Final Page

Hands - Harakiri

Feet - Midnight Motel

Geometric Shadows - Interpretations

Organic Forms and Texture - Unity in Diversity

Leading Lines - The Light

Love - The Need To Impeach

Food - So Much So Little

Monochromatic Color - Heat Wave

Complimentary Color - Up Close and Personal

Analogous Color - The Fire and the Fury

Primary Color - Wheels on the Bus

Portrait - Nine

Still Life - Living in the Shadows

Magnification - Portrayal

Creative Landscape - Following in the Footsteps

Unique Lighting - Street Light

Creating Flat Positive and Negative Space - Blillow in the Wind

Focusing on Abstraction - Waves

Advanced Photograms Inverted - Modern Jungle

Advanced Photograms - Modern Jungle

Altered Developing Process - Washed Away

Altered Negative - Similar Yet Different

Cyanotype Landscape - Openings from Above

Photo Recreation of Historical Art - Aftermath

Reflective Self Portraits - Toxic

Family Dynamics - Boston Strong

Relationships - Maze

Societal Issues - Survival

Movement - Over

Identity - None

Change - Faded

Throughout the course of the semester, I've noticed my images becoming more and more mature and thought provoking. I see this as a big improvement considering that my concentration was societal issues. With this concentration, comes the overhanging purpose of getting people to think and consider the given topic.

I believe that the relationships assignment was the most difficult for a singular reason. Not because it was a difficult picture to take. Not because the editing was hard or the printing process, but I ran into a great amount of trouble with the developing process. Since I used an altered developing technique, It made it hard for the developer to be applied evenly and all at once. The developer-soaked brush would touch some of the paper before others, making it darker in some areas and lighter in others. After coming to the realization that this was an issue (about 10 test prints later) I decided to apply the developer in a single line, straight across the equator, and as quickly as possible.

I am proud of many of these photos. However, I must say that my personal favorite has to be the weather image. After lots of practice throughout the semester with photoshop, unique lighting techniques, and other rules of photography, I think I finally created an image that had a certain flare that I'm striving for. I am proud of the editing that I did to this image, as well as the developing process and how the values turned out.

My work is a display of my range in talents concerning photography because it shows the areas in which I need more improvement on, and the areas in which I am skilled in. For example, my photos from this semester show that I have the ability to photograph unique lighting and portraits, but still need some work on things such as landscape photography and close up objects such as still lives. For example, photos from this semester that show that I need improvement include the projects of Geometric Shadows, Organic Forms and Textures, Food, and Magnification. Images that show my ability to photograph things such as unique lighting and portraiture, include the projects of Portrait, Creative Landscape, Unique Lighting, Reflective Self Portrait, and Weather.