~Magic and Fantasy Project ~ (Final Project!)

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Reflection:

I was fortunate enough to use both the Canon camera and my iPhone for this project. Side note, I really enjoyed getting to photograph the senior event, so thank you Ms. Anders and for letting me borrow this amazing camera! I love that I could incorporate both devices into my project. While I was taking pictures, I was trying to think of ways that I could creatively overlay my images. My favorite piece turned out to be a shadow image that I took of my garage and the multiple exposure effect with the inside of a light bulb. The Canon was so much fun to shoot with because it provided my images with so much clarity and I was astounded at the detail, when I looked through them. Besides multiple exposure, I also drew directly on my squirrel image in photoshop to make his personality shine through. What squirrel sits in a patio chair and thinks he owns the place?! When the audience sees my work, I want them to feel intrigued and excited. I made my images purposefully moody and mysterious, to fit with the magic and fantasy theme, so I wanted them to be open to interpretation. I loved this final series! Great way to close out the year :).

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Things I Wanted to Say…

Reflection:

At the start of this project, I decided to start taking pictures and write phrases in later. I had a giant list of words that I sorted through in the beginning, but ultimately if they didn’t work for the picture I didn’t use them. I had fun capturing innocence in my friend’s puppy, as well as some wide-angled landscape portraits on Alki Beach. My biggest challenge was deciding where to put the words on the photographs, after figuring out what to say. The puppy pictures were hard to find spaces to put the words in places that the viewer could see, so I had to experiment in a few different places, shortened words, and made the picture my own. I’m most proud of the rawness of the puppy images and the angles in the city pictures. I felt like I had a nice balance between polished and raw photography. I feel like I’ve learned a lot of new camera techniques this year, notably bird’s eye view in this project, but I also wanted to take pictures that didn’t take hours to edit or crop and still looked great. I love the way this series turned out! Thanks for the creative project idea. 🙂

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Serious Sunshine – Emotion Diptych!

Reflection:

I tried to photograph emotions that were both serious and stoic. I incorporated the raw images of the sun into almost every image to blend nature and subject together. The result made the diptych whole for me and I’m really stoked with the way they turned out. I tried to be as still as possible when taking the shadow image and used a bit of bird’s eye view to get the angle just right. For my other subjects, I asked my mom to be serious and got a great picture, but for the cat I experimented with close-up and far-away angles to see which one would turn out best. I chose to photograph and incorporate the sun in all of my images because of the joy it invokes. It brought life to my somber, moody images, which I think is true in all aspects of my life. Photographing the cat was impromptu, but turned out to be so much fun, as well as the mini-photoshoot with my mom. Photography makes so many beautiful experiences possible, like spending time with family, or appreciating the state that we live in. I incorporated both colour and space. In all of my diptychs, the nature photos are black and white to really make my subject photo pop, while certain photos take up negative space and the cat picture takes up positive. I chose to arrange my pictures in a horizontal fashion with a line of gray between them. The line of gray tells the audience that these images are a set and meant to be viewed together. I think I was successful in carrying out two things: making diptychs that I am proud to share with the class and growing as a photoshop editor. I incorporated many past photoshop techniques that artfully elevated my images, like the stamp tool, adjustment layers, and blending modes for multiple exposure. One thing I wish that I could improve is my photoshop technique with the stamp tool. There wasn’t an easy way to blur the telephone lines out of my image, so the image isn’t perfect, but I still think it’s satisfactory :). I had lots of fun with this project and I know these are my best photos yet!

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Album Covers！- Setting Sail ⛵️

Reflection:

I chose the artist Jhene Aiko and decided to use her work “Sailing Souls” and “Souled Out” and I made two alternate covers for each. When I was thinking of music, I wanted to share something that made me feel peaceful and calm. Jhene Aiko’s voice reminds me of a heavenly ascension and I feel like she embodies tranquility. Throughout my project, I learned how to mimic and play with her album covers, but also how to make them my own. I thought it was fun to figure out which font looked the most like the album and create something that looked similar. My biggest challenge was narrowing down my final four images out of a hundred images. I wanted to find pictures that best fit with Jhene’s vibe, while also incorporating my own. After playing and sorting through a lot of these images I’m happy I landed on these four for their simplicity, originality, and artistry. I feel these album covers are close to Jhene’s, but I’ve separated myself by focusing in on how her music makes me feel. I used Bradley Hand, Myriad Pro, and Copperplate for my final fonts because I felt that they fit with the album covers best. I went with a lot of cool, light tones that were either purple or blue with hints of yellow to embody a peaceful allure. I am most proud of my first image because I think it is my most creative. I knew wanted a lot of images with water because of its healing effects, but the first image turned out very original. I was taking pictures of my fountain and managed to get this in a raw image, which I edited and cropped. I love the way the water flows in and out of the bubble and the pool it creates around it, which were perfect for some sailboats that I decided to draw in! This image instantly connects me with the music and I feel right at home.

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The “sailing souls” series uses two different styles of font. “Jhene Aiko” – Myriad Pro & “sailing souls” – Bradley Hand.

The “Souled Out” series uses two different styles of font. “Jhene Aiko” – Bradley Hand & “Souled Out” – Copperplate.

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Word Image Blog!!

