A Moment Alone

"A Moment Alone"

Model: Christina Cervantez

Taken By : Me

Una pequeña oración

"Una pequeña oración" ( A Little Prayer)

Model: Christina Cervantes

Taken by: Me

Around SDSCPA.....

These Pictures are from when Ms. Miles set us free to roam about the campus and to find as many interesting angles and shadows and different things around school. These are my favorites.

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►The first one up top is of one of those Pink flowers everyone sees in the back of the campus. Does anyone know what kind they are? They've always brought alittle smile to my face as I walk past them from Photography to Biology and also through out the years. ... I know it's in the center of the shot, but It isn't excactly straight so that makes it okay...right?

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►The second on is of the tree in the Sixth-grade"Senior" Circle. At this point my parter had left me to use the facilities, so I was free to wander on my lonesome for a bit. So I wanted to take a few of the tree, since I have such fond memories with it. So this is my favorite out of th efive I took of it. I didn't intentionally mean to get the shine from the sun in the shot, but It turned out beautiful in the end result. I also really like how I made it look like a massive tree like the ones you se ein the forest. :3

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►The third is one of the shoes I wore that day underneath one of those benches surrounding the "Senior" Circle. I was going to originally take this picture from more of an aye level thing, instead of Bird's eye, but then I had the sudden urge to look through one of the little holes in the bench down at my shoes. I like this shot because the hole in which I looked through made a little frame for my shoes and also the contrasting patterns of the holes from the bench and the lines on the inside of my shoes. Then theres also the line made by the shadow and also the straps to my shoes. I am quite pleased with it.

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►The fourth - sixth ones are of a branch with dead leves on it with the pillars of the circle of the sun in the back ground. #4 or #6 was my favorite, but I don't really remember right now. :/
Anyways, #4 i took with the flash on. #5, I'm not sure what I did actually. #6 I focused on the leaves alone.

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That's all for this assignment. Till the next.

-Darri

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Group Project

Though I wasn't here for the actual shooting of this project. I helped decide on how we were going to set it up and helped to remind people to bring what they promised to bring.

In this project we were assigned to  try and fit in all the arts of this school in one image to tell about how diverse, but closely knot this school is with the arts. In this shot, we have the visual arts, dancing arts and musical arts. It was taken before the tree that everyone on campus knows as the senior circle. I chose this image sine I liked how it portrayed each art in it's own way and also layered, so that the musical arts in in front playing for the dancer as she dances for the artist who is drawing her. It all fits together.

The only thing i do not like about this shot is the fact that the dancer isn't in the middle of the artist and musician. I trhink it would have been more successful that way. Otherwise , it would have been better to me.  With the light coming in through the tree's branches, it gives it a softer look to me. It's almost heavanly.

Another problem I can see is from my own printing. I was limited on time (i might have had only three minutes total to expose and print this) and I went up to 45 seconds on exposing it. This is the first print to be such a pain in the put to me. :(

For when I do another project like this, I'm going to make sure it's on a day that I don't have a dentist appointment and that i have enough time to actually plan out a shoot, because the whole time planning this wth my group, we kept hitting more and more problems, one right after the other. :/

Well, that's all I got on this peice. Thill the next one.

+Darri 

About Portraits....

On the topic of Portraits, they are a deep form of someone's picture. They aren't like a snapshot where your chilling with your friends in a picture and having a great time, maybe even posing everyone and thenk taking a picture. +click+ No. A Portrait is alot deeper than that. It has meaning. When you take someone's portrait, your supposed to see and feel their emotion in the picture. Your supposed to see how they are feeling, in their eyes and in there face and posture. Let it be natural. When It' sposed, it's not as emotionally satifying as it should be. You don't get the sense that you know the person on a higher level, even is that person is a complete stranger to you. When your able to look at a portrait and are able to get inside the person's soul able to see that they are hurting or happy, it's truly incredible. If you havn't noticed, the word "portrait" has the word "Trait" in it. To me that means that you should be able to read someone's traitsor emotions from their portrait. Maybe that isn't the case every portrait, but thats what it means to me.

I Was There.....

I totally was! :D

Anyhoo,.....This was something we did today in photography. We had to take a picture, possibly the ones from before with the white background or one with photobooth.

I had to take mine with photobooth because the one with the white background is at home. ;^;

Anyways, we had to get our picture on a background and then choose two tricks from photoshop essentials and 1 word or number in the back somewhere.

This pic of me : Because I thougt i looked fuuny xD

The background: I found it and instantly loved it! I love waterfalls!

Phrase: It instantly stuck in my head while looking at this image and I used it. :3

Two tricks I chose:
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Painterly Glow Effect With Smart Filters

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Add A Realistic Rainbow To A Photo

This was truly a fun thing to practice photoshop with.

Into The Game+Softening

Before:

After:

This time I'm comin at you with a more digital approach.

First of all, This was taken outside using a big white board behind me. It was taken by Stephanie. (After this was taken, I realized I do something weird with my legs x6 ) The sun was hitting the Whit board from behind while someone held up a white card to reflect some light onto me. I liked shooting like this. It was a fun experience for me and I learned that it's a great way to get perfect lighting outside if you don't have a studio.

Second, why i did what I did. I chose these three colors from my Kingdom hearts shirt. The way that i decided on these colors were i was so set on using complimentary colors. I would have preferred a black background, but then the resulting image would not have been this piece that I love. The idea I got for this was based off my shirt as well. Using the gold , I started at my feet to give the look that I was either going into or coming out of a video-game. Then I used the blue glow brush to add a kind of video-game-y feel of Fantasy. I left some of the blue coming over my arm to give the feel that I was actually there and feeling the 'smoke' or 'fantasy dust'. Then I included the purple cloud brushes to give more of a Fantasy feel and also to highlight the blue like on my Shirt.

Third, I am very satisfied with this project and would be enthralled to do this again. It was a fun experience and i was glad that i was able to do this at home with my photoshop. In the end, after going through five different ideas and 7 layers, I am pleased with my final product.

Brushes belong to http://www.brusheezy.com/ and whomever created them.

Update!:
Softened:
Can you tell i softened it? xD

I was actually to do this really fast because of Ms.Miles amazing teachings and taking notes really helped me.

But for this, we were to take our originals photo and soften it through this process found on PhotoShop Essentials.
It was really easy to do this and it's a great way to help yourself look better .

:)