My favorite assignment was pan blur because I feel as if I did way better than when I did this last year. It was much easier and quicker for me to get a hang of the f-stops and shutter speed.

I think this picture really shows my strengths because I really brainstormed on this assignment. We did food last year but I wanted to be a bit different then from what I did last year and since it is close to Christmas I decided to do cookies. This shows my strengths because of its: angle, item placement, and extras. The plate and sprinkles give off a positive Christmas vibe which I very enjoy.

Katie Newburn, a food photographer born and raised in the Napa Valley. She started her love for food photography when she was 16 working at a restaurant. She engaged herself with chefs, farmers, and wine makers. She had a passion to photograph meals and foods. As she grew older she helped market food for chefs and their cook books.

I liked her style because she uses macro, and really places her food in a way that makes it look appealing. Also I really like her simple-ness in the pictures and its nice lighting. For mine I wanted to use color and have a christmas theme. I think props really help define the picture and I felt as if without the sprinkles the cookies were too plain.

Expressive Portrait: A photo that expresses a mood or emotion. (Laugh, cry, smile, rips your heart, etc.) Does not have to involve humans, can be a landscape. 

Environmental Portraits: A portrait executed in a subject’s usual environment, home, workplace, etc. Natural surroundings it will better illuminate their character, and portray their personality. Also the person will be more at ease.

Symbolic Portrait: A picture that represents you . Important to include a range of colors, textures, and sizes. Use items like shirts, items, toys, games, etc. that symbolize you as a person. Deeper meaning behind it. Says something about the person.

Symbolic Self Portrait

This is my symbolic self portrait because I really like basketball and photography. I used the film strip and paparazzi behind the y two basketball players and the city background to symbolize photography. I used the two basketball players and me wearing the jerseys to symbolize basketball and how it is fun to watch and play. Also the background is a city because whenever games start they always show us the city at night. These two things really define me.

Environmental

I took this as my environmental portrait because it is of a dancer in the dance room. You can tell she is comfortable in the environment.

Expressive

Happiness !