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Original 

Fine Art- Black and White

In this photo I used my friend Carly and put her posed between the bamboo. I told her to grab the bamboo, showing her hand and seeming as if she has a connection to the bamboo. She posed with a serious face that's not mad, but seems calm. I enhanced the detail a little making her freckles stand out more. I changed the color to be black and white connecting her more with the bamboo. I also blackened the fence that was previously in the background to enhance the bamboo. 

Original

Fine Art Photo- Warm Colors

In this photo I liked how the wood pole gave off a beachy feeling, but is more unique than the sand and waves found on every beach. I asked my friend Amy to lean against the pole in a way that seemed almost as if she was embarrassed and looking back. I lowered the exposure and added warmth to the photo. I also desaturated the blues, giving the photo an almost stormy effect. Her shirt and shorts add a pop of color to the photo, making it obvious what the main focus of the photo is. 

Original 

Commercial/ Magazine Portrait- Behind the trees

In this photo I posed her hiding behind the trees happy that she was going on a hike or in the forest. I could use this as a cover on a hiking or camping magazine. I liked how she is looking back as if on a hike turning back to see if anyone was following her. I added saturation to enhance the leaves, seeming as if it were summertime. 

Magazine Portrait- Summer Girl

This magazine is perfect for a teenaged girl looking for fun activities and fashion to rock over the summer. The font colors give it a younger look, while matching with the colors in the photo. I posed my friend Sami smiling on a beach in an excited way. Her shoes and outfit add some fashion to the photo, and by parting her hair in a blown back way, I gave her a beach waves look. I had her hands across her knees to add more shapes and textures, for her hands are covered in sand if you look close enough. I added some saturation, but I think the natural lighting made it seem stunning already. 

Two Portraits Prework

Bill Gekas 

I liked how this portrait wasn't centered, though the girl is still the main focus of the photo. I like how the colors are all warm, blending in with each other, while the red scarf adds a pop of color to the image. The darkness in the background and the lonely path ahead are reflected of the expression on the girl's face. The girl is posing like she's looking back at where she came from, which is very effective in the idea that she's sad about leaving down the dark path. I also like how Bill blurred the background of the image, adding more focus to the girl herself. 

Alessio Albi

I chose this portrait, because I liked how the face is the main focus though most of the picture consists of the orange tree. The tone of this photo is warm, while the girl's face gives you a cold feeling. The hair over her mouth tells you she's a shy and quiet individual. I also like how a part of the tree is blurred. 

This cover I chose, because it's not too crowded and has a vintage feel. I like how the photographer used her hands to add more shapes to the image. The colors are all plain and dark, with the suit giving her a more sophisticated feel. The red wording against the dull background pops out is a bold creative way. And the use of accessories make the portrait more than just another pretty face.  

This cover, similar to the one above, has a font color that pops off the image itself. In this photo I like how she's not turned towards the camera showing off the back of her outfit. The grey stone background gives the image texture, while maintaining simplicity. 

Surrealism

Though this photo has no actual idea to it, I decided to post it as a collage of pictures found in the Pearl District of Portland. 

This is a crafted picture of my dog facing herself from above.

This photo has many different environments, from snow to water, to the grassy ground. I added the windmills to make the photo seem environmentally friendly. 

Prework Project 8

Surrealism is a movement set in the 1920's where artists using realism created a dreamlike image that allowed people to see the impossible. Surrealism features the element of surprise using unexpected juxtapositions. To create a surrealist image artists use many different images and add or subtract them onto a background. 

Rene Magritte

Vladimir Kush

Kevin Corrado 

Tom Barbey 

Erik Johansson

Project 7

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This daguerreotype was originally a mural in downtown Portland. I love the way the mural is shaded and how the face is serious, different from normal portraits where the subject is smiling. To create this, I used a brush tool that could outline each of the edges before adding the photo, cropped in a way that only focused the picture on the face itself. Then I tinted the photo a tan color before adding a texture over it to give it a feeling of an old wrinkled photo.

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This photo is of the Hawthorne Bridge, which happens to be the oldest working lift bridge in the nation, so I decided to give it an old style look by editing the photo into a daguerreotype. I used four different brushes, one for each side, then layered the photo onto the framed background. I tinted the photo to get the old look and changed the saturation of the once red panels of the bridge, to be the same tint as the bridge itself. Now the details of the bridge are easier to see.

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This mill photo began as a warm colored photo with an old feel, so I decided to change the mood completely and changed the photo into a cyanotype. I used many different brushes to create the background in which the photo was layered onto. My favorite brush used in this photo was the grass like brush, which gave the cyanotype many cool shapes. After the photo was layered on, I tinted it with a blue, giving it a cool mood.

