Solley Photography

The  birds eye point of view is interesting because everything that you’re looking down at is so small, almost miniature.   

I thought this project was really cool because we got to create our own “bug” out of our name. You could design it any way you wanted and they all came out in completely different, but awesome ways.

i used the simple light from the window to create a more lively and serene feel to the pictures. natural light is better than camera light.

I created this photo using Photoshop. I had to make two different layers, put one of the layers in black and white and erase the part of the picture that i wanted to be in color. that was really time consuming. after i completed this part, i went back to the first layer and added a higher saturation so the colored part of the picture was more colorful and stood out.

The famous photographer i chose was Diane Arbus. She was an American photographer that took portraits of people in black and white. Her photographers were put in the Museum of Modern Art in 1967. Most people described her as a freak because she liked to take photographs of “different” people; dwarfs, giants, circus performers and transgenders whose normality was surreal. She wanted the pictures to seem harsh because she wanted to reveal the truth: the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see.

My “thing” or something i really enjoying doing is swim and water polo. I play both sports for Laguna and i have so much fun. They both may look easy but don’t let the swimmers elegant glides through the water fool you, they work very hard to create good stamina and look like what they’re doing is easy. It’s not just the sports i love, but the people on my team i love just as much. They are so helpful and fun to be around, they definitely make practice a lot more enjoyable. 

These pictures were taken with the macro setting on the computer. This setting allows you to get really close to the object you are taking a picture of and get a clear shot of it. Macro is a cool setting because when you get close up to something you can see all the little details it has within the picture. 

Line: point moving in space. Line can vary in width, length, curvature, color, or direction.

Value: Lightness or darkness of a hue or neutral color.

Color: visual sensation dependent on the reflection or absorption of light from a given surface.

Texture: surface quality of materials, either actual (tactile) or implied (visual).

Shape: two-dimensional area or plane that may be open or closed, free-form or geometric. It can be found in nature or is made by humans.

Form: three-dimensional volume or the illusion of three dimensions

I took a selfie and edited on photoshop and added a textured filter. this filter makes it look like i was painted on a canvas which i think is really neat. photobooth is fun to go on to take silly pictures. 

I thought this pattern was pretty cool because the tree is very detailed and you can see all the little cracks in the tree. (first picture) and the second picture i chose to take a picture of one of the benches outside at the school because i thought it was neat how the shapes looked like ovals but they were all connected.