I like this picture because of the way i faded out the background and made my little sister stand out more, but I also do not like the small faded portions by her cup. This picture intrigues me, but I can make it better this is the least successful picture on my project right now,but I will improve it by the time I present it.

this is the worst picture in my project because it just looks like a man who has a log for a head. I should make it look like the man cut down the log and is carrying it away, like i intended to.

Fix Hands Photo

This is the photo that I need to fix for my project. I need to make the edges of the hand more even because right now they are very choppy.

I feel that this is my weakest image. There is just too much going on, between the overly saturated background and the desaturated figure. If I were to change it, I'd definitely make the background less busy by making the tones more neutral and editing the slide so that it doesn't draw the eye as much.

Trapped

I like this photo but I think it is my weakest because I am not entirely sure that it goes with my theme which is things in places where they don't belong. It may not effectively represent this theme because the plant is in water, where it should be. But, the idea is that it is trapped in this bottle instead of being free to grow in the surrounding environment. To make it fit better with the theme, I think I could take the water out of the bottle.

This is one half of my diptych, and my project is places and how people react to them. I messed up the framing in the photo and half his hand is cut off. I need to retake it but be more carful with my framing. 

I plan on improving my project by taking more photos especially since my phone with most of my photos was lost.  I would like to try and be more creative in taking my photos as well like in my surrealism photo, which shows good creativity.

Casey Alexander Post

Throughout my project my biggest flaw is that I didn't think about the background for a few. If it were possible, I would reshoot this photo on a football field. However, I cannot do that because she know longer has her uniform. Luckily noticed this flaw before I made this mistake on too many.
     -Casey Alexander

I like this photo but it needs to be cleaned up. The horizon line is slanted and the railing in the background takes away from the image. I am going to edit out the railing and rotate the image so the horizon is straight.

Final Project: Weakest Photo

Although this picture accomplishes what I am trying to say in this particular diptych, I still think this is one of my weakest photos. I don't particularly like the angle, but I will try other things, like removing excess trees, to enhance the image.

This picture is my biggest problem and I will not use it if I do not need to. I took this picture with my phone and the quality is extremely bad. It was dark and hard for my phone to capture the light clearly. Also it is slanted at an odd angle. This picture had potential if it had been set up better and taken with a different camera

I believe that my project's biggest problem is that all of the photos look the same to me.  They are all of people sitting around looking sad and lonely.  I believe that I can fix this my coming up with more original ideas that portray loneliness.

The reason that I think this is my biggest problem because the photo of Dawson photoshopped into the lens looks out of place. I've lowered the opacity and put it in black and white but it still looks out of place. I'm not entirely sure what I am going to do about this but I might lower the opacity even more and put it in black and white, or I will take another picture and try to make Dawson look like she is crawling out of the camera to show that she is letting go of the things that make her happiness artifical.

Final Project- Largest Problem

 While there are individual photos which I think I can improve upon, the biggest problem I can see with my project is the fact that some of my work has only a very tenuous connection with my theme (the importance of small details and the bigger picture). I feel as though I'm stretching to make certain photos relevant, and the explanations are convoluted, such as this surrealist one:

I'm satisfied with the composition itself, but cannot deny that it holds little to no meaning in the context of the project. The cylinder, I supposed, could be a "magnifying glass" of sorts onto the sky, but I hadn't figured out what the sky itself meant. I initially did it because I thought it looked interesting, but it needs to be something more than that.

I could rectify this situation by simply going through both my final and tentative photos and thinking about how relevant they are. If my explanation for any of them is too abstract or convoluted, I will either revise or eliminate those photos.

Final Project Problamo

I feel like this photo was shot at a strange angle and isn't very eye catching. I'll either take a different photo or try to fix this one as best I can. The lighting is not prime and I'm just not very interested while looking at this particular photo.

I believe that this image is my weakest because the car looks like it doesnt belong in the picture although it was in the background originally. Also, the tree editing isnt complete and still has patches of the original image. Furthermore, this image is, for lack of a better term, boring, and doesn't have obvious any spot of interest. A way I could improve this is by clone stamping leaves so patches of the tree layer that do not belong are blended. Because the photo in a whole is lacking creativity and interest, deleting it from the project may be the best solution.

