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For this picture I wanted to frame the tire and trash can with an urban landscape in the background while at the same time upping the contrast to highlight the tire and trash can against the background. 

For this image I wanted to place an urban landscape against a wall dressed in weeds and beautiful vines as an almost contrast between the beauty and filth that is often associated with an urban landscaping.

For this image I really had no plan. I was walking around a place that I was really unfamiliar with and ended up taking some really beautiful pictures that day with this being one of them. 

Much like the concept I wanted to portray an urban landscape in a harsh setting with a beautiful background to portray the landscape that many think ugly or harsh to be beautiful.

An urban landscape that sometimes many think to be ugly and or filthy can really result in something beautiful and often times the public forgets about this side of town or part of the landscape when in reality they need to take a look at this beauty in a new light and I hope through this photo one can achieve this new outlook.

CRITIQUEEEE

This image was interpreted just as I had hoped it would. My viewers saw it as a harsh urban landscape that was made into something beautiful it was made into a real piece of artwork. I was hoping this would come across and much to my luck it did :)

I think the contrast is really working well in this image. The high contrast allows the image to portray a sense of real intensity and drama. With this intensity and drama the viewer is really able to feel the harshness of the setting but can't help but realize this is a beautiful image. I don't think the amount of objects in the frame is working very well. The amount of objects almost takes away from the harshness and focal points of the image and then translating to the slow disappearance of the drama I wanted in the image. If I had to do it again I would take out some of the images and even up the contrast just a tiny bit more.

As a jumping off point I could definitely see a series of images portrayed harsh scenic areas that we have seemingly forgot about due to the fact that at first look they really aren't pretty but at the right angle anything can look pretty. 

tW2

I wanted to abstract this fish so in order to do so I squeezed the fish into the screen and took an extreme close-up of the object. I wanted the emphasis to be on the eye as the focal point almost drawing your eye away from the rest of the picture making it seem as though it truly isn't a fish.

I really didn't want my public to take anything away from this photo other than a simple dead fish can really result in something beautiful. 

For this image I was laying in the grass on my hands and knees attempting to get a vantage point on the fish that has never really been seen before. 

For this image I really wanted to take something that one wouldn't really think to be beautiful, a dead fish, and make it into a beautiful picture that you really wouldn't be able to tell whether or not it was a fish.

You can make the un-beautiful beautiful you just have to look. You have to open your eyes and sometimes you can find something really beautiful in something you wouldn't think to be beautiful at all.

CRITIQUEEEE

This image was interpreted a bit differently than the first due to the fact that this image is a bit more of an abstract image. For the most part no one really knew what this image was. It took me about 3 or 4 tries for them to really understand and see the dead fish laying in the grass. It was interpreted with a lot of "I don't knows" which can either work for or against me.

I think the abstract-ness of the image is really working for me because regardless of whether or not they knew what the image was they all agreed it was a beautiful picture. I think that maybe if they knew it was a dead fish chilling in the grass it would have taken away from the beauty of the image that the viewers did see. I also think the abstract-ness of the image is working against me in the fact that rather than really trying to interpret the image the viewer could possibly get lost in the "what is this?" I want my viewer to see a beautiful image regardless of what it is.

I think as a jumping off point I could kind of attempt to portray an almost morbid theme. I could abstract scenes and pictures of road kill and make them into a beautiful piece of art I think it would be hard and I'm sure many problems could possibly be encountered but I think it could really turn into something special. 

ThRe3

So for this picture I wanted to frame the sun over the steps and the railing. I wanted the emphasis to be on the sun while at the same time illuminating the steps beneath it for almost a secondary focal point in the photo.

For this picture I wanted to create an absolutely beautiful image because the sun is one of my favorite things in the entire world. The sun can illuminate anything just about anything that it wants. 

For this picture I was once again on my hands and knees in an almost contorted fashion. I needed to get the sun in the perfect location in order to frame the railing and steps in the perfect way. 

I wanted to capture an absolutely spellbinding moment and while I know there isn't much to that I associate the sun with that type of magical beauty and couldn't think of anything better for the beautiful picture.

I wasn't trying to say anything really when it comes to this photograph but I do know that after looking at it time and time again that so many believe that the beauty of the world is lost but moments like these can prove to you there is still some beauty left in our world today.

CRITIQUEEEE

This image was interpreted exactly how I wanted and expected it to be portrayed as a beautiful image. The more my viewers talked about the image the more they realized it was an everyday occurrence that we tend to look over because these days we are just "too busy".

I think the sunlight in the image is working because lets face it, without the sunlight the image wouldn't be what it is. The sun is depicting an almost majestic image of the sun that is an everyday thing and we just tend to forget. I think the image at the top is almost working against me. I wanted the top to portray an almost blown out affect but I didn't expect it to be as blown out as it is because as it is now I think it almost loses some of the details that make the image what it is.

As a jumping off point I could use this image and take pictures of constant everyday activities that will happen without fail day after day and make them something we no longer look past or ignore but make them into something absolutely beautiful and moving so that the next time this event or whatever it may be happens you can't help but look.  

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For this image I once again attempted to abstract an ordinary image and make it something the viewer has never seen before. I took a railing and got underneath it while still at the same time framing the background and blurring it to further frame the foreground.

I think this image is once again about making something that would normally be seen as ordinary and/or forgotten beautiful and something the world really hasn't seen before. 

Again on my hands and knees which is constantly where I find myself in regards to this photo project. I wanted to take something I see everyday and make it amazing so I contorted myself underneath the railing framing the railing while at the same time catching the background in a blurred manner. 

The goals and intentions for this image are much like I have previously stated making something ordinary and maybe something you see everyday that you would normally brush over and make it something you will never forget. 

Again I feel like I am repeating myself but I wanted to make something beautiful that you would normally brush over. Today I feel like our world is much too obsessed and involved with material possessions and have stopped really looking for the beauty in the simple things in life and through this image I wanted to portray the fact that there is still beauty left in this world even in the simpler things.

CRITIQUEEEE


This image was interpreted as almost two images due to the fact that the two objects within the frame are almost splitting the screen. I wanted my viewer to take away from this image the fact that you can get beauty out of anything even though this is just a simple railing you pass on the way to class every single day.

I think the abstract of the image is really working. I like that look and that is what I wanted my image to portray, a sense of beautiful abstract-ness without really knowing what the original image was until I, myself told you. I think maybe the placement of the objects is working against me in the sense that it is taking away from the meaning of the photo and forcing the viewer to examine the image as two things rather than one cohesive unit attempting to portray an image.

I think I could use this as a jumping off point in many ways similar to the jumping off point explained above. I could take day to day objects and make them into a beautiful piece of art. It would differ from the series explained above because the series above is more so events and this series would be everyday objects that we also tend to look over much like the everyday events we look over and make them into something truly beautiful!