Beautiful Arrangement

week 7: portrait

And here's Brady, my best friend's son... adorable lil bugger. :)  taken while he was laying on the couch under a window with natural light filtering in.  I didn't even want to alter it... it's just so cute.

Week 6: Lou Rinaldi

In this selection, I tried to adhere a bit more strictly to the guidelines of the assignment. The non-profile shots I took weren’t really of a suitable facial expression, so here we are. The black and white accent in this one serves to accentuate her unique and beautiful features (yes, I am very biased!)

Week 6: Lou Rinaldi

So maybe the background isn’t as simple as it should be, and the cropping is horizontally oriented instead of vertical. But I really love this shot. The subject is my lovely fiancée, Courtney. Due to the angle at which she is looking out the window, relative to my position with the camera, her reflection does not appear symmetrically. It almost looks like she’s at a moment of pause, during an intense conversation with another person. After dabbling with black and white in Picasa, I decided that the colors better served the image; especially with regard to delineating the reflection.

the spread of a virus

Fothothing would not let me post it so i put it here . mr.nevins can you please e mail me the sight for the museum because my son likes to pplay with it and make pictures, i think it is good for his mind because he is only 5 and he gets to be creative without making a mess!

better shot

This is the photo that I already uploaded but you might be able to see it better in this one. I cropped it on Picasa. I really enjoyed taking this class. I liked looking at all the different shots and technical stuff about taking pictures. I didnt know it was so much but I guess a picture is worth a thousand words! I also liked reading other peoples feed back on my photos, and to the person that did the pennys in the snow (macro) that picture is always in my mind good job. Good luck everybody on your grades!

Macro Leaf

This one never made it to Photothing. Just wasn't happy with it. I just sharpened it some in Pi. I remember trying to get closer to it and the image kept going out of focus. I think I got a little better about that later in the week.... but the sun was gone by then!

Starr Street Goddess

A snowy day looking for light that refuses to come out. This is a view of the side of our apartment on Prospect. That face is of a woman wearing a lioness headress. She has a beguiling smile. If I had an extension ladder or could hang out the window and extend the camera way out in front, perhaps I could have gotten a great close-up. hmmm...

Failed Light

Photothing isn't going to let me post anymore since I'm maxed out from last night.

We all remember that period of time when the sun refused to come out for what seemed like days on end. I walked around the cinder-block Gothic Revival "mansion" where we live on Prospect St. (that's our apartment on the left above) Something about the snow falling down around this old building seemed like a good combination of elements - But I really needed some light on it to shoot!

Untitled

This was one of those images that tells a thousand stories. Took a lot of shots during that cold spell - waiting for the wind and the angle of the sun.

We Come to the End!

Hi Everyone,

Alas, we find ourselves at the end of class! You have been a great group... the quality of the work is as good as I have ever seen submitted.... I hope you enjoyed this experience and that it was worthwhile for you... You now have much stronger photography skills to take you forward from here....

I will be doing the grading on Sunday around noon... So you have about 24 hrs to submit more work if you need to both here on the blog and in your fotothing portfolio...

Take care and enjoy Easter week-end... I hope to see you again in a future class!

-Jerry

this was pretty hard to do, and i still didn't do it right. well this is my painting its called my daily bread

Party Hard

Hello class, yesterday I uploaded a photo from the school computer and it seemed fairly easy, but when I got home and pasted it to paint shop all the internet stuff showed up on the top, bottom, and sides.Did anyone have that problem? Well anyway I saved it from paint shop to my travel drive then uploaded it through Picasa and cropped all the extra out. I decided to call it Party Hard because the music is always in my head and I love to party. Enjoy

The eye of the Beholder

Hi all, Ok so i have totally changed my mind this was the hardest thing the transformation from the website to the blogspot. I really enjoyed it though because you get to be creative and create your own photo. I called it the eye of the beholder because in my eye I see war and inocent people dieing everyday very disturbing. I am anti war, but to those who are for the war they might see something differnt like defeat against the enemy. Hope you like it!

week 7: Lou Rinaldi

I suppose this is some kind of metaphor for the over-industrialization of our planet, and the inherent sadness that accompanies this unfortunate trend. Or maybe somebody just slipped something into my coffee?

Week 7

I came upon this Illuminati stronghold in the jungles of Angkor Wat...and barely lived to tell the tale...for real....seriously....

Week 7

Finally figured out the Jpeg conversion thing...Thanks!

Week 7

YEAH I finally figure out how to do this. I was so excited I forgot to post a comment. Here is another painting. This is my favorite.

Surreal: "Home"

Athenium and Pi work well together.

Surrealscape

Here is another one. Still unable to save file as a Jpeg though ):

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I thought I had it figured out but I am still unable to save the image as a jpeg for some reason...very frustrating, my computer just wont let me do it, it only gives me the option to save it as a .bmp file under the edit>copy to command...I don't get it...if anyone knows how to remedy this, I could definitely use the info, as I'm not currently able to save my work to my fotothing account...

Surreal: "Open See"

Massive amounts of processing in Pi afterwards...

Week 7

The top picture repersents global warming. As you notice there is no more land on earth and the birds are the only survivors left. They have no place to go but space. The bottom picture is a drawing that I wanted to use light and shadows.


I wanted to say this class has open my eyes to how I see things different. I never really knew what photographers were looking at when they took pictures. Now I have a much better understanding and a much greater apprection towards photography. I really want to get more involved in photography since I now see the beauty in it. It was a pleasure to view everyone's pictures. You all did a great job from what I saw; I also want to thank Jerry for making this a great and fun class that I truely enjoyed.

week 7!

Here are the two images using Surreal Painter I created! :)  The one on the left is "Time Flies" & the other is called "Come Sail Away."  In the image on the left, I copied and didn't deselect the last image I adjusted and, unfortunately, exited out of the painting before realizing that, but I don't think it takes away from the painting! This was tough, but fun! :)

SURREAL PICTURE

Thought this one had alot of different things going on

Week 7:The Surrealist Ethic

I think I figured it out? Thanks!

week 7

I'm also having some trouble with the assignment. I ended up losing my work when I inadvertently published it to the Athenaeum gallery. It is still posted there...I will try again to post here....

Photo 1 Zenobia Miller

Hi Class, this is my son Alfonzo he is 15 months. This by far was the hardest task for me I started off taking pictures of my 5 year old but he kept laughing and I wanted to get a real expression. I dont really konw what he was looking at but whatever it was has his attention. Notice his eyebrow is slightly arched. I added the black and white effect and shadowed it a little so that my reflection wouldnt be so clear in the door because I was standing on the other side.

PORTRAITS

Both of these pictures are of my son. I took the black and white one and he somehow did the double one of himself by himself. You can see the light of the camera at the top of the picture

Lexi

This is not my work. My fifteen year old daughter, Lexi ask if I would post this shot of herself on the class blog for your honest opinion. It is a picture of herself that SHE took. I had recently upgrade my camera from a HP 3.0 mega to a Canon Rebel XT. I had given her the HP camera as a gift. Looks like she has a new hobby. Nice job Lexi .

Week 7 - The surrealist aesthetic

Okay, so I tried to bring out my creative side with the surrealist aesthetic project this week. This is called "I've got my eyes on you".

The first I call "Too Much Time on My Hands" and the second is called "Apple of My Eye.

some old week 2 photos. :)

saturation and b&w focus were my friends again here with these 2 pictures below! :) enjoy!