Artist Statement

1. In digital photography i have kept a portfolio. The portfolio contains many assigned pictures that I had to take and within the process of taking this pictures I learned new compositional tricks and after every picture I answered some questions and gave my thoughts about why I had taken that certain picture.

2. Viewing my portfolio you come across many pictures that I have taken. In the pictures are tech incs that I have learned from being in digital photography my pictures aren't just random pictures that I have take. They have leading lines, different saturation's,macro, and mainly compositions that I never knew. I feel that my portfolio is excellent because I have been keeping up with it and its away of expressing what I feel about the picture so it makes more unique. I feel that I was more successful with working in photo shop because some stuff I already knew and it was fun and cool to change a picture and make it look better then how it started. What I struggles the most with was finding stuff to take pictures of because on the campus there was nothing to take a picture of and also because I knew what i wanted to take a picture of but I would struggle for it to come out like I wanted it too. I have learned this semester how to take good picture and what to look out for and what to focus on. before I would just snap a picture but now I actually take my time so that my picture looks good. I could improve on practicing using the tools more and remembering the steps to edit a picture and add cool effects too it.

3. Photo shop really improves a picture and makes it look twice better. I really enjoy working with it and learning new stuff and the different pictures we took are pictures that I would of never thought about taking something different.

Personal words

The lyrics i chose for this project are "Daddys little girl" by Tim Mcgraw

"When you were in trouble that crooked little smile would melt my heart of stone now look at you I've turned around and you've almost grown. Sometimes your asleep i whisper i love you in the moonlight at your door as i walk away i hear you say daddy love you more. you beautiful baby from the outside in chase your dreams but always know the road that'll lead you home again go on take on this old world but to me you know you will always be my little girl someday someboy will come and ask me for your hand but i wont say yes to him unless i know hes the half that makles you whole he has a poets soul and the heart of a mans man i klnow hell say hes in love, but between you and me he wont be good enough".

I chose this lyrics because this song reminds me of me and my dad cause im the only girl and im a daddys girl and he would always tell me the things that are in the song and he had decictaed the song to me. So everytime i hear it it reminds me of my dad and since were far away from each other its just something that makes me happier when this song comes out

Social Issue:" Trying To FIt In"

• In the picture you see black outlined gray puzzle pieces stuck together with a unique white polka dot lined puzzle, different from the others. Above and below the unique puzzle piece there is words in red with a black background standing out so the viewer could see the message the photographer is trying to say. The words are " Everyone Needs Comformity"

• The social issue was trying to fit in, many people hang out with a crowd of people that may be popular or are using drugs and that certain person feels that they are obligated to do what their peers are doing just so they could like them. In the picture all the black outline gray puzzle pieces represent a group of friends, and the white polka dot lined piece is that one person trying to fit in with the rest of them doing what they are doing, but this one is different because it wants to be just like the black outlined gray pieces. The words "Everyone Needs Comformity" go with the picture by saying everyone at some point has to try to fit in with others, and by doing this they feel secure and makes them feel better inside. This has effected me before because i have had friends that tried fitting in with other people and at the end they just ended up hurt which i have done this before also trying to fit in with a group of bad people that just lead me to no good.

Scary Effects

My favorite was the vampire because of all the effects that we added to it made it look cool.
Some of the tools i learned was from the paintbrush to add broken glass stuff and then pen tool to make cure lines. the difficult stuff were at the begining getting used to the pen making it curve.Also the clone tool. I think i did well on the blending stuff into the picture and making it look realistic. some jobs may be like on halloween, to make scary people or post pictures that look freaky and scare people. or maybe even on scary moives. photoshop to fix the pictures and add effects to them.

Critique: Robert& Shana ParkeHarrison

There is a man kneeling down with a stack of wood in his back and a hammer in his hand he is building his own path by the wood he has in his back. It’s a simple picture that has a leading line which is the wood that leads you to him showing you what he is doing. The meaning of the picture that I get is a hard worker determined to finish his task. It seems like he is trying to make his way through the water.

Photographic Effects

My favorite trick was the blow out ,becasue it brought out the picture and the colors looked awesome. I would want to work with adjustment layers becasue it gives the picture more value and makes the pictures look better and has and you can see alot of shadows in the pictures.the things that i liked that i discovered were the saturation and the contrast .

Portrait

Face

Artistic

Prop

Surprise

the portrait that i thought i was succesful with was the surprise because i used macro and the leave brings out the picture.

to create my artistic i told m emphasis to lay in the floor and get leading lines to lead to her.i captured a relaxed chill mood.

The prop that i used was a cone because it expressed her on yelling, and being happy.i liked how it turned out because its showing a mood and its jut a simple picture.

y surprise picture is unique cause i took it from a low view and the background of the school looks cool. and the view of my emphasis.

Contact sheet
My favorite compostional trick was extreme angles, because the picture stands out more and you get to see the object from a different angle.
The tricks that i would use would be framing because it helps bring out the object. Extreme angles to see the object at a differnent view and makes the picture more artistic.
My least favorite trick was fill in flash i couldnt get the pictures to be dark and light it was to difficult. My favorite picture that i took was simplicity cause the colors of the plant and the plant was pretty the background made the colors of the plant stick out more.

Compostional Trick #8 FIll in Flash

Fill in flash i had trouble with. i understood that you had to take a picture without flash and had to be in dark or have shadows covering your object and your picture would come out dark and hard too see. The other one was staying in the same position but adding flash to it and this would brighten your object and you will be able to see it.

Compostional Trick #7 Drawing with Light

Drawing with light you put your emphasis in the dark or with a shadow but make sure that there is light in your picture the light makes your emphasis stand out and let the viewers see it beter

Compostional Trick #6 Framing

Framing is finding an emphasis and putting a frame around it this acts like a border around your object and the viewer can see your emphasis more beter through its frame frames can be made or just looked for

Compostional Trick #5 Extreme Angles

Extreme Angles was my favorite one you find a object and you take a picture of it from an angle this makes the viewer look at the picture from a different point of view an makes the picture stand out and gets the objects details very good

Compostional Trick #4 Simplicity

Simplicity is finding an object and just having a basic background and your object is just being focused on it makes this object stand out from its background

Compostional Trick#3 Macro

A macro is when taking a picture of a certain object and you focus on the object you get close up to it and the background starts becoming blury so this catches your viewers attention .

Compositional Trick#2 Leading Lines

Leading lines are when you have an object in a certain place and you find lines that lead to your object this gets the viewers attention by following the lines and reaching your object.

Compostional Trick #1 Rule of Thirds

The rule of thirds is when you find an object to be in your picture then on your camera

you get a grid that looks like tic tac toe, but your object in your picture isn't suppose to be centered. so using the grid you put your object on either of the lines. and this makes your object stand out more.