Frozen Motion - Action

Blurred Motion - Yellow

Shallow Depth of Field - Confusion

Rule of Thirds - Portrait

Contrast in Value - Love

Formalism - Big

Instrumentalism - Destruction

This is right next to Burnside skate park where they're building an atrocious building, and destroying part of the skate park in the process. The skate park is a big part of Portland history and has been there since the 90's.

Happiness shown with Expressivism - Self-Portrait

(I used the timer on my camera for this)

Excitement shown through Color - Mess

Texture - Wet

Alternative Process : Wet Plate Collodion

James Weber

Collodion prints were invented in 1851 by Fredrick Scott Archer, and the primary subject for them was people. The print negatives were made on glass. There are other types, such as an Ambrotype, is the glass with a black backing. Another type is the Tintype, which is a positive image printed onto metal that became popular in the Civil War. The Wet Plate Collodion process is eight steps, 3 of them are cutting, deburring and cleaning the glass. Then you pour the mixture on the plate and sensitize it. Then put the plate in silver nitrate for 3-5 minutes and developing it for 15-20 seconds after you take it out. Lastly, you fix the plate with potassium cyanide and watch it change from a blue negative into a warmer ambrotype.

Wet Plate Collodion

Alternative Process : Cyanotype

Brian Young

In 1842 Sir John Herschel invented the cyanotype in 1842, it is the first permanent non-silver process. The 2 chemicals used are potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate green, which you brush onto the paper. Then you expose it to the negative and process it in the sun. The picture really shows up when you wash it in cold water. The cyanotype became widely used in the late nineteenth century for engineering (blueprints).

Cyanotype

Alternative Process : Gum Bichromate

Alan Kent

The Gum Bichromate process was discovered by Mungo Pomton in 1839. This process starts with mixing gum arabic and ammonium bichromate with pigment to create an emulsion that is light sensitive. Then coat your paper with this emulsion, using a wide flat brush so you get a smooth finish. Let the paper dry for several hours in a dark room, then once it is dry, place a negative on it and then place a glass contact printing frame on top of that. Expose the photo to UV light, and develop the print in water, Soak the print in water for another 20-30 minutes to clean and develop the print further.

Gum Bichromate

Panorama

I took this panorama at the football field outside the school. It's not really exciting but I think it turned out pretty cool. Also Brennan is posing like a natural model on the right so that makes it better.

Layers : Makeup

These photos look really good layered together because they were all taken in the same lighting, and two of them are makeup. They all kind of have a darkish tone to them and I feel like they fit well together.

Layers : Blue

When I made this photo I was focusing on a blue theme because the picture of my friend teeren had a bluish flash, and he was holding the blue doll. I picked a photo with clouds that I really liked and just cropped out the rest. And the pine needles just fit nicely with the two other photos, and I really like how there's a lot of blue and then the small pop of Teeren's red and yellow eyeshadow. I tried a lot of combinations of photos until I finally got something that looked right to me.

Layers : Gold

I decided to pair these three photos together because pink and gold are a really pretty color combination. I knew I wanted to put the picture of Teeren and the gold eyeshadow together, but I didn't know what to put as the background. I looked through a bunch of photos that I had taken of flowers and felt like that one went along with it the best.

Grid 1

The theme of this grid is pretty obviously just nature. I went on a walk around my neighborhood during spring break and found a lot of gorgeous things. It was really fun because love being outside and you can really find some cool stuff everywhere.

Grid 2

The theme of this grid is just materials I found around my house. I thought my beat up drumsticks would be a cool subject, and they were. The rest are ordinary objects like a backpack, paper, thumbtacks, makeup brushes, a sweater and a makeup wipe. 

Grid 3

The photos in this grid are all related because they're all pictures of parts of the human body. The subjects of the photos are two of my friends, and one of them is myself. I really like the way these photos turned out, I didn't think I'd be able to see that much texture with the macro lens.

Shutter Speed and Apertutre

For the shutter speed image, Brennan twirled around in a circle really fast, so I just put it on for one second. I thought it looked funny, and we were having fun with it. The photos for aperture are just my vans with the bleachers in the background because I really like my vans and my socks.

Edit Cluster 4 - Sunny Winter

This is my favorite photo I have ever taken, and editing it was a lot of fun. Saturating the blue made the photo look like a painting to me, and increasing the brightness gave it more of a sunny feel, rather than dark and gloomy. Adding the pink filter was realy cool, and made the photo prettier to look at and kind of fake, but in a neat way. Inverting the colors looks crazy to me, it looks like something you'd see under a microscope. It completely changes the feel and look of the photo, you can't really even tell what the subject matter is.

Edit Cluster 3 - Music Gallery

For these edits, I wanted to play with color filters, and see how changing the color of the photo affected it. In my opinion the purple one is the most aesthtically pleasing one, I just find it nice to look at and it makes the photo a bit prettier and calmer. The yellow gives the photo more of a vintage vibe and makes it look like the lighting is warmer. I don't really know how the mood of the photo is affected by the green filter, but I really liked the way it looked and that it gave everything a sort of an underwater feel in a way.

Edit Cluster 2 - Brennan's Shark Hat

In the first edit of this photo I gave it a magenta hue and highly saturated the colors. It gave the image more of a fake, animated feelings since the colors looked so bright and divided. It almost looks like the hat is photoshopped into the photo in front of the pink bricks. In the next edit, I increased the saturation of the yellow and decreased the saturation of the cyan. This gave the photo a more faded look, making the blue less bright and the bricks more noticeable. In the last one, I put a Deep Blue filter and turned up the contrast which made the blues and blacks darker. I did this since it's a shark, and tried to make it look underwater haha get it?

Edit Cluster 1 - Dirty Mirror

For these photos, I played around with filters and saturation of different colors. For the first edit, I decreased the brightness a lot and added more blue into the photo, which saturated the blue of the camera's flash. In the second photo, I made it high brightness and low contrast which gave the photo an overexposed look, and the flash from the camera looks kind of like chemical stains which I thought was neat. And for the last photo, I put a black and white filter, then turned down the saturation of all the colors. This gave it a grainier look that I liked. 

Project 3 - Balance and Contrast

Strong Contrast in Texture

Strong Contrast in Color

Triptychs

Diptychs

Radial Balance

Desh King

Symmetrical Balance

John Chiappone

Strong Contrast in Texture

Morley Baer

Strong Contrast in Value

Peter Holcombe

Strong Contrast in Scale

Seiji Mamiya

My Mood Photo

I feel like this photo I took of my mom represents shame through the color because of the green and the dark tone of the photo. Green is often used in photos to show stress, envy or shame. Brighter greens could be used for happiness. The darkness of this photo and the fact that she's burying her face in her hands shows that it's not a happy photo. You can see that her hair is greying, which is a sign of aging and stress. When I took this photo my mom wasn't in a very good mood, which made it easier to portray this emotion in the photo.

Project 2 - Color Theory

Warm Colors

Cool Colors

Complementary Colors

Monochromatic Colors

Mood Shown with Color

By : Sara M. Clarke

This is a photo I found that I feel like represents sadness because of the crying man and the blue theme. The amount of blue that is used in this photo represents the sadness that is surrounding this man. Rain is also a common thing that is used to convey sadness in photography. When I look at this photo I feel like he was probably having a bad day because the rain soaked his shirt. Maybe his umbrella doesn't work well? We don't know. The man is standing high up above the city, which means he could be on top of a building or on a balcony, trying to be alone and get some space. If the photo didn't have a blue hue to it, I feel like it would come across less sad. Cool colors are usually used to express sad or upset emotions, so I think the use of the blue in this photo was really smart.