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Entries from May 27, 2010

Project 7: Taking pictures of emotions

May 27, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Choosing a final project is hard. I want it to be good! I got the idea to take pictures of emotions from a site that was giving ideas of what to do for a final photography project. One of them was taking pictures of anger. I didn’t want to do that because that would be [...]

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Project 6 Self Evaluation

May 26, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I’m totally not done with project 6. I didn’t bring anything to show and I haven’t posted anything yet but it’s going great. I’ve been taking pictures and it’s taken up a lot of time. I Just haven’t fully finished it yet. I really want it to look good especially sinse it’s a harder subject. [...]

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What I Learned Today

May 21, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

My sixth project is a little more difficult, but I did that on purpose. The pictures I’m taking are like the ones that M.C. Escher drew way back whenever. Basically, my photos will be set up in a way that looks somewhat like that using the different elements in gestalt psychology. Today I just learned [...]

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Project 6: Taking pictures showing elements of gestalt psychology

May 17, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I have no idea what gestalt psychology is but when I looked at how you could include it in photography it sounded cool. One of the examples of gestalt psychology was  Rubin’s figure/vase illusion. Another one was M.C. Escher’s art. Things that don’t explain how images appear multistable, only that they do. What I want [...]

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Project 5 Self Evaluation part 2

May 14, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

These are my three favorite pictures from my project that I took with my eyes closed.

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Project 5 Self Evaluation

May 13, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

My project was blind photography. What I did was go out to random places with a blindfold and took pictures of things with my eyes closed. The purpose was to see what it’s like to be a blind photographer. I read a lot of interviews with blind photographers and their techniques of how to take [...]

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Project 5: Exploring Blind Photography

May 3, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Blind photography sounded really fun to me. Basically what I want to do for this project is take a picture of something blindfolded. I think it would be really cool to have my mom drive me to a random place while I’m blindfolded so I don’t know where we are going. Then she could direct [...]

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Project 4 Self Evaluation

May 1, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Reflection photography is definately challenging but it’s worth a try. It’s hard to find a clear reflection especially when you live in Washington. What I did was I took only nine pictures of reflections just because of the difficulty and me being sick. I took pictures in water, mirrors, spoons, and lip gloss containers. My creativity really [...]

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