Fine Arts Portrait: Lighting and Use of Color

Anna Shakina- http://www.artlimited.net/image/en/347412

Julia Noni

http://www.julianoni.com/

Commercial Portraits: Use of Color and Composition

Sølve Sundsbø- http://www.designscene.net/2012/08/herieth-paul-kel-markey-gucci-i-d-pre-fall-2012.html

Christian Oita

http://www.creativebloq.com/art-magazine-covers-20-incredible-examples-2012-1212728?page=1

project 8- Surrealism and Photomontage

For this project, I attempted to create an image of various animals either on their own or combined into giants.  The cat and squirrel are living beings whereas the dog and elephant are statues.  The background or setting is simply tall grass from a garden.  This project was difficult both technically and creatively (because we were given the tools to create pretty much any image we wanted to) but this challenge also made the project very fun.  

Project 7- Alternative Processes Through Digital Means

 In the past, photographers took photos and engaged in a specific photographic process that gave their photos a particular look, creating a daguerreotype.  Through digital editing on Photoshop, I was able to take an original photo and give it the properties of an aged, framed, black and white photograph.

Cyanotypes are photographic blueprints.  Again, I used photoshop to imitate the look that cyanotypes have.  I really like how nature is used as subjects for this photographic style so I choose to use flowers as my subjects.

Gum Bichromate is also a photo printing process that uses light sensitivity (very similar to cyanotypes).  I chose a dandelion and an African mask I have in my house to use as subjects.  

Surrealist Photography

Vincent Bourilhon

Jerry Uelsmann

Joel Robison

Artists of the Surrealist Movement

Surrealist art is typically art that is seen as the combination of creative images that usually don't belong together in order create a dream-like and abstract effect.  These paintings were typically seen as art that reveal ideas and images from the unconscious.  I like how both of the paintings posted below intertwine images of nature and people to express an idea.

Salvador Dalí

Remedios Varo

Project 6- Multiple Images Techniques

Multiple Exposure Images:

This is a multiple exposure image of an elephant statue in our house layered over a photo of bright yellow colored leaves.  To edit it, I increased the whites and boosted the yellow of the leaves.  

This is a black and white multiple exposure image of a cello layered over a figurine of a bass player.  I attempted this photo as a comparison of two musical subjects and was not entirely satisfied with my cropping and clarity of the photo.  However, it was fun testing out this method of multiple exposure techniques.

High-Dynamic Range (HDR) Image:

This is an HDR photo of my street during the evening.  I took two photos with my phone in the same position to get the two exposures of the scene.  In Photoshop and Lightroom and boosted the saturation and vibrance of the colors to create a very colorful image.  

Panoramic Image:

This panoramic photo of a freeway bridge was taken during a class walking field and stitched together in Photoshop.  I edited the photo to have a bluish tint, boosted the contrast, darkened the blacks, and lightened the whites.