Open Ends

These are my open ended assignmet pictures. It was pretty fun to go and take pictures of whatever we wanted.

Dance

These are part of my self portraits. I like to dance and I have been for a while. I really like the reflection in the first picture. To edit it, I changed the curves and the contrast to make the colors more bold. In the second picture, it is of the mirrors and ballet bar in the Hansings studio. I really like the lighting of it. To edit, i changed the picture to black and white, blurred some thigns in the background, and changed the contrast.

Lyrics

Here is my frist song lyrics picture. To edit this I made the sky more blue and I changed the contrast and brightness. This picture represents the song, "The Great Escape" By Boys Like Girls. I chose this song because it talks about being free and not worrying about things. To show this I thought having the model open her arms to the sky represented the song well. The part of the song that I thought worked is when they say,
Throw it away, forget yesterday, we'll make the great escape. We won't hear a word they say. They don't know us anyway , watch it burn, let it die cause we are finally free tonight.

To edit this, I changed the curves and contrast to change the color. I also changed brightness to help her eyes pop out. This picture represents the song "You're Not Sorry" By Taylor Swift. I chose this song because the lyrics are strong and easy to understand. The model has a content look to her face but her eyes have a sorrow to them. She has had her heart broken by the same guy over and over, but will no longer put up with it. The part of the song I chose to use is in the beginning when she says,

All this time I was wasting hoping you would come around, I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down, and it's taking me this long baby but I figured you out and you're thinking we'll be fine again but not this time around.

Portraits

This portrait isn't really any of the examples from the website. It could be an up close image but you can see her whole face. I like this picture because of all the colors in it. To edit this, i blurred the background to make the model stand out more. I also changed the contrast and brightness a little bit to make her eyes stand out.

This portrait is an up close image, but also a capture the moment. It is closer to her face but she is outside and content, just thinking. To edit this, I changed the contrast a little bit and then made it in black and white. I think that there is a lot of emotion in this picture. The model has a calm feeling to her.

Ipod Tutorial

Sharpen Tutorial

This is my sharpened picture from the tutorial. It isn't much different from the original, but it does look better.

Yellow Wallpaper

This is my yellow wallpaper picture. In the story, the main charcter who is writing the story talks about feeling alone a lot and looking out her window. To show an alone feeling, I had the model just sit in the ledge of window looking out, almost feeling trapped inside. The color of the wall was originally blue, but i altered it and made it yellow since the main character also talks about her yellow wallpaper.