Reflection:

My favorite image would have to be the pool image with the word “ALONE.” The image really sticks out to me because I can envision myself in that exact moment, almost like the pool is inviting me in and I have it all to myself. The mood of this image was somber, although arguably exciting as well. The font style for this image was DIN Alternate, but all of my images varied in fonts. This font best captured the bold idea presented (isolation or loving alone time), while also being able to capture the sunrise in the background of the letters, in which I layered the same image over each respective layer/letter to create flow. In some of my other images, like “Dripping red…” I used Hoefler Text and in “You decide your future.” I used Galvji. I experimented with SO many different fonts, but ultimately I really tried to pick the best ones that fit with the mood of each quote, which I did through experimentation. I made most of my images conceptual and love the multifaceted nature of the majority of my images. They look simple, but I know they were quite complex to make and have a lot of hidden elements in them that really make them pop. That was a fun one!

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“ALONE.” – DIN Alternate

“Chase what matters.” – Galvji font

“Dripping red…” – Hoefler Text

“Save your tears for another day.” – Rockwell font (absolutely VIBE with these Weeknd lyrics)

“You decide your future” – Galvji font

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Multiple Exposure Portraits

Reflection:

I learned how to layer my images and use the mask tool coupled with the blending mode to bring my artistic vision to life. When I was taking these pictures, I was focusing on what they would look like together and that shaped my winter photo session in the snow. My biggest challenge was figuring out how to combine the images in a way that was aesthetically pleasing, so I played around with light and dark blending modes and edited images multiple times to see what looked best. My favorite image would have to be my 3rd final image, the photo of the snowy, white field inside the image of a tree. It became my favorite image when I was creating it in Adobe Photoshop because of how well the photos look together. Separately, both images are simplistic, incorporate the snow, and capture a winter scene. Together, the images were just made to be joined together and I am happy with the way that the image turned out. The idea behind the image was to capture two winter scenes and marry them together, so that the audience could reflect on their first time in the snow and capture the joy that they felt.

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IMAGINE-arium! ~ My Artic Paradise :)

Reflection:

I learned how to see pictures differently, especially when taking them, through a creative outlook. Before this project, I would find a picture, edit it, and then forget about it. Figuring out how to incorporate these stencils and drawings really inspired me to creatively think about these images and spend time with how I executed them. I will remember these for sure! My biggest challenge was figuring out what kind of stencils I should use for my images. I didn’t want my stencils to be too simplistic, but I also didn’t want them to be too overbearing and take away from the image. I ended up finding multiple stencils of each type of animal that I wanted to do and after I traced them I saw which one best fit inside of my image. I feel like this trial and error process with the stencils made my image that much more cohesive and natural, so to speak. I put my artistic stamp on the project through my animal, artic theme. Most of my images represent an environment similar to the artic, but all these images were taken at my home. I let my creativity flow and decided to follow the chilly weather pattern and bring some artic animals “home.” My favorite image is my first image, the seals on top of the icy, blue shower. I love the little artic scene that I created and the layered colors over the image to make it feel cooler. The seals are pretty cute too and I love the way they glide across the shower head.

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Personal Portfolio ;) – Hunter Evans

Artist Statement:

The subject of my artwork is centered around the beauty found in the natural world. I wanted to contrast the man-made, industrialized world with a world that is untouched and simplistic. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so I wanted these images to represent the beauty that is found in the most likely of places because we so often forget the amazing place in which we live! The most obvious principle of design in my work is contrast because of the diptych nature of my images, while my elements include colour and texture to really balance and highlight what I want the images to showcase, which is nature! The natural world is presented in full color, while the man-made world is all in black and white. You’ll notice that small glimpses of nature are colored in the man-made world, which was one of my favorite parts of the creative process, so nature was definitely an excellent, although fairly quite muse.

I tried to convey a serene, tranquil mood with my work and reflect the healing powers that nature possesses. Through a lot of trial and error, I decided these images best contrasted each other and I am very proud of the way they turned out :). I learned a lot in creating these images because I combined everything we learned in class with each and every one of these images. I layered them, combined them, wrote text on them, and used plenty of the eraser tool to get that fine detail. This piece reestablished my love for adventure and I had so much fun taking a majority of these photos in the city just by walking around! My family was a big help in sifting through my images with me, but I am stoked with the way these turned out! Can’t wait to take more next semester :)!!

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Save the Holiday Nostalgia- 6 Word Life in Coronatime ~ Hunter Evans

Reflection:

I learned a lot about myself and what was important to me through brainstorming my 6 word story. I thought about everything that was important to me like my family, my obsessions, and what I cherish, in this case Christmas! By condensing my life moments and experiences into 6 words, I focused on the important elements in my life and stumbled upon my project. My biggest challenge was capturing the essence of the holiday season, in a way that made me feel proud to present my image. I took a lot of pictures of my Christmas tree, but I felt like things were missing. I was taking pictures of my gingerbread and thought of putting it on as an ornament on the tree, which soon became the entire focus of my image. The homey, nostalgic feel that these cookies have really shone through and made this picture feel like home. I’m most proud of the elements in my image because they all represent pieces from my life. I made the gingerbread recently with my covid-pod, the elf-on-the-shelf in the top left of the image represents a big portion of my childhood excitement for this holiday, while the candy-cane and Santa ornaments have been in my family for generations. Also, my favorite ornament happens to be the heart-shaped Shiba because I feel it is a message from beyond the grave. My dog passed away in coronatine, but I still feel her presence, especially this time of year when family becomes the hyper focus. I had so much fun creating these images and am ecstatic that I decided to focus on the current holiday season. This project actually got me a lot more excited about celebrating Christmas, so I am ready for BREAK! Woohoo!!

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Caption reads: “The cherished nostalgia in the air.”

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