2018
Assignment8_KendraC
Assignment 7 – CullenS
For Spring break, I took a trip down to Toronto and Montreal! I have a ton of pictures but here are a few that I recently edited that I really liked. The best part of the trip for me was by far the restaurants and the Montreal Bio-dome, as well as the Ripley Aquarium in Toronto.
Assignment 8_JosefS
Photos taken on Canon Rebel T3 with 135mm lens
Assignment 8_GeorgiaS
Editing with HDR using images taken on a Google Pixel 2 XL.
Assignment 8-SydneyH
Assignment 8 – TateY
Having never captured images for HDR or edited for the HDR look, I was mainly just interested in experimenting with what I could do to the images and if I could create something that I liked. Personally, I really dislike over-the-top HDR photos as I think it makes everything look way too cheesy and overdone, but at times a bit of this effect can look nice. I was not going for the look where everything was evenly exposed, but rather make it so theres still clearly some contrast and depth to the images. Even though I’m not a huge fan of HDR, I do like that so much more of the image as a whole can be played with and I can make more drastic edits without sacrificing quality.
Assignment 8 – CullenS
This is my first time experimenting with HDR, certainly interested in seeing what I could do in the future! These are images taken in the IMRC building of an overhead window.
Assignment 8 – SarahS
My process for creating my HDR photo was: Take 3 different exposures, merge together with Photoshop, roughly edit in Photoshop, export and re-import into Lightroom, edit in Lightroom using masks and split toning.
If you look at the other HDR photos I’ve included in this post, they all have a similar tone. I liked playing around with images that have slight movement, which was easy to capture with fidgety kittens as my subject. 
Assignment 8 – Lucas Adair
This scene doesn’t work very well for the HDR assignment – I also didn’t play with any of the crazy filters because I thought scene was weird enough.
Using the 5D Mk. III built in HDR functionality and the “natural” effect – which I think is no effect/filter. The 5D also includes the Art filters, Standard, Vivid, Bold, and Embossed which drastically changes the HDR image.
This scene I think could have been better for the HDR assignment, but I didn’t have the time or space to setup a tripod in the DPC third floor stairwell. I experimented with many more of the effects in the 5D and choose Art Standard for these photos. I would like to get some of them into the Nik software and play with the same photos there.
Assignment 6 – SarahS
Story Proposal: Abandonment.
Canon Rebel T3i
My Roommate is recently going through some major life changes which are requiring him to be out of town for an extended period of time. This is a story of a man who is going through radical change, the un-willful abandonment of one life for another.
I edited these photos in Lightroom to be grainy and faded (a bit gray) on purpose. I think it reflects the mood of uncertainty and dismay.
Assignment 4 – SarahS
This was just me trying to play around with the shutter speed on my camera. I used a Canon T3i Rebel, I think my slowest shutter speed was around 1/8 and my fastest was 1/60. I tried to find a lighter to use as a prop as well, but somehow all the ones in my apartment have disappeared!
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3/26/18
Photo Quotes
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But I wonder, what else do “they” say? In order to find out I’ve culled together the best quotes on the subject of photography. I hope they inspire you.
- “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
— Destin Sparks - “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
— Ansel Adams
- “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
— Alfred Stieglitz - “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank - “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous - “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
— Aaron Siskind - “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
— Ralph Hattersley - “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz
- “You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”
— Unknown - “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
— Don McCullin - “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
— Edward Steichen - “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro - “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
— Andy Warhol - “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
— Diane Arbus
- “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt - “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
— Scott Lorenzo - “If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
— Eve Arnold - “A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.”
— Anonymous
- “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
— Dorothea Lange - “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
— Sam Abell - “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”
— Gilles Peress - “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus - “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
— Marc Riboud - “Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.”
— Anonymous - “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
— Ambrose Bierce - “Photography is truth.”
— Jean-Luc Godard
- “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
— Annie Leibovitz - “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
— Linda McCartney - “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
— Ansel Adams - “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
— Diane Arbus - “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
— Elliott Erwitt - “One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.”
— Annie Leibovitz - “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
- “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
— Irving Penn - “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
— Matt Hardy - “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt - “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
— Ansel Adams - “When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”
— Anonymous - “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
— Annie Leibovitz - “I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
— Diane Arbus - “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon - “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
— Susan Sontag - “I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
— Wayne Miller
- “I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”
— Bruce Gilden - “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”
— Jim Richardson - “When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.”
— Annie Leibovitz - “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
— Steve McCurry - “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
— Yousuf Karsh
- “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
— Susan Meiselas - “Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
— Tony Benn - “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
— Alfred Eisenstaedt - “I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
— Ellen Von Unwerth - “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
— Peter Adams - “Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
— Unknown
- “Only photograph what you love.”
— Tim Walker - “In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
— August Sander - “When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.”
— Wynn Bullock - “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
— Yousuf Karsh - “It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”
— James Lalropui Keivom - “Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”
— Anonymous - “Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
— Imogen Cunningham
About the author: Tammy Jean Lamoureux is a photographer, artist & gypsy based out of Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA. You can see more of her work on her website. This article was originally published by Curated Quotes here.
Assignment 7 – TateY
For spring break I spent some time at home and took some shots around the house, of my chicken, and of a fire I made because fire is always something I enjoy photographing. There really wasn’t any rhyme or reason to my shots, but rather I was more interested in trying to tell a story through a photograph, like the scene of the fire, or the feeling I get when at home on a Sunday morning with my parents. For the chicken photos, it was warm out and our chicken was feeling pretty happy, so she wandered over to our door and hopped up – this was the first time the chicken had ever stepped inside the house. She was clearly pretty amused by the whole ordeal.
Assignment5_Lizzyg
This was my most difficult assingment in this class. It was really difficult for me to learn how to import/export from my computer to lightroom in a way where I could get the 20/20 image. Learning how to use lightroom has been the most difficult portion of this class. After this assingment however, I have a much greater understanding of how lightroom and adobe photoshop operate. I feel as though some of my photos do not always capture the message I was trying to send out.
Assignment 7 – SarahS
These were pictures taken from my Spring Break trip to Savannah. I had to take them on my Google Pixel 2 because I didn’t have time to check out a camera from the IMRC.
Assignment6_AdamM
My girlfriend, Julia has been getting into sewing. So far, she has sewn her first quilt, she’s sewn pillow shams, and is now sewing lanyards. She has developed a passion for sewing and creating and I’ve enjoyed watching her progress. Lately, she’s been selling lanyards as a way to make some extra cash and she has made an impressive amount of money in a short amount of time.
