A theme for my light and shadow project is nature. All of my pictures are taken outside and they capture something from nature. The first one has trees and shows the green of plants, the second one is of the different colors of light coming from a sunset, the third one is of the light coming from the sun behind the big clouds and the contrast between the soccer field and the sky, the fourth one is the light of a fire and how it makes everything behind it dark because of how bright it is, and the last one is of a sunset too and the red and yellow shining bright from the clouds.
Portrait
I think my aesthetic for my portrait photos are warm and they all have some green and/or orange. I like making the pictures brighter and more colorful. I also made the background of most pictures a bit blurry so Olivia was the main focus.
Landscape & Macro
My vision and vision for this project was nature. I wanted to get more fall themed photos, but didn't find much with that. I like to bring out the colors in my pictures, so it doesn't look as boring. For example, the pictures with the water had barely any color, mostly a pale brown. I edited those pictures with a cool tone to bring out the blue in the water and the other photos were mostly warm toned to bring out the green or orange in the pictures.
Tricking the Eye
For the first picture on this slide, I took a photo of my friend Audrey sitting on one side of the table, and then I took another photo of her sitting on the other side. To make it look ghost-like, I went to Photoshop and put one photo on top of the other. After that, I put a mask on the top photo and lowered the capacity on that photo to see the picture underneath. I then aligned the top picture to the bottom one and then, used the brush tool with the color black and a capacity of about 25% to paint over Audrey on the bottom picture. After I was done with that, I went to Lightroom and added a cool tone to the picture.
Narrative
Social Justice
My theme for Social Justice is Contamination. I took these pictures one day because I thought that there were clouds in the sky, but it ended up being smoke from a factory. I find it sad that the smoke covers up the sky and prevents you from seeing the sunset right. The last picture is from a piece of paper I found in the river here in town. It made me think of all the garbage that ends up in the oceans because people can't hold on to their garbage until they find a trashcan. To help this cause I will pick up garbage I find on the ground and throw it in a garbage can along with my own garbage.