My Quilt

Future

Inside

Outside

Past

My ideas came from me or my partners who helped me express myself in my quilts when I struggled to find help. The ideas helped my pictures come out really pretty. I'm very happy with my decisions because I think my quilts came out good. They are girlyand not someonelse's work but my own. My past has to deal with the past of my family, they made me become to person that I am today. My past showed my parents divorcing by splitting their pictures apart. My future is different and it shows the 2 universities that I want to go to and the future with my significant other. It also has a symbol of my career that I want to be when I'm older and out of college and that is a neonatal nurse. It was easy to find out what to express on my quilt but difficult to show how to arrange everything. I really like blending in the pictures, it made it look really cool and show many things happening all at once. I wouldn't change anything about my squares or change the project. Everything worked out good and how it was supppose to.

Artist Statements

In this portfolio there will be pictures that I took through the first semester in Digital Photography. We worked with the Rule of Thirds first then the last thing we worked with was with our header. I like my portfolio, I had challenges but some of the things we did I understood and tried to do a good job.
I learned how to combine pictures together and overlap them and change their colors so it looks cool. They are smashed together and it gives it a look that expresses them in a greater meaning to show more pictures in one. I also learned how to create a vampire and an alien, these projects were fun. There were paint brushes that we used and I would have never thought we could use them on Photoshop. I also learned how to blur the pictures out and that was a good feature to learn because you can blur the things that are not needed in the photo.
I think I was most successful with the personal words because I feel it came out better and I fully understood what we were doing. Plus it was the most fun one that we did this semester. I don’t feel like I messed up with this individual. I struggle with Photoshop sometimes and the creative ideas. I think its challenging to come up with creative ideas that will show something much more then the obvious. Photoshop can be confusing at times but other times its fine.
If I take more pictures then I know it will improve in the future. Now that I know how to use skills with the camera it will come in handy when I need it. In the beginning of the semester I didn’t really know anything about Photoshop so I improved in that. The first ones, Rule of Thirds and leading lines were difficult because it was my first time trying to look for it, but after those pictures I started to improve. I like this class; I’m learning a lot of skills that are really cool.

Personal Words

The lyrics I chose for this project are You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift.
"She wears high heels, I wear sneakers She's Cheer Captain and I'm on the bleachersDreaming about the day when you wake up and find That what you're looking for has been here the whole time If you could see that I'm the one who understands you Been here all along, so why can't you see? You belong with me standing by and waiting at your back doorAll this time how could you not know? Baby, you belong with me, you belong with meOh, I remember you driving to my house in the middle of the night I'm the one who makes you laugh when you know you're 'bout to cry And I know your favorite songs and you tell me 'bout your dreams Think I know where you belong, think I know it's with me."

I chose these lyrics because this song is really cute and it means a lot to me because Taylor Swift is my favorite singer and her words are very influential to me. She writes from what she expierences or what comes from her heart and I think that is very good. When i listen to it, it makes me happy because I know that special guy belongs with me. And I been through it. I think many girls can relate to this song because many girls think that there guy belongs with them. Thats whay I think it is really cute.

Social Issue: "Love"

In my picture there is a world to show how much a person means. There are dark colors in this photograph, and the red pops out with the words. The bottom of my picture shows dark and the top has lighter colors so it all goes together. But the world is the main object in this picture so it stands out.


My picture is representing love, and it shows that one person can mean everything to another person. That is what the world is showing. A person means the world to them. This relates to me because I have a special someone who means the world to me. Many people have important people in their lives so I know it affects them also.

Scary Effects

My favorite was the vampire because there were a lot more fun stuff that we did to make it. I learned about the blood brushes and glass brushes in photoshop, I didn't know you could do that. I learned that you could erase yourself so you can pop into the picture and just rease the background. I thought the glass was hard because you had to do things before you put it on there to make it look better. The fangs were hard to because I couldb't get it right. People who do book titles and illustrate in their books can use these. Also in magazines if they have Halloween stuff to do effects.

