Best of Series Project

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Throughout the three weeks we have been working on our series project and I chose these seven photos as my best and most improved.  The positioning of the model and the background colors make the model pop out more.  All seven, I tried to follow Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl picture.  I chose these seven because the backgrounds in these photos create another element to the model.  The positioning and the posture of the model stood out to me most in these pictures.  The body language of the models are more interesitng than most of my other photos.

 

Steve McCurry - Series Project 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we needed to work on our 3rd draft of our series project.  In my 2nd draft, I finally got the posture similar to Steve McCurry's piture.  For this draft, I was able to take the same picture but with a different perspective.  The posture of the model is a little bit different and can see more of her body than just the torso.  Again I took the picture with an interesting background and focused in more on the model.  There are different elements in this series such as the wind blowing in the hair and the back being more arched than slouch-over.

Steve McCurry - Series Project 2

 

 

This week we were working on our second draft of our series project.  From my first draft, I saw that the positioning of the bodies and the negative spacing were not matching with the orignal Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry.  The first photo was the same photo in the first draft, but I edited it more by cropping the photo and adding more contrast.  My main goal was to have a model pose the exact same way as the Afghan Girl with an interesting background.  In my first draft, most of the models were standing and the pose did not aline with Steve McCurry's photo.  This time I told the model to sit/squat down on the floor and hunch their back a little.  I took the photo vertically, so I was able to get enough negative spacing. Again I used a lot of contrast to get more colors and blurred the background a bit. 

Steve McCurry - Series Project 1

For my series project, I wanted to take pictures that were similar to Steven McCurry's photo of the Afghan Girl.  In my pictures, I used high contrast and tried to make the colors pop.  I used the same posture as the Afghan Girl and translated that picture with many other models and backgrounds.  I made the model point therir shoulders facing the side/diagonal of me and made them turn their face to face me.  My goal was to get their eyes focused into the lense. The first two pictures were testing the posture and the color balance, but then I noticed that the background was distracting the model.  In the next photos, I put the model in front of backgrounds with a lot of texture, so the viewer can focus more on the model than the background.

Narratives

 

This week we worked on narratives.  We had to take shots that made an action or a scene in consecutive order.  My goal was to capture the audience by making the story interesting and making it tell a story.  

Micro-Worlds

 

 

 

 

This week our assignment was to focus on micro-worlds.  We played around with toys and tiny figures and placed them in a real world situation.  The background needed to seem realistic while the foreground was a clear image of the toys/tiny models.  My goal was to make the photo seem realistic, yet letting the viewer know that the forground was toys.

 

Portraits

  

 

 

 

 

 In this week's assignment, we focused on portraits. We had to take pictures of a model and find their natural look. Our goal was to find the perfection emotion, and capture the moment. My main idea was to follow Richard Avedon, where he tired the model out to find the natural expression. We had to keep it in black and white to find to make it more emotional.

Motion

 

 

 

This week's assignment, we had to test and play around with motion. Our goal was to capture an object in motion and see how the picture turns out.  Through this project, I was able to learn more about how the camera can capture specific moments. By changing the aperture and shutter speed, it made it easy for me to catch the picture in motion.  My first four photos were regular motion pictures and my last three photos are motion pictures, but through light painting.