Project 9

For Project 9, we were supposed to be creating and editing two different kinds of portraits, one being "fine art" and the other one being a "commercial art" portrait. Once we picked out our best fine art portraits we would edit them and put our best two on our blog. For the commercial art we were supposed to find our five best shots and put them into a collection labeled Commercial Portraits, edit one in Photoshop, make it into a magazine cover and post it on our blog.

In this photo I took a photo of my friend, Sarah Fardanesh. I placed her in front of
a brick wall at Lincoln High School. I snapped this photo in the early afternoon.
The sun was peeking out through the clouds which shinned a light on my model's body.
I brought the picture into Light room and decreased the saturation of the picture and upped
 the exposure. I enjoy this photo because the exposed light brings out the
beauty of my model.

I snapped this picture of my friend,  Morgan Nuss. I placed her in front of a rough
background in the late afternoon in my neighborhood outside. The sun was close to
 setting and casted a dim light on my model.  I brought the image into Light room, upped
the exposure, upped the saturation, and put a minor green tint on the photo. I enjoy
how the photo looks.

This is a photo I took of my sister, Aitana Sandino. The setting for this image was on the leaning tower of Pisa on my vacation over Spring Break. I brought the photo into
 Photoshop where i put a color mask over the photo to bring out the colors and saturate the picture a bit more. I added a few different text boxes onto the magazine cover explaining what will be inside. I then used the brush tool in photo shop and put on little stars around the photo to make the cover a little more noticeable.

Project 9 - Contact Sheet

Portrait - PreWork

Fine art portraiture and commercial art magazines are different from each other but in some cases, they can also work for one another. Fine art portraits is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer. Commercial art is the art used in advertising and selling. Some photos such as Corey Arnold's photo below could work in a commercial magazine for traveling.

Fine Art Portraits:

Brooke Shaden
This photographic portrait looks very surreal and caught my attention. She had a very
effective pose and a very intelligent choice in color and digital editing. The orange sky
stands out with the grey clouds surrounding it. Her white dress made of paper airplanes
in the middle of an orange field make the model very noticeable.

Corey Arnold
This photo was taken in a very different setting and caught my eye. He is in an orange
outfit in a very cold setting. These contrasts in color leads your eye to the worker. Everything
is very balanced in this photograph and the model used an effective pose to make
it look like his job is very tough.

Commercial Art Magazines:

Freja Beha
This was one of the covers for "Cover Magazine." On this magazine, there is
 a woman covering herself with an article of clothing. I like it because
the pose is illustrating the concept of the magazine title.

Joel Stein
This was one of the covers for "Time Magazine."
On the cover, there is a man holding up a picture of another
 man's face onto his and they conjoin creating one face.
I think this picture works for this magazine stating that after
 time you change.

Project 8

For this project we were supposed to learn three different techniques that require taking multiple images. We were supposed to post at least one example of a panorama, an HDR, and a multiple exposure shot.


Panoramic: Panoramic images are created by taking several photos and stitching them together in photoshop to show a larger view than could be captured in just one plain photo. Also to create a panorama effectively, make sure to overlap each photo by about 40%.

Park Panoramic
I took this photo on my camera in Washington Park and stitched it together in PhotoShop.

Portland Panoramic
I took this photo off my porch and stitched it together in PhotoShop.

High Dynamic Range (HDR): Cameras can not capture the total range that we can usually see which results in photos that are over and under exposed in certain areas. HDR allows you to fake a higher range. You do this by taking each photo only changing the shutter speed and merge the photos together in Light room to create a well-exposed photograph.

Original

Arboretum HDR

Original

Lincoln High HDR

Multiple Exposure: You can create these photos by taking several photos and stitching them together in Photoshop. You can blend together photos of different subjects, or of photos from different perspectives.

Portland Skylines

Room Exposure

Room Exposure 2

Washington Park

Project 7

For this project, we were supposed to be simulating the look of and old daguerreotype photo and making a digital cyanotype. I downloaded some texture and brush links

from online for free and brought in some simple portrait photos into Photoshop. I simply for both photos 

made them black and white. For the daguerrotype, I took a picture of my sister sitting in her bed which I think

looks pretty modern. I brought it into Photoshop and changed it to black and white then created a sepia look

to it. I used the brush tools to make it splotchy and have an older look to it and flattened the images. For the 

cyanotype, I put a self timer on the camera to take a picture of me in front of an older building. I made a 

background with the brush tools and brought my photograph into Photoshop. I made a black and white

 preset and then placed my photo on top of the brush stroked background. I then upped the color blue on 

my photo to make it look like a cyanotype and flattened the layers.

Daguerrotype: A photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.

Cyanotype: is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print.

Original

Cyanotype

Original

Daguerrotype

Project 6 - Surrealism

For this project, we were supposed to create at least one or more final pieces by combining at least 5 different elements from at least 3 different photographs. They could have a narrative, dreamlike or outlandish kind of feel. We would create these photos with the help of light room and photoshop. For my photo, I wanted to try to try to create a very dreamlike and outlandish feel. I did this by creating a solar system and had a background of Mt. Hood I took off my deck. I created the solar system by taking pictures of hula hoops and different types of food. I brought them into photoshop to create the solar system. I placed the photo of Mt. Hood behind my solar system to make the photo look very dreamlike. I also put another background of snow I took to create a cloudy type of look. The solar system is placed above the clouds and over the mountain to create a very mysterious and dreamlike image.

Secrets hidden above the clouds, and over the mountains

Surrealism

         Surrealism is an artistic, philosophical, intellectual and political movement that aimed to break down the boundaries of rationalization to access the imaginative subconscious. Surrealism is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Andre Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. Some famous surrealist painters are Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Francis Picabia, Salvador Dali, Giorgio De Chirico and Max Ernst. 

Rene Magritte
This surrealist photographer is a famous painter.

Yves Tanguy
This surrealism photographer is a famous painter.

Other examples or surrealism:

Tommy Ingberg
This photo makes me think. This photo
 creates a mysterious aesthetic.

Pascual Madoz
This photo gives off a vibe of
rebirth. It gives off a very hopeful aesthetic.

Ben Goossens
All of Goossens work including this photo give off
a mindful and dark aesthetic.