I’ve taken some pictures of her, her sewing, and the lanyards she’s created to capture the process of creating something she’s passionate about and how that isn’t always going to be easy. My favorite picture is the one of her sitting next to the sewing machine with her head rested in the palm of her hand. In that moment, she was flustered as her sewing machine wasn’t working properly and she couldn’t understand why. After some encouragement, she was back at it.
Assignment6_Lizzyg
I decided to tell the story of my families trip from Portland ME to Boston. It was amazing to see the trip through the eyes of my little brother. I got to see the beauty and wonder that a child would see going from a small Maine hometown to a big unknown city. I also thought it would be somewhat comical to tell the story of the difference in donut preference between my family. We went to two different donut places. It was a beatiful day in the city, there were no clouds in sight. Our trip to Boston was a great way to spend time with my family.
Assignment7_CleoB
All of these were unfortunately taken with my Android phone. I spent most of spring break in Lisbon, Portugal but did not bring my camera since I was afraid it might get stolen. Even with my phone, it was difficult to get good shots because if I stood still for too long, I ran the risk of being approached by yet another man selling cheap sunglasses or drugs. I just hope that the vibrancy of the city can speak for itself through these images despite the circumstances.
REVISION Assignment6_ElizabethD
My idea for my story is following the guy that has appeared in my other photos doing his aerial straps training. There is a lot of passion that has to go with learning this skill it hurts, and can cause career-ending injuries. A cirque performer died just a few days ago doing the most mundane of this on this apparatus. You can see the work he puts into his skill, even with just the cuts, bruises, and bandaids on his arms. But once he gets home, he’s a regular person, just wanting to relax and play some video games.
Assignment6_ChrisK
This is the narrative of a sleeping household.
Over spring break, I was fortunate enough to spend some time with some close family friends at their log cabin in Eastern Maine. One night, while I was up late with not much to do, I noticed that the log cabin had a very special quality having to do with peace and tranquility. It reminded me a lot of the saying “not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” Surely, not even a mouse would dare to stir simply because of the cats, Violet (not pictured) and Zoe, lounging about in the heat of the burning wood stove.
I sincerely hope that this narrative appeals to most people who experience it. I think that, just by taking time to look at the images, and the details within them, each individual will be able to feel sleepiness and peace that comes along with low, warm lighting, the fire, and relaxing kitties.
Assignment 6 – TateY
Idea 1 – Less Reliance
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my parents, it’s to appreciate the little things and to rely on yourself sometimes, even if that means making life a little bit harder – let me explain. I grew up in a house in the middle the woods. Our neighbors are each at least a half mile away, and the silence at times can be deafening. We have terrible cell service. Internet and cable companies don’t provide service to us because of our rural location, and it’s a 15 minute ride to the grocery store.
This location isn’t ideal for many people. But among the few that feel that this is the perfect location, my parents are two of them. They built their home, which I fortunately got to grow up in, on their own (with the help of some friends) 28 years ago and have since been doing small but effective things to lessen their reliance on others. They each do their own part to grow food in the garden, cut wood from our property to heat our house (our primary and only source for heat up until 2016 has been wood), raise chickens for eggs, pickle and can food the winter, and collect and boil sap to make maple syrup. Obviously, we aren’t homesteaders or totally self sufficient, for we as a family still are very much relying on others, technology, modern-society institutions and systems etc. However, what has inspired me – more so in recent years – is the fact that even though it might be easier to buy all our food at the grocery store, install heaters that run on natural gas or oil, and be closer to the center of town, my parents have deliberately chosen not to do so. They believe that even if it makes life a bit harder, it makes it richer and certainly more lively. I plan to capture these kinds of activities and show that it indeed does make life richer.
The audience for this narrative are people who are interested in self-reliance, homesteading, or long for a more “back to the land” life, as well as my family and friends.
Idea 2 – The Hikades
*Note: Because Tim Hikade and his wife are having another baby and the due date was during spring break, I was unable to meet with him or the family to take photos, however I visited the brewery, pub, and restaurant to give at least some sense of place*
Of the number of people that inspire me, the entire Hikade family of Blue Hill are certainly on that list. John and Beth Hikade started Arborvine Restaurant about 20 years ago, and since then have established a state-famous fine dining experience on Main Street in Blue Hill. Their two sons, Andrew and Tim have since taken over most of the business and a number of other parts to the business have been added on. The Hikade Family as a whole have founded and own Arborvine, a fine-dining restaurant, Deepwater Brewing Company, a three barrel micro-brewery run on solar energy, Deepwater Brew Pub, a pub that features the beers they brew and classic pub fare, and Moveable Feasts, a catering business that mainly serves smaller to medium sized gatherings, such as wedding or cocktail parties, but have also done larger gatherings such as a lobster bake for 750 people. The entire family works day in and day out to keep the business running smoothly, and the food they make is absolutely incredible.
If I were to choose this idea, my plan would be to capture their hard work, the various aspects of the family businesses, and then ultimately the pay off – watching customers smile and enjoy what they have to offer. The audience for this would be the Hikade family, their customers, the local population in and around the Blue Hill Peninsula, and people interested in starting a micro brewery, restaurant, pub, etc.
Assignment 7_GeorgiaS
This is a shot I tried to take when crossing the Piscataqua River Bridge heading home for Spring Break. My camera can focus pretty quickly, however there was still some blur due to the movement of the car.
The rest of these pictures were from my trip to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. This first image is of an interesting metal reflective sculpture in the lobby of the museum. The second was a happy accident when my roommate decided to walk behind me and I was able to catch her reflection in the facets of the sculpture.
The next exhibit shows some writing and graffiti found in the Yin Tang house that was built during the Qing Dynasty in China. It is a snapshot, literally in this case, of how one family lived for several generations, spanning three centuries.
This last image was from my absolute favorite exhibit called “All the Flowers Are For Me” by Anila Quayyum Agha. It displays intricate Persian and Turkish architecture that casts shadows through a singular bulb housed in a steel cube. There was zero editing done to this image, which should convey just how breathtaking this room is in person.
Assignment 6_TylerR
Narrative Ideas:
The process of recording an EP.