Photo Problem

My biggest problem in the project is the fact that the majority of my photos look like they were in the same conditions and I would like to vary the conditions that I shoot in. Also the order of my pictures doesn't seem to flow and I will probably the shift the order

Final Project Weakness

I would say this picture is the weakest photo because it is not very eye-catching and the lighting is dull. I can fix this photo by shooting it on a brighter and sunnier day to fix the lighting. This picture could have better potential than I have given it.

I am doing my project on transportation and how important it is to us.  I feel like I have a good theme to work with but some of my photos are are very dull and boring.  I think I have to think of better ideas for my photos and use my creativity to make them work well with this project.  I think I can make this project really neat but will need creative photos for it.

Project Problem

This is one of my pictures that I will be using for my project. I feel like the prob with this picture is that I should probably crop off some of the side on the left plus I want to make her and the balloon pop out and not the background. I feel like another prob with my project is the statement. I think I need to think of a better way to say what I am doing instead of actually say "ohh I am doing this".

weakness

I think this image was done poorly because I had to crop out a part of a palm tree. When I asked people if they noticed where I cropped it out, they could tell where I had cropped it. I plan to take another image just like this one this weekend to make up for the problems.

My biggest problem with my projects is the lack of creativity with my picture. I also don't have enough pictures and the pictures that I do have are not very creative. I need to think of some better ideas to improve my project.

My main problem with my project is this picture because of the lighting. The lighting was really bad and so I tried to fix it but I still want to reshoot it.

Final Project Problem

For my project I have censor bars covering all the eyes and one of my problems is that some of the photos look good with it and some look good without it. I think overall all I also may need to make some small edits to each individual photo to make them stronger.

final project austin sams

I feel like my biggest weakness is that in a couple of my pictures in my project, the picture itself is a really good but, you can tell that I took the picture the same day and the same place. I need to a better job at hiding the fact that the picture was taken during the same time. I might need to separate them in the slide.

Final project Griffin stinson

I feel that my project has two issues. First, i need to revise my artist statement. Second, I need to reconsider the order of my photos in the slideshow and how the presentation flows.

This is a picture for my project. My theme is hands and this photo portrays the beauty that hands create. Without hands, guitars could not be played.

Final Project

This is my first photo. My theme is people and what makes them happy. This photo is girls from my school team and it shows them laughing and having fun with soccer, what they like to do. Soccer is something that helps us get away from school and let's us have fun.

Final Project

The theme for my final project is "Hands". People don't realize the importance of hands and in this project, I want to portray the hands as the center of the photo. I want to focus on the hands and blur the person in the background. "Hands" help people write, build, break, and love. Without hands it would be a lot harder to do simple tasks, and by doing this project I want to show the importance of hands.

Final Project Photo

This picture is supposed to represent an "unstable" home. This photo is not complete of final, as I was going to make it surreal by putting a dark cloud over them to represent tension, distance, and anger.

This photo expresses the emotion of determination (of a cheerleader). You see that emotion being expressed through her facial expression.

I have decided to change my theme to Alice in Wonderland. I am going to recreate the story to represent how we sometimes forget how much wonder is in our world. I am going to use this picture to make one of my surrealism pictures. I'm going to make the moon the cheshire cat's smile and add one of my cat's eyes.

Final Project Sample Photo

This is a photo from last night, taken outside my pool. Obviously, it is a picture of our lanai patio and glass doors, leading into the living room, and their reflection in the pool. It fits the meaning of my project, in that it represents a small but important thing that is largely unnoticed. It represents how many people don't notice how they represent themselves to others upon first impressions. Often, they do not regard how distorted the "reflections" of themselves they present may be. It may seem like a small concern at the time, but as their connections with other people grow, these distortions could make all the difference.

I took this photo to show how this young boy is dressed up in man's clothing which gets the point across that he is growing up to fast and needs to slow down grow on his own time rather than rushing things.

