Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Final Photo Scavenger Hunt

 Closed - I choose to take a picture of crossed arms because that is body language that conveys being closed off from others.
 Cold - I choose the pan because it's made of metal and thus is cold and unfeeling, but also it cooks life sustaining meals which make it friendlier.
 Community - I took this picture because the magnetic screws work together to achieve something they couldn't alone just like a community.
 Contemplation - I choose this picture because I was trying to show how someone had been contemplating the book and then left it open.
 Electric - This represents electricity because they're cords, but also because the cords are tossed aside carelessly just like societies energy use can be wasteful at times.
 Energy - I choose this because food provides the energy that our bodies need to function
 Familiar- I choose this because the open hand is a sign of friendship in many cultures.
 High Point - This is high point because it is a smile and if someone is smiling then they are happy.
 Hot - These are the knobs to adjust the temperature on a stove, so I choose them to represent hot.
 Intimidating - I took this photo to represent intimidating because staring at the blank sheet of paper before you begin a project is one of the most intimidating things in the world.
 Love - I took a picture of the present because if someone gives a gift it is implied that they care for who they are giving it to, but it can also only be given because of social pressures so it represents both sides of the idea.
 12 Midnight - I choose this because it is a glass and a slipper, glass slipper, which was symbolic of Cinderella and her story.
 Movement - This represents movement because of the blurring of the ball as it falls down the stairs.
 Music - I choose a picture of a speaker because it plays music and thus is very important to it.
 Old/New - I choose this picture because it is trash, which is old and used, in a plastic bag, a somewhat new technology.
 Oversized - I choose this picture because it is both a macro photo and the object itself in an larger representation of something that is smaller.
 Red - This is the silhouette of an apple and an apple is red so it represents red without showing it.
 Reflection - I choose this photo because each one of the utensils is a reflection of the others, and they are reflecting the world around them.
 Shadow- I took this picture because it is the light sources and the camera darkened everything to take the picture creating artificial shadows.
 Sharp - I choose this picture because you can use the word sharp to describe nice looking clothes.
 The End - I choose this photo because the empty frame begs the question what is this the end of? Or, rather, is it a beginning?
 Three - I choose this picture because there are three stalks of bamboo, and there are also some other things in the photo that come in threes.
 Too Much - I took this photo since there are a lot of sheets of paper, also because the paper represents everything that needs to be studied which might be too much.
 Warning - I choose this photo because there is a warning in it, but it isn't finished so it makes one wonder what the full message was.
 Single - I choose this photo because each raspberry looks a lot like the others so in a way there is no individual, but there are some differences that set them apart, just like human beings.
Soft - I choose this photo because the tissue itself is soft, but also because soft reminds me of the word comforting and the tissues can help during a time that someone needs comforting.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Best of 2013 (Mine)

I chose this photograph as one of my favorites I took this year because the light write assignment was probably my favorite that we have done. Despite being out in the cold at night, I was having so much fun doing these photos that I didn't even notice that an hour had gone by already. The creativity it afforded me was also very fun. Out of all the ones I did this one is my favorite because it turned out just how I had wanted it to even if it was a simpler design.

The clone assignment was another one of my favorites. I enjoyed planning out everything that I wanted to do in each photo and then finally seeking come out in the end was an almost magical effect when I did it. Also, the amount of information that I learned while piecing together the photos, the experience of doing, and the practice with Photoshop make this a very important assignment to me. This is also my dad's favorite photo that I have taken this year and it is one of mine as well.

From both the standpoints of visual appeal and my own personal love of a photo, this is one of my best photographs of the year. I like how the photograph turned out with the stem and some of the leaf are in focus but the rest isn't. I think this is also one of my best uses of rule of thirds during the year, although it could be better but I was, and am, still something of a new photographer. Lastly, Fall is one of my favorite seasons and so this picture takes me back to that time when I was taking it which is a good memory for me.

Best of 2013 (from the web)

Nature/Animal
Original Here.
Photograph by David Kingham
Burst of meteors photographed in Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest

Most Powerful
Original Here.
Photograph by Jorge Dan Lopez
A photograph of an exhumed body at a cemetery in Guatemala City. The bodies are exhumed due to unpaid cemetery dues and are placed in a mass grave.

Sports
Original Here.
Photograph by Stefan Postles
Players wait to start play on the first day of the ISPS Handa Australian Open after kangaroos came onto the fairway.
Pop Culture
Original Here.
Photograph by Tonje Thilesen
Angel Haze in front of a crowd preforming at Øya Festival in Oslo.

News
Original Here.
Photograph by Bulent Kilic
Protesters in Istanbul shoot fireworks at policemen during a clash on December 8th.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

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