I think it would be interesting to document the different stages of recording multiple songs over a couple of sessions. This is a subject I’m pretty passionate about and believe that I could capture an accurate representation of the mood and hard work that goes into it. I think anyone who enjoys music would be interested in how a local artist records and creates their music to be listened to by the public. There would be an abundance of opportunities to create a compelling storyline from to live playing to decision making.
The changing of the seasons.
For this idea, I would possibly take a picture in the same exact spot at the same time each day or couple of days to represent the change of the seasons. This would allow the viewer to see the environment change around them as well as the light shift if each picture was taken at a time close to sunset. A more creative approach to this idea would be to take a step in a particular direction with each photograph taken. I think anyone who is interested in nature or time lapses would like to view this project.
Assignment7_JosefS
For these photos I took over break I wanted to prototype my narrative. I was trying to convey a journey of discovery, with a person intending to go on a trip only to have their car break down, stranding them. While this is initially frustrating, being stranded helps them to see the beauty around them.
Assignment 6_GeorgiaS
Narrative Ideas:
-Cataloging my daily routine, as possibly mundane as it sounds. But everyone is unique, so the possibility of displaying my individual journeys throughout the day may be an interesting route. This may range from my countless walks in between classes, lunch with roommates, and extracurricular activities when I ought to be doing homework assignments.
-Capturing my walk through the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Ma. The exhibits within are incredible, and photographing that experience will interest art enthusiasts and laypersons alike. And the wide range of art pieces and angles to said works are likely to spark interest in at least some.
-My mother has had diabetes since she was eleven years old, and over the past year she had collected each of her supplies needed to taking insulin and testing her blood sugar. She then put some of these items in jars and has displayed them in our house, showcasing just how much goes into keeping someone with diabetes alive, and the physical waste that comes with that from needles to test strips. This will interest audiences with diabetes or to those who know of someone with this condition, and show them just how much goes into maintaining their health. Now imagine that amount of supplies times another 40+ years…
Assignment6_LizT
Revision:
This new story idea is something I thought of by seeing an image of a girl looking in a mirror on the internet. I really liked how it captured her face even though the camera was pointed at her back. I decided I wanted to experiment with this, but I wanted to put my own personal spin on it. I really enjoy being in the woods, because I have spent much of my childhood and teenage years out in the forest whenever I get some free time. My parents have always taken me out to look for animals, and we own a farm that is now mostly forest, and some of my favorite summer activities are running around in the woods there. Because of this, I wanted to capture the feel of the space around you when you are in a forest. When you spend a lot of time there, you tend to notice things that others don’t notice at first glance like the layers of trees, branches, colors, ground, etc. I thought that a unique way to capture that would be to take a mirror into the woods and take pictures of the woods through the mirror.
Here are some of the first photos I took:
As I was playing with editing these, I found that I could make either just the mirror in color, and the rest of the space black and white, or the mirror black and white and the rest of the background in color. This gave me an interesting idea of a doorway into a new world. I knew that I needed to have a narrative that changed over time, and I thought that the perfect way to do this would be to have my friend act as a model who is walking through the woods, in a black and white world, and she discovers a mirror that seems to be in color. She uses this mirror as a door way into a colored world, which she enters and decides to leave the dull black and white world behind her.
Here are some of the edited photos:
OLD POST:
Polaroid storyboard:
I recently obtained a Polaroid CoolCam 600 camera and have quickly become obsessed. I love the way that the camera catches everything in one shot, mistakes and all. I think it would be interesting to try to capture a story from a literal “storyboard”, where I would take a bunch of polaroids and piece them together to tell a story. I was debating either taking a lot of abstract photos of random things and using the larger picture storyboard to create something different, or to take photos in a certain order of an event unfolding to create a story, like taking a picture of a growing flower (if the snow ever melts) once a day to see how it evolves over time.
Capturing my different personalities.
I have noticed that there seem to be three starkly different personalities that exist inside of me. Sporty, girlie, and kind of “rockish/punk” (if that makes sense) I feel like it could be an interesting project to capture these different personalities as they pop up during the day, whether it be in the clothes I decide to wear, the music I decide to listen to, the way I perform a task or the general actions I do every day. This might be challenging because it can be hard to photograph yourself, and usually, I get so caught up in my busy day to day schedule that things can get mundane and routine, but I think I would be up for the challenge. (Additionally, I recently lost all my clothes and belongings in a fire, so it will be hard to create this with the things I do have. But that could be another angle, how I rebuild my three selves after losing everything).
Making time for art.
As mentioned before, I tend to fall into mundane routines in my busy days. Because of this, my art takes the back burner, and I don’t get to spend a lot of time on it. I really enjoy sketching, drawing, watercolor painting, things of that nature. It is one of my goals to start working on my art again, whenever I get the chance. I think it would be interesting to capture all the different areas that art can take place and all the different places that I find a few minutes to make something, by taking pictures of my surroundings and my art in that time. This story idea will challenge me to actually find time for my art, and challenge me to find unique ways to capture my own creations.
Assignment3_LizT
Comment on Elizabeth D Assignment 1
Elizabeth, your pictures of the dancer are gorgeous! The dark shadows contrasted with the few streaks of light bring the focus completely on the dancer himself and make me wonder how the light changes as he moves. It provides mystery and elegance, and the ropes he is working with are captured in just a way to make him almost look like a puppet, being controlled by something off the frame. I like the decision to keep the photos in color too because they are almost a natural sepia effect and bring the differences between the light dancer and the dark background to life. Great job!
Comment on Sarah Assignment 1:
Sarah, I really like how each of your sets of photos have different lighting and different moods. It shows how subtle things like angle and light can completely alter how a photo is looked at. The photos of the cats and the rugs are warm and give off a cozy feel to them because they are up close and in focus with fuzzy things, which is contrasted with the hard, metallic looks of the mailboxes and the yellow, eery light of the parking lot at night. Well done!
Comment on Claudio Assignment 2:
Claudio,
I really enjoyed your collections of portraits. I am especially drawn to the photo of the cold water divers. The way the photo captures the divers in their element, ready to submerge themselves into an entirely new world brings about a sense of future discovery and mystery of what lies beneath. It must be something intriguing for them to brave the temperatures! I love the cold hues of this photo as well because it accurately depicts the coldness of the scene. Finally, I love how the focus is on the diver in the front, stepping into the water and looking out at their partner, who is preparing to place the goggles over their face and dive. The photo really tells a story!
