Mopa

Mopa- For my mopa project, i painted half of my face brown and half black and took a picture of myself. I really thought that it could have come out cooler that i hoped for, but it didnt end up coming out how i wanted it. I wanted it to represent that though my skin is white i am actually African American and Latina. I fixed it in photo shop so that it could look more outdoorsy and the lighting would have looked better.

TIMELINE!

This timeline project was very interesting to me, because we did how photography has portrayed sex from the time that it first started in the late 1800's to the modern day 2000's. I learned a lot during the process of getting information for the timeline, although it did take my group members and I up until the day it was due. Even though we got it done and in on time, i felt like we could have done a way better job than we did and had more information on there. Overall i think that it was a good assignment because it expanded our knowledge on different areas of photography. 

Portrait

When i first did this project, i did a horrible job because i didn't fully understand the concept of a portrait, and that i needed to use widow light or door light. I used door light in this photo because i felt like it would let more light in on her face than a window would. I liked how the light shined on her face and her hair making her look more pure. 

Manjari Sharma

The difference between a snapshot and a portrait cannot be said in one word, because there are many differences. For one, a snapshot is an "in the moment thing". A portrait on the other hand is much more sensual, and much more connected. Manjari Sharma uses water in many of her images and white clothes or no clothes. I think this shows the purity and soul in her models that shes trying to portray.

strobe.

When i took this shot i took it with the intension of making it about some of the arts at school and also making it diverse.
i tried to capture the light mostly on Tashia because she was the most dark of the group, and therefore needed the most light. I think that this picture is balanced with the two models on the right along with the one model and the cello on the left. I think i could have done a better job with this, but i am going to experiment with other types of placements and angles of the models.

photoshop2

 i read the tutorial on how to do this and it seemed kind of hard at first but it ended up being easier than i thought. i think that the photo looks a lot better softened than just natural, it makes my skin look nicer and everything in the photo look smoother.

photoshop1

 this assignment wasn't  too hard, it was actually kind of fun. i tried to make my picture look kind of earthy and woodsy. i picked colors that matched my hair, and my clothes, that way it wouldn't be too crowded and colorful.

I though that my sequencing was very plain, but it worked because i think most people will understand what it is. One of the pictures that i don't like is the 3rd picture because you can barely tell what it is. My story is about a flower and how it starts out just a tiny seed and grows into something beautiful. The process was kind of hard because i had a hard time thinking of what to do. Overall i thought it was a really fun project, because i had so many ideas, and my first idea didn't work out, but i thought this one was fun to do.

Photobooth.

 I really liked this assignment because it was really fun to do, seeing all the looks that i could pull off and putting them all together and seeing the diversity. The first picture makes me look like a junkie with messy hair, the second one looks like me, the third one kinda looks like an 80's high school nerd and the last one i think looks like a chola. I think it was a very good assignment to  give to a photo 1/2 class, not only because it was really cool but also to show the different sides of photography. It was kind of weird taking pictures of myself because I'm a little camera shy but it was pretty easy to get over it because i just had to look at the camera and do what i thought my character would do. 

Describe: I think that this picture was kind of plain but i like plain thing and thats why I did it. I see the dust on the black background and the contrast between her skin and hair. I also think that it's too black because her hair is black, and the background is black, but there's little white.

Analyze: It's off to the side, because i don't like things in the middle, and the first photo is better than the second, because the first one is auto contrasted on photo shop, and the second one has no contrast to it. 

Interpret: It looks to me as a young girl who's lost her way at night and is sitting down for a rest because she's tired of walking.

Judge: I like it but I think that i could have put more props in it to lighten the photo.

BlueJay.

I thought that this process was kind of hard because i've never used the program before, and you and Ms. Miles helped me out with most of it. I chose to do something simple because i was so unfamiliar with the program and i still had trouble with it. I don't think that i will use this program again because there were too many buttons and i didn't like it too much.