Photo Mosaic

Artist Statement

This portfolio and every single post that I have on here is a project that I have done, and have enjoyed working on. What you will see in my personal portfolio is all my photographs that I have worked on through out my whole 2nd semester. Some of the random images you will see were actually very interesting and fun. All the nice weird looking images are Ms. Cook’s ideas but they are very interesting.
I really did like the idea of having my own page with the photographs that I take myself when Ms. Cook had told us about it I was very excited. I also really love the idea of me posting up my images on the internet so others in and around the school and out of school. People can also go look at the site and enjoy what I have really worked on. I really don’t know why but I love the idea its just really cool showing all the different ideas we have in our class.
I have learned a lot during this past semester that I have been attending this class. It has been very interesting I love the class, Ms. Cook has shown me so many things I can do with a camera and many other things that you shouldn’t not do with the camera. I have also learned a lot about (iso, shutter speed, light metering, ECT...) those are some things I have learned about in a camera that I have never knew about until I learned it in this class. Now I do use those to take way better looking photos.
I feel like I’m most successful on the new different techniques I have learned about I even use them out of school with my own camera. I’m so glad I have learned about these techniques because they are very helpful. I do love the way I can use many different things that I have learned in school in and out of the school campus. But I know that I have been very successful in many different ways I have enjoyed learning a lot of camera technique. Now I actually know not to just buy a camera for the way it looks and how pretty and cute it is. Now I know that I should always check the iso on a camera before purchasing it.
I actually really didn’t struggle that much with anything but the only reason why is because I already had token this class but over in California and it was some what the same but I did have way much more difficulty here than the old class I had. The hard parts about this class were Photoshop working I think but then again it wasn’t that hard I think it was pretty easy everything we have done was easy and fun. I do think I can improve a lot more in the future and have way much more fun by working on everything single little technique I have learned about but really I think everything is very easy so I don’t really think I should improve on a lot.
The things that influence me the most was Ms. Cook’s work I really like how she does everything that she has worked on it’s just makes me want to work harder on what I’m working on because I would like my artwork to be just like Ms. Cook.
Well I actually have seen growth and improvement in all my work I just have worked very hard and have been helped so much. So all that has gave me growth to work hard and improve my work and show that I can work hard and do a very good job in many projects in many different ways. I do hope that I have shown that I have improved in all my work because I feel like I have ever since I first started taking this class.

Adjustment Layers

Self Portrait

Self Portraits
This project was very fun and exciting I loved it I had fun but it was kind of difficult also because we had to take photos left and right and choose the best ones we liked. It was also a lot of fun because I show my expression in every image well mostly every image but the expression I was trying to express is me being the happiest girl that you can ever meet. The most creative image that I had was my rule of thirds because I had so much fun it showed that I’m a very silly young lady. That image was very funny but very fun because I couldn’t stop laughing but that’s the best image in my eyes. Well actually my ideas were all different and did change.

My composition image that I think is the most successful is my lighting portrait because it shows how I just like to think on my own and I thought it was a very good image that was taken. Also because in my head I think that every little expression shows who I am in every little way there is possible. But I do also like the placing of my image and how the setting was set. These images all have their own different composition in every little way even if it’s in a goofy way or very mature looking way, but I show what I feel and I did what I wanted in all my images. I just love how all my images have a good work on the composition but I do have one image where I don’t have a very good composition because I have something there that show in my image that image would be my element photograph.

I do think that my craftsmanship was use very wisely and pretty good. I do have some weaknesses on an image and that would my prop image it came out too dark but then again to light so I really didn’t like that, but I also did love the way it looks. But in other words all my craftsmanship is wisely used I liked how the images came out. They did have great settings for every expression that I had. I did actually use the cameras techniques to set up the images so they won’t come out too light or too dark, used ISO and F-STOP CHANGES that’s all I used so m y images could look the way they are now. My strengths are that the lighting of the image is hitting the right spots, but my weaknesses is the setting that I chose wasn’t the greatest place that I could of chosen. I also think that I could have worked more on my personal prop on many little things.

My overall conclusion on all my portraits is that I do really think I did a pretty good job, but I do know that I could have done a way better job. My favorite portrait is my rule of third because that was a very fun experience that I had. The reason why I choose that image is because that portrait shows the real me and shows who I really am. My rule of thirds image was one of the craziest images I took, my partner and I had the best time taking that photograph. My least favorite image was my lighting image I think I could of done way better and, I also could have had the photo token a little closer to me because the image was token way too far from where I was sitting. But this project was really hard but easy. It was a very fun experience that Ms. Cook came up with well this was one of the best project that we had ever since I attended Cesar Chavez
High.