Comment on Tate Assignment 2:
Tate, these portraits are truly well done. The stark contrast between the sharp focus of the faces and the bokeh effect in the background really allows a concentration of each individual’s expressions. They are unique and provide subtle insight into each person’s personality. Additionally, even though the focus is sharp on their faces, the outdoor light and exposure provide a soft, clear and bright light on their faces that is pleasing to look at. Well done!
Assignment7_LizT
The front door of our new house has a glass pattern that scatters small rainbows on our cabinets nearby, and I took this photo on my phone on my way out to classes. ISO 32 — 4.15 mm –f/2.2 — 1/120 sec
These two photos were taken at my new apartment. I was taking a bunch of photos as my roommates and I were moving things in and out of the house. These were my two favorites of the set. I like how the first one has multiple things like doors and stairs in it because I feel like it could symbolize all the different new beginnings leading to new things when moving into a new house, especially after losing a lot. ISO 500 — 18 mm — f/3.5 — 1/40 sec
I like this photo because I feel like it is simplistic. All our new house has in it is a few pieces of furniture that were donated to us, so its very bare, and this photo kind of captured it. ISO 800 — 18 mm — f/3.5 — 1/30 sec
This photo was taken when I was visiting my boyfriend. His dad’s house has really tall, thin trees surrounding it, and one morning I saw the sun shining through them and wanted to try to capture the happiness and warm fuzziness of the morning (as warm as a winter morning could be) The optimized version of this photo makes it really pixelated, but I liked how the trees draw your eyes up into the sky. ISO 100 — 18 mm — f/8.0 –1/200 sec
This photo was taken by accident because I forgot that I had turned autofocus off. But I enjoy the way it reflects the fuzziness I mentioned earlier, and really focuses on the light throughout the photo. ISO 100 — 47 mm –f/5.6 –1/2500 sec
I am always drawn to sunsets. Whenever I have access to a camera and I see a sunset I almost always take a photo. ISO 25 — 4.15 mm –f/2.2 –1/4000 sec (this was taken on my phone)
Assignment7_KendraC
Assignment 6_SydneyHallowell
Unfortunately, I was a fool and tagged this post as Assignment 6_17.
Proposal 1:
I am considering creating a multi-photo narrative of a student pulling an all-nighter. I think it is relatable for all in the class. To show change and the passage of time, I will utilize the natural light of the sun. As late afternoon becomes early evening which shifts to late at night, the photos will capture the mentality of a student who is stressed and lacking in sleep. For instance, earlier in the evening the snacks will be healthy, but as the night wears the student will begin snacking on junk food and getting weird.
Proposal 2:
I will document my hometown of Cape Elizabeth. I will visit the old haunts that I frequented, and hopefully, it will show the progression of how I’ve aged. The narrative will be how the town looks different as one age. It will be a sequence of photos, and hopefully, I’ll be able to play with light and shadow. There is some weird, lovely nostalgia that I get driving my hometown. Ideally, I want to make it nostalgic and dreamy.
Assignment6_ChristianS
My ideas are…
-Documenting the coming snow storm and taking pictures of snow builds up
-Documenting a day skiing at Loon mountain with my brothers
-Taking pictures of the Maple syrup making process from sap collection to drawing off syrup
Assignment6_KendraC
My first choice is to photograph a young woman who wears elaborate make up everyday. She uses it as a form of self expression. I wanted to focus on how the make up represents who she is and how the public, in her job at a pizzeria, reacts to her self expression.
The audience for this piece would be the people she interacts with, the local population who might encounter her and people who enjoy human interest stories because this is taking a peak into her world and why she uses extravagant make up to express her self. I’m still in contact with her so I don’t have any pictures to post at this time.
My second choice is to photograph my sister becoming a first time mother. I would feature photos from late in her pregnancy to her baby being born in the hospital and after as she learns how to take care of a baby.
The audience who would be interested in this are mothers and expectant mothers because they have an emotional interest in the story. People who enjoy stories about life transitions, having a baby is a huge life change and some people enjoy watching how people’s life unfolds during a transitional time such as having a baby.
Assignment 6_CleoB
A Day in the Life
My water bottle goes everywhere I go. For some people their “must have” item is their phone, but this is mine. Everyone needs water to live, which makes the object a metaphor for life. I was thinking I could do a “day in the life” story of my water bottle and everywhere it goes on a typical day, and capture the photos in a way that personifies it. This would make it relatable to everyone who is just trying to get through their day, and survive their college career to emerge on the other side with a degree and some good memories. The audience would be the community of college students, who could identify parallels between their day-to-day rhythms and this story and realize that we’re all in it together.
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Emotional Contrast
For this topic, I would like to explore themes of community/belonging and loneliness/isolation. I thought it might be interesting to do this by using objects in different settings. For example, a bunch of shoes in a crowd, and then one shoe left all by itself somewhere. The story could be developed through a variety of subjects and settings, and could form a narrative that transitions from negative emotions to positive ones. The audience would be people who are interested in more abstract or artistic representations of the human experience, rather than concrete “true” stories.
Assignment6_ADuggan
Miller was a UMass Amherst police horse who was retired when they could no longer keep the police horse program going. He’s new to living in Westhampton Massachusetts where his new caretakers live. He’s never lived in a herd of horses before so he is new to the entire experience of making friends and horsing around. Miller is only 6 years old which is young for a horse but he’s a big guy! He is a Belgian Draft horse known for their height and wide body type. The horses he’s moving in with are smaller than Miller and don’t really like him. He’s been a loner for a few weeks.
This past week Miller was feeling braver than usual and decided to try and play with the little guys. They were hesitant at first but in the end, they started to play with Miller and race around the snow-covered pastures. Miller has never been happier, he’s now accepted into the herd and is loving retirement. He even became best friends with one of the other horses and they are now inseparable.
Maryanne and Brian had decided that they had, had enough of living in Massachusetts and wanted to move to New Hampshire where they originally fell in love. They went searching for their new home in December 2017. They both debated on many things such as buying just land and build their own home or buying a home that was already built. They also wondered if they would be able to build their dream home, a log cabin.
They were invited to come to the wilds of New Hampshire and hike through the woods to see a log cabin that had been already built. They began their trek through the forest climbing over trees and through the snow to see this potential home. The journey was not easy but it was worth the trip. They saw the house and new it was the perfect home for them to live out the rest of their days. “This is home.” said Maryanne, and they lived happily ever after.
