Best of Series

In this series I collected the best of all my images into one draft to portray my understanding of Michael Kenna's work. All these images portray black and white foreground background photography alluding to the relationship between naturalism and a "busy" city life. Similarly to Michael Kenna's photography, I strived to focus on the detail of every subject in relation to the equivocal elements of a city life.

Final Draft - Series

In my final draft I continued to explore foreground background photography, but focusing closer on the detail of a specific subject. I think the techniques and approach I used when capturing these images presents a better relationship with Michael Kenna's photography, as I strived to convey a specific theme between the relationship of the subject and it's background. My final draft presents a "busy" city life with human and naturalistic interactions, yet similar to Michael Kenna's work, each image is left open for the viewers interpretation.

Series Draft #2

This is my second draft of cityscape photography, but in this series I have narrowed down my approach and continued to explore foreground background photography. In relation to Michael Kenna's work, this series incorporates the theme of a "busy" city life connecting to a more naturalistic approach with trees, leafs, and flowers as the primary subject. In these black and white images I strived to clearly portray the subject and blur a busy background presenting a city life. Although the image of the hand as the subject does not necessarily correspond to Michael Kenna's work, this is an idea I want to further explore in my next draft, incorporating human qualities in cityscapes.   

Series Draft 1

In this series I focused Michael Kenna's photography techniques. This is my first black and white draft incorporating various approaches to cityscape photography exploring architecture, street objects, and nature. Many of Michael Kenna's cityscape photographs focus on the mixture of a "busy" city connecting to naturalism and simplicity. In many of these images I used trees and surrounding environments to explore numerous themes of cityscape photography.

Final Draft - Series Project - Portraits

This is my final draft of the series project where I utilized all the techniques I explored in my previous drafts. In my final series I tried to focus more on subtleties and through facial expressions and point of view. Certain images like the first and last are part of my experimental photography portraits where I explored connections through motion by placing them into diptychs. 

2nd Draft - Series Project - Portraits

This is my second draft of the series project where I continued to explore my interest in black and white portraits. For this second draft I want to utilize different techniques and compare it with my first draft in order to understand how to create a cohesive final series. Unlike the first draft, in this series some of the portraits have boarders which helps the image angles and colors work better together.

Series Project - Multi-Frame Portraits #1

This is the first draft of my series project where I focused on multi-frame black and white portrait photography. Portraits are my favorite style of photography and in every image in this series I strived to challenge myself in order to bring out something new. In this first draft I experimented with black and white editing as well as adding special effects in order to bring out hidden details. This is a very unique style that I hope to further explore as I continue making drafts for this assignment.

Collage

This assignment focuses on Don Eldon's collage style portraying a visual statement through the connection of various colors and patterns in every image. In this collage I focused on the idea of moving forward and aspiring for a better future. I used images of hands to create a connection between one image to another revealing the impotence of working together to create a better future. The images of children is a way of emphasizing the importance that rising generations are the future of our world and it is imperative that these generations take control and look forward. The images of street art are left open for interpretation as they convey modernity and individualism. This is my interpretation of Don Eldon's work illuminating a deeper meaning with a collage. 

Wedding In Italy

This series of images were taken at my brothers wedding in Italy. In this set I focused on multiple concepts such as landscape photography, rule of thirds, and portraits. I also found the architecture in Italy to be very unique and greatly contrast from the more modern architecture in San Francisco. I edited the color and exposure in some of these images to bring out distinct detail of every subject.

Multi Frame Graphic Notation

This project is a continuation of my previous assignment focused on graphic notation. This cohesive set of images focuses on street art and architecture where I created multi frame images that connect through different leading lines and colors. I did not edit these portraits because I also want to apply the nature of each images shadows and brightness.