Chapter 3: Creative Technical

I like the detail in the clouds that this effect bring out in the images. HDR gives the images more depth. 

Chapter 3: Influential Self Reflective Thematic

My passion project is about black and white images. I included some HDRs because i find them intriguing. All of the images show a theme of black and white (except the middle one) and contrast.

LG Photo Contest 2015

Boardwalk on the marshes at Alviso Marina County Park. In photoshop, I raised the contrast and decreased the brightness of the sky, as well as cropped the image.

Composition

Top Left: This photo of the train tracks shows leading lines and depth.

Top Middle: This photo of a marsh shows leading lines and rule of thirds.

Top Right: This photo of a boat ramp shows leading lines and symmetry.

Bottom Left: This photo of three doorways in a marsh shows rule of thirds and has three objects in the image. 

Bottom Middle: This photo of a doorway in the marsh shows leading line, depth, and symmetry. 

Bottom Right: This photo of the train tracks shows leading line, rule of thirds, and depth.

Chapter 2: Creative

Halloween themed photo. I took this photo in front of a dark background then burned the area around Dylan's face to make is black. I then used the paintbrush tool to pain his eyes. 

Chapter 2: Technical

High Key  -  Low Key

Chapter 2: Influential

30 Day Photo Challenge: 26-30

30 Day Photo Challenge: 21-25

30 Day Photo Challenge: 16-20

Chapter 1: Creative

Chapter 1: Technical

Chapter 1: Influential

Photos by: Michal Drzewicz

Chapter 1: Self Reflective

Computers

Chapter 1: Thematic

30 Day Photo Challenge: 11-15

30 Day Photo Challenge: 6-10

30 Day Photo Challenge: 1-5

Chapter 6: Creative

I demonstrate leading space and shape and form.

Chapter 6: Self Reflective

My Los Gatos

Chapter 6: Influential

Kurt Kroesche

Chapter 6: Thematic

Best of Digi Photo 2014 - 2015

Portraits Final

Rough Draft:

Contact Sheet:

Final: 

The biggest thing that has ever happened to me was getting a visa in the mail to be able to come to the US.

My earliest childhood memory is my brother chasing me around the kitchen table with a butcher knife trying to kill me.

My biggest fear is poverty.

What makes me happy is… “over here honey, you’re looking at it” What makes me happy is the simple things in life. “like remodeling the bathroom that doesn’t need it.”

My most frequent emotion is happiness.

The toughest thing about being an adult is my face is getting wrinkly and I’m getting old and I hate it. “Do you really?” Yea I do. “Oh, sweetheart you’re lovely. Why would you hate it?”

The thing I like most about being an adult is that I have money and you don’t.

What I like most about myself? I like my sense of humor.

I believe I do have an impact on the world and I try to make one everyday. I just try to make other people’s life less miserable.

I don’t practice a religion, but I was brought up a catholic and I think I probably have some semblances of the good parts and I try to forget the bad parts.

I think family is important, but I don’t believe family is a physical thing. I believe it is an emotional thing. I believe you decide who your family is. I think the perfect family is the one you decide to have and yes there is a perfect one you just have to choose it.

I have never suffered from discrimination. I have also never discriminated against someone. I have been a bystander to bullying though, and I have stood up for someone being bullied. I think bullying means people using their power without recourse. I don’t think appearance matters.

I don’t think there is any one person I respect the most, “Do you respect me?” I respect lots of people and I usually respect them for what they are particularly good at. So I would say there isn’t one person I respect the most.

You know, I have always just wanted to be me. No I don’t want to be anybody else. I think I am at the point in my life where I think I want to be me and that’s good enough.

I think one of the biggest problems in the world is human beings naturally distrust anybody who is not in their natural sphere of experience or influence and I think that’s the worst thing is that we all fear each other and it’s really stupid, Because we are all just the same.

Portraits 1

Chapter 5: Creative

Chapter 5: Technical

I used similar edits on both images. I cropped them both and I raised contrast on both. On the first image, I reduced saturation to make it grayscale.

Chapter 5: Self Reflective

Chapter 5: Influential

Photos by Michal Drzewicz. I like the contrast and the placement of people in these shots. I like how they are black and white. I would like to know if they are staged or not. The people are almost perfectly placed.

Chapter 5: Thematic

Chapter 4: Creative

Music is based on time and every second makes a difference.

Chapter 4: Technical

Chapter 4: Self Reflective

The original shot i took was from September (notice digital clock). I liked the layout of the shot and i wanted to revisit the location because i thought i could make it better. A major difference in the different images is the different type of light. The original shot was in the summer sunlight, the new shots were taken in the harsh winter light.

Chapter 4: Influential

These photos use proportion.

Chapter 4: Thematic

I need to slow down.