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Scroll down below to see some selections of my work from this unit.

Hawaii Travel Photography

Last month I traveled to Hawaii to visit family and I shot some photography while I was there using a wide-angle lens, capturing moments from Pearl Harbor as well as the epic coastline!

Clone Effect

The goal of this project was to produce the look of clones by using Photoshop. I decided to make a mafia out of just clones of me, simply because I made a joke about doing it so I kinda had to at that point, I also made it black and white just to make it older looking to match the whole mafia thing.

The Blockbuster- Movie Poster Redesign

For this project we recreated posters from famous movies starring ourselves and our classmates! We designed these as high quality documents using the full size billboard layouts. We had to create every element ourselves and could only import limited credited assets, so the main basis of this photo was a photo concept to recreate the original with Mr. B as Freddie Mercury!

Seeing and Feeling- Texture Photography

For this project, we practiced manual camera control and exposure triangle settings as we shot our own macro photos. These photos were supposed to show texture through close up abstract frames with lighting to support the overall feeling. These are some of my favorite macros from this project!

Make It Move- Photoshop GIF Animation

To preview our upcoming studies in graphics and animation, we made GIF sequences in Photoshop using some photography and other graphics. Photoshop is perfect for making GIFs and cinemagraphs since you can create them like a video using a timeline! I took a photo of a desk in our room as a basis and drew in this animation as a frame-by-frame rotoscope animation.

Bring Me the Horizon- Landscapes

This project was a compilation of landscape photography that we shot making use of wide angle lenses, closed apertures, long exposures, tripods, and even HDR/panorama effects to capture vivid detailed landscapes. These were some favorites I shot during the fall season around Stowe, Vermont.

Visually Clever- Prop Photo Effects

This project had an open-ended prompt to use props of any kind to create photo tricks, illusions, and interesting perspectives. Beyond thinking creatively about the props, we had to compose the photos to showcase clever concepts. I used a vintage camera lens and red light sticks as props to create these shots where you could look "into" the lens reflection.

Double Exposure Effect

For this project we used Photoshop to emulate a classic photography effect that came from vintage film photography when two images were shot on the same frame, using opacity to blend them. I combined a portrait and landscape shot from the Barre Quarries to create this manipulation!

Shining Through- Text Clipping Mask Effect

For this project, we learned about clipping masks to create our own text art by making images “shine” through typography. My text art showcases some of my own original photography through the letters, even though the photos I used were ones I made a few years ago I still think it turned out okay.

Layers on Layers- Collage

This was our first project in Adobe Photoshop to learn about masking and layering, it was also my first ever time using Photoshop on anything other than my phone, so that was cool. Using selection and masking techniques, we created our own collages with dozens of photos. I got my idea for this collage based off of the meme of how many raid shadow legends ads there are, so I decided to take a bunch of characters and creatures from the game and make a movie poster for it.

Levitation Effect

For this project we shot multiple frames of the same scene and used masking to create realistic effects with ourselves or other objects floating in the air.

Watercolor Painting Effect

For this project we made our own watercolor art that we scanned in as high resolution layers. From there, we used Photoshop to mask and layer these paintings with photographs, making our own fusion of handmade and digital art!

Pixel Dispersion Effect

For this project, we experimented with brushes in Photoshop to duplicate layers and create custom masks that could make it look like our subject was appearing and disappearing from the frame.