personal series 2

For the second part of this series, I really wanted to focus on more simplistic, less crowded collages. I also wanted to make them black and white to make the elements of each one stand out. I mainly just used the magazines that were here at school. I wanted to try something different.

personal series

For this series, we got to choose what we wanted to work on, and I chose collages. I chose photos in magazines that were similar in color and emotion. For the first one, I went all out and I'm not really sure which emotion or theme I conveyed. The second one's kind of lame because I made it simplistic and boring, but that's what I was trying to do. I tried to make the third one really strong and realistic. Overall, I looked for background images to start with and built up off of that. I cut out what attracted my eye.

series topics

nostalgia
portraits
motion
(street treasures, found text, memory, collage, sequences)

negative space

For this series, we took pictures emphasize negative spaces. To emphasize this, we shot different subjects like portraits, branches, silhouettes, rooflines, buildings, and shadows.

experimental sketchbook 2

For this series, we used one of the effects somebody else used in their series last time, and we made a cohesive set from that one effect. I used the blue curves effect that Maria used. I added more blue to each picture. I approached this set by looking at my classmate's blogs and seeing what effects they used. I chose one that I liked and used it in this set. I would develop my series further by taking more pictures that would look alright with the blue boosted.

experimental sketchbook

For this series, we first edited the pictures we already took and added filters and text. I didn't really use filters, but I did use the clone stamp, color replacement, and free transform tools. I also changed the brightness, saturation, and hues. For a lot of them I used both photoshop and picmonkey. In picmonkey, I used most of the edits that are supposed to be for faces (for example, the blemish fix and airbrush tools.) I know that these pictures don't look great nor perfectly edited, but that's sort of the point.

best of

These are the best photos from the three Eugene Atget series. I wanted to capture the detail in the stairs and not have a distracting background, or no background at all. I tried to make each picture have an interesting, extra object, like newspaper, leaves, or a plant.