DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1:

Quinn K.

This portfolio represents my work in Digital Photography 1 from fall of my 2023-2024 year. In this class, we learned the basic composition guidelines such as selective focus and angle, along with many others. We did a lot of practice with each guidline, and then moved on and learned about lighting, aperture, shutter speed, and iso, all of which affect the way the picture looks after you take it. Enjoy exploring my work

White Flower

I've always enjoyed photographing nature, and what i love about this shot is how much detail of the flower you can see. I like how you can see the texture pf the petals, and how clear the fade from yellow to white to pink is in the flowers petals.

Gratitude

I made this work fro a project about gratitude. I used a slow shutter speed and one light, to create three images that i then layed over eachother. I wanted to show three stages in my life, and in my journey to be greatful for myself.

Gothic

I took these photos of my friends very late at night, we used one flashlight, switching between a red and white setting, for the entire shoot. I used a cacophony of different composition techniques, including subframing in many shots, as well as using a slow shutter speed to up the spook factor. I really love the lighting in all of these photos, and i am very happy with the results of this shoot as i accomplished the exact mood and story that i had hoped for in the start. It may have been cold and rainy, but i think the hour and a half we spent in the woods for this was well worth it.

Floating Hat

I took this photo as a part of a reflection project. I love how you can see the subject bot in an out of the irror, but it's only in focus in the mirror. I used not just one but two mirrors in this shot, and focused on the reflection within a reflection to put the subject in focus.

Subframing

This was a photo taken for a sub framing project. In the photo, the subject is framed by more than one thing, the first being the tree branches, and the second being her own arms. There was also use of selective color to draw attention to the subject.

Green

This photo was a part of a selective focus shoot. I made sure that there was hard focus on just a few leaves closer up to the camera, while the background and the further away the leaves get the more blurred they got. I like that it looks like a spiral of green.

Peter Pumpkin

Leading up to Halloween, we carved pumpkins. This shot was the establishing shot for a series of storytelling photos taken during our carving. The bright colors of the fall leave in the background perfectly match the bright orange of the pumpkin. Our group named our jack-o-lantern "Peter Pumpkin"

Tin Tunnel

For our abstract shoot, i used tin foil to create various different structures. I love the way the texture on the tin foil is so in focus and detailed, and i love the change in color from outside to inside the tunnel.

Silver Spiral

Another photo from the abstract shoot. I forged the tin foil into a spiral, and put the lens of my camera in the large end of it. I like this photo because both the layer closest to the lense and the layer furthest from the lense are blurred out of focus, bu the middle layer is in sharp focus, once again revealing a detailed texture in the tin foil.

Ghosts

In these works I used a slow shutter speed to make one person appear as two ghostly figures. I was inspired by the twins in the shining, especially for the first photo. I enjoyed making and editing these photos to be spooky and somewhat unnerving.

Detective Bailey, On the Case

This photo was my favorite from the one light shoot we did in the studio. My Subject, Bailey, reminds me of an old- timey detective in this photo. I love how the side lighting casts shadows over a lot of the subject, but her face is still lit and in focus. I love the story this photo tells as well.

Blue Reflections

This photo was taken with one flashlight and a hanheld mirror in a completely pitch black auditorium. I really like how the outcome has a blue tint to it, and how you can see the subject's head blurred on the right side of the frame, and then their face in focus in the center. I like how clear cut the light of the square mirror is in the otherwise dark background.

Hello There

This photo was a part of our 'toy story' shoot. I absolute loved this project, and found it really fun to try different placements, lighting, and toys to create stories. I like this photo because of the use of the mirror, and how it seems like the doll is waving at you. I think the addition of red lighting gives the vibes of a horror movie, and i really enjoy the story this photo tells.

Light Write

I found light writing very fun. It was hard to have an in focus subject because of the super slow shutter speed, but regardless i really like the subframing in this photo. I think the white, frame around and lighting up the subject is really cool, even if the subject isn't in focus.

Deconstructed Portrait

This was a super fun photoshop project. I loved seperating all the small parts of this photo, and it felt like a puzzle rearranging them in a way that makes sense. I had a lot of fun doing this, and i really like the way the final product looks.

RGB

This was another photoshop project we did. I combined these two photos togetehr in order to create a victorious looking poster. In the red photo i had my chin raised up to appear confident, and in the blue photo i had my fist out in a challenge. I really like the vibe and story of this project, and i really liked playing around with the different red and blue colors in photoshop.

Worm's Eye

I absolutely adore the way the light shines on the subjects face in this photo. She looks so at peace, soaking in the sun through the window. I love the angle this is taken at too, focusing on the subjects face by cutting most of their body out with the window sill.

Red Peak

Once again, i love photographing nature. I love how in focus the details of the petals of this plant are. I love how vivid the red color is in the sun. I chose this specific branch because it was way longer of a branch, and was sticking out of the bush way higher than any other branch was.

White Petals

I like how in detail the petals are in this flower, despite it not being super close up. This is one of the first photos I took in this class, and it has remained one of my favorites for the detail and the way the bright white and yellow contrasts against the dark black and gray leaves in the background.

Leading Lines

I love the story this photo tells; Originally it was taken for a project on leading lines, and at first I was scared that the bright backlighting would ruin the photo, but I honestly love the way the subject is completely dark. I think this photograph tells an interesting story, and it quickly grew to become a favorite of mine.

In Photo 1, I learned a lot. Before this class I knew virtually nothing about how cameras worked or about technique when shooting, I would just snap a picture with whatever setting the camera was on, and hope for the best. Now, I have learned an abundance of things that make my photos more interesting. I've learned which angles draw attention from viewers, the best ways to place a subject in your frame, composition techniques and functions on the camera that all make for a better, more personalized Photo. I've learned to use things like shutter speed and aperture to manipulate the level of light and blur in my photos, and found that I really enjoy taking slow shutter speed photos because it gives a blurred, ghost-like affect to the subject. I've begun to develop a style of photo that I find the most fun to take, and will definitely continue to create photos after this class. In my every day life i've also begun to notice more small things that I previously wouldn't have. I find myself thinking things like 'that would be a cool subframe' or 'this would be a leading line' whenever and wherever I go. I notice smaller things in life like plants or architecture that I would have previously just walked past. I've really ejoyed this class, and am looking forward to expanding on my knoweledge and practice in Photo 2.

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