Alternative Processes: Double Exposure

For my 3rd alternative process, I did a double exposure and combined a photo of a Fire Route sign and a background of a forest. I  combined these two because i thought it was kind of ironic because you don't normally want fire and trees together.

In the style of a photographic mentor

I took this photo to try and reenact Ansel Adams' style. I was not able to incorporate mountains into my photo however I was able to create a large aperture which caught the nature. 

Alternative Processes: Silk Screen

For my silk screen, I used the panorama I created from earlier in the semester and I printed it onto a T-Shirt for my friend. I thought it would be cool for him to have a shirt with himself on it and he really appreciated it.
Out of my 3 processes, this is my marketable process. I would market the t-shirt and sell it. I could also add in words on the back if customer wanted it (Quote, last name etc.)

Alternative Processes: Photogram

What I chose to do with this photogram was rip up unused negatives and place them around the photo. Some of them are on opposite sides, overlapped, bent. They are all shaped differently to represent how photography has so many more dimensions than people know. Not one photo is the same as another.  

Breaking the rules

In this photo, I cut off all 3 people in the photo and also focused the focal point into the exact center of the photo.

In this photo, I took the picture at an angle which makes it look disoriented. The lighting is not based around the focal point and it is in the background which makes everything look out of place.

Panorama

For my panorama, I did a play-by-play of my friend Keegan playing basketball. He's a huge basketball player and when I pitched him the idea of doing this with him, he was all for it. He wanted to see exactly how it looked when he did a lay-up. I used 6 different photos and merged them together using photoshop. I originally had 9 photos but made a mistake while photographing and they didn't turn out as I expected.

Mixed Lighting

For these photos, I used regular house lights mixed with the shine of a light through an open window. Photo 1: Sunlight shining on angle at the left side of the head. Photo 2: Sunlight shining directly at the left side of the face. Photo 3: Sunlight shining down at the top of the face/head.

Studio Lighting

For these photos, I used a blue lamp light to create the effect of the light being shined in a dark room with very little light. Photo 1: Light being shined from below, straight onto the face. Photo 2: Light being shined horizontally at the right side of the face. Photo 3: Light being shined from below diagonally at the left side of the face.

Experimenting with Light

For these photos I used a shutter speed of 20 seconds and an aperture of f 5.6
I tried to capture the light outlining how the various items work.
Photo 1: The enlarger displays the photo on the lower area.
Photo 2: The eye wash station would spray in that exact way.
Photo 3: The tubes will suck in all the fumes from the chemicals.

Mona Lisa Renaissance Photoshop

The Mona Lisa is known to be as the most famous painting of all time. The artist was Leonardo Da Vinci and it was a portrait of Lisa Gherardini who was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo (Florentine politician and patron of the arts). It is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. It was acquired by King Francis I of France in the early 1600’s and is now property of the French Republic. It has been on permanent display at the Musee de Louvre in Paris since 1797. It’s fame elevated in the 19^th century. In 1852, it was worth about $90,000 and today if sold, it would go for approximately $720 Million making it the most expensive painting of all-time.  

Leonardo Da Vinci was a man of many different expertises; painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is of course most well known for painting the Mona Lisa. Born in Florence, Italy on April 15^th 1452; Leonardo was born into a peasant family. He possessed many more talents than the other peasants. He received a very informal education. He painted a monster spitting fire, which he sold to a Florentine art dealer, which later on got sold to the Duke of Milan. This painting got him recognized at the age of 14 and got him apprenticed by Andrea Di Cione; One of the finest artists in Florence. Leonardo would later go on in life to paint several famous paintings including; The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Virgin of the Rocks. In modern day, Leonardo is one of the most respected artists and arguably the “Best of all-time”.

The Early Italian renaissance was all about Florence. It was the Hollywood of the time frame. Most of the famous paintings from this time frame were painted in Florence. This time frame was based solely off portraits. Royalty or historical figures were frequently painted. Most artists would paint “unreal” backgrounds or figures. Nudity was a main focus also. The Italians were very intrigued by the human body. They thought the natural aspect would work well. Facial features were very rare. Most paintings included a very dull straight face. Religion also played a huge part in paintings. The most famous artists of this era were: Masaccio, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Ghiberti, Giotto, Raphael. 

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