Favorite Photos

I really like this picture, because of all the chaos and disorganization. The multiple lines give a feel of something big and ominous, yet simple if you look closely. The Vertigo like rotation combined with the think layers of colors give off a feeling of being trapped like in a spider's web.

Another good use of blurring, I really liked the very crisp way the colors turned it. It worked really nicely with the way I was trying to do a vacuum of color towards the sun.

I had been trying to find a photo of something where the colors mixed well to do this. It really does have a ghost-like aura around it due to the similar coloration with the background.

Much like the next picture its just, so striking how much we pay attention to the subject in the picture. It doesn't at all seem like we pay attention to the little crack on the bottom left, or the splotchy coloring on the bottom right.

This picture goes in a similar direction to the previous, but instead showcases the narrow mind through making it truly narrow. We only become interested when it is not there.

Coloration is so good when the colors mix. Maybe the blue just overpowers everything else, but it makes the photo such a joy in terms of blending colors.

Nother Series

The flowers that are blurred make it look more like chrysanthemum or rose by creating a layer and depth to the picture.

The pictures which have been layered are actually of me walking forward, This is deceiving as the feet all seem to be in same position only altered in which foot is forward.

The I's seem to be coming towards you, and the whole picture exudes movement. I might just be me but, at times, when I try and read the text the lines start moving and giving me a headache.

Usually photos like this are crop by adding the crops onto one photo. But I choose to experiment with a motion picture, snapping one every couple of steps. What we get is an interesting mix of a motion picture and the traditional storyboard cuts.

When I first saw this I initial wanted to do a bright day time shot. The original goals was kind of a vertigo feel. But as I was editing it I noticed the power lines and dense colors in the center. This was only emphasized when I darkened the image giving it an ominous look. I had a hard time going for this Gothic look over a black white image which would make it look like a spider's web.

Another interesting movement picture in that as they walk they place there feet flat done in some cases. Making it look more like a hopping motion

This was taken in a more traditional stop motion kind of animation. I stood in one spot as they started walking and almost leaving the picture before turning in the last frame

The whole picture is just so off with the buildings on the top and the rotating boxes of tangerines, I was trying to go for that wierd sort of upside-down feeling.

The most interesting thing about these frame by frame pictures is that you get a different perspective on exactly the same thing. The minor details or major give it a sense of being alive, and in the now as opposed to being a snapshot of the moment.

People walking up the step and an interesting intruder from the left

Custom Series 2

I chose to do a similar censorship idea in this series, capturing the essence of censorship, while introducing new ideas into the series. A key difference that you see here is censorship using blurring techniques preserves the original image's color and depending on the level on blurriness the shape of the object itself. On the other hand, we still keep that corrupted nature, intruding much like my shoe in the picture.

We see here another intrusion by way of censorship, but it keeps the most important and influential part in plain view. This gives the observer a sense not of outrage, but intrigue more as to what is being blurred and why.

Blurring is also unique in that it is a natural thing, so the observer may have trouble identifying it as intentional or a mistake.

If we use this picture as an example we can see that parts of this picture are naturally and intentionally blurred. It is hard to tell where one edit starts and another stops, especially when looking at the subject of the picture.

An interesting part of the last photo was the interaction between non-blurred and blurred objects. The black car pops out from the blurred background to create a powerful dichotomy between the real and the imaginary.

A continuation of the dichotomy, but this the steady blur creates a ghostly effect. We see that the background still keeps to the original coloration of the non-blurred object, which creates a less contrasting and more pleasing picture.

The colors blend, but the subject changes once again. We know its a flower, but we cant see the crisp pollen stalks, and instead see a whirlwind of orange.

Blur is used to censor the light rays coming from the sun, creating a bubble.

I return to the original idea of censorship using blur, to show the importance of color and the shape of the censored objects.

The one part of the picture that is blurred and whose color is manipulated, gives it all the attention in the photo. Attention drawn away often means something else has changed...

Series 2 plan

I will be using CS5 blur effects to emphasize and censor parts of the photos that I take pictures. I'm going to try and emulate the style of photography I did in the previous series, using creative usage of censoring of sections of photos to change their feeling. Blurring particular parts of a photo is near impossible without focusing on an object that is moving at a considerable speed. Using editing I will get pictures that have an effect that is impossible to get using non-edited techniques.

Custom Series

 What does censorship really do in photography? Does it block out something that that observer wants to know, or does it make the observer all the more aware of everything that goes on in the picture? I bet the observer wouldn't have noticed the fire alarm in the top left corner or the figures in the window on the right.

  Our vision is obscured as a monster looms overs, yet do we really know what is under the box?

A good way to identify an object is by its size, but when it is so ordinary can you recall its scale.

 Your eyes are drawn straight up the path to an unknown making it hard for the leading lines to fray into the rest of the picture.

 

You wouldn't think that one thing makes so much difference, but it defines this sidewalk.

 

When you censor, what you were trying to block only changes form.

  

Although you can see what is trying to be blocked, you do lose a sense of what it is.

You can see the censored object clearly, how much more pretty is it when you can see?

 

You see what they want.

 

Paranoid.

Plans for Custom Series -UPDATED

1. Look for pictures that would look good with cartoon like shading. Look to use blurs. The attributes of this picture it would be very hard to replicate its effects, with objects other than moving cars.
2. Negative space blocks. Through finding large blocks of color or through editing. Will be using a black box much like those of censors to create a mysterious or sometimes outrageous censoring.
3. Neon colors, look for bright colors on dull backgrounds, or use editing techniques to enhance interesting pictures.

Negative Space

 The sky acts as negative space, making the picture seem much more happy with its bright colors as opposed to the gray tone you might usually see.

 This picture's negative space helps to add a lot of depth to the picture, if you look at the leaves you have areas that have much denser amount of leaves. This gives the picture a more

 The blue paint splatter serves as a subject for something that is flying or swimming as the little paint trail makes it seems like it is suspended.

 Color of the negative space, is a real illusion to what time of day this picture was taken. The slow shutter speed makes it seem like this was taken in the evening as opposed to the middle of the day.

 The negative space emphasizes the contrails greatly, through the contrasting colors.

 The green vs the blue makes the people in the picture seem more vivid than they already are.

The sky really gives you a sense of scale for the city

Decimated Landscape

 These pictures are of nature and man, the clash between them, and the beauty behind their coexistence. In this first photo, I foreshadow my style of using foreground to show the beauty of nature. The general rush of colors in the back seems chaotic, to the monotone green of the plants.

 The used container looks disgusting, and I strategically placed it in the bottom left third intersection, to emphasize its invasion of the environment. Much like in the first picture I try and show the beauty of nature as opposed to the conquering of man.

 The trimmed leaves of the plant looks very unnatural, being centered makes it seem like everything around it is natural. With the stem's central position they seem isolated.

 This picture differs in that there is a lack of shrubbery, which is ironic since the sprinklers should be helping the plants grow.

 The tree seems peaceful compared to the blur of life behind it, again the power of foreground pictures.

A lone leaf, with the alien white colors behind it, signalling the end of a tree's livelyhood.