Final Portfolio

Project 10: Stop Animation

The Way I Am - Stop Animation

Project 9: Utopia/Dystopia Short Video

Utopia: 

A place where everything is perfect. Heaven on earth! A beautiful, amazing place where everyone would want to go.

Utopia Video

Dystopia: 

A place where everything is terrible, horrible, and no good. Somewhere people wouldn't want to go, and is very unappealing. 

Dystopia Video

Project 9: Magazine

Project 8: Two Portraits

 Commercial

This is my good friend Isabel from Italy. I took this picture in the Botanical Garden in Coimbra, Portugal. This photo is selling sunglasses, and the colorful pattern of her shirt could suggest selling clothing. A normal brand would sell both of these things.

Fine Art
This is my host sister Monica on Christmas day. My host family and I went around to 8 beaches that day on the coast. I think her eyes look very intense and her face portrays a lot of emotion, and the hair and adds to the photo and mood. I think she looks very intense and the black and white adds more to the intensity and mood of the photo.

Project 8: Two Portraits Prework

Fine Art

Brock Elbank

Born in England, currently living in the London, United Kingdom.

I love this body of work because it shines a spotlight on what is considered beautiful and what is not, the standards of society when it comes to looks. Brock described this project as deeply moving because he got to work with women who had been struggling with their freckles, and he thought they were beautiful. He said that many of them hated them, or grown to like them in adulthood. I think this body of work shows that different is beautiful, and these people's freckles makes them unique.

Alexander Yakovlev
Russian photographer out of Moscow. While his university education is in law, his passion is dance photography.

I love these photographs because they give the chance to appreciate the art of the moving human body, and the grace of ballet. This series captured movement really well, like the flour in the photos is very well defined and not blurry at all.  The passion and emotion these women show through their art form is absolutely stunning. I loved the use of color in these photos, how he edited them for one to seem dulled out, one very effective black and white, and one with deeper, more vibrant color. 

Magazine 

Elle Magazine

I loved this photo, and it really stood out to me because while it is Selena Gomez, the photographer managed to maintain a fine art feeling to the photo. This is a contrast to many of the other magazine photos of Selena, which aren't very artistic and subtle, but more like typical magazine covers with lots of colors and are very mainstream commercial. I loved this one because it seems understated, like the photo really relies on Selena's beauty and pose, along with editing. It is clearly still a magazine photo where they are trying to sell something, as you can see by her dress. The whites have clearly been brought way up to draw attention to it, and the colorful patters make a statement. Her head isn't in the middle of the photo like many mainstream covers are, but the dress takes up the majority of the image. 

 

Garage Magazine

This photo is the most interesting and bizarre that I found. 

Project 7: Surrealism and Photo Montage Final

A Day on the Hilltop

For this project I wanted to start with an image that had multiple dimensions. I like the layers of the rocks and thought they would converge nicely with the church walls. I like that the image had several things going on: cliff, sea, sky, grass. I chose to blend things into the cliff walls I think it gave it a really surreal effect, since they meshed well. I had gone through my photos and picked the ones that I thought could work best with a surrealist style photo. I picked the buildings I took in Holland because I knew I wanted to put them on top of the cliffs, and I got the huge church in Cologne, Germany, and I liked it because it was taken from below and has a bugs eye perspective. I put a peacock in the sky behind a cloud because why not. I put a swan on the moon, because I thought it added an artistic touch, and I gave the moon an arm because hey, this is surrealism.