Assignment 6_CullenS Revision
Story Proposals:
- Haircutting.
- Just showing the process of going through a regular haircut with some of my friends. It’s a mixture of laughing, critique and just repetitive work. I think that the main audience would just be people who are interested in both witnessing processes and haircutting. When you get a haircut it’s a long process, where don’t really get to see the entire progression all at once. I think photo’s would be a good way to shorten a haircut and make it look interesting.
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The End
- Just showing the process of going through a regular haircut with some of my friends. It’s a mixture of laughing, critique and just repetitive work. I think that the main audience would just be people who are interested in both witnessing processes and haircutting. When you get a haircut it’s a long process, where don’t really get to see the entire progression all at once. I think photo’s would be a good way to shorten a haircut and make it look interesting.
- Visiting the Aquarium
- The subject would just display all the different exhibits at the aquarium. From beginning to the end, including the progress of walking through the building. Although the story isn’t something outwardly deep or grabbing. I think just showing the wonderment and variety in a aquarium is something really special.
Lurking 
Wonder 
Deep Purple
- The subject would just display all the different exhibits at the aquarium. From beginning to the end, including the progress of walking through the building. Although the story isn’t something outwardly deep or grabbing. I think just showing the wonderment and variety in a aquarium is something really special.
- Trip in Canada
- I think this would be a really cool project to make. I’m taking a trip to Montreal, and then Toronto over spring break. It’s the first, long road trip that my girlfriend and I will ever take together and I can see a lot of different interactions resulting from that. I think the audience would be people interested in traveling, my personal life, and in adventure in general. I think people would be particularly interested in this for a few reasons. It shows an adventure, progress and personal connection. The traveling alone is an adventure, but also seeing the adventure between the interactions of two people would be really fascinating.
Pick-Up 
Concrete Sea 
Daily Commute EDIT – Added pictures roughly showing what a fully fleshed out piece would resemble.
- I think this would be a really cool project to make. I’m taking a trip to Montreal, and then Toronto over spring break. It’s the first, long road trip that my girlfriend and I will ever take together and I can see a lot of different interactions resulting from that. I think the audience would be people interested in traveling, my personal life, and in adventure in general. I think people would be particularly interested in this for a few reasons. It shows an adventure, progress and personal connection. The traveling alone is an adventure, but also seeing the adventure between the interactions of two people would be really fascinating.
Assignment6_JosefS
For my narrative project, there are three stories that I would like to create via photography. The first, would be a series of photos that represent a spiritual journey through a physical journey. This would take the form of a series of photos that begin with very industrial or mechanical photos and end with photos in a natural setting. For the second narrative, I want to do a “Day in the life of” series of photos. For the third narrative, I want to tell a few separate stories that are contained in single images that are related by the same emotion being expressed.
Assignment6_AdamD
I have a couple of story proposals, but all of them hinge on events that have not happened yet.
- My first idea hinges on going to Atlanta for Spring Break. My girlfriend and I are going to be looking for apartments, and we decided to do the City Pass, which gets us into the Georgia Aquarium, the CNN studio, the Atlanta Zoo, World of Coca-Cola (which we aren’t going to do), and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. The photos would be taken over the course of the week.
- My next idea has to do with the women’s basketball game on Friday against Hartford. They would be playing for a shot to reach the NCAA tournament, so this game is a really big deal.
- My third idea involves the snowstorm we are supposed to be getting on Wednesday night into Thursday. I’m hoping to get different buildings and capture the snow in the streetlights.
Assignment5_TateY
Overall I like to keep my edits pretty minimal unless I’ve dramatically underexposed or overexposed a photo, or I think a heavy edit to create a certain effect might look interesting. I typically brighten the shadows, brighten the whites and darken the blacks, adjust the white balance to what I remember the scene feeling like, and add a little bit of saturation and vibrance. I’ve also been experimenting lately with split-toning and how I can create a “film-like” look if I make the shadows and highlights have a tint that might not be exactly how the scene looked but creates a different feel that mimics how film photography looks to me. I always finish off my photos with adding some sharpness and a slight vignette if I think the photo might need a little more focus on the center of the photo.
Assignment5_CleoB
This is a view in Shenandoah last summer — I wanted to capture the vibrancy of the sunset more accurately as it is seen by the eye.
A caterpillar in the Kinsbrae Garden in St. Andrews, NB. Again, I enhanced the colors and contrast to make the image more visually striking as it would appear when you first notice it.
Acadia in early October. Again, some editing makes the colors more natural where the camera settings washed them out in the original photo.
Acadia. This photo was pretty dark, so I played with the whites/blacks and exposure. However, the difference appeared more pronounced in Lightroom than in the uploaded version.
Acadia. I took more liberties with lighting and color to give the image a more mysterious mood.
Cyrus Pavilion behind Fogler. The fall photos I take are never as vibrant as I would like, and this time I played with individual hues to adjust the color balance.
Sunrise over York Hall. Sunrise and sunset photos almost never come out with the proper color balance, so this was an attempt to remedy that.
Leaf trapped in the ice from Assignment 1. I wanted to make this as crisp and striking as possible, which included increasing the vibrancy of the orange to make it stand out.
Flowing water from Assignment 4. The aperture setting did not let enough light in, so I increased the exposure considerably when editing to bring out more of the details. The image is still not as high quality as I would like because the lighting was not sufficient originally.
Leaves between Androscoggin and the rec center from class time on Feb. 15. Increasing contrast and other elements improved the photo somewhat, but even the post-production version still appears out of focus.
Assignment5_LizT
Revision: Added captions
In this first photo, I thought it would be nice to try to bring out some of the colors. This was taken in winter when the trees and plants were still mostly dead, so I thought to increase the saturation and the luminance and vibrancy of the green in the photos would make it pop. I also wanted to lighten it a bit more, because the trees in the foreground gave the photo a dark kind of feel. Overall, I really like this photo because of the way the trees guide the viewer to the deer, who seem to be busy looking at something else.
This second photo I took back at the end of the summer before the first semester. I wanted to edit it because it is one of my favorite photos, as sunflowers are my favorite flower. In the original, I thought the colors were kind of washed out because it was a relatively bright day. Because of this, I decided to darken and saturate the colors of the photos to really make them pop and contrast with one another.
