Validictory Final

For my project, I originally wanted to do a portrait based project focusing on friends. This is show in the first picture. I was planing on posing them together in different ways and sticking to more traditional portraits. Trying to pose my two friends ended up being extremely difficult. They would not listen to what I was saying and wouldn't do what I asked. I didn't have another project idea that I wanted to do so I knew I needed to find a way to make this work. I decided that instead of traditional I would show their unique friendship. Most of these pictures were taken while they were just doing random things. I then decided in order to show that it was about friendship I would add quotes to each picture. I think that the quotes help show the meaning behind the photo and showcase their friendship. I really enjoyed this project. The three of us have been friends since middle school and we are practically apart of each others families. I feel like this showed our bond and how we interact. We do crazy stupid things together and this is friendship I'll always have even after high school. I got to use my best friends and they got to see kind of what I enjoy doing. I learned a lot from this project. Most of all, people are difficult. Also that sometimes you have a plan and it just doesn't work out how you intended and you just have to adapt and go along with it. Overall I really like how the project turned out.

Valedictory Progress Check

I used some time to look up some examples of friends photography of google and on Pinterest. It gave me a few ideas as to what I wanted to photograph and some different poses I could use.  

I took some pictures towards my final project. I used my best friends and I tried to show how close they are and some interesting and adventurous things they do.

I decided that in addition to my pictures showing friendship that I might try to put quotes about friendship. I feel like this could add to the meaning and explanation about the photos. 

Overall i picked to do a portrait based project showing friends because I am really close to my best friends and I'm always with them. I also really enjoy working with people and I like portraits. In my project i originally was planning to do serious project. After trying to shot the first time it was hard to control and pose my friends. They were kind of in their old world. Thats when i decided that I was going to try to show more of their unique friendship and let them be a little crazy and odd. So far I like how my photos turned out and I'm planning to take more in the next week.

Double Exposure Final

The first two pictures show her confidence which you see on the outside. The other pictures represent how she enjoys the outdoors and really enjoys nature. She rather spend time outside being adventurous than lazy inside.  

These show the outside being kinda quiet. The outer pictures represent how I really like the city and i like to be in a big area. Small things aren't for me. I used a scene on New York for the first one. I used different pictures on Pittsburg for the second because I absolutely love the city. My family is from there and i love to be in the city. 

I really liked this kind of project. I like to work with layer masks and use different overlays. I enjoyed making some really interesting and unique pieces.