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Kingsland Park

Nutley, NJ 

Digitally manipulated spaces

Black and white spaces

Portraits & Self Portraits

For the portraits portion of this assignment, I wanted to capture people in my life doing things that they love.

 For my self portraits, I wanted to capture my self without showing my face.

Editing Assignment #2

After doing going through the editing process, these were my favorite 5 photos of 300.

I used my zoom lens for this photo and I felt all the colors worked really nicely together.

I liked this photo because I felt it showed a sense of abandonment, and I also liked the way the light hits the ground in front of the bench.

I snapped this photo while I was at the beach. I enjoy taking street photography and as I was walking past this family I was able to catch them all looking in the same direction.

I picked this photo because I liked how it is a deserted area. I also liked the shadows that are cast on the back wall.

This is one of my favorite pictures I've ever taken at the beach. I liked how the path just ends and you can see the water in the distance. I also framed the photo around the fence that lines the path.

Get Closer

On our class trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we were told to photograph pieces of artwork in order to get a closer look at it. I chose to photograph a variety of different mediums.

 “Woman” by Man Ray

This photo is an image Man Ray took of one of his readymade artworks. The actual work is supposed to symbolize a woman. I took the shot to get a different view of his photo which are of some clothespins, used to represent a woman’s spine, and the shadows to the left of them. I felt that by only capturing a small part of the actual focus of the image and looking more at something you wouldn’t normally focus on such as the shadow, it makes the picture look more interesting and abstract.

            “Ovid among the Scythians” by Eugene Delacroix

I love when paintings have a lot of detail and different things going on at the same time. This was one of those paintings. I wanted to focus on the woman and the back of the little boy. I thought that by focusing on these two people, it would make this look like a painting on its own.

    “The Hand of God” by Auguste Rodin

In person, this statue was fairly big. I liked how there were two distinct textures. The statue was of a large hand with smaller people inside of it. I wanted to capture both in order to make each apparent. I did this by making the thumb the biggest visual in the picture, and the legs of one person and back of the other so the people were noticeable.

  “Elergy to the Spanish Republic” by Robert Motherwell

My first thought while looking at this in the museum is that I loved how the picture was so simple in color, and had a deep meaning to it. Even though the picture was already abstract, I wanted to add to the abstraction by breaking the picture down even more to show each individual color and brush stroke.

         “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Grant Wood

Before even reading the description of the picture in the museum, this picture instantly reminded me of Paul Revere’s saying, “The British are coming!” The painting itself is beautiful, but I felt that since the painting is titled around Paul Revere spreading the word about the British, the viewer gets lost looking at the scenery and buildings instead of Paul Revere himself. Taking a photo of that particular part of the painting puts him in the spotlight.

Narrative Paintings

For this assignment, we needed to recreate two narrative paintings.

"L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux"

Vincent van Gogh

"The Girl with the Pearl Earring"

Johannes Vermeer 

Editing Assignment #1

For this assignment I shot 200 pictures and had to pick the best 16. Most of the pictures I shot for this project were taken outside in the snow and in my dorm room. I chose to put these photos into the categories of photos about myself, and photos about other people.

Images about myself:

Images about other people:

Favorite Photos

Previous to taking Intermediate Photography, I took a photography class in high school, along with a basic photography and a black and white film photography class last semester. These photos were taken either during the past summer break or early into the most recent fall semester.

My Obsession

For my obsession project, I chose to photograph my chinchilla Roxie. I've had her since I was thirteen years old, therefore, I figured she was a good choice to be the focus of my project. The photographs I took of Roxie also resemble myself through the objects around her. The first three pictures were taken in my room and symbolize my love for fashion using shoeboxes, a shopping bag, and jewelry. The bottom two were taken in my basement. The one of Roxie in the game closet shows that I enjoy playing board games, and the bottom photo was taken on my brother's drum set to represent my love for music. Each of these photos were challenging to take since it was very hard to get Roxie to stay still long enough for me to get a good picture of her. Overall, I thought it was a fun project to shoot for.