Visual Pun-Songbirds

Architectural Photos

"Fox Theatre"
"One Step Too Many and I'm Your's"

Photomontage

The Vintage Heart. For this piece I painted "the vintage heart" on canvas, used vintage style photographs and pages of a book, and painted a human heart to get a vintage look.

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Gesso Piece

This gesso piece is an illustration of my first show at a cafe in the city. I used watercolor splashes to depict the excitement and anxiety of that night, and I sketched significant images of my story.

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ATC continued

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Artist Trading Cards

I chose to do my artist trading cards in a purple/blue/green color scheme illustrating lyrics and short phrases. I focused on silhouettes of birds, feathers and plants.

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Memory Book Pages

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Ad Council

I chose to have my ad council about following dreams and came up with the slogan, "wear your dreams on your sleeve". To reinforce the play on "heart of your sleeve" I cut out a paper heart and featured it in each photograph. The dreams include traveling, careers, and family. To establish the dreamlike mood I used several colored pinlights over my photos to brighten the background and give a dreamlike feel. I think light and color were the most effective in my ad campaigning.

toy figure

narative still life

kitchen and bathroon

The assignment was to take photos of ordinary bathroom and kitchen utensils. I chose to photograph my shampoos and lotions and brightened the image because i think the scents aim to make a person feel happy. I used the light and vibrant colors to emphasize this. In the kitchen, I photographed measuring spoons that are shaped like hearts. I like the reflection of the light on the water and the pattern of the spoon shapes.

warhol

photomerge

I took about 20 shots of the mansion windows and used photomerge to merge them together. I'm happy with the result because it produced an interesting shape and the lighting contrasts well with the dark background. Line is predominant in this photo as well as light vs. dark (or contrast).

pet portrait

I took this photo of my cousin at a party with a petting zoo and pony. I chose to take it in black and white to emphasize her expression and the texture of the pony's mane. Even though it is not her pet, she is very passionate about animals and this photo demonstrates her excitement while riding the pony :]

I took several photos of different animals at the zoo, but I love peacocks and chose my best 3 shots of them. For the first pop art I wanted to use colors that make sense for a peacock but are not realistic hues. The 2nd shot is a formal portrait that pays close attention to composition and a formal shot of the head. The 3rd is an environmental portrait and I chose to increase the contrast so that the silhouette is clearly outlined.

texture (mercy)

These 3 photos emphasize the detail of nature. I took several closeup shots of plants and flowers and payed attention to my focus and composition in order to play out certain details.

Great Landscape

I took this photo on a trail off of Larkspur. I chose to use edge burn on this photo so that I could focus on the water through the trees. I also used a cyan color filter to bring out the richness of the blues in the center.

chapel

This is a photo I took in the Mercy Chapel. I got down to the eye level of the pews so that I could capture the detail of the wooden carvings. I also used rhythm because the photo makes the viewer's eyes travel down the aisle. Value and contrast allow greater emphasis on the detail of the first pew.

photojounalism (2)

photojounalism

I chose to go to Union Square for my photojounalism 6 image essay because there is never a dull moment in the city. I decided to put a lot of my photos in black and white to emphasize the textures, people, and lights. It's also not too hard (or awkward) to take photos in public while in the city, because there are so many tourists that take photos there as well.

mercy street

This is a photo that captures the "street" of Mercy. I took it at eye level of the bird pond so that I could capture both the statue of Mary and the Mercy building, symbolizing the religious and educational sides of our school. It uses a balance of both sides.

Stop Motion Photography

This is a video that I made for out stop motion project. Rather than taking photos of an actual action, i used paper to depict an action of inanimate objects. I took about 70 photos in a continuous motion (or in this case "scene").

action shot

I took this photo while in the car on the freeway and emphasized the movement of the car next to us. I like how the streaks of the lights show the fast movement of the car passing by. I was able to capture this by setting a lower ISO.

artificial movement