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

My Photography

Beyond our class projects, I shoot lots of photography and these are some of my latest favorites.

WINTER PHOTOGRAPHY

This is a special series of photography I shot exploring Central Vermont in the winter landscape.

Seasons Through the Lens- Four Season Studio Portraits

For this project, we shot a series of portraits in the studio to showcase different looks and feelings that represented the four seasons in Vermont with winter, summer, spring, and fall. In addition to using props and costumes, we used lighting and framing to communicate the colors and feelings of each season in the studio. Thank you to Lydia for being my subject!

Watercolor Effect

For this project, we painted our own abstract watercolors. From there, we scanned our paintings at high PPI qualities and brought them into Photoshop. Using some layering and masking techniques, we combined original photography with our watercolor to create an interesting hybrid of digital and hand-made art!

Kerith Portrait Series

This was a series of portraits I shot of my friend Kerith while out on some snowy train tracks. I tried to work with my subject and location to get many different angles, looks, and feelings within the series of shots.

The Levitation Effect

For this project, we created a visual photography effect with layering, selecting, and masking to create the illusion of ourselves floating in air.

Bring Me the Horizon- Landscape Photography

These are some of my favorite landscapes shot for our cumulative project series to shoot landscapes at some favorite locations. To get these shots, we experimented with wide angle lenses, long exposure techniques, and more!

Double Exposure Manipulations

For this project, we created our own versions of the classic photo manipulation effect known as a double exposure. Similar to what film photographers would do when they would shoot multiple photos on the same frame, we used Photoshop layering techniques to combine photographs together so that they used masking and opacity to show each other in an artistic and creative way. I made two edits that combined a self-portrait with some of my landscape photography work!

Portrait Photography On Location

These are some portraits I shot for a culmulative portrait project. In my portraits, I tried to feature more than just my subject by getting shots with interesting locations and to show my subjects "in action."

The 3-2-1 Photo Walk

This was our first ever project! For this project, we walked around campus to explore the basics of DSLR photography by shooting 3 macro, 2 portrait, and 1 landscape compositions.

Flash Flash- Studio Lighting Experiments

For this project, I worked with a team to experiment with exposure tricks in the studio. We used long exposures to capture many effects including double exposures (where we shot multiple flashes to appear in different places across the frame) as well as using LED tubes to get crisp portraits with light trails by using a flash. These were created in camera and were not Photoshop’ed! Thanks to my team members Lydia and Julia for their help making this project!

Putting the Pieces Together- Manual Collage

For this project, we took dozens of photos of one subject to explore different angles and perspectives. Using Photoshop, we built collages out of these photographs to show a creative manual art-style approach to show our subject!

Seeing and Feeling- Macro Texture Photography

For this project, we explored macro photography by shooting abstract and metaphoric images of textures. Each photo has a unique name to add the atmosphere of it!

Attack of the Clones

For this project, we used layering techniques to make this special effect to make it look like we had several clones in the same frame!

Gray Backdrop Studio Lighting Setups

For this project, I worked with Aaliyah and Senait to explore ways we could use a solid gray backdrop to look different by using lighting. We used gels to give the gray color, and angled light to make it black, white, and normal.

Shining Through- Clipping Mask Text Effect

For this project, we learned about clipping masks by designing text art with images shining through the letters.

Painting with Time- Light Painting Exploration

For this project, we used long exposures in a dark room to make light paintings! All of these were created in-camera without needing any editing in post! Thanks to my teammate Lydia for their help making this project!

Pixel Dispersion Effect

For this project, we created pixel dispersions by using custom Photoshop brush patterns to manipulate masks and layers to create an effect as if we were fading off into the background!

Frame Effect

For this project, we created a cool frame effect on some original photography using masking and selecting to make it look like there was a frame or shape actually interacting with our photograph!

Prop Photography Experiments

For this project, we explored props that could be used to accent photography and perspective such as lens balls, prisms, lights, powder, letters, symbols, and more! These are some of my favorite shots using props. I used Lens Balls, Letters, Books, Powder and Paper as my props.

Bringing the Past Back to Life- Photo Restoration

For this project, we used Photoshop healing and fixing tools like spot healers, content aware fill, and blurring tricks to recover blemishes on old photographs that have been affected by time. As a final step, we used special layer painting techniques to transform these old photographs into modern-looking color photographs. See my before/after work below!

Double Profile- Face Manipulation Effect

For this project, we used Adobe Photoshop to combine a self-portrait photo of our face with another manipulated element which could have been edited in a creative way. For my double profile, I made two edits where I manipulated animals into my own face.