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Most people when you ask say their favorite car is a Porshe of a Lamborghini, but I have always loved old cars my favorite being an old VW Bug. So when I saw this car, I had to take a picture. I turned the photo into a cyanotype because I believe the buildings in the background distract the viewers focus on the car and I wanted to see how I could make the car more special. I used a spiky brush to paint the background and tinted the photo. I really like the outcome, something different yet beautiful.

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I found this flower to be very beautiful and made it into a gum bichromate to see what ways I could change the picture’s colors. First I quickly painted on a background with three different brushes. Next I layered the photo on and changed the photo into a cyanotype. From there I added two layers both primary colors and multiplied them onto the image. Now the photo is an array of colors and much darker than the original image. It also looks more like a painting than a photo.

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My next gum bichromate is a shallow depth of field and frame within a frame photo, where the blurred Hawthorn bridge is shown through the railings that are along the waterfront. I love the textures in this photo and by changing the picture into a gum bichromate the texture pops out with many different colors. I used many brushes on the background including frame brushes, then layered on all my favorite colors.

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The original photo already had some stunning colors in it, so I decided to add to those by creating my original photo of Portland above the clouds into a gum bichromate. To create the background I used many spiked brushed that expanded out. I layered the photo on and using similar colors I overlaid layers of color onto the image. The editing makes it look like there’s nothing between the mountain and the few building on the bottom of the photo.

Pre-work Project 7

Daguerreotype 

Daniel Kuczynski
To create a daguerreotype start with polishing a silver-coated copper plate, until it's almost mirror-like. Sensitize the plate in a dark room with iodine and expose the plate to mercury vapor. Once developed, immerse it in a solution of hyposulphite soda. Lastly the print is coated in a leaf of pure gold and admired usually in a glass frame. 

Cyanotype
Egill Ibsen
Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate (green) each are separately mixed with water to create an aqueous solution. Then they are blended together equally. Using watercolor or printmaking paper paint on the solution and dry in a dark room. Negatives are placed on the paper to make a print. Rinse the print in water and dry. This creates a print with white tones on a blue background. 

Tricolor gum bichromate

Jalo Porkkala

A Gum bichromate is a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates.  To create a gum bichromate you would use a multi-layered printing process.  Using a watercolor or printmaking paper, each color layer is coated, registered, exposed to light, and washed. The print is then floating face down in a bath of room-temperature water to allow the gum, excess dichromate, and color pigment to wash away. Several changes of water bath are necessary to clear the print. After, the print is hung to dry. When all layers are complete and dry, a clearing bath of sodium metabisulfite is used to extract any remaining dichromate.

Multiple Image Techniques

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I took this picture on a bright sunny day on the top of my building, which looks over downtown Portland and the Pearl District. I chose this picture for my HDR photo, because I knew the many different colors would pop out, in a strange but exciting way. The branch gives the picture a nature feel, though with the HDR edit, it looks almost like an X ray of an individual’s bone. I liked the way the sky changed into three warm colors from a cooler blue color. The sky now resembles that of a flag. The buildings contrast the bold sky with a bright shiny look, similar to that of the branch. To create the HDR I used five different exposures and kept my camera in the same spot on the railing.

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Because I found the first HDR to be easy to create, I decided to make another one, using a photo with a just as many colors as found in the city. This photo I took under a bright light in my home. I changed the exposure and created the HDR. The HDR photo enhances the colors of the pens even more and changes the boring color of the tin can into an array of different colors, contrasting to the pens.

For my layer picture I chose an old church with beautiful architecture throughout. I took photos of the church from every angle and each side of the church. The layers bring out the stained glass window, so that there is more than just one. The lamp post gives the picture a modern feel, while the branches give the feeling that the church is located in a forest. The arch ways are lined up in a way that makes it look as if there are many floors to the building. I also liked how the bricks and the red flowers added a pop of color to the image, showing it to be a perfect location for a wedding ceremony.

I also chose my dog for a subject in a layered photo. Knowing the layered image should have the same subject in a lot of different forms, I chose my puppy who constantly moves around. It was hard to get her to look at me, but with the combination of her looking and not looking at me I felt the photo was better. Her collar, like the roses and bricks in the image above, give a pop of color to the image. The motion I saw in my image was of her turning her head to look towards the fence, as if she was looking out at her freedom.

 The final image I made for project six, was my panorama. This image is similar to my first image, but without the HDR filter and more of the city. I like how in Portland you can go from the feeling that you are in a city to the feeling that you are in the forest in just a few minutes. This image contrasts that city, forest feeling moving from the city to the hills of Portland. I have a huge connection with this image, for I recently moved from the hills you see in the photo, downtown to where the photo was taken. I liked this image because it shows an unexpected sunny day in Portland during the month of february. After creating the pano I lowered the exposure, so the building were easier to see in the bright sunlight.