Trash project

The focus of my project will be minimalism vs. someone focusing only on money/having an excess amount of material objects and how both of these affect peoples' happiness and how they live their life.

personality from paper photo 2

My focus for my project was individuality, but is now personality. I started with the idea of people holding heavy materials , but then i expanded that more to the characteristics of different people. My goal is to convey how people in a community are unique in different ways, whether by how they dress, how they look, how they act, where they like to go, emotions etc. My idea is to make a series of portraits involving different people with outgoing and fun personalities. I will be doing in studio.

Concept of my project from a light button

Light can be used for a variety of things. One of them is shedding "light" on darkness. Seeing something in a new light can allow for a change in perspective. My concept focuses on the viewer's perspective of the image when it is in a different situation than what it might typically be in. I want to work with water, fire, and smudged glass to affect the image's look, and then show the image without such things causing the viewer to question what they might have originally thought about the image when it was warped.

Cup project

My idea for this project is to symbolize a cup by using the well known metaphor "Is your glass full or empty?" I will portray this idea by photographing portraits showing pessimistic vs. optimistic views on life and relationships using background choice and differentiation of saturation and contrast.

battery project

My idea is to make photos that represent different people's motivations. I will interview different people and base my photos on what their response to my question about the source of their motivation, featuring the person in them. For instance, if one of my models says that her motivation is religion, I could base my photo around the church.

portrait review of sydney freed

Sydney had very nice lighting of her picture with the red gel. It increased the intensity of the photo and really worked for me. I think that when reshooting, she should have nonbranded clothes and overexpose a little to get a crisp, white background.

Portrait Review for William by Lauren

William's project is based on activities that normal people do on a day to day basis. However, he has people dressed up as Kings and Queens doing the normal people activities. For his project, one suggestion I have is for the picture where he has the girl drinking a Starbucks, I think it would be cooler if he took this picture actually in Starbucks or in the drive through. Overall, I think that these images are very well done. :)