Critique: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

Building a bridge/dock in the water, there is a man who is lying on the dock with a hammer building more of the dock. There is a reflection inside the water that you can see, and imagine if you were him you would be scared to look into it having the fear of falling in.

The water is a lake going far through the back of the picture. Looking at the water shows that the water is being touch for there are lines in the water. Some of the dock is nearly in the water from which the part he is laying across to make the other half. He is a man who is making a destination possible by building.

A guiding line is being shown to get to the lake and the man since he is in the middle. The photo is black and white giving the contrast of the world without color. Looking determined he is ready to get the dock finished. This picture is a really good picture.

Photographic Effects

My favorite trick was the blur trick because it looks really cool, and makes the background fade and shines the person. I would like to explore the cross process because I think it makes the pictures look better, but I don't know hoe to use it well right now. I learned a lot, I didn't really know a lot about photoshop, so everything that was taught i learned.

Portraits

I think I was most successful at my surprise my portrait because my partner jumped in the air for the hoop and it was interesting to look at. I did a great job at that.

For my artistic portrait I got my partner to stand and the lighting reflected in this picture. He has a thinking face. He isnt happy in this picture. This picture was not the best though.

For my costume prop picture I used my partner to use his race car suit. I chose to use this because it explains him, and shows who he is and likes to do. I like how this picture came out because the lighting made it good and there are dark spots in the picture. I like this picture a lot.

I couldn't get the artistic one right, I didnt really know what to do or how to have my partner pose in. But overall, I think I did an okay job.

Contact Sheet

My favorite technique and picture was framing because it had a more artistic showing and the lighting made it pretty. I will start using light because it brings out the emotion in the picture and I think it makes it look better. My least favorite was extreme angles because I didn't really get the concept or my pictures didn't come out the way I wanted them. My most favorite was the framing because it made it look prettier.

Compositional Trick #8 Fill in Flash

Fill in flash effects these pictures because they make them lighter when they are really dark. You can see the faces clearer and can tell what they are doing. I will need to use fill in flash in the future when it is dark outside or the lighting isnt good to see the person. I don't want my pictures coming out completely dark.

Compositional Trick #7 Drawing the light

Drawing the light gives the person a feeling that isn't shown in any other pictures by our own. We capture the light surrondings in our own way and express them in the pictures. I see a person thinking in my picture. He seems surronded with multiple feelings like mad or sad. The shadows from the trees bring it out and makes it look droopy.

Compositional Trick #6 Framing

Framing helps composition because it goes straight to the emphasis and you only focus on that. Framing helped my second picture with the trees because it shows the rule of composition that leads straight through making you see my emphasis. My first picture with my partner didn't come out so well because he wasn't standing in the right place, if he was a little more far out it would have been better.

Compositional Trick #5 Extreme Angles

Extreme angles are a good compositional trick to know because you can take pictures from up above or from below. It captures the thoughts of an eagle looking down below or a ant looking up high. My first pictures doesn't show a good job at it because it isnt really looking down as much, but my second one is because I am looking up high to see it.

Compositional Trick #4 Simplicity

Simplicity helps strengthen the composition because it only focuses on the emphasis. People do not get distracted and they see what you take a picture of. Simplicity does not mean boring, it just goes more into depth of the picture, it is a really good trick to use when you want people to know what you take a picture of. It is very effective because it gets right to the point, and I used it by taking a picture of the catcus and a plant because you only look at that.

Compositional Trick #3 Macro

Macro shows the main part of the picture. It blurs the background and pops the emphasis out. Macro also brings the texture out that you don't usually look for. Macro is also used to take pictures of small emphasis and make them large. It is good to use because you can do a close up to something far away.

Compositional Trick #2 Leading Lines

Leading lines are used in pictures to lead to the emphasis. It takes us into and out of the picture. We use them because we want to show what the picture is about and show the main thought of it.

Compositional Trick # 1 Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is like a tic-tac-toe grid. You have to angle where you want your emphasis to be at and it has to be on the grid when you take the picture. We would use it if we want to show the picture in the correct angle.