AVEDON PORTRAITS

After watching Richard Avedon's latest film about his self-expression in art, our class began a project that involved capturing portraits of students that attend our school. Avedon was a very detailed artist and all of his images were significant in various ways. Through out my series of images I strived to follow several of Avedon's techniques in order to capture portraits that truly symbolize a certain notion. I began by capturing my images in black and white, in order to allow each individual to stand out in the picture. Along with that, I strived to take images of the models in different positions in order to reveal a sense of change in emotion. Some pictures portray happiness, others reveal confusion and sadness. These elements allowed my images to become more bold and reveal changes in characteristics.

CHINATOWN

As a class we traveled to Chinatown to observe and capture new cultural concepts. The images below reveal that this district posses many arts and interesting landscapes. Through out the streets there are many murals and structures that are significant to their culture from past historical events. Chinatown is surrounded by many skyscrapers and based on different view points I was able to capture them from different shades and angles. These images portray a lot of altered changes in exposure and contrast, which allows the images to standout.     

These are my six best images that reveal self expression and different ideas of shapes and contrast. I strived to capture the sun in many of my images in order to provide the picture with a brighter and more colorful feel.  

Treasures 

Shadows 

For this assignment I strived to find treasures that have bold and interesting shadows. These pictures were taken in black and white in order to truly allow the shadow to stand out. 

The images below portray the idea of depth approaches in three different sections, which are, leading lines, repetition, and foreground/background. In small groups the class explored for treasures that would fall under these three categories. The leading lines section includes images of lines that are wide in the beginning, but as the line extends it becomes more narrow. Objects that are found to be repeated in a row belong to the Repetition section. Lastly, the Foreground/background section reveals images of objects that have been captured up close, but then have a blurred background. These pictures reveal a lot of change in exposure/contrast and they truly show how everyday necessities can have interesting shapes and appearances from different angles.   

Leading Lines 

Repetition

Foreground/Background

Combo Images

These categories of images portray an idea of self-expression when striving to find different objects around the street that represents triangular, circular, rectangular, and combo objects. The goal of this project was to travel around the streets and excel in creating different shapes out of everyday uses. These pictures introduce the varying shapes in contrast and different lights of exposure. The images below signify change in shade and angles when they were taken. 

Triangular Shapes