I registered for photography at the end of freshman year, taking it as a class that I figured would be a lot like Art Design, which I enjoyed. I never thought I would learn the different techniques and programs that I did in this class. The most successful part of this year for me was the surreal images. I found it quite easy to use a simple object, like a flower and incorporate it in a creative way to make the images surreal. I found it easy for me to come up with ideas and make them surreal only using a camera and a few models. I think I learned most from 12 Days of Photoshop. The 12 Days of Photoshop seemed like a really fun idea, and it was fun but it dragged on sometimes. But this project made me develop as an artist, especially in Photoshop. I had to create many different images for this project in Photoshop and to create these images, I had to learn more to be able to achieve the image that I had pictured. The one piece of art that used my skills and techniques was the Selfie Project. The Selfie Project was a project that took one month to create and compile. The Selfie Project caused me to learn how to make very different photographs and make them mold together to create something to represents. The Selfie Project forced me to take all different aspects from my life and put them together in a way that was natural. I learned how to edit more precisely in Photoshop and deal with different opacities with the different photographs. The Selfie Project was a project that took a while, but in the end it made me a better artist and forced me to learn a lot in Photoshop. I also have a personal connection with my Selfie Project. I was really proud of my Selfie Project and the pictures in the project itself were pictures of all of my friends and family. I felt like the Selfie Project was a really good project to connect a lot of different aspects in life. I used different pictures and somehow managed to meld them all together to make a Selfie Project. This course was originally taken by me because I liked the teacher and knew that I had some experience in the class. Even though I’m not a spectacular artist, I learned a lot in a part of life that I wasn’t really confident in. I learned so much in the span of a year and I will miss period seven in this room next year.
For this project, we first went to either to the weight room or to the auditorium and had to turn out all the lights. We used Mrs. Haggerty's camera and the different settings. The first day we used flashlights on our phones, which was just the practice day in the weight room. When we were at the auditorium, we used glow sticks (supplied by Mrs. Haggerty). To make the pictures we had to create an idea and then perform it in the dark. The setting on the camera created images that were extremely cool. For my photos specifically, we traced me and then I drew a heart on my chest. For the other photo, Kristen and I drew a squiggly line using different colored glow sticks. All of these images are forced perspective. First I have a picture with a flower near the camera and had people stand way far behind and look down to make it look like they were holding the flower. The other photo I took was in the hallway and I had people stand and sit at a certain angle and then rotated the picture, so it looked like the people that were sitting were standing and vice versa. The last photo I took was of a flower and I drew a stem on a paper and had a person hold it and pose and then put the flower on top so it looked like a flower on a stem. Overall I'm proud of this project. I used Merry as a model and took two different pictures of her. One was Merry looking directly at the camera and the other was Merry covering her eyes. Then I erased the entire background except for her eyes. Then I moved the eyes from one picture to the other and created this surreal image using Photoshop.
This is my graffiti art and I wanted it to be an inspiring message so I decided to change a stop sign to say start living because I felt like it was inspiring. This is my pareidolia and I used googly eyes and looked around the art room for a place that looked like a mouth and found the pencil sharpener and I thought that it was a good place to put the googly eyes because it showed a very shocked face with the circle.
I made this through photoshop. I first took the original photo and then made it into a square. Next I duplicated the layer multiple times and kept rotating it so that it would look a certain way. In the end, my product looked a little different from the examples but I feel like it came out well and shows artistic independence.
This is my butterfly effect and I made it by taking a picture of my cat and opened it with photoshop and then changed the resolution. Then I duplicated the layer and used transformation controls to move the duplicated layer either horizontally or vertically.
This is the original picture I took with Merry's camera and I took it of the bike rack. To create the glitch art I opened up this image with TextEdit and copied and pasted different parts of the code in different places. I had a lot of examples of glitch art and I had really good results using TextEdit to create the glitch art. This is the original photo that I took around November. This is the original filtered Instagram post that is filter using the filter Hefe This is the picture that I edited to look like the original Instagram post. I made a few different pictures that varied between the exposure to make the photo look the most like this post.
My photographer was Man Ray and he was born in South Philadelphia on August 27th, 1890. Man Ray was a huge part of the Surrealist and Dada eras of art and he revolutionized different techniques of photography like solarization and ready-mades. He first became interested in photography when he began to go to galleries when he was 11. Man Ray's photography inspired many other photographers once he died on November 18th, 1976 in Paris, France. Man Ray's PhotographsMy PhotographsThis is the alphabet that I made by complying different types of letters together. I made this using Adobe Illustrator and by using different types of letter I found around the school. I liked this project because it was two parts, the name game and the actual alphabet. I could have formatted this better and made the letters look more organized, but i thought that in general that it was a fun project and it was fun using Adobe Illustrator.
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