This photo is going to be part of my conceptual series at the end of my project about finding identity or things that define you. The thing that helps define the person in this photo for example, would be football or sports.

this is a picture of crayola markers because crayola was created in 1902.

Final Project Photo

This is one of the photos that I took this weekend. It is about a girl who would like to be able to fly. Of course, because she is human, she can't, but the photo relates to the theme; wanting/longing.

The theme of my final project is finding calmness and serenity in the most unlikely situations.

This photo is one of two for a diptych, and the idea behind it is that when you eat healthy food, you feel more energetic and typically better than when you eat a bunch of junk food.  So, for the second photo of this diptych I plan on taking a picture of someone playing a sport or something else active.

i am doing my project on water and how people and animals depend on it  This is my pool at night and how people use this to enjoy and relax in.

Final Project- "The Story of My Life"

For my final project, I am doing the "story of my life." This is one of my pictures because it represents how I love to go to the beach with dogs. I was at the beach this last weekend and I saw this puppy and because I was at the beach and saw a puppy, I photographed it because those two represent me well.

Photo from this weekend

This is a picture I took this weekend. It is a picture of balloons in the sky that adds to my theme of  letting go of the past and freedom.

I can make this picture better by having her facial expression more calm and peaceful because she is sleeping and her clothes are loose. My project is on clothing and environment affects the mood people are in.

Final Project Idea

The theme for my final project is "home" and the different aspects of home. I hope to capture some thing like the difference between a "house" and a "home" and different versions of the home. The image above is a representation for a similar idea I had. I hoped to create a surreal image of a house on a cloud to represent how the comforts of home can make you feel secure; like you are on your own cloud. I hope to make my image different from this one by using different types of houses or multiple houses.

For my final project i will be taking pictures of my conservative grandma and then of my friends.

For my final project, I decided to take pictures of the bridges of Jacksonville. I want to portray the literal bridges but also the symbolic bridges that we see every day. I will try my best to get a variety of perspective on the bridges. For the symbolic bridges, I will try to capture everyday instances where people are helping other people or somebody is "getting over" a particularly hard time in their life. 

I took this picture in a Starbucks restaurant because the cup represents the happiness that it brings to other peoples life. I am thinks about making it my surrealism picture and I will take a picture of a smile then put the smile in the middle of the cup so that it represents happiness.

This is a photo of a horse with a girl's shadow on its side. This shows the horse's emotion of sadness and longing for someone to love it. I made the picture black & white to show the emotion of the horse. 

For my final project my theme is music. I took a picture of a piano because it is a musical instrument. I will take pictures of many instruments and musical concepts. Some will be abstract, not showing the whole picture. This will be used to show that music can be played in different ways and how one persons view can be different then yours.

Final Project Photo

My project is about the emotions golf can bring out of people. This photo shows the frustration of an amateur golfer.

This is an image I took this weekend of my friend Ellie. I am doing my theme on loss of innocence and I will put this image in a diptic next to an image of her but in a more beat up and rough scenery to show her loss of innocent.

Final Proj. Griffin Stinson

My project is on the difference between big and small and appreciating the differences. This photo is of a blade of grass and it shows the small part of a big whole.

     My final project is on people's idea of perfection. I shot this picture of my friend Grace with plastic surgery markings on her face as if she was about to go into surgery. A lot of people's idea of perfection is to have the perfect face and I feel like this image portrays that.

The theme of my project is acceptance, however I am considering changing the theme.  This is a picture taken of my sister that shows that being different is better than being the same as everyone else.  By playing with contrast, brightness, and saturation, I was able to give the photo a surreal kind of appearance.  Playing with colors also helped the words to stand out on her hands.

                  My final project is on love. This photo is of my brother and his girlfriend showing their love for each other, as well as expressing the theme of "young love". I am going to show the different types of love throughout my project.

               

This is a picture of a my fishing reel. In the background is the sunset.

I took a picture of a girl crying. I then edited a censored bar over her eyes. This is one of the photos that will be in the project that is showing her finding who she is. This is one of the emotions she feels along the way.

This is a picture of all of my running shoes that are on a rack in my room. You could easily say that I have an addiction to running shoes due to the amount of running shoes that I have.