Light Shadow Reflection

This photograph demonstrates my best photo with reflection as a subject.  I like this photo because of how the rocks contrast with the water.  I also think the sun gives the photo a happier, more tranquil feeling.  The subject matter in this photo is organic.  If there wasn't a reflection off of the rocks in the foreground one might only notice the tree.

This is my photograph using the chiaroscuro technique.  Chiaroscuro originated from the renaissance and is a photo/painting technique used to show a dramatic contrast between dark and light.  To achieve this contrast one must shine light unevenly on a subject while the rest remains dark.  Because the light is on the object unevenly it makes the tone more creepy and eerie.  The harsh contrast of light and dark makes the light part of the chair pop.  The lighting makes the structure stand out while hiding the rest of the chair from us, which makes a familiar object seem mysterious.

This is an example of a photograph where the subject is lit up.  The lighting in the background creates a disturbing tone because it's hard to picture where we (as humans) would fit into the photo.  The light also serves as a way to distort how far away the sun appears to the human eye.  Because the leaves are right in front of the sun it seems as though the sun was very close.  

This is my best shadow photograph.  The lighting is very florescent and not orange like the sun which I think makes the tone of this photograph more somber.  Also, because of the dark edges of the photo and because the subject is a common house hold object; it seems as though this could be a photograph right before a murder scene which adds to the disturbing mood.   

This silhouette image is of a tree in my backyard.  I like this photo because the lines of the tree are made very apparent because of the backdrop of the sky.  The colors of the sky as the sun sets are very beautiful and make the tone of this photo very tranquil and calming.  Because there aren't any bright or complementary colors in the photo it makes this photograph very easy on the eyes.

Panorama, HDR, Blend

This is my blending picture.  To achieve this photograph I took three pictures with the same setting, but different subject.  Each subject has their hands in a different position to create a modern picture of the vitruvian man painting.  In light room I made a preset for the photos.  I turned down the exposure and created a slight split toning of the pictures' colors.

This is my panoramic shot.  I thought it would be interesting to try doing a grocery store because it's not a typical landscape photograph.  I find this panorama kind of funny because there's an actual person in the picture and I liked all the natural colors from fruit. I also liked the contrast of the natural fruit with the processed/packaged bread.

I really like this HDR photo because I was able to almost re-create exactly what I saw which I find very amazing.  I think it's really great that by taking different photos exposed for different colors, we are able to capture the photo as we saw it.  This photo uses three main colors, the light green in the grass, the dark green in the trees, and the blue sky.  To get this picture I took three different pictures, one exposed for each color and then blended them together.  I think this photograph is nice because people can tell which way the sunlight was coming from.