fall series three

For this series, I tried to darken the photos to give it a more mysterious feel as well as cropping the photo so that the foreground and the background don't take away from the mushroom itself. I also tried to get up close to the mushroom so I could really capture the beautiful texture as well as having the mystery feeling to it. My approach was to cast different shadows across the mushroom while photographing the mushroom at every possibly angle.

fall series two

For this series, I tried to improve my pictures by cropping out/not including the foreground (which is the velvet sheet) so that the mushrooms and peppers look more mysterious and odd. This series is still life, and I am focusing only on mushrooms and peppers. I am shooting in black and white while trying to cast different shadows. I ended up using only two mushrooms for this series but photographed it at all different angles. Same type of thing with the peppers. My approach when photographing these two objects are to photograph them one at a time and to photograph every possible angle of it. Then I choose another object and repeat this system with that, and so on.

fall series

For this series, I am mimicking Edward Weston's still life's. In total, I photographed six different peppers since I wanted as much variety possible in textures, shapes (and shadows that I create with light). My approach was to set up the pepper at a certain angle, then to turn on my camera and move around the pepper and camera until I find an angle I really like and one that is interesting. Then I turn on my lights and move them around-then when I find the perfect shot I take it, then continue on casting shadows and photographing.

portraits

For this series, we photographed portraits of people, but also had to incorporate other elements in the photo itself-like shadows or trees. As you can see, almost every picture of mine ties together both the person and the beautiful shadows, and also many trees plus other elements of nature. My approach for this series was to walk behind or above the subject, and try to see what elements I could possibly photograph that nicely add to the subject. Editing the pictures in black and white really helped the shadows and the subject together come to life and really pop.