Portfolio Proposal + Test Shot For Portfolio

Summary of Request:

Proposed by:Darrian Adine Major(-Walker)

Project Title: What the Eye Denies

Class: Period 1 Photography 3

Instructor: Ms. Miles

Project Due Date: January 31, 2011

Project Description

Type of Work: Fashion

Concept

 My concept will be revolving around fantasy and fashion combined. Why Fantasy? Because fantasy in the world is becoming more and unnoticed due to people pushing it away for technology or the fact many don't want to feel foolish in being the one who's always daydreaming and being different. Why Fashion? Because people in society are naturally drawn to beauty. And when most people think of beauty, they think of fashion. It adds on to my love of fashion photography. So I decided to combine the two to demonstrate this disappearance of an important thing people need. I will be using many different kinds of people, mostly those in a smaller and more frail stature to give the sense of innocence to the image, while still demonstrating that Fantasy feeling to it. I will be using other people of different statures  to show that anyone can have an imagination.

Vision

When I complete this portfolio, I want people to see what Is becoming of the world now and how today's youth are losing their right to imagine and fantasize. Adults today in the corperate world are trying to shove the fact that life is hard on young children, and then they grow up, also like an empty shell that mirrors what society wants them to be like. I grew up surrounded by storybooks about fairies and dragons and the liking and my minds always a buzz with new ideas. Having an imagination as a child helps with keeping that buzz of ideas as an Teen or even adult. That's what I want people to realize.

Inspiration

All my inspirations are from stories and storybooks and my own wild and crazy imagination. Fantasy is my favorite topic when it comes to reading. It gets my mind on such a rush. I want others to experience the same feeling. I want others to feel the power and warth Fantasy brings to one's heart.

Equipment to be Used

I am not sure Yet of what kind of cameras, but definitely Cameras, possibly strobe and hot lamps.

Presentation

Unknown

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Test Shot

 

Model: Christina Cervantes

Taken By: Myself

Theme: Dieing Princess

Title: "The Fallen"

A New Year....

Welcome to the 2010-2011 Year of Darri's (aka My) Blog~

-^w^-

Above picture was taken by Christina Cervantes on 9-10-10.

Edited by Me.

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.