My Final!

Final Images

I really enjoy the following images alone as they are, however I am looking to use the form of the flowers to digitally construct a new form. I want to cut out the flowers from the backgrounds and layer them over each other on top of a simple gray tone background to create possibly the form of a dress, using multiple images to create a single image.

Project 5

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Project 5

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In Class

Eddie Adams

 

Eddie Adams

1933-2004

He covered 13 wars.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for photography for his shot of a Viet Cong lieutenant being executed at close range on a Saigon street by a South Vietnamese general.

Received more than 500 awards for his photography.

He photographed many famous identities, such as Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Mother Theresa, Pope John Paul II, Jerry Lewis, Clint Eastwood, Bette Davis, Big Bird and Mickey Mouse.

 He has been published in Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Parade.

His photo in 1979, titled "Boat of No Smiles" depicted 50 Vietnamese on a 30-ft. fishing boat fleeing from their homeland. This ultimately lead the US Congress and president Jimmy Carter to open the US to more than 200'000 Vietnamese refugees.

Andy Warhol

 

Andy Warhol

born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928

received his first camera at the age of 9

Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) from 1945 to 1949

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Pictorial Design

He worked as a commercial artist/illustrator where he earned many awards.

In 1961 he made his first pop paintings based on comics and ads.

In 1962 he debuted his famous Campbell's Soup Can Series.

He then began working with movie star portraits, such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Between 1963 and 1968 he created hundreds of films.

In 1964 he held his first exhibition of sculptures.

 He published many books beginning in the 1950's, however Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), published in 1967 was the most popular.

Recreation 5

The Original
ErasingCalculating4a by: Teun Hocks
Biography: 1947 born in Leiden, Holland, Ausbildung Academy voor Beeldende, Kunsten, Breda, 2008
Significance: He will digitally color his black and white negatives and will play with constructed realities that are hard to believe, yet connectable in ideals and feelings.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I think the idea in this photo is that you work hard on one thing, and later find it useless and erase it from your mind. Also I think it is about the two-sidedness that one person can hold within themselves.
Method: He took two photos of himself in different positions to create this image.
Motivations: He wanted to convey the feeling of defeating your own hard work.
Your Opinion: I love this photo because as a college student I have felt exactly this way myself on many occasions.

My Recreation
Composition: I wanted a similarly balanced construction, but I did not have a space similar to his.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I looked at college life and portrayed the different personalities of someone who is both into school and into sports. Sometimes something that is seen as contradictory itself.

Project 4

Part 1
Composition: I cropped the photo to only show the sky and clouds.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to play with the fact that the billboard may blend into the sky in the right weather, and stand out against it as a window to another sky in other weather.
Method: I created an HDR photo to place over a billboard, that would emulate the sky.
Motivations: I wanted to play with the fact that it is sky juxtaposed to sky.
Context: This is more cultural, a piece on the fact that there are so many billboards that it makes it hard to see the sky, and I wanted to make it so that they would also be part of the sky as well.

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to position the candle in the center and leave the fork to lead your eye off to the right so as to read the text there.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to create a playful ad for Beanpod Soy Candles. I also wanted to play with the fact that the scents are so close to the wonderful food that they are named after.
Method: I used natural lighting since the product is all natural and a tripod to keep the camera still for the longer exposure.
Motivations: I wanted to create a fun ad.
Context: This is somewhat cultural since it is an ad based image with words promoting a product.

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to position the candle in the center and leave the fork to lead your eye off to the right so as to read the text there.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to create a playful ad for Beanpod Soy Candles. I also wanted to play with the fact that the scents are so close to the wonderful food that they are named after.
Method: I used natural lighting since the product is all natural and a tripod to keep the camera still for the longer exposure.
Motivations: I wanted to create a fun ad.
Context: This is somewhat cultural since it is an ad based image with words promoting a product.

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to position the candle in the center and leave the fork to lead your eye off to the right so as to read the text there.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to create a playful ad for Beanpod Soy Candles. I also wanted to play with the fact that the scents are so close to the wonderful food that they are named after.
Method: I used natural lighting since the product is all natural and a tripod to keep the camera still for the longer exposure.
Motivations: I wanted to create a fun ad.
Context: This is somewhat cultural since it is an ad based image with words promoting a product.

Finals for Project 3!

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to focus on the fragile thin flowering plant set against the large rigid greenhouse and large tree.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to focus on the beauty that can be found outside of the greenhouses instead of what we are used to seeing on the inside.
Method: I used flash to help capture detail in the flower since it was overcast.
Motivations: I wanted to capture how delicate the flower was compared to the greenhouse.
Context: I'm looking at the greater picture of beauty and how it is perceived. Most people think of the flowers in the greenhouse, not the ones growing outside of the greenhouse.
Part 2
Interpretation: The overall idea wasn't quite there, but they noticed how fragile the flower was.
Evaluation: I did not get the overall idea of comparison to work, possibly because it is hard to see that it is a greenhouse behind it.
Extension: I would love to do a series on the intricacies of flowers.

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to focus on the reflective properties in the water for this piece.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: This is one of those groves of trees just on the other side of a busy road, nobody really wonders what beauty they actually hold inside.
Method: I used flash, but could not capture the detail I wanted, however I was able to recall a lot of information using camera raw.
Motivations: I wanted to capture the beauty that most people will never see, the beauty in the world left to mother nature herself.
Context: I'm trying to show the beauty in places that people don't normally see.
Part 2
Interpretation: There wasn't much conversation on this photo.
Evaluation: I didn't get much feedback on this photo.
Extension: I could do more pieces focusing on reflective properties.

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to focus on the flower and still have the contrast of the dark green background from the trees behind it as well.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to portray how soft the flower was and how gentle the petals were.
Method: I used flash to help capture detail in the flower since it was overcast.
Motivations: I wanted to capture how the flower felt.
Context: I'm looking simply at the form and feel of the flower itself.
Part 2
Interpretation: This photo received the best feedback out of all four. They loved the texture and softness of the petals.
Evaluation: The idea definitely was received, and I could not have been happier with the reviews.
Extension: I would love to do a series on the intricacies of flowers.

Part 1
Composition: I wanted to blend the building into nature.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to portray the fact that greenhouses are made to emulate nature.
Method: I used the cloudy day to my advantage and blew out part of the roof into the sky.
Motivations: I wanted to capture how greenhouses emulate nature.
Context: I wanted to speak on how good greenhouses really are and how much they do emulate nature.
Part 2
Interpretation: The over all idea wasn't quite received, however the over all aesthetics were picked up on.
Evaluation: The context may need some tweaking, however the over all idea was partially there.
Extension: I could do a whole series on greenhouses blending into nature.

Recreation 4

This photo is very well known through the US and I loved the simple colors and how they conveyed space and depth.

I wanted to recreate the space and depth in the photo above with my own identity.