Photogram

This is a photogram that I made several weeks ago. I used some beads, saran wrap, and a heat-shrunken water bottle. I have a lot more photograms that I'll upload eventually, as well as a few pinholes and some 35 mm pictures.

Landscape

Apples

These are from a while ago, but I wanted to publish them. I hung some apples from a tree branch and took some pictures as the sun was setting!

Photograms

I'm taking Black and White Photography now, and we started off by making photograms. This is a triple exposure photogram that I made using an edited portrait printed on transparency paper as well as colored saran wrap, buttons, washers, pushpins, and a light bulb.

Burnt

This is a burnt stump in my backyard.

Vines and a Boat

Green Boat

For some reason this photo is really summery to me. I think it's because of the light in the background. Hard to believe that it was so nice last week!

Rust

Reeds

I like this photo because all of the reeds in the water are sort of forming an arrow.

Cattails

I adjusted this photo a little bit by increasing the contrast. I wanted the cattails to be really dark, but if I changed the angle so that the sun created that effect, they wouldn't be backed by water.

RIP Camera

One of the gears in my camera broke, and now the lens doesn't work. This is one of the last photos that it took. I have more that I'll upload later.

Flowers

I found these flowers outside the school. I really like the colors in this photo, and I think that the focus is interesting because the foreground is really blurry, and the flowers in the back are much clearer.

Reflections of a Gymnast

I finally did the "Reflections" photo! I took the idea of Ellie doing gymnastics and went to the dance studio, where there are mirrors. The only struggle was that the angles I could use were limited because I didn't want to show up in the pictures.

Gymnast

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Ellie and I went outside the other day and I took these pictures of her. They were mostly for fun, but I think they are really cool. She is so talented!!

86 Floors Up

This is from the top of the Empire State building.

Portrait

Final Portrait

    For this assignment, I took a portrait of my sister, Isabel. I had several ideas of what I wanted to do that I thought might work, but I ended up going with this one. Isabel is lying on our living room carpet, and I positioned house plants around her so that it looked as if she was surrounded by them. I placed some on her face around her neck. I chose to take the picture here because I felt that the vines in the carpet would continue the pattern of the plants and echo that idea. 
    The emotion or feeling of this photograph is somewhat thoughtful and peaceful, but also otherworldly. I didn’t want it to seem quite real to the viewer. Isabel’s expression reflects this, but so do the plants and the angle of the photo. The plants reflect the idea that she is surrounded by nature, a place where people usually feel calm and peaceful.
     This photo used a lot of pattern because of the pattern of the leaves and the design in the carpet being repeated a lot. The pattern brought unity to the piece through the repetition. Unity also comes through the way that green and red are major colors in the piece. The green leaves bring everything together, and the fact that there are leaves on Isabel’s face help her to ‘fit in’ with the rest of the photo. Movement in this photo comes from the lines the vines and leaves create.

Enjoy!

Park

This is a photograph of Washington Square Garden. I was really surprised by how green everything was.

Broadway

I took this picture while waiting to cross a road. I liked the old buildings, but do you guys think that the road sign interferes with the shot or adds to it?

Crazy Bird Man

While in Washington Square Garden, we came across a crazy bird man. I only took a few pictures because he was a little bit creepy and so we left quickly. But I really liked the way he was completely covered in birds. It didn't look quite real. 

The lighting in this shot of the birds is pretty bad. But I like the shape of the bird's wings.

Fire Escapes

 There were a lot of fire escapes in Greenwich Village, and while walking down the street I was able to take pictures of a few of them.

Rainy Day in the City

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 I loved the way my friend's coat stood out against the grey city.

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 This was at Rockefeller Center. I lined up the flags in the shot so that they echoed the shape of the building.

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 I took this picture, and a few others, while just walking down the street. Stopping to get a good shot is impossible in New York. I actually almost got lost a few times when I did!

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 Guess what? I finally figured out all of the settings on my camera! So I got to try making the background really blurry... and then about fifteen seconds later my camera died. I forgot my charger at home, too.

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These are the last pictures from the rest of the trip that I took using my camera. For all of the others I borrowed my friends phone and occasionally her camera.

Cathedral

While we were in NYC, we stopped at St. Patrick's Cathedral to get out of the rain. I took it as an opportunity to take some pictures.

 I really struggled with this shot. I took a few similar ones, and I really wanted to get the effect of the pattern of the pews with the people sitting in them. It was cool because it was mostly scattered individuals. I didn't want to be too obtrusive or bother anyone, so that made it especially difficult to get what I was looking for. I ended up not being able to achieve the shot at all, but I thought I should include it because it was the best I came up with, despite the fact that there aren't any people in it. Another thing that I really struggled with was the fact that the lighting in the church was really yellow, and that using a flash wasn't permitted.