Surreal Practice Tutorial

To create these photos we used many different tools and functions on Photo Shop. My favorite was making the ground look real. We also changed the color of the sky. We added layer styles and blending options to make the ground look real. After completing these projects I know I can make my own surreal photo. I know that going through this tutorial will help me create my own surreal art work because I know now how to better use more tools and effects on Photo Shop that will allow me to create a realistic art piece.

Personal Quilts

Me as a Whole

my future

Inside Me

Outside Me


My Past

When I first began this project I let ideas roll from my head and I knew that this was my chance to express who I really am. I immediately started digging inside myself and truly bringing out those things that I knew made me. My struggle was hiding some things that I was not yet ready to express and creatively expressing those things I chose to let out. However, I could get any of my ideas to work with what I needed it to. I couldn’t remember how to use any of the tools we learned on photo shop and my artistic eye was not working with me to create that “awe, that’s it” moment. In many of the photos I used the pin tool to create more enhanced some colors of my features. Visually in my quilt squares I believe that my Red bordering was the strongest part of my Quilt Squares. I think it was a great experience. Next time I attempt a project like this I will know to really let my self go and be artistic. However, I will keep my symbols because they truly explained me!

Artistic statement

In my portfolio you will learn about all the projects we worked on this semester in Digital Photography. The pictures have been artistically taken, you will find Photo shop work, natural artistic photos, and a specific Photo shop tools that needed to be mastered. I feel that my Portfolio is complete and a treat to the eyes kind of like something you would hate not to see.

Over the course of this semester I have learned about Photo Shop, How to stop taking snapshots and take artistic photographs, and the many cool functions of a camera.
Photo Shop really helps the photo a lot. It helps to clean up the photo a bit. The camera can do many cool functions with out the need of anything else. And when I start taking photos I think outside of the box and I try to take photos of things that people ignore on the day to day basis. I believe I am most successful with the camera. I can get it to do exactly what I want and I have an artistic eye when it comes to photos. The thing I struggle with most would have to be photo shop because it is so hard to get things to do replicate what I see inside my head and I want it to and it gets hard.

Thing I think I can improve on is exploring with photo shop more. I need to learn the tools that will work with me and also will help the photo rather than make it look worse. I have had improvement on trust Photo Shop more and using tools and making sure I use my artistic abilities and not just use my head. I would just like to close stating that Digital Photo is an Awesome class and I could not do it without our most awesome, cool, artistic teacher ever MS.COOK!!!

Personal Words

The lyrics I chose for this project are One in A Million by Aaliyah.

Baby you don't know What you do to me between me and you I feel a chemistry. I won't let no one come and take your place Cause the love you give it can't be replaced. see No one else loves me like you do That's why I don't mind to Spend my life with you I Wanna please you in any way I can I Wanna share my world and don't you understand. Your love is a one in a million It goes on and on and on. You give me a really good feelin' all day long your love is one in a million It goes on and on and on You give me a really good feelin' all day long .

The reason I chose these lyrics speak about love that is irreplaceable. I relate to this song because I feel that love today. It’s a girl expressing her love to her man and how she is ready to take that next step. The lyrics include so much imagery that is not like a plain love song its could be called and love of desire. Another reason I chose these lyrics is because Aaliyah is my favorite singer and when she sang the song the lyrics had so much power in it. This song has helped me in my relationship.

Social Issue: Dream as if you will LIVE FOREVER!!!

In this photograph, there are three young men. Each man is glaring and focusing in different angle of directions. As they look there are all holding cellular phones and have different expressions on their faces. The men have different shades of skin and the color of their shirts corresponds with their skin tone.

In this photograph the social issue I am trying to get across is at many times in our lives we forget to hold on to want we want. We always give up and feel that we have done all we can do and that’s not true. We allow other people to control our Dreams and destinations. In my life I had given up on so much. I thought that I would never be able to be a great writer. I was put down and I started believe what others said about me. Now, I have learned to Dream as if I WILL LIVE FOREVER because dreams have made thing possible for us today. And it is not my peers, society or even the President to tell me when and who I can be. Just hold fast to dreams for Your dream cannot die!!!!

