1.       What did you gain from the experience of having a gallery show?

 

-Although I didn’t attend the Gallery Show, setting up my picture’s for other’s to see took confidence. Knowing someone was looking at them, and judging them, was a huge excitement.

 

2.       What advice can you give to next year’s AP Art classes to ensure they are successful in creating a portfolio?

 

-Don’t wait until the last minute to do something, and listen carefully to your teacher. Pay close attention to your directions and be proud of yourself.

 

3.       What were the positive aspects of the class for you this year?

 

-I learned to express myself through my pictures; each photo is a different piece of me and something I found inside myself.

 

4.       What could be done differently next year?

 

-I think that we should be pushed not only out of our comfort zone but in our comfort zone further; we should have something special we love in every picture.

 

5.       What did you learn about yourself as an artist this year?

-I learned that I have trouble trusting other people opinions on my work, and sometimes I have trouble having confidence in my work.

 

6.       How do you think you will apply what you’ve learned this year to your future life?

-I am always going to be a photographer at heart, I don’t know if I will go further in school studying photography, but I will never stop taking picture’s.

Concentration written commentary

My main idea in my concentration of photographs was to view objects at an irregular angle or position. I also want to show my viewer’s a different view of nature, and the objects I see around me, by layering nature pictures, and pictures of man-made objects and colors. I have a strong connection with each and every picture in my series. I view objects at a different perspective than others. I see something dull and I can think and see it in a whole different way than how it looks in reality. For example, in one of my final photographs, I layered an un-peeled orange with peeled orange slices to show a different view of an orange. I used, in my series of photos, many different elements and principles of design. I decided to concentrate on this topic because I feel it expresses my personality, and how I see the world. I want my viewer’s to have to think, and to wonder how I came up with the ideas.    

In the beginning of my concentration adventure, I explored irregular angles and positions, but then I found myself exploring different ways of seeing trees, and other objects, using the layering technique in Photoshop. In my first images I wanted to show an awkward position of the eye, using a vase that ended up looking something like a vortex. Then, I moved to an ordinary candle, and came out with a beautiful candle, full of color, that looks like its floating on pink clouds.  In many of my pictures, I used Rule of thirds to create a more exciting point of view. I used Movement in my pictures, for my viewer’s eyes to travel. Light was an important element in my pictures because many of my pictures are complex, but have great texture. In some of my photos I used repetition, to give a better view of the objects. In my final images, I ended with very colorful and irregular pictures that expressed my main idea. 

 

 

These are my final pictures. I am happy with my final pictures because they deffinately met my goal. My goal was to show my veiwers my veiw of the objects around me, and to express myself through my pictures. In the end i am happy to say this is my concentration series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week i practiced layering images. I practiced layering photos that arent normally layered, and also changing the color or contrasts in some of my pictures. I changed my concentration to how i veiw the world, capturing nature in its strangest forms and little things people dont normally take notice to.

 

This week i played with my pictures using layering and contrast. I enjoyed playing with colors and trees, and i mostly enjoyed working with abnormal objects. I am really thinking about basing my concentration series on weird abnormal ways of seeing the world, and things we dont normally see around us, through my eyes.

 

 

 

 

This week i practiced playing with abnormal layers, and string contrast. I enjoyed layering, and i believe i can come up with some unique perspectives in the future. I think that i could have gone further with the layering this week.

 

I practiced, in this series of my first images, awkward positions and colors. I wanted to take my thoughts beyond me and to a series of somthing different. I expierienced a whole new kind of eye from taking these pictures. My Consentraition, "Inside the rabbit hole", was taken to a whole new level while documenting these photographs.