My photo essay titled “My People” is a reflection of the people I care most about in their natural state. I did not tell any of them how to pose, or to pose at all. I wanted to convey their true essence and their true feeling, so I told them…

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Brian, would you be able to post the photo essay assignment to your blog please? Pretty please?…

In class on Monday, we had discussed the homework assignment after analyzing the photo with the model and elephant, particularly the contrasts between the delicate, smooth-skinned model, and the rough, wild elephants.

I was under the impression that our homework assignment was to take three different photos of strong contrasts/conflict, …

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Considered this as a self-portrait for .1 seconds

This week’s completed assignments:

Blogged a response to “Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus” Took seven daily shoot photos: contrast, portrait, self-portrait, extreme close-up, something’s shadow, ugly to beautiful, universal theme Blogged about a new thing I…

Photograph of Diane Arbus, CC Allan Arbus/The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC

Although I was overall not very impressed with this video about Diane Arbus, I think there are a few interesting points worth talking about:

According to the video, technique comes from choices deep down inside, and a lot…

Laziness!…

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Old pizza. Delicious! 

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My grandma …

Taken a few weekends ago when we still had snow, but this is Bella!

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I read the article “6 Easy Ways to Give your Photographs a Compelling Narrative” by Robert Bradley, and discovered the six secrets:

Ask yourself questions when photographing, and bring along a notebook to record your ideas. Capture an image with conflicting emotion from at least two different subjects.…

This weeks completed assignments:

Response to “Jon” by George Saunders Animated gif Blog post about what I learned from a tutorial link found in Ctools Four daily shoot assignments: one, two, three and four I felt much more comfortable after leaving the design section for the all to…

The article I read was an analysis of why eyes and cameras process the same image differently. The three main reasons for this are:

Angle of View Cameras have a wide angle of view, compared to our eyes’ narrow angle of view Resolution and Detail Unlike the camera, only our…

Not the most interesting photo, but I think it does a good job at exemplifying the rule of thirds

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My sister with Pigiodo, the family bird

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Porch furniture

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I will update this with a how-to later tonight because I am unexpectedly crunched for time at the moment, but here is my very first gif! I am so happy that I know how to make gifs now!

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CC Flickr User Ars Electronica

I’ll admit that the story was somewhat hard to read (and by that, I mean it was somewhat hard to skim, such as what a college student does for most of their readings). The way of writing, which includes the run-on sentences paired with references …

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For these minimalist posters, I was getting so frustrated with photoshop that I just switched over to paint. I think the top image is cooler looking, but I am happy with both. I think it has something to do with the fact that Otis looks like a monkey …

CC Guido Sportaal

This week’s completed assignments:

Read the required readings Blogged about “Albums Without Sound” Blogged about minimalism on the web One, two and three design projects, as well as an original project.

I am still getting used to photoshop and design in general. The in-class photoshop tutorial …

CC Flickr Spacesick

This poster is compelling because Edward Scissorhands is a weird, underrated film that I thought most people forgot about, so I was happy to see that people are still remembering! I also like that it was so literal, though I probably would have somehow emphasized that his …

For this design create, I based it off one of the most boring places in the world: Romeo, Michigan, my hometown. It was someone of a process trying to figure out what image would best represent Romeo in a minimalist way. At first, I was going to create a …