Midterm ePortfolio Post

 Assignment: Flipbook

For this assignment, we were told to go about making a low frames per second animation with our camera work, in which sounded really fun, and was also very fun to make. My intentions for this animation was to show the world from a bug's perspective, in which I had the premise be the bug making it's way around town and back to it's original home. 

To achieve this bug-like POV, I shot many, and I mean many, low-profile shots: 300+ and more to be exact. Knowing all were ground level photos, I had to scrap a few from me not being able to have a gyro-like rotation when taking photos to make the bug look as if it was moving left, right, or even forward.

To put it simply, it was definitely a hard task to make the animation look bug jittery, and not camera-shaky-in-hand-while-crouching-awkwardly jittery. All in all, fun project.

Assignment: Hyper-realism

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Concept

For this project, we were tasked with creating a surreal-like photo, seemingly looking like the photo was taken in this world, and totally not photoshopped in any way. What I intended to make was a pretty simple task: Creating a huge console in my backyard. How I planned on getting this right, knowing that if I didn't get the lighting on the console similar to the background, I had taken pictures of the console, and background at around the same time. Overall, I believe I did a pretty decent job at capturing having a huge console in the middle of my backyard, however there were some evident flaws. 

For example, my lighting on my console shows that the sun shined on it on the left side, whereas the background has the sun on the right side, making the overall lighting of the finished product a little lopsided. Another thing I've noticed is the fact that my lighting on the bottom of the console could've used a bit more work, knowing that it sort of looks like it's floating above ground.

Assignment: Portrait 

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Original

It's safe to say that I had the most fun with this one. I've always wanted to manipulate faces in photoshop for fun, and the labs, as well as this portrait project, showed me a few ways how. We were tasked to do a simple job: To create a portrait of someone other than us, and touch it up in photoshop. With my trusty Uncle to help, we were able to having a dandy and cool dude for the subject.

I found it funny because he kept insisting that we use one of my dogs as another subject matter, even though that was prohibited. So, we went with doing various expressions and or poses, that eventually led to this heavily exaggerated smile. How I cleaned it up a little, was deleting the eyebags below his eyes, as well as making the skin a bit more photogenic and unreal, really getting that weird magazine cover look to the subject matter. A very fun time.

Assignment: Panorama

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For my panorama assignment, I just so happened to be on my roof one day, since my grandmother thought it was going to rain, and told me to put a tarp on our shed in the backyard. Since I was up there, I thought it'd be a cool time to shoot the panorama (I wanted to do the Ventura Beach but it ended up being scrapped due to bad time management). I wanted my composition to be more sky than buildings, and to sort of look like a top down view of the surrounding suburbs. Also, the powerlines at the top was a pain when it came to stitching the images together, sort of screwing up what could've been consistent sky blue lighting. To sort of make it work, I would make my brush 0% hardness so I could powder the different shades of blue in the sky to look less messy, and to fix the powerline problem at the top, I decided to redraw most of it rather than try to piece it together in the photos. Regardless, I believe this image, disregarding it's many flaws, catches the viewer's eye with the sky's cool color scheme with the surrounding buildings and powerlines, bringing a sort of view from like a bird's perspective, I would say.

Assignment: HDRI

Final

Original Pictures

With this assignment, I decided to take many photos of my backyard chair. I really appreciate this image, however the one thing that really messed up my outlook on it was the fact that the chair gives the illusion that the picture is oversaturated, and really messed up my ability to really work on correcting its lighting and or saturation overall. Also, maybe I could've made the overexposed and underexposed pictures a bit more darker and lighter, I'm not sure. Anyway, my intention on the composition was to really make the chair the center of attention, as well as give it more flair with the many props surrounding it. I think everything fit a bit perfectly, and it really makes a nice warm temperature aesthetic in my opinion.

Assignment: Things 

Final

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With this assignment we were tasked to draw attention to things, or little objects to focus on. My object was this sort of cool looking, tiny water fountain. It would've been nice if water was flowing through it, but sadly it wasn't in action. This isn't really a problem, but I think what I could've improved on in this image is to focus even more on the subject by blurring the image's background. I'll make sure to attempt more focused pictures as time goes on. The way I sell this image's looks is the vintage looking colors (the background, as well as the rocks and fountain itself) without really making it black and white or sepia. I think that's what makes this image a bit compelling.

Assignment: On The Edge

Final

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This image represents my On The Edge assignment. I believe I took a better picture than this, however our requirements were to be a bit more distance away from our subject. I still think the closer image of the basketball could've been more compelling though. However, here we are: A photograph with a sort of nostalgic feel to it. I used to live in a cul-de-sac in Georgia, where there'd be a huge group of kids playing in the streets, kind of like the show Ed Edd n' Eddy. So I thought it'd be a cool look to the photo if I were to put some sort of toy or sporty type thing in the road to sort of sell the idea that maybe kids've been playing in this area.