Editing: Cropping // Editing: Blurred Background // Natural light - Cloudy // Narrow depth of field
Editing: Light and Color // Natural light - Sunny // Editing: Cropping
Composition: Color Contrast // Editing: Color and light // Natural light - Blue Hour
Blurred movement // Composition: Color Contrast // Editing: Color and Light
Editing: Color and Light // Natural light - Sunny // Great Depth of Field
Editing: Color and Light // Natural light - Sunny // Great depth of field // Composition: Perspective (High)
Editing: Color and Light // Blurred Movement // Composition: Color Contrast
Blurred movement // Composition: Color Contrast // Editing: Adjusting to Black and white
Composition: Rule of Thirds // Composition: Foreground/Middle ground/Background // Editing: Color and Light
Composition: Composition: Foreground/Middle ground/Background // Composition: Color Contrast // Editing: Color and Light
Reflection: My Final Portfolio is composed of my favorite photo I took previously in the semester, as well as photos I took this past week. I wanted to make the majority of my final project photos of the ocean, so I spent hours touring the coast near my house capturing shots of the ocean, surfers, blurred movement, and sunsets, and snuck in a surf session in-between :) Leading into how I feel about my final portfolio, I am satisfied, and happy with how these photos turned out, thanks to Light Room. My favorite ones are "Rockaway", "Cove Beach", and purple sky". I love how I was able to catch a photo of someone paddling for a wave; the break at this spot was close enough to where I could take it on my phone. In "night vision", I had just finished photographing "Blue Hour", and I wanted to climb on a hill to get a photo of blurred movement with blue hour. It was a sketchy walk up in pitch black, but when I got to the top, it was worth it. In "purple sky", I had just left the gym and when I saw the sky I knew I had to take a photo. I am happy with how all of my photos turned out and I think this is my best work yet.
My greatest success for this project lies in my blurred movement photos, specifically "Cove Beach". I knew I wanted to photograph the beach when I started this project. When evening rolled around yesterday, I was at a beach nearby where this photo was taken, and I remembered there was a trail at this turnout. Spur of the moment I turned on my car and drove quickly to this spot and ran up the trail so I could get to the lookout before it was completely dark. After editing it a bit in Light Room, I was amazed with the combination of colors, darkness, and blurred movement. The hike was worth it, and I think it is my best photo yet.
My greatest challenge in this project came when I found out there was a glitch with the built in filters on an I-Phone camera. Yesterday evening, I could not upload my photos, and I had to submit a project without my favorite photos. I realized that I should have been taking photos in the Light Room app, as this problem would have never occurred. Luckily, when I tried again this morning, I was able to upload the photos to Adobe Spark and Light Room, and complete my project. It would not have been complete without these photos, and now that I have them in, I am happy with my work, and have definitely learned a lesson about the built in filters in an I-Phone.
As for my techniques, I would say my favorite technique that I used in the project, and learned this quarter, was blurred movement. I have come to appreciate photos with blurred movement, and I love taking them myself. When I think about why I love them so much, I feel it lies in the fact that it shows how the natural world remains so still and peaceful in time, coupled by humans, particular cars, that move incredibly fast through time. It shows us the world in the eyes of something that sees in increments of second. I imagine it is how a tree sees the world.