My Artist Statement

In this portfolio you will be seeing some of my creations I have successfully done through out the whole year that I was in digital photograph. You will experience something like no other your eyes will be dazzled your minds flip. An online portfolio is similar to a book but its online book it’s a place I can put all my work I have done in the year.

How do I feel about my portfolio? I feel that I have done a good job with all of my projects I know I could have done better on some of them but hey what can I say I did my best. I might have missed a few projects here and there but I made up the ones I could. My portfolio is well organized and everything is in the correct order it’s supposed to be in and I feel strongly about my portfolio. Overall I know that I did a great job even some of my class mates say so but I’m good with the outcome.

My favorite thing about this class would have to be that I had the chance to work with some great people my partner that helped me do and create all my photos his name is Sergio Gonzalez. He has helped me put and take all my photos together and at time would give me some ideas on what I could and couldn’t do with them and he would give me the honest truth. If I had to pick a tool I liked it would have to be the Band-Aid tool because it lets you fixed the picture how you want it you can take pimples away and make it look as if nothing is there.

My favorite photo would probably be Si Se Puede guide because I actually used my own creation and I had a fun time working with this and I used my imagination. I used tools I had never used before and I know that it was a very good creation and it was my first time doing something like this. I wished it would have won but I know in my mind that it was first place. The thing I struggled with the most would have to be the abilities to learn all the tools and their powers behind them.

In the future I know that I will learn a lot more such as knowing that I have to pay attention in class instead of goofing off and actually listen on how to use the tools. My biggest influences would have to be my Dad and Ms. Cook because there the ones who told me I was doing a great job and to keep up the good work and also that I could do better every time and I cant forget about my friends they always say good job and tell me it looks good so thank you guys for saying things like that to me. The thing I know that I improved on would have to be towards the end using my tools for our last project and seeing how they turned out I liked the outcome of my last project wish I had more time here but we shall move on.

Senior class of “09” we did it…..

Metaphor

“LiKe aN oLd BeAteN uP BaSeBaLl”

My reason for choosing this one is in all reality you are a baseball when you thing about. A baseball gets thrown around hit it may have scraps and burses and when you look at a ball you think wow what has this ball been through. I myself am like a baseball I have been through a lot I have has scraps hit and many other things a baseball goes through in life. I see myself as a baseball just because I love baseball and that’s my passion. I can play all night and all day. A baseball is just like a human but shows no feelings because it can’t talk. That was my reason for doing my metaphor on a baseball.

The best thing about this one is that I made myself look like an actual baseball that was on the ground being picked up. The thing I know I could have done better is mess around with my levels and smoothen my edges. The thing I had a problem with would be having to put my face on the ball and making sure is would fit properly. I feel I did great even thought I know I could have done 100 percent better. I feel good about our last project of the year.

ISO

ISO is a type of effect you may use on a picture either to make it brighter or to make it darker it all depends on where you are and how dark it is.

In the photos you see above there all four different pictures. The first one is ISO with flash that made the picture way brighter it sucked in all the light that was around. The second one was 400 ISO meaning that it took all the light in slow and used only bits of light to make it possible. The third one was 800 same with this one it had time to use as much light in order to make the picture pop out. The fourth and last one was 5000 ISO that’s the most ISO there is on our cameras this one made the light seem as if they were super super bright but really weren’t it just added in light the needed to be added.

ISO is better then flash because you don’t need your skin looking like shine skin. What the ISO does it get all the light that needs to be added from different places in the room instead of just a big bright light.

The faster and higher the ISO the fast the light comes in so you have to be careful when choosing your ISO.

Fill in Flash Experiment

Fill in flash is when your outside and you have a shadow on your self and you don't want it there so you put on the flash and it makes it look like theres no shadow.

The one that has the shadows of hands on them are the before pictures and the next ones are the ones with the flash on them.

Metering

The metering tool is a good way to meter the lighting in the room.

On the top picture is a shot of the camrea with the flash off and on the bottom is the one with the flash on it darkens the picture with the flash on.

If you ever need a shot with little to no lighting you use the flash to brighten your picture.

Surrealism

One day it was a cloudy day I was walking to a land that has not been touched or been visited. It was an island that no one has ever been to. This land was surrounded by water and it was full of trees. This island like no other was wired because when I was walking I start to fall fast out of no where I start flying down to this island. It was strange because I was walking then I start falling straight down to the island but I never made it down. I just kept falling and falling. Imagine yourself falling and falling and never getting down as if you were in space falling straight to earth. There was a glare of sunlight that was beaming down at me as if it were giving me a sign that something was wrong. There were a lot of tiny orange red dots all over trying to get to them was impossible because I was getting no where trying to chase them. I had no feet so landing was going to be hard but I wasn’t going to have a hard time with that because I wasn’t going to reach the land so I just kept falling and falling. It felt as if I were just gliding all day but in till I had a splash of water on my face I woke up from this dream. Wondering if I would be able to reach the land that I was headed after.

Surreal Pratice Tutorial

We prepared for our surreal project by practicing different techniques we may want to use in our projects. In this tutorial we learned the value of layering textures using blending options to create an atmosphere with dream like qualities.

(http://www.photoshop-garden.com/view_tut.php?id=76Credit: Stock: hbrush.com Texture: moonchilde-stock.deviantart.com, 99mockingbirds.chanlu.orgText brush: shyndel.deviantart.com)

The one thing I really liked this one is by learning how to make my dream come to life and express how it makes me feel and aswell as showing people what my dream was.

Eye

We then followed this tutorial found at http://www.voidix.com/eye_manipulation.html to give us ideas and practice combining images, reversing natural laws, transforming objects and using Photoshop to create a realistic surrealistic scene.

The one thing I liked about doing this one was learning the new things we can do with Photoshop.

Graduation

What I did well in this one is the placement of everything i stuck to my plans this one actually came to my head and then I created it.

What I could have done better is not use the peguse and use something differnt other then that I did pretty good.

The hardest thing about this one was messing with the colors and seeing how everything was going and it was hard picking what picture i wanted up there.

The most important thing of this pamplet was the pictures because with out pictures it wouldn't really matter what this was about.

The advice I would give is think about colors and think slow but not to slow and think outside the box.

Si Se Puede

The thing I did well with this program is that i used my time wisley and didn't waste time and i put it all together in my head.

I think I could have used a different picture instead of just the pegues but over all I think its ok how it it right now.

The thing I struggled the most was how I wanted my background to be but I wasn't sure of what to do at first.

If I had to pick whichone I liked it would be this one because this one is one of a kind and not like everyone else is and mine is one of a kinda of course.