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.