Attractive/Repulsive Photos

This is the second repulsive photo I took; again I took it outside just because I think the lighting is better outside than inside. I thought this would work well for this project because cigarettes are disgusting, but yet the background has great color and it is a pretty background. I set the ashtray so that the cigarette butts were like leading you off into the background, but again with this picture I used my digital macro setting, so that the cigarette butts are main focus of the picture. Also, with this picture I used the color balance tool.

This is the first repulsive photo I took; I took it because the strawberries still had a bright red color to them but also had the mold. I took the picture outside on my back porch just because I love the natural light then the ordinary household lights. I really like this picture because the first strawberry is like leading you to the others and off into the grass, which I really like because the grass is blurry and you really focus on the strawberries. I used the digital macro setting on my camera to really get the details of the strawberries and the colors of the mold, because it is a green and white color. I also used color balance on this photo and I really like how it turned out.

This is the second attractive picture I took; I took it outside after I found this sun leaning against my garage. I used my digital macro setting to really get the details of the sun, and the color balance tool to really enhance the colors. I put it off to the side so I wouldn’t break the rule of thirds, also because then you get a nice view of the background too. You may not think this picture is that attractive, but when I think of sun I think of oceans and Mexico. I think that oceans and Mexico are so beautiful, so the image of the sun is really attractive to me. The lighting of the picture is also very helpful for the colors in the picture, which I believe, make the picture.

This was the first attractive picture I took; it was in my neighbors yard by a tree with an angel wind chime hanging from it. They are there because her daughter passed away with cancer at a very young age, and she always says that her daughter is her angel. I thought this would work well for my attraction picture because angels are beautiful, but also the reason they are there I think is beautiful. I also really like how the angels are in a line, they are leading you off into the background also, but yet the background is not taking the focus away from the angels. I used the color balance tool and now this picture has great color and is one of my favorites, I also really like how this picture turned out.

Gregory Crewdson

This picture by Gregory Crewdson is my favorite, it does not have a title but was taken the summer of 2006. It's a great picture i believe, it follows many guidelines that we talked about in class and they really help the picture. The trees and the bridge frame the photo which helps you focus on the little boy, but then you notice the little boy is looking up so you follow his head and look at the top of the photo. Also, the dirt path the boy is on, really shows depth in the picture because you can see it fading away behind the boy. I really like how Gregory used all these guidelines to help really enhance his photo. It looks like he blurred the boy and the woods behind him, and really focused in on the trees and the bridge in front, which also help create the depth in the picture. In many of his other photos Gregory really uses the line guideline to help his picture to become what it is. Also, he usually uses more than one of the guidelines which i really like, because it makes the picture so much more. Out of the four artists we had to choose from, Gregory Crewdson is by far my favorite.

Digital photo montage 2

My friends and family are the most important thing to me in my life, and really help me choose what is right for me. So with this montage, i decided to take a picture of my friend since kindergarden pointing and also a picture of my sister pointing. Then i put them over the road trying to get the message friends and family point you in the direction you should go. I was nervous at first with this because i thought the picture of my sister and chelsea were going to look like they were pointing in different directions, but it ended up being that the pictures look like the are pointing straight down the road. I also really like the finished product of this montage too.

Digital Montage

With this montage, i was trying to get the point that you can show religion in many different ways. My message was religion is a big part of some peoples lives, it's just the way the decide to show it matters. I really like how this montage turned out, i had it at first with the church at the bottom corner, but i got advice to put it as the backround and i really liked how it looked. The Lord Jesus Christ part of the picture i think really help the image and help explain the picture really well. So basically, i just overlapped three separate picture i took, and made two transparent, and left the backround alone. I took these pictures when me and my friend decided to take a trip to Holy Hill, because we love taking pictures there.