semester one final: Hallmark 3 "we educate for and act on behalf of justice and peace in the world"

For my final, I emphasized more on the injustice part of the hallmark versus the "peace in the world" part of it. The issue I decided to photograph is poverty, which is a worldwide injustice. I decided not to go into San Francisco and photograph people who are currently experiencing poverty since I figured they do not want to show others that they are poor and homeless. Instead, I did a lot of research on the topic of poverty and dressed up one of my friends like they are homeless. I wrote one of the most impactful facts about poverty in California alone on a piece of cardboard, which says "about 4 in 10 Californians are in poverty.... HELP!" The fact on the cardboard shows how many people are impoverished and how big of an issue poverty is in just one state alone. I hope that this photograph educates those who do not know much about the topic, and that taking an action can help make the number of people in poverty decrease so they can live a happier and healthier life. 

assignment #8: What are they thinking?

sketchbook #8: a series of horses in motion

sketchbook #6: a piece of furniture in your house

assignment #7: DIY

sketchbook #7: popcorn

assignment #7: DIY pt. 1

For my DIY project, I am going to take a picture of a window and make it have a different background. The picture of the window will be a plain white wall surrounding it, and the lighting hitting it just right. For the background part, I will take a picture of a certain scenery and photoshop the scenery into the window to create a sense of looking out a window and seeing some beautiful and different world versus a road or trees.

assignment #6: Nature, inspiration, and design

sketchbook #5: your eye and the area around it

assignment #4: "Splish, splash"

sketchbook #4: creative views of your car

Assignment #5: designing a photographic essay

For this assignment, I was inspired by the essay topic "a day in the life". When I do not have school, a day in my life is filled with driving to new places and adventuring. I go to cool scenery spots and places with lots of nature or roads with views. For my essay, I took one of my friends along with me and we adventured. We went to different spots with views, trees, and street views, which are the three main things I love photographing. The places I either adventure to are around the area where I live, Half Moon Bay, and San Francisco. Since I always go to the city or the beach, I decided to stay local. My theme throughout these pictures was to fully grasp my three main things I love photographing. These are an adventure filled day in my life:

The first place we stopped at was a viewpoint in Hillsborough and we walked down below the main area to find cooler spots.

The second place was at a viewpoint in San Carlos.

This one was taken at the second location but a little further up; I chose this one because the pattern on the ground made it interesting.

The third place we stopped at was on one of the trails on Cañada Road.

This photo was taken at a road a few minutes from my house that I loved because of the scenery in the background.

Assignment #4: barcodes rethought

Sketchbook #3: corner of a room in your house

assignment #5: Designing a photographic essay pt. 1

photo essay #5 idea (day in the life): following someone who does a lot in one day and photographing them from each place they go to to show the story of the typical day in the life of that person. Ex. photographing somebody that adventures a lot to show the various places they go in day

photo essay #8 ideas (give meaning to street photography):
1) going to a popular spot on a sidewalk in the city early in the morning and photographing with hardly anyone there, photograph late morning with some people there, photographing later that afternoon/morning with a lot of people there, photographing early afternoon with a lot of people there, and photographing late afternoon when there is still a lot of people there but it has died down.
2) going to a spot with a viewpoint that shows a lot of a city and photographing how busy the traffic goes as the day goes on. Ex. early morning with no cars, a little later with a little cars, late morning with some cars, early afternoon with a lot of cars, and late afternoon with a little less cars.

sketchbook #2: What would you see if you grew wings and flew over our town?

assignment #2: HDR pt. 2

exposures: two at iso 50, two at iso 1600, one at iso 100

assignment #2: HDR pt. 1

HDR photography is taking one image or multiple images, combining them, and adjusting the contrast ratios that are not possible to create with a singular aperture and shutter speed. They are created by capturing three photos of the same scene, but each of the shutter speeds are different. The result of these photos together is one picture with parts that are dark, light, and in the middle. The way to photograph an HDR picture is to take three photos of the same scene but each at different shutter speeds. One photo that impresses me is the one below because it shows the contrast  and the multiple colors within the photo, and they are all brought out because of HDR.

