Photography and Editing by Hannah

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

For me photography is one of the many ways to show my style of art, and adding a story, a feeling, and a meaning behind what I create, not just an image. Some of the most important things I learned were photo editing and lighting. Making small adjustments to an image can make a big difference, like changing the temperature the amount of light or texture, can change the meaning of an image. In controlling these adjustments, I have utilized Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop to great effect to make fixes. I have flourished in making abstract work in Photoshop.

My greatest strengths in photography would be communicating with my subject (when there is one), and even if it's not the prettiest or interesting place just taking the photo and making it into an interesting image. My doubt in photography would be not liking the final product and messing up. When people see my work, I would like them to see it as something unique, interesting and clean (not all over the place).

As a photographer, my style can be peaceful or lively, and sometimes both. Some of my most outstanding work is focused on nature and portraits. I love using natural environments to create my compositions with color, shape, form, and feeling. When working with human subjects, I enjoy getting an emotion out of the person I’m focusing on and capturing a smile, a dramatic look, or even movement. I would like to continue learning photography and possibly make a career out of it.

Photo Restoration Edit

For this project, we got old photographs that had been destroyed by time. Using Photoshop healing brushes and color layers, we fixed these images to be modern color photos.

Composition Photography

For this series, I focused on certain photography composition techniques to get better photography frames. In particular, I purposely tried to use symmetry, leading lines, and layering between these compositions.

Collage Edit

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 Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit!

Painting With Time- Long Exposure Light Trails

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

These are three of my favorite portraits taken so far using shallow depth of field.

Painting Recreation

For this project, we researched famous classic paintings and tried to recreate the exact lighting, color, texture, and pose of the original photos by Photoshop'ing ourselves as the subjects. Swipe right below to see the original after my recreated version!

GIf Animations

For this project, we learned how to make GIFs in Photoshop with a series of photos. I made one edit of Lucas the Spider and a second animation with original photos.

Borrow a look

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.

Pixel dispersion

For this project, we created a pixel dispersion effect using multiple layers in photoshop with a liquify affect and interesting brush shapes.

WATERCOLOR EFFECT

for this project, we scanned original abstract watercolors and experimented with effects on our portrait photography to create an awesome effect.

CLone Effect

For this project, we created an effect to make it look like there were many clones of ourselves interacting at once using masking and layering in Photoshop.

Text clipping mask

For this project, we used clipping masks to make a series of image shine through letters in text for a cool design.

double profile effect

For this project, we created an illusion to show are faces through an outline mask of our sideways facing profile.

#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 to explore the emptiness of Montpelier during the closures.

Four Seasons Portrait Series

For this project I shot a series of portraits of my classmate Danielle in the studio to create the look and feeling of the four seasons through lighting, costumes, props, and color gels!

Levitation Effect

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

Frame of mind Edit

For this project, we used original photography to create an effect where a frame was incorporated into our photography like a 3D effect using Photoshop.

Adjustment layer photography

For this project, we learned how to use adjustment layers in Photoshop by editing only one part of an original photograph.

Saturation photo challenge

For this photo challenge, we were tasked to capture and edit photos that could "only work" in color and photos that could "only work" in black and white.

double exposure effect

To create these effects, we emulated vintage film double exposure techniques with luminance to combine original portraits and original landscape photos as double exposures. These are two of my favorite edits using these techniques.

Landscape photography

For this project, we took landscape photos to capture the beauty of Vermont with wide colorful imagery.

Stowe field trip

For this project, we went to some locations and waterfalls in Stowe and took some amazing photos.

movie poster design and remix

For this project, we remade famous movie/tv show posters with our own studio photography. For an added bonus, we also made remixed versions of our posters in a different genre- so my second photo is a "horror" version of Seinfeld.

Macro Photography

These are some examples of macro photographs I've took in various projects in DMA. In most of these photos, I experimented with shallow depth of field images to really bring my natural subjects into focus!

Prop Photography Experiments

For this series, I experimented with LED string lights, lens balls, and some other props to capture some interesting perspectives using props!

Gray Backdrop Studio Lighting Experiments

For this series, I worked with Micah and Jacob to explore ways of manipulating our middle gray backdrop with lighting to create the look of colored, black, and white backdrops for studio portraits.

fruit sibling Edit

This image was made just for fun with two photos manipulated together that I shot and edited in Photoshop!

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