Final Artist Statement

Through out the school year in Digital photography class I learned many new things about the camera and Photoshop. The favorite thing that I learned was working in Photoshop on how I can take a simple picture and change the saturation crop things out that aren’t necessary and blend in many pictures together. I will use this knowledge in the future I would like to own this program and be able to go into the photography industry, and make my pictures different.

From all the projects that we did I had two favorite ones. 1) Personal Quilt, because I got to show about my life and express it in a different way. 2) Personal Words because I did it on my dad and it was a way to show how I felt about him. This both projects had to deal with my life and family which are the two most important things in my life. Life experiences effect my art and how I see the world because things look very different when there in pictures it’s a different way to express things.

I have improved from the beginning of the school year because when i would take a picture I really didn’t know what all the buttons in my camera were and I only k new one way to take pictures. What I got out of this is I can change ISO turn the flash off when the picture doesn’t need it and I can take pictures from different angles and know when to close the shutter speed. There is no artist I can relate to but the artist that I liked the most was Parke Harrison, because I liked how his pictures were weird and different how he was outside in the nature. I feel i was more successful with my quilts because in each one of them their was a meaning to having all the pictures, and i liked how all my pictures blended in together and they looked like a collage.

Surrealism" Up in the Sky"

In this dream by having airplanes signifies that their is a fear of something that your trying to overcome , but just are to scared to face it. By seeing the reflection in the water means finding yourself and stop caring about what other people are thinking. Seeing hearts in your dreams means that love is coming your way and that someone special is close to you then you least expect it. Being in a beach scenery means that your very adventurous and ready to do new things, and explorer the world. The starfishes means your past there are things that you still haven't let go and are having trouble to forgive and forget them.

Panning and Blowout

For the blowout picture I had to have the shutter speed open the ISO on and aperture. The shutter speed had to be left open to allow all that light in. I do think this is the best way because it makes the person stand out and takes out the background. Another way is probably taking a picture and just using photoshop.

The panning needs you to change the ISO and the it had to be on program. The person had to be walking and i had to follow them with the camera and it would make the person stand out clear , and the background would be a blur. What made panning difficult was to get the background to come put blearily but the person was coming out bleary instead of the background.

Shutter Speed

In order to get pictures to come out looking like this the setting of the room has to be dark and each person holding a light. The shutter in the camera is the amount of light let into the picture. to get this picture your camera has to be on manual. Depending if you leave your shutter speed open for a long time then alot of light will go in. To do letters or movements you move your light
in the same direction for 15 seconds. I would choose ISO better because you can create unique stuff on your pictures.

Aperture

Aperture is when the hole can either open big or small.In the top picture of the red flower, the flower comes out clearly because the hole is small making everything else the background blurry and just focus on the camera. The bottom picture has the hole big letting everything come out and not be blurry. This would be good when you take picture of landscapes.

ISO

ISO 5000

ISO 400

Flash

ISO is the speed the light hits the film. Whenever the camera is on ISO it allows more light to go in in order to make your picture bright. The first ISO with the flash we had on Christmas lights and since alot of light went in the picture came out very bright. In the ISO 400 It blurred out the person but you can see the Christmas lights. On the other picture ISO came out and brighten out the lights and the person. I would choose to use ISO better then flash becks flash takes out the value of the picture, and comes out to bright. In the other hand ISO allows only the amount of light needed to enter and make the pictures come out good.

Flash

The pros and cons for using flash are. it can have red eyes in your picture or its too bright bad lighting, the flash can disturb your object. the pros are it adds light when needed. freezes time and eliminates blur. flash is not a good idea when your trying to take a person of something or someone and you dont want them to know. its good to have a flash when its dark so you can see yourself in the picture. The picture i have is better without flash because if it did have flash then the lights would of not came out bright it would just be buliding that you would be able to see.

Metering

A light meter what it does is in the camera how you see a box in the middle of your screen in there all the light knows to be in there so focus your camera to a light light then switch it to a dark spot and your picture will come out dark or bright. in one of the pictures the light is focusing me on the computer screen that you cant see nothing besides the screen the other picture was out on the persons face were there was more light and it focused more on the person then on the screen. It can help in the future by focusing on your emphasis and make it stand out more.

Surreal Practice Tutorials

In the desert tutorial we combined the dirt into one big picture. Then we distorted which made the mud look closer and further away from us. We then got a paint brush that was a cloud. then got a light pole and changed the levels to it to make it blend in with the picture. Then we added a shadow in back of the light stand to make it look like the sun is hitting it. by doing both of this tutorials I believe that it will help me on my surreal project by helping me blend in pictures with one another and making the pictures feel real and dreamy now I would be able to make my art work look realistic and I can add reflections and shadows to the pictures.

Surprise

Surprise

I was given the task to take a unique picture. That would surprise my teacher when looking at it. I feel that you don’t really see pictures of people laying on the grass and capturing a picture of a person with the view of the background. My picture was trying to express peace and a sight view of nature.

I like this picture because it has a different feeling to it when you see it. Also I like the angle that I took the picture when you can see everything clearly. The sky looks very blue with no clouds, and the grass is what catches your attention right away.

Graduation

The strength in my design was the picture in my back cover were It looks like the Pegasus is shinning the rays. i could of done my front cover different by maybe not putting the quote and the diploma and the cap all together like it was to much in one place. It was a little bit more hard because i actually had to think of something to do, and it had to be just pictures that i took and i had to come up with an idea with a short period of time. the important aspics are the background and the fonts and the pictures that are on the covers that they all blend in and the colors go good together. Making invitation's or posters or billboards, or special occasion's

Si Se Puede/ Academic Letters

My strengths were on Si Se puede the light shinning on my hand and on my academic the confetti behind the CC. i could of blended my pictures more and on my academic i could of used more pictures and not made it so plain.i struggled with finding things to take pictures of and putting an idea together. The program i did better on was my Si Se puede because i took my time and i had a good idea

Personal Quilt

OUTSIDE

MY QUILT

FUTUREINSIDE

PAST

At the beginning starting this project was hard for me. To think of ideas but as i started getting pictures and putting them on my quilts ideas started popping in my head.My favorite quilt is My Past because i tried to show what was in my past by me moving from El paso to phoenix and the drastic change i went threw and it was hard leaving my family behind. Doing the quilts helped me learn more about myself what is really important in my life to me. My least favorite was the Outside quilt because i didn't have an idea how to put my pictures together. The look i was heading for was a collage. In my future quilt i like how my eyes pop out on top of the picture and how I'm floating in the sky.My inside was my second favorite because my family means the world to me and showing them in my pictures was something cool.