Andrea Lanza

Week 4: 11/11/2019-11/17/2019

Week 5: 11/18/2019-11/24/2019

Week 6: 11/25/2019-12/01/2019

Week 7: 12/02/2019-12/08/2019

Reflection - Artist Statement

• I was very new to photography and to an advanced art class at the beginning of this school year, but I took photography at first just to complete my endorsement but as we progressed into the class I became really interested in it. I decided to focus on B&W and nature photography because I really like playing with the exposure of images and the depth of each one. I decided to focus on editing the exposure, shadows, lighting, tint, and depth of field in each image. I was interested in editing those special features because I saw the most changes with those and the way it could completely transform an image.
• In my portfolio I believe I have improved in the composition of each of my photographs as we progressed into the semester. The most techniques showed were rule of odds (I especially liked working with this one), filling the frame, simplicity and minimalism, foreground interest and depth, texture, value, a few different POVs, and space.
• Behind my photographs I personally liked how each one had the ability to tell a story and have meaning, many of them were taken at school and I wanted to capture the beauty of such. I like the idea of capturing the essence of something so common and sometimes disregarded and to be able to show a different perspective. Each one of the photographs were simple objects or views that I was intrigued and wanted to make them more “eye-catching.”
• I believe I was successful in capturing simplistic and minimalistic images. I’m really happy with how much I learned in editing exposure and the previous mentioned techniques and how much I have improved in taking pictures since the beginning to now. I’m very proud of my B&W pictures because I was able to see the transformation from a poor picture to a more composed one. If I could do something different, I would like to go to different places of Knoxville and take photographs - something I was not able to do very much for this semester. I would’ve loved to do so because Knoxville shows a lot of artistic views. In the course of this class, I learned that I could be able to take more composed pictures, learned how to edit more thoroughly, and that I really enjoyed abstract photography.