Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Photo Books

Analyze- In this book, I tried to analyze and put things that I liked or found interesting. And in this book you see a lot of pictures of my friends and I just because I like my friends. Also I picked a lot of patterns because I like using patterns because I feel as if you can do anything with patterns and many ideas can come from them, it also just looks really pretty so I had to use them in my book. I like overlapping things in the book and making it look like a collage, but at the same time make it look neat. Also I incorporated "love" in the book, like in one of the pages I put a picture of a 'couple' looking at each other and then on the cover I drew a couple, and by this, I'm just incorporating something that really means a lot to me.

Interpret- In this book, what I am trying to interpret or communicate is that I love life, earthy colors are my favorite, and that love is important to me. The whole purpose and point of this book is just to show people things that I like and what's important to me. Like the colors I picked are somewhat darker shades and I used green and brown and to me that represents stuff about the environment.

Judge- Since this was my first book, I think I did a pretty good job, it was the first time where I have to organize something like this and preparing for it was very hard, and I had to learn what is too much and what's not and what colors look good together. Just some things that I think I could improve on are the content of the book, like what designs to use and pictures and just putting everything together as a whole. Also I learned that leaving white spaces isn't so bad and that adding too much on a page isn't really a good thing.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Contact Sheets

My group wasn't able to make a contact sheet because this was the film that got burnt and everything was super dark and we didn't have time to re-shoot because we were falling behind.

Up Close and Personal


For this assignment Up Close and Personal, we took pictures of people up close and tried to get their expression and things they were doing at the time. This picture, I used Brianna as a model and when I took this, she was wearing a karate like suite and there was a huge bark from a tree and thought of the idea that she was breaking the bark as if she was breaking wood. I captured her expression and she "broke" the bark and tried to get the bark at the same time. I like this picture a lot because I think the lighting is right, she has expression in her face and you can infer what she is doing.