Photography and Editing by Destiny

Welcome to my photography page!

Below are examples of my work with photography and photo manipulation in the DMA Program and beyond.

Click here to read my photography artist statement!

As a photographer, I love taking landscape and nature photos. I started to get into photography when I was about fourteen years old, and I got my first Nikon camera at sixteen years old. I like photography because it allows me to capture moments of life that might not be seen again. When I’m out taking photos, I aim to take photos of things that spark excitement in me; I get the greatest thrill knowing that what is in my frame can be turned into an amazing image. Also, when I’m shooting my photography, I seek to capture angles, compositions, and ideas that not many people would think to photograph.

Photography is an extremely accessible medium- almost everyone on the planet has a camera and can take decent photos. Therefore, in my own photography work, I utilize technical skill and professional hardware to make my work stand out from the casual image maker. Depending on the type of photography I am shooting, some approaches are harder than others. I learned this while practicing studio photography, which I consider one of my weaknesses in photography. Because I was so used to taking photos outside and focusing on natural landscapes and macro shots, working with humans in a controlled lighting situation totally changed my perspective. This new experience and approach took a while to get used to, but has become a new way of diversifying my portfolio.

Through taking this class, I’ve learned so many new concepts about taking photos and how to make my photos original and special. As I continue my photography, I hope to travel a lot and capture new places. I also aspire to do photography professionally and get hired by people to collaborate with them on photography projects and capture special moments in their lives such as portraiture, weddings, or commercial photography. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for me through the skills I’ve learned through this class!

These projects are in order of earliest to newest; scroll down to see my latest work!

3-2-1 Photo Walk

This was one of our first projects of the year. For his project, we got to know the basics of our DSLR cameras by shooting basic photos on campus with 3 macro shots, 2 portraits, and 1 landscape. These are some of my favorites from the shoot!

Texture Macro Photography

For this project, we were to take photos of objects that were so close up that you could almost "feel" the picture. These were the ones I took for that project, and I chose them because I felt like I was able to "feel" the photos.

Photoshop Collage

For this project, we learned the basics of masking and layering in Photoshop by making a collage of dozens of images stitched together with a theme. My theme was blue things.

Attack of the Clones Effect

For these pictures, I took multiple pictures of me at my house and composed them in a way that would make it seem like I was in multiple parts of the image at once.

Text Clipping Mask Design

For this project, we got to know how to make clipping masks by making a design where images shined through letters in text.

Adjustment Layer Photography

For this project, we learned how to use adjustment layers in Photoshop by editing just one part of an original photograph. I chose to just select the squirrel and make the background black and white because I wanted the squirrel to be the main subject of the picture.

Intro to studio photography

This was our first project in the studio using flash photography and lighting techniques where we explored different ways of setting up our studio for portraits.

Borrow a look- lightroom presets/actions

For this project, we set up a series of presets and actions in our photo editing software and explored some vintage film looks for our original photos.

Sketch Effect

For this project, we used Photoshop layer techniques to turn a photo into a hand-drawn effect. The rest was a process of masking and setting up the scene to show it in a realistic way!

The watercolor effect

For this project, we scanned original watercolors to create a hybrid of photography and hand-drawn art.

Gray Backdrop Exploration

For this project, we used lighting on our middle gray backdrop to create multiple looks, including gray, pure white, pitch black, and gel coloring. All of these used the same background!

Painting with time

For this project, I worked with a team in a pitch dark auditorium to experiment with light painting and long exposures. These effects were created by hand in camera with no Photoshop editing!

Portrait photography

For this project, we went out and took pictures of subjects with a a shallow depth of field to create blur behind them, which helped our subjects stand out against the backdrop.

Bring the Past to life: photo restoration

For this project, we took old photos that were damaged and aged by time edited it them in Photoshop to have spot healing, clarity fixes, and color so that the pictures would look modern, and as if they were new. This is my favorite restoration edit...

Layered Double exposure

For this project, I took a portrait photo of myself, and added a landscape theme that I took to give my portrait a cool effect modeled after traditional double exposure effects.

Surrealist Edit

For this project we were given full liberty to create our own abstract and surrealist photo manipulations. Although I didn't have time to perfect mine, my concept involved multiple layers of original photography and fantasy elements added in Photoshop.

Pixels of paint: classic painting recreation

For this project, we had to research a classic painting, and use photography as well as editing techniques to edit ourselves onto the painting with the same lighting, color, and pose to give it a realistic look. The famous painting I chose to recreate is the "Girl with a Pearl Earring," and my version is on the right!

Four Seasons photography shoot

In this project, we used different props, lighting, compositions, and some effects in photoshop to create 4 different portrait photos themed around all 4 seasons. Thank you to Theo for being an awesome subject!

Barre Landscapes

This was a series of professional landscapes I shot for a local organization called Barre Partnerships to showcase the town and city of Barre for tourism and business. They will be using these for future promotion!

#STAYATHOME- COVID19 Quarantine Photo Essay

This project asked us to shoot a series of photos at home to respond to the "turbulent times" of the Coronavirus shutdowns. I shot my series with many themes to explore isolation and how life goes on.

Levitation Effect

For this project, we used Photoshop and photography techniques to create an impossible "levitation" effect as if we were floating in space!

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