate the courtyard in the center area of the school. We were slightly successful with trying to communicate. We didn’t really connect all of the pictures clearly. I learned to 1. Capture many pictures of one area looking all in a direction. 2. Make the pictures all somewhat align with each other. 3. Turn all of the pictures into a big picture.

Creative Portraits

I was thinking that I need to get an up close background blurred photo. I also needed to get her not looking at the camera. I need to make the picture bigger than it actually is. I was surprised on how good this picture came out.

I was thinking that I need to get a up close blurred background. This time I needed some perspective. So I ended up taking a photo from the back that gave some depth. This photo looks like it she is looking off into the distance. I thought this was one of my better portraits that I took.

David Hockney Collages

The Cubist period occurred between the years of 1907 to 1914. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were credited with this style. The aspects are flat two-dimensional surface of the picture plane leaving out traditional techniques of perspective. They were not also bound to copying form and texture.

David Hockney is a British painter, photographer, and designer. He has done painting of portraits, collages, and photography. I noticed that he used a lot of squares in his art and straight and jagged lines. He might have been influenced by artists before him such as Picasso.

Cumberland Fair

Macro Mode

 The bunny looked at me saying, you can take a photo of me, but then you have to buy me and take me home. I wanted to take the bunny home, the way he looked at me, his little pudgy face and cute black eyes, but unfortunately I had to leave the bunny in the cage hoping someone could take him home and give him good care.

Landscape Mode

Macro mode

Portrait Mode

Famous Portraits

I chose this photo by Richard Adevon because the photo seemed bold and the focal point was just on the man. I really like this photo.

I chose this photo by Annie Lebovitz because there seemed to be a lot of action and there seemed to be a couple different focal points, one being the human on the target, and then the balls in the background with the red and white.

I chose this photo because it seemed to have some repetition with a blurred background, the planes seemed to repeat and then the main focus point was the man but he was slightly off centered.

Stunning Portraits

Alter Your Perspective: Change the angle you are shooting. Shoot from above looking down, or shoot from the ground looking up. It will create interest in the photo.

Play with eye contact: Change the way someone is looking in the photo instead of looking at the lens. Have the subject look away and look some place outside of the frame. You can also have the subject look at something in the frame and have the focus be the person and what the person is looking at.

Break rules of composition: You can break some rules of composition very easily. One of the rules you can easily break it the rule of thirds. You can also break the rule of giving your subject room to look into.

Experiment with lighting: You can change the way you introduce lighting into your portrait. You can have side lighting which can create a mood. You can also use slow synch flash that freezes lighting and gives a wow factor.

Focus on a body part - get up close: You need to get up close and focus on one body part. Focus on something specific like eyes, nose, mouth, hands, lower body.

Signs of Fall

This image shows signs of fall because the petals on the flower that is focused are dying along with the flower to the back and to the right of the flower itself. This photo I thought came out really well. It also did really well with blurred background.

Compositional Strategies

This picture shows the compositional strategy leading lines. All of these lines lead towards the back of the photo. This was of a tin roof with pine needles and dirt on it, but was still wet because it had rained the night before.