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This week we worked with mobile photography. Here is a picture of ben that I took outside of the CADC. Then we edited the images with an app called SnapSneed. This app allows you to change the picture almost as much as Lightroom. In this image I created a vignette of blur. I also cropped the image and increased the vibrance. 

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Lego movie 2

This week I worked with legos and I made a stop motion clip. i ended up selling my video to Disney. Coming out this summer. 

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Jill Greenburg Photos

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This week we worked on self taught photography skills. I decided to photoshop some of the most iconic album covers. On the top is the Abbey Road Beatle’s album and on the bottom is the recent “damn” album by Kendrick Lamar.

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The first image is a RAW image and the second photograph is a JPEG. Personally, I like how the RAW image looks like but the JPEG is a lot easier to deal with. Ultimately, I will remain JPEG loyal.

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Hot & Dangerously  Real

This week we worked with HDR which is the art of making photographs a lot more colorful and vibrant. I made them HDR by taking three pictures of the same scene with different amounts of contrast. All the pictures include a bright red bouncy ball in a high school campus. The ball symbolizes the inner child in our souls who begs to be released. High school is an especially sad more moment within our childhood because the students attempt to act act older instead of embracing their youth. This ball represents the struggle between us and the inner child.

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LOTS OF GIFS, GOOFS, AND GAFS

This week we worked a lot with photoshop and different edits. The first is a gif which was made by taking various action shots without moving the camera, I chose to do a basketball net because it water was falling from the sky. The next one is a double exposure picture where I replaced my hair with stones because my parents call me a hard head. Finally, I worked on the still pictures which are similar to the action shots but with including all the pictures of me in it. 

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This week we worked on surrealism. Surrealism is the mixing of reality and fantasy. On the left we see James struggling with the internal dilemma of wealth over poverty. On the right we have a man freeing his mind of all the materialistic stuff of the world and choosing the path of true love with Mr. Schaffer. 

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This week was my favorite week ever. I had lots of fun photoshopping random things into random scenarios. I learned lots of different techniques to make the photoshopped pictures realistic. Among these techniques were selecting, copying, burning, dodging, layering, and mastering. My favorite picture I made was the Dr Dartt science one.

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Last week in photography we worked with professional portraits. Once we had lots of great and amazing portraits, we began turning them into magazine covers. I decided to make 3 different funny covers. My personal favorite was the Forbes Magazine one because it plays on an old internet scam meme. I also made a cool soccer one which portrays me as a super star. Finally, I decided to change the photograph and I chose to make it seem as if I was climbing everest. Throughout the whole week we worked with photoshop and I’m excited to see what more I can learn.

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This week we worked on portraits. We experimented with various lighting and backgrounds but at the end I found that a simple back ground worked the best for me. Here's the picture that will ultimately be turned into a cover.

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This week in photography we worked with light painting. This was probably one of my favorite photography experiences this year. Light painting allowed you to draw anything with small lights or even clone yourself! In my photographs you can see James playing around with a laser gun and even fighting himself. The photograph on the right symbolizes how we all have internal battles within ourselves against our negative emotions. 

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Today, my partner, Ben, and I disorganized the furniture in the CADC and took pictures of the before and after, in order to achieve interesting land art with various perspectives. I also worked on a personal project where I took a library that was disorganized and then organized it by color. Land art has become one of my favorite topics in photography because it takes mundane things and gives them more life. 

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This week we worked on taking abstract pictures. I also learned how to use light room and some of the effects on it. My favorite part of this week was being liberated from the usual constraints of photography expectations. 

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In my exhibition, I decided to display my favorite photographs of this semester. In the first 4 pictures, I decided to get some interesting action pictures of Ben. When I saw them together I saw that they could represent a story. In the beginning, Ben was living and average life and he was very lonely. One day, he realized that he could levitate objects. Ben was filled with joy. He then used his powers to take over the world and avenge everyone that had harmed him. My second art theme was 3D photographs. The photograph that I took displayed a truck with the words "shred it". With inspiration of Ben, we decided that it would make the photograph more interesting if I made a shredded pattern on the photograph.

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During the past few weeks we've been working on a variety of different photographs. First we worked with taking photographs with shutter speeds of 1/1000 of a second to get a still photograph which looked good with pictures of movement. Secondly, we worked on photographs with lower shutter speed to get more movement in the photograph. Lastly, we've been working on portraits. This week Ben and I took portraits of each other and they came out exceptionally well, I can't wait to print them out!

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This week we experimented with different methods using contrast & the dodge & burn method. As you can see in the pictures above I added contrast so that the shadows would be more visible .