When playing with editing this one, I noticed that you can alter just specific colors of photos. I was playing with how the orange and the red of the building looked, and discovered that by increasing the luminosity of the orange, I was able to alter the photo to make it look like it was taken almost at sunset, with golden sunlight hitting it, instead of the middle of the afternoon where the bricks were mostly washed out. I also liked how this upped the contrast of the blue reflection of the sky in all the windows, because to me it made them stand out more.
I took this photo in Quebec, at Montmorency Falls. The mist from the waterfall, not pictured here, was being struck by the light of the sun and was creating a rainbow as the light refracted through the water. I really wanted to bring the colors of the rainbow out and make it the focal of the picture. However, I noticed that there were a lot of details in this photo behind the rainbow as well, in the ice and stairs of the walkway on the hill behind it. I increased the blacks and contrast in this photo to really set some heavy dark lines and accentuate how detailed the photo is.
This edit happened by accident. I was playing around with the saturation like I was doing for the sunflower picture, and I decided to go over and look at some of the presets that Lightroom already has. I was looking at the vintage ones when I accidentally clicked on black and white. I immediately was drawn to how the image seemed to invert, and how even though the colors were gone, you could still distinguish between all the flowers and the grass. I also really liked how once I made the photo darker, it seemed to change the feel of the photo to something darker and more ominous, like the remnants of a beautiful flower field.
Sunset photos are my favorite to take and work with. I am always drawn to trying to make them look as beautiful as they are to the human eye, and in order to do that with this photo, I had to increase the exposure and saturation to bring out all the colors. I also liked how then you could see me in the mirror of the car taking the picture because it was nice to see how I placed in the setting and highlights how this picture was taken in a moving car.
This was a favorite photo of the ones I took at a Paramore concert in Boston. I captured this photo by accident because I was just pointing and shooting with my phone. I really loved how the lights drew lines outward from the center where the band was for your eyes to follow.I thought that the colors in the photo were kind of dull, and this did not capture the energy, excitement, and overall feel of how Paramore is at a show. So, I decided to change the temperature of the photo to increase the blues in the photo, making the photo pop even more.
I really liked brightly colored images. By the time I was editing this photo I realized that increasing the saturation so that colors really pop out is a style that I really enjoy using. I liked how even in the background, in between the branches, you can see that the dark shadows and the path behind the bush all seem green as well, and it makes the photo seem wilder and full of life than before when it was duller.
After using a black and white filter for the flower images, I realized that this photo would be pretty cool to try black and white. I really like how the branches cut across the sky as a shadow, so that you are looking at the negative space between them and it’s not a conventional way to look at a tree. I wanted to change it from color to black and white so there could be more focus on the pattern and the lines of the picture than the color of the sky behind it.
I really like this picture, and when I took it, it was the first sunny day we had seen in a while. I was walking through the woods and felt at peace, warm with sunlight. I wanted to capture that here in this image, with the sun rays coming through the branches, and the branches answering with their own reaching out from the central log. In order to portray this idea more clearly, I upped the temperature of this photo to make it warmer. I also really liked the sun flare that I captured on the log because it adds a pop of color that you know is from just the sunlight, so it’s capturing something usually unseen.
Revision: new edits
I was drawn to this bridge while walking under it in downtown Bangor. I really like trying to find leading lines in everyday settings, and I found that the way this bridge curved in contrast with the straight line of the building and the connecting lines of the wires were very interesting. This photo was relatively dark when I started, so I decided to increase the exposure to bring out some of the light underneath the bridge and get rid of the shadow. I also wanted to bring up the color, because colorful photos are prettier to me.
This is one of the photos I used for my final. The original picture has a very dark background, that is hidden in shadow, and the colors are washed out because of the bright sun. I increased the exposure and lowered the shadows so that we could see more of the texture and detail of the forest behind the mirror. I also made the image warmer, because it seemed more inviting and nicer to look at, and really brought out the colors.
This photo was really fun to edit, because it was the one that made me discover where I wanted to go with the photo narrative. While trying to use a focal circle to just increase the exposure of the mirror, I realized that in that circle I could decrease the saturation enough so that it was in black and white. I then inverted the circle, so that all the edits were outside and the original color was on the inside of the mirror. I thought this was so intruiging because it looks like a portal to a different, more colorful world, and highlights the idea that the mirror can show us things we don’t normally see. I also increased the saturation of the color in the mirror, to make it stand out against the black and white even more.
Assignment5_KendraC
This picture was taken on the Hudson and Corinth town line. I thought it would be interesting to increase the yellow hues and make the image look a little weathered.
This picture was taken at Christmas. It features my cousin Riley and my other cousins daughter. I thought making the picture black and white would give it a timeless appeal. I increased the blacks in the picture and softened the clarity to make it look more like a portrait.
This photo was taken with a 300 mm lens. It is kind of shaky but I wanted to see what colors I could get out of the sky so I increased the color saturations. I used a graduated filter to increase exposure on the bottom of the photo.
This is one of the new born pictures of my baby niece. I caught her smile just perfectly while looking at the light through the window, probably just gas. I like the way the light looks in black and white. I increased the shadows and darks in the photo and increased the exposure. I decreased the clarity to give her skin a soft look.
This photo was taken of the apple trees at the Treworgy’s farm in Levant. I wanted to capture the colors of the sky with the colors of the trees. I increased the color saturation in the reds, yellows and blues.
This picture was taken in a field in Corinth. I liked the way the sun was setting through the trees. I really wanted to see what kinds of yellows and blues I could get out of this photo so I increased the hue in each. I also increased the shadows to make the trees look more like a silhouette.
I tried taking a picture of the moon at 300 mm but I didn’t get the clarity I wanted. I tried increasing the clarity, whites and shadows. There wasn’t much color in this photo to work with so I focused on trying to get the right light.
This photo is cropped in of the moon and I decided to insert color in the photo. The blue makes it look almost like a supernova in space.
Assignment 5_Cullen S
This image was taken at the Bangor Rock and Art shop, I used Lightroom to really make the colors pop and make the photo feel warm.
This was a shot of downtown Bangor, I wanted to take the photo and make it look a little older and more detailed.
This was another shot in downtown Bangor, I used Lightroom to make the photo feel a bit brighter.
The photo was dull before, so I used some editing to make the colors come out a bit more.
This was a favorite image of mine from downtown, I used editing to make the light seem a bit more interesting. Unfortunately, it seems like Lightroom affected the quality of some of the pictures.