SCARY EFFECTS

My favorite was the vampire because it brought out the real vampire in me plus I felt like that could be my character on TRUE BLOOD. I learned about the pin tool also you to make stroke paths or paths. Some troubles I ran into were when we were making our eyes white because my eyes were red that day i had less white around my pupal. I think I did well on the burn and dodge tool and my yellow eyes in my vampire photo. I believe that jobs such as the animators to scary movies and vampire Television shows use this to create their characters and also to show the actors what they look like.

Formal Critique

As the bridge he builds leads up to a man with no choice but to build his way to land and forget or ignore the constant waves of disappointment, waiting for him to fail, bodies of water that surrounds him. His world is so gray all he can see ahead for the near future is a big black hill of hopes and dreams. But by the looks of his short supply of wood to continue building he will be left alone for the unwelcoming water to swallow all he has worked for. This is a change he never thought of

The bridge of change he built leads us to him. The gray of the photograph helps to create this lost faith but trying to find hope feeling. It makes me feel as if he is all alone and lost at sea he just began to build his way to the hill of hope. Although he seems to have come along way he will be stopped soon because of his short supply. This photography brilliantly portrays the hope of someone even when they try to reach a goal but hard times stop them. It clearly interprets our personal battle with unplanned circumstances.

Photographic Effects

My favorite of all the trick we have learned is Blow-out. I love it because it hides all the blemishes and bring out the beauty of the subject in the photo. I would like to work with Fix: Healing tools a little bit more it was kind of difficult for me to work with. The Cropping Tool is what I learned more about and it was cool to cut things out that I didn't want.

PORTRAITS

The Portrait I think I was most successful with has to be The PROP. To me I really captured her moment of dance. To create an artistic photo I used greens because it matches her eye color. It gave a playful mood. The PROP I used was dancing. I loved the way the photo turned out because the extreme angle trick emphasized the dancing movement she was doing. I did not like the turnout of my surprise photo I just quickly took it and didn't care how it turned out. I was really afraid to take these pictures it seem like all my ideas were not coming together in the beginning but after letting go and focusing on capturing my clients senior moment I connected with my artistic side.

Contact Sheet

Out of all the Compositional trick we have learned my favorite Light. This is because it brings out a mood that a picture in color or without it takes away. In my Day to day photos I will start using Fill-In-Flash, Light, and Rule of Thirds. It will help me take more artistic photos and snap shots. Fill-In-Flash the most difficult because in class we learned flash was bad and i was afraid to take another bad picture. My favorite pictures were rule-of thirds and light because to me they brought out the beauty and feeling more in the pictures.

Compositional Trick #8 Fill in flash

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Fill in Flash help my picture by lighting up my objects face will she was in a light back ground and also when the second girl has a line across her face. In the future I will only use flash to lighten up a photo but only if it helps.

Compositional Trick #7 Drawing with Light

To me and many others this picture brings out the beauty in the emphasis. It can express feeling that color distract us from.The feeling I get when looking at this picture is "My past was dark but my future holds Light". The light helps this because the light shines on her face and the black tries to hide some of her body.

Compositional Trick #6 Framing

Framing helps to show you what your main focus of the picture is. It helps the compostion to say "hey you look here", and "then look around more". for my pictures I believe I could have used better frames and positions for my emphasis.

Compositional Trick #5 Extreme angles

Extreme Bird: Bad example

Extreme Ant: AWESOME EXAMPLE.

Extreme Angles is an awesome trick to use. it makes the picture more dramatic and shows you the world in a new way. My first picture is a bad example because that how we normally look at a field from above. The second one is awesome it shows the trees beautiful angles and it shows how a ant would look at this tree.

Compositional Trick #4 Simplicity

Simplicity is when distractions away so that we can appreciate the photograph that has been taken. Your eyes will immediately attract to the emphasis. Simplicity does not mean boring. it means that you focus on the subject more and take away from the background action. This is a trick to use when taking a picture. it will bring out your subject more and elimmate the rest of whats going on.

Compositional Trick #3 Macro

Macro is used to give you a closer look at things. It blurs the background and gives you a better focus on your emphasis. Macro show you the world in a different way than we are used to.

Compositional Trick #2 Leading Lines

Leading lines is a line or lines that lead you to your emphasis. Leading lines visually leads you through the picture.

Compositional Trick #1 Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds picture is a picture not focused on the center, it is slightly moved from the center. Think of it as a tic-tac-toe, put your subject on the intersections.