Avery H's Portfolio 8th Grade Photography

About Me

  • My 1st year doing Photography
  • I'm 13 years old
  • I play volleyball
  • I love reading

About My Camera

  • Minolta (click for more info)
  • ProShot MN26Z

Explore Project

For this project we were exploring the functionality of our camera software. We took and edited five photos which are down below, the largest is my favorite because i don't know I just like to look at it.

Gen.AI Project

For this project we edited 5 photos with at least 6 layers of AI each, one of which was fully made of AI. My personal favorite is the first one which I'll explain there. I put them in a little slideshow with their before behind them, I hope you like them.

This photo is from my explore project, I was going for a city skyline which I think I nailed. I love the .. well everything about this photo, the purple and green sky, the idy-bity boat I added that no one but me will every be able to notice, the lights that are on the mountain, it's simply perfectly imperfect.
I took this photo for this project, and I'm very proud of the way it turned out, even if it wasn't exactly what I was going for. I originally was trying to make it look like the leftovers of a snow ball fight (mainly because I didn't trust it to make humans correctly), but ended up with this because the A.I just wasn't cooperating with me.
This is the template photo and I love what I did with it despite that fact that that snake is a giant. Plus the A.I could barely generate an evergreen, i must've caught it at a bad time.
Ok, this is my fully AI photo, I bet you couldn't even tell. Unless you notice the river in the top right of the mountain that's naturally impossible, or maybe the blank before photo gave it away? I think it looks pretty good, there are a few tiny-tiny birds in the bottom left, again another detail only I will notice.

W.I.P Project

For this project we took pictures of things that LOOK like letters, not actual letters, to turn into words. We make two words with at least six letters each.

"Lilies" is a pretty easy word to find, Lily is also my mom's favorite flower and my sister's name. I tried to make it best I could with flowers (since lilies are flowers), but you can't really tell the i's are i's. Other than that I wish I could fix the backgrounds because they're kind of infuriating to me. It's decent, but it could be much better.
For everyone who doesn't speak German, "Blaubeere" just means blueberry. Do I like blueberries? No not really, but it's my favorite muffin, lip gloss flavor, and German word, so I'll give them that. Do I like how I made this word? Mostly, except for the E I made out wood-grain. It didn't show up the same as it looked as it did with my eyes, and when I went to edit the photo I could barely tell where it was, but I didn't have any other E so it had to work. I also barely fit all the letters on, but I like the more smashed look compared to "lilies". I love the word, I like that I used so many different things and did more than I really needed to with editing and colors, and I love the L the most. I'm not gonna lie, I pick favorites, and L's my favorite, I made it out of one of those things with the lighting inside (this one was shaped very funky) and I removed an entire table, and it turned out amazing. In fact the entire thing did, other than the first E.

Top 20 Collage

This was just a collage of our top 20 photos we took and edited in the first 9 weeks.

Pictorialist (PICTO) Project

For this project we made one photograph using a variety of filters applied to 5 selected objects & one filter collage using a captured image. Text must use different fonts and various layer effects of your choosing.

5 Selections

This one is interesting I guess. It was simply and easy, but I'm not the best fan of the way it turned out, which it's my photo so that's my fault. I just don't think that it's amazing so that's that.

Filter Collage

This was fun. I think it's pretty good, and the filters are cool. I definitely just couldn't find many filters I like since I used the ripple and dry brush effects, but I digress. It's also pretty simple, but the way I laid out some of the text is making me made and I wish I could re-edit that.

EAPD (Elements of Art & Principles of Design)

For this project, we focused on capturing and emphasizing the elements of art, line, shape, form, texture, color, value, and space. We took and edited three photos for each element, and made a poster with all 21 images.

Composition Techniques (CompTECH)

For this project, we focused on our composition and were instructed to make either 5 composites with 3 layers each or 3 with 5 layers each.