This was a photo I made using a tripod while I cut my friends hair. I decided to use Lightroom to try and make the photo make a little bit more interesting.
My jacket hung up on a wall, I used Lightroom to try and show the differences of blues in my jacket and the wall.
This is one of my favorite photos I took from a day trip to Bar Harbor. I just think all the colors blend very interestingly.
This was the first edit I did. My sister asked for her picture to be taken on a sunny day and I always have liked how it came out.
The last photo is another from my day trip to Bar Harbor. I used editing to really make the blue of the sky and ocean pop.
Assignment 3_GeorgiaS
Assignment1_SydneyH
I enjoy your creative perspectives, playing with shadow and light exposure in unconventional places for photography. The staircase image sticks out for its great patterns and depth. But I also love the dim and eerie picture of the hallway that gives the impression you are being pulled down into the image itself.
Assignment 1_AdamM
I love the work with color in all of your photos. The shots of the staircase in particular contrast nicely as if you handpicked the color palette yourself. The last picture I also enjoy particularly for the unexpected shocks of green amidst the stark white of snow and the dull trees. These were very well done.
Assignment 2 – SarahS
I absolutely love the unconventional direction to taking these pictures. And I agree with you on how shoes can house a lot about someone’s personality, therefore these can still be defined as portraits, which is great. Each are as unique as the person who had been wearing them, and the crisp layout of how you displayed the shoes simply and cleanly is very nice.
Assignment 2_TylerR
I like how these pictures aren’t framed in a conventional sense. Save for the image with the two individuals, the others have the subject off-center and/or not angled head-on. This gives a unique feel and perspective to the portraits, implying a nice narrative to the subjects.
Assignment3_CleoB
On Assignment1_LizT:
Liz, I’m really drawn to the photos of the fallen tree in the woods. The creative framing of the sunlight and the angles of all the branches work together to make a dynamic image. In one of your later photos, I love the contrast between the vibrant bands of the sunset and the off-center lamppost, which is much darker. The library ones are cool too — you found angles that show common spaces from perspectives that people don’t usually experience when they just go there to study.
On Assignment1_KendraC:
Kendra, I really like your use of light and shadow, especially in the cemetery photos. It adds to crisp images that bring to mind an element of time. This is evoked by the second photo of the moon and clouds as well. Nighttime photography can be difficult, but this one was really well done and the composition is balanced with just enough detail.
On Assignment2_AdamM:
If the person in the last photo is a chef, then food would be part of their identity, so maybe that would be a way to interpret a portrait differently. Regardless, the composition in that one is effective, and the colors work well together. I like the variety in this gallery — you show people from lots of different angles, and different parts of the body such as feet or forehead/hair. The use of lines in the second photo is cool too. They frame the subject’s face and give the photo a sense of motion without too much distraction.
On Assignment2_ColinR:
Colin, I like the range of expressions in your photos. Some of the subjects seem happier, while others seem sad or even suspicious. The expression in the third portrait is pretty unique and there could definitely be a story behind it, as with all of your subjects. And the tree in the background of the first photo, rather than distracting from the subject’s face, draws my eye to her and adds to the composition.
Assignment3_ElizabethD
On Assignnment1_AshleyD:
“I really like the photo of the fence/door (?) with the chipped paint. It seems as if there are really only two colours in the photo (plus black), but then you notice the bit of red rust on the latch and it really catches the eye as it compliments the green. Not entirely knowing what the object is being photographed as well as its cropping really makes me feel a sense of mystery. I want to know what is behind the door.”
On Assignment1_LizzyG:
“The photo of downtown Bangor without a car is really well done. It accurately conveys the feeling I get when I walk through the town. It is very beautiful, but it is also very empty. It has room for expansion. Not including the car really shows this. You even did this with the rule of thirds. A huge building takes up 2/3rds of the photo, but 1/3rd of the photo is open sky with the road disappearing over the horizon.”
On Assignment1_Claudio:
“The last photo is definitely my favourite photo. I love that the outside looks so cold and uninviting, but then the frosted and dingy glass makes the tropical paradise seem almost unattainable. Additionally, The only colour in this photo is from nature. The leaves on the ground are a nice brown/red, as are the clay pots. This contrasts really well with the greens and yellows of the plants indoors. Everything else is very grey and dull. The vibrant plants are walled off while the dead leaves are all that we can actually experience.”
On Assignment2_TateY
“The third photo is my favourite face that was photographed. I do like all of them, as they all have a great depth of field, but I think that one really speaks to me because of the vibrant colour. The subject is colourful, but it also goes very well with the background as well. The background seems like a backdrop, not a photo just taken on the street.”
Assignment 3_TateY
The following comments are from Assignment 1 and 2.
Assignment 1
Comment on TannerM’s photos:
Tanner, I love the style of your work. I appreciate you looking towards the smaller things and seeing the unique patterns around you. This was particularly useful for an assignment like this as we had limited amount of movement for each round of five shots. I struggle with that type of limitation and I appreciate seeing your creative approach to it. The honey comb pattern is really appealing because somehow it even has a blurred foreground and it adds some depth to it. Great job!
Comment on JoeS’s photos:
Joe, really great series of photos! I especially love the way my eyes are drawn in towards the end of the hall way (with the bookshelves). Great selection of leading lines there. I also like your creative approach to take a photo of something and take some behind the scenes shots. I think I took the assignment a bit too literally and I was glad to see that there are other ways to do it as you have shown. The shot with the books has a great depth of field. All around great job!
Assignment 2
Comment on ElizabethD’s photos:
Elizabeth, I really love the first two photos, especially the 2nd one. There is something very nice about how uniform the photo feels that makes me want to know more about his life. I could easily see the first two photos being used as a portrait to tell each person’s story. One more thing about the second photo. I think what makes it so beautifully composed is the fact that even though he is slightly off the “first third,” the rest of the frame is filled and feels very balanced. Well done!
Comment on Claudio’s photos:
Claudio, great work as always. Your photos all have great composition. My favorite would definitely be the black and white “secret meeting” one. It really jumps off the screen and feels very real. Your other photos are great as well, and the divers photos only leaves me wanting to see more. Nice job!
