Rosanna Wong

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer who lives in New York and is vert well known for the conceptual portraits she takes of herself. Cindy really focused on raising challenging questions and the part that women play in the American culture. Sherman enjoys working alone and loves to play the roles of different characters like clown, valley girl, etc. When I researched on Cindy Sherman I really wanted to do something bold, so I decided to be a female. Instead of just putting on a girly t-shirt and wear a hair tie, I wanted to be a bit bold so I decided to wear a dress to really emphasize what I was trying to portray. It was a fun experience. The dress was a bit uncomfortable but I got used to it. It was difficult to act or pose like a girl because you dont want to be cliche. Overall I enjoyed the Cindy Sherman experience.

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 !

Event Drawing

Montage is making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into an illusion of an unreal subject.

David Hockney – Boring in England (1937), David attended an art school in London. Soon after he moved to Los Angeles in the 1960’s. David didn’t start working on photography until the 1970’s creating photo collages.

Cubism: Characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.

Pablo Picasso was an artists who did cubism, one of them being Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Cubism and photo montages are similar because you use smaller pieces to create one big piece of art.

I wanted to be different on my find a something, so I did something no one would guess; items in a circular container. At first I was iffy about the idea but I took the pictures and it came out better than I expected. I made them black and white so people would focus on the items rather than the color.

After hearing a summary of the play, I decided to put together what I heard to make it creepy yet have the christmas concept. I started off with the background giving it a creepy factory theme then used the pictures I took of the people to add a scary christmas effect. The zombies are being out together by the workers or Santa’s helpers.  The title just happened, I was not planning on doing the title like that but it came out good.