Project 4: Pre-work

Our newest project is all about balance and symmetry. We are studying balance-symmetry, asymmetry, and radial balance. These pictures are all examples of various types of balance and symmetry.

Radial Balance by Selena

Symmetrically Balanced by Eva Luna Guerraz

Strong Contrast in Color or Value by Martin Marcisovsky

Strong Contrast in Size by John Wilhelm

Strong Contrast in Texture by Yungki

Project 3: Color and Grids

For this project, Colors and Grids, we were supposed to take pictures of colorful things and edit them so the color of the photo sets the mood. We were supposed to put our colorful photos into grids that we created using Adobe Lightroom and make a visually appealing grid or collage.

Warm Color Collage: Dogs and Family

Color Changing Mood: Christmas Lights

Pattern: Colorful Fire

Nine Grid Monochrome: Friends and Family

Vintage Cool Colors Collage: LHS Theater

Four Colors: Christmas Lights

Wrapping Paper: Ambulance Lights

Wrapping Paper: Firetruck Lights

Four Colors One Picture: Rachel and Julia

Complementary Colors: Starlight

Project 3 Pre-work: Color

This is a color wheel. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The secondary colors are purple, orange, and green.

This photo was taken by Tsamakdas Gio. The photographer used the color blue to create a feeling of solitude and peacefulness. He might have used editing to make the entire photo various shades of blue and purple, and also t highlight the beam of light. 

Project 2: Framing and Composition

          For the Framing and Composition project, we were supposed to take pictures of 8 different composition and framing techniques. The eight techniques are : Bug's Eye View, Leading Lines, Birds Eye View, Diagonals, Rule of Thirds, Fill the Frame, Close Up, and Frame Within a Frame. I took around 150 photos in all, and I have narrowed it down to what I think are my eight best. I edited these photos with Adobe Lightroom 3. 

Close Up

Bug's Eye View

Diagonals 

Leading Lines

Frame Within a Frame

Rule of Thirds

Fill the Frame

Bird's Eye View

Project 1: Best of 30x2

These are my final 4 photos from our first project, my two subjects were myself and my dog. We edited the photos in Adobe Lightroom. 

 For the photo above, I made the contrast higher, and the brightness, temperature, and tint lower. I really like the contrast between the tree and my face. I also like how my eye stands out and how you can only see part of my face.

 For this photo, I shifted the blue, magenta, and purple hues and turned the split toning hue all the way up. I really like the sun spots in the photo and how my hair and face change from white, to pink, to blue.

For this photo I turned the level of dark down and the level of light up. I turned the sharpness up and I turned the yellow hue up and the green hue slightly down. I really like this picture because my dog looks really sassy. It almost looks like he is a model. I also like the clarity of the picture. 

For this picture I turned the orange hue down so the ball would be less prominent in the picture. I also turned the green hue up to make the grass look more vibrant. I really like the natural lighting is this picture. It gives the picture a sort of summery look that I really like. 

My Summer

This is a M&M Doughnut I bought from a Voodoo Doughnut Truck

This picture was taken on an early morning hike. 

I spent most of my summer in Portland. I visited my family in Wisconsin, and I went to a drumming camp in Idaho. The first picture is from when there was a movie night in the park by my house. A Voodoo Doughnut truck was there, and this is the doughnut that I bought. We watched The Princess Bride, which is one of my favorite movies. The second picture was taken on a hike I went on in Central Oregon.