Cherry Blossom
Medium: Digital Photography
Date Completed: 2013
Personal Work
Statement: The photo was taken using a digital SLR. The photo was framed to get the soft blue of the sky to help give hierarchy to the blossoms in the foreground. A soft focus was used to help bring more visual interest to the foreground.
Seagulls
Medium: 35mm Film Photography
Semester Completed: Fall 2010
Class Created In: PHT 101 (Photography I)
Statement: The assignment given was to capture motion on a 35mm SLR camera. The approach I chose was to let motion blur tell the visual story of movement. The movement was shown by a motion blur in the wings of the seagulls. The visual weight is spread between the birds stationary on the grown in full focus and the birds mid-flight. Some of the birds are not fully in the frame to help draw the viewer’s eye around the image.
Reflection
Medium: 35mm Film Photography
Semester Completed: Fall 2010
Class Created In: PHT 101 (Photography I)
Statement: The problem presented was to take 1 negative and print it 3 different ways using a variety of technique, and thoughtful manipulations. Using my skull negative in the darkroom I mixed it with another negative of a statue at a graveyard. The statue’s negative was dodged leaving space to add the skull in the same image. The visual weight was spread across the image by placing the two subjects in opposing corners.
Isolation
Medium: 35mm Film Photography
Semester Completed: Fall 2010
Class Created In: PHT 101 (Photography I)
Statement: The problem presented was to take 1 negative and print it 3 different ways using a variety of technique, and thoughtful manipulations. Using my skull negative in the darkroom I developed the image in portrait mode using high contrast development to adjust the lighting of the negative
Ascension
Medium: 35mm Film Photography
Semester Completed: Fall 2010
Class Created In: PHT 101 (Photography I)
Statement: The problem presented was to take 1 negative and print it 3 different ways using a variety of technique, and thoughtful manipulations. Using my skull negative in the darkroom I developed the image in landscape mode burning the giving the daytime negative a nighttime appearance. This lowered the contrast and added a highlight to the subject. The landscape development also eliminated a lot of negative space from the original photo.
Bring Me The Horizon
Medium: Digital Photography
Date Completed: 2013
Personal Work
Statement: This image was taken while working for Epitaph Records as their tour photographer. This photo is framed using the rule of thirds with the subject to the left of center. This helps provide negative space. The background was kept in soft focus further drawing the viewer to the subject.