assignment #1: Levitation

sketchbook #1: What if you suddenly became very, very small?

sketchbook #18: inside vs. outside

assignment #30: photography like a pro

The concept of these pictures is to make my audience want to buy these LuLu Lemon shorts because of the size, fit, way they look, and the color. I am advertising these shorts for girls who want new comfortable workout shorts.

sketchbook #17: broken wings

assignment #29: what does the end of school look like?

assignment #28: the power of abstraction to express emotion

assignment #27: how to see double

Exposure: 100

Exposure times: 15 secs for both

sketchbook #16: my refuge

assignment #26: get MAD again

For this image, I had to first off make sure I understood the rule of thirds. The rule states that you need to divide up your image into three parts and photograph an object within one of those parts to make the object in the image either on the side or in the middle of the photograph. I took a bench and made sure the object was overlapping between two of the parts to make it a rule of thirds type photo. The outcome was expected since I have done a photograph like this before and I knew it was in line with the lines. The only advice I have for this is to make sure that the object is either in one of thr thirds of the photo or that it overlaps evenly within two of the parts of the image.

assignment #25: portrait and jump

lens: canon efs 18-135 mm

shutter speed: 1/800 sec

iso: 2000

f-stop: 5.0

lens: canon efs 18-135 mm

shutter speed: 1/320 sec

iso: 320

f-stop: 4.0

lens: canon efs 18-135 mm

shutter speed: 1/320

iso: 125

f-stop: 3.5

sketchbook #15: hands and feet

assignment #22: triptych

assignment #24: ted talk

This talk was about how photographs connect to us in different ways and how significant some are even though they do not seem to be spectacular at the time. For example, a photo of getting a penguin looking underwater to check if the coast is clear, then another one of the rest of the penguins jumping in the water may not seem like they take time to capture, but they really do. Photographs like these connect to me because of how magnificent they are and that I think of how much time and effort was put into photographing it. The famous photojournalists that photograph these images try to create a story behind every image to make you think what was happening at that time and when and where it was taken. 

This talk has only altered my views of photography a little bit. Before, I either saw photographs as just a random picture or something that had some sort of meaning behind it. However, now I see photography as a story, where each part of the photograph tells an element of that story to create something significant. For example, if I had seen a random picture of an animal in the wild I wouldn't have thought much of it. But, now if I look at that same picture, I would take more time in thinking where and when the photo was shot and what the story is behind why the picture was taken. This talk has made me appreciate photography more than I ever have.

From now on, I will think more about each picture. Before this talk, I would usually just take a picture and see if it meets the standards of the type of picture I need to take. But, now whenever I take a picture, I will think more of the story behind it and will try to capture the true essence of the photo. I will make sure each picture captures the meaning behind why the photo was take, and I will go above and beyond instead of just simply meeting the standards. This talk is relevant to me because it has impacted the way I look at photographs and how I need to appreciate the art of photography more.

assignment #23: walkabout

by: Daviana Hayman

by: Riley Brownfield

sketchbook #14: all that is shiny

assignment #21: me, myself, & i

assignment #20: wrapped object

ideas:
1. wrap my kitchen counter and have bowls and cups wrapped on top of it
2. wrap my bedside table and put objects on top of it so you can tell what the main object is

final:

When doing this assignment, I found that wrapping objects can be harder than it looks. It was hard to think of what to wrap and how to wrap it, and it takes more time than you think. I also found that when it came to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, it must've taken days maybe weeks to wrap huge objects to make a statement. They wanted to also create happiness and a sort of "fun" aspect when wrapping huge objects, and I tried to reinterpret that happiness by wrapping something you wouldn't normally wrap. The only difficulties I had were finding the right lighting, figuring out what I wanted to wrap, and wrapping it so you could easily tell what it was.