Best of Series

This is a compilation of my favorite or what I think are my best artist series photos. Over the many drafts I did, I tried to work on things, many new ideas to make my sets better. I also eliminated to things that didn't work in my set of photos. One thing I really though was successful was doing various tasks while jumping, so it wouldn't seem like you are jumping, since the tasks that are portrayed in the photos are things that do not require jumping, which makes the levitation concept more believable and realistic.

Levitation 3

This is our 3rd draft for our artist series. I tried to improve my levitation shots further this week. Some elements that I noticed were successful about the previous sets that I wanted to emphasize. One of those things was jumping while doing miscellaneous tasks around the neighborhood. That way it looks as if the person is levitating rather than jumping. This is what Natsumi Hayashi did in her photos, and that's why I thought her levitation photos were successful.

Levitation 2

This week we worked on our series, trying to recreate our photographers images. When we worked on them last week, our peers reviewed each other's series work and we gave constructive feedback about each other's work. I tried to edit and emphasize what I thought was strong with my first series draft and use them in my 2nd series draft.

Levitation 1

Our assignment was to research a photographer that we like and take photos like their series and try to recreate them. My photographer, Natsumi Hayashi, took pictures of herself "levitating" in mid air, and I'm using models as my levitation figures instead of jumping myself for most of my images. The trick is to jump at the correct timeto make it look like they are levitating. The concepts in my photo are that i try to tell my models to look like they are not jumping but rather levitating. This involves having the same face composure while taking the shots. The way arms and legs are bent also affect the way the photos look.

Narratives

This weeks assignment was to tell as troy in a series of photos. We tried to tell a story or scenario as much as possible through imagery. Using models and props, we tried to make them as storylike as possible.

Micro worlds

This weeks assignment was to use toys and action figures to portray real life situations and almost make them intense. even though toys are children's items, we tried to make them as real as possible in the scenes we created.

Portraits

This week's assignment was to capture a person true emotion, without posing. To do this, we may need to take time to ask the individual model some questions to get their true emotions and feelings. All the photos are in black and white so the colors of the photos would not take away the emotion and mood of the photos. Also, the background was chosen to be all white, also for the reason of taking away the attention from the model. These ideas are based off of Richard Avedon's portraits. during his time at work.