Assignment4_vanDuijn
Playing around with time and light 🙂
Assignment3_JosefS
Tyler, I really like the photograph you have of the older gentleman in the IMRC. It follows the rule of thirds well and has a crisp focus. While this may sound weird, it lets us see how his beard and the table feel. It also gives a little window in his personality, which straight-on portraits often have a hard time doing. The mood of this photo is very quiet, whether that is due to the muted color palette or the fact that he’s reading a book (or both), I have no idea. The ISO may be a little off as the photo looks kind of grainy on my monitor, but thats the only technical aspect of the photo I have to critique. You also could’ve wanted it to be grainy and messed with the ISO on purpose, if so, nice work. Overall a very solid photograph, keep on keeping on!
Tate, I would have to say my favorite of your photos has to be the close up of the Reversing Falls. The slow shutter speed you used really helped convey the speed of the water. Additionally, by keeping your focus on the gravel, you managed to establish an important thing with this photo. That being how you made this piece feel very “wet.” It sounds weird, saying that water looks wet, but stay with me here. You managed to capture more than just the fluidity of the water. Due to the overcast lighting and the varying moistness of the rocks, I can tell how humid and cold it was by the Reversing Falls. Another neat aspect of this photo is how the perspective can leave the viewer wondering where the photographer stood, which is always fun to play with. To us, it seems like you’re in the middle of the river. Nice work on the finely composed piece.
I believe your photo of the train bridge that focuses on the right side does a lot of things really well. The first being the relatively high shutter speed you used. By using such a high shutter speed, you were able to capture the roughness of the water, which helps develop the tone of the photo. Due to the choppiness of the water, the barren nature of the bridge, and the light combined with strong diagonal shadows, you’e created a piece that is full of melancholy. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the over exposure of the skyline, but it does help draw attention to the water and slowly decaying trusses. To achieve the same effect, maybe you could try removing some saturation next time? It could help keep clarity while still moving the viewer’s eye to what you want to focus on. I really like how you managed to capture the “sound”of this bridge as well. Nice work!
Assignment4_LizT
These first photos were taken last spring. I was not able to get out and take as many photos as I would have liked this past week, due to getting over a cold. But these were taken at my high school softball team’s game last spring, and I was practicing trying to capture them in action. Looking back at these photos now, I see that I could have focused on choosing the shutter speed I wanted myself, and not just relying on the “Sport” mode on the camera.
I took these next photos of a glass full of water and had my friend drop objects into the water to create a splash. It was difficult to be able to capture the water in the air and have the camera focus on it correctly.
These last photos did not turn out as well as I had hoped. I put a ball of string lights on the ground and set my camera to a long shutter speed, and as the camera was taking the photo I zoomed my lens out to try to create a streaking effect.
Assignment 4_GeorgiaS
Taken with a smartphone (Google Pixel 2) which has limited shutter speed controls. I tried my best to get some motion shots to test the auto shutter speed of my camera, and also played with exposure levels.
Assignment4_KendraC
These shots are taken with fixed presets and only adjusting the shutter speed. It was interesting the different colors I could get while adjusting only the shutter speed. I like the texture I was able to get in the reflection of the lights int he first few photos, it was a foggy night and made for a really cool image.
Assignment 4_TateY
For this first set I grabbed red, blue, and green food coloring and a white measuring cup to experiment with the colored drops and various shutter speeds. I think my favorite effect is the exact moment it hits the water as well as a few seconds after when it sinks and creates a colored streak down to the bottom of the cup.
I went home this past weekend and while my dad was splitting up some wood I tried to capture the various bits of motion through fast and slower shutter speeds.
For this last set, I wanted to focus on fire. As you can tell, the first two photo’s shutter speeds didn’t changed the look very much, but as soon as I bumped the shutter speed to 1 second the fire begins to blend and has a very cool effect as it wraps around the metal. The last photo was just an experimental photo where Claudio quickly released lighter fluid on his hand and then lit it. I didn’t have the settings totally right for this so I ended up playing around with various color temps and contrast levels to create something that was clearly edited but had a different feel.
Assigment4_CullenS
Assignment4_LizzyG
Assignment 4_SydneyH
I struggled a bit with this assignment. Nothing was coming out as I wished. Three of the photos here I believe fulfill the assignment and the other two I just liked.
Revision (5/1/18)
I wanted to add these pictures to demonstrate how shutter speed can capture moving objects. The first frame is, unfortunately, the communal sink on my floor in Aroostook Hall. It is very gross, but the high shutter speed was able to capture every drop. The second photo of my friend Jacob; I needed a moving subject and he happened to be working on his handstands. The first picture of him demonstrates how shutter speed can capture an action shot. The second photo was of another attempt with a slower shutter speed. I liked it because the camera reveals the impact of gravity on a falling body. The final photo is another shot of water. The camera was able to capture every bead and makes them look like jewels.
Assignment4_DugganA
Taken in Acadian National Park. This was a small stream we found off one of the trails to Witch Hole Pond.
Assignment 4_ColinR
Assignment2_ChrisK
I ended up taking most of these photos in people’s homes that I didn’t know. I was typically invited over to a small function or get together and I decided to bring my camera along in case there were people I didn’t know. These are their faces.
Assignment 2 – SarahS
I had every intention of photographing strangers faces, but something happened that got me thinking.
My boyfriend had a study group over, so I asked if I could photograph them and 3 out of 4 said no. I wanted the photos, so to make them more comfortable while still getting my pictures I instead asked if they minded if I took pictures of their shoes instead.
I think that shoes can tell a lot about a person.
Are they clean? Have they traveled far? Do they look for comfort or style? Are they new or old?
A shoe tells not where you’re going, but where you’ve been.
I know this was a bit of an abstract approach to the assignment, but I thought it was interesting.
Assignment 2_GeorgiaS
First attempt at getting portraits during a hockey game failed because a). it was cold, and b). it was COLD. So, I sat out in my hallway until some neighbors passing by were willing to participate.
Assignment2_LizzyG
Assignment2_Claudio
Assignment2_JosefS
Assignment2_ChristianS
Assignment2_ElizabethD
Assignment 2_KendraC
I went to the Bangor Mall and only got one “yes” from the young man pictured below. The other people I asked all said “no” and the security guard told me I needed to have permission to photograph in the mall. The other picture is of my new baby niece. She opened her eyes instantly after birth and it made for a stronger photo, in my opinion.
Assignment2_SydneyH
In my experience, it was hard to find individuals who did not want their photos taken. In this age of social media, people are flattered when someone wants to take their picture. Also, I made sure to let them know that this was for an assignment, and because of that people felt safer having their image taken.
