Perspectives

     And we have a winner! Okay, remember that post I did about Something special? Well just a recap, that whole photo-set got scrapped because those were too easy. But moving on, I was challenged to do something artistically challenging. Capturing a different side of my subjects in black and white. I know, it's so easy to take an annoyingly self proclaimed dramatic or deep photo by just changing the mode of your camera. I say that with the utmost sarcasm I have in every bone of my body. But let me just say: It is unbelievably hard to capture true emotion and the heart of a person in a black and white photo because it there is no color to work with. Color can do so much to add to the feel, and depth of a photo.

    This collection is called Perspective, because the idea is to give the viewers a different perspective of the people on the photographs. 

    Essentially I asked each subject a bunch of questions, until we all got a little bit more comfortable for me to ask about their life story etc. Although they knew that I was taking pictures, I gave them at least 30 minutes each to get comfortable infront of the camera and the blinding light. With that said, those photos up there are all candid shots.

    This next set wasn't supposed to be with the first set. I took an accidental one of Charles and I really liked the effect of it. Also it fit into my concept of Perspective. The photo looked dramatically better when I rotated it to the right, also we got a high grade for our finals. - Happy Dance! -

    These are also all raw photos in terms of facial photoshopping. The only photoshopping involved was to sharpen the photo, and that's it. I'm really proud of this set. 

   With this set came a photo collage of almost all our pictures and a few videos compiled into one whole video. Enjoy!

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Humanities Project: Something Special

Stoff

Some people rant and stress about their humanities class. I hear countless tales of how scary the prof is. How tough and strict she is. There was stress, and there was a bit of ranting. But I seriously love our prof in Humanities. Ms. Sam is tough but she is a good teacher. Our class always puts her projects first and foremost when it comes to schoolwork. We love the pressure and the insane amounts of workload we have to face. Because projects from Humanities are things I treasure. I work hard on them. Blood, sweat, and tears. Some, literally.

This was done for our Finals project but got completely scrapped because Ms. Sam thought it was too easy. Like I said, she was tough. The concept was, "you, you and something special you love, and then a photo of that something." Artistically, it was pretty easy. The circumstances were hard though. We had to go all the way up north to shoot this. And a week before finals! So for it to be scrapped completely a week before finals? Yeah. Stress.

Even though these were sort of "easy," doesn't mean they aren't good pictures. Plus we had tons of fun at Kuya Allan's house. And we got to meet the adorable Sia! 

Kat

Allan & Sia

Charles

Me

Oh wow, my hair was firey back then.

Sia

This is Sia. She is so adorable. She loves  How to Train Your Dragon.  Yes she does.

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