The Creative Unit

Circle Rotation

Image Overlay with Text

Hand Painted 

Vertical Stripes

Half Tone Screen

Double Exposure

Texture Screen

I like the concept of the creative unit because I love abstract art. I like the idea of editing a photo in photoshop to make it into a whole new photo. My favorite pieces that I did were the last two that I edited actually, the Texture screen and the double Exposure because I LOVE the way they look. I found it really cool that photoshop has so many things to offer in editing a picture, so many things I didnt know about until this unit.

Final Motion Project

Blurred Motion
I was standing along the streets of NYC waiting for a more orangey cab to pass so it could compliment and create unity with the oranges on the fruit stand. I had a slower shutter speed to create the blur.
f/stop: 18.0
SS: 1/25
ISO: 400

Frozen Motion

I had a somewhat fast shutter speed to freeze the woman's fast walk across the street as well as putting NY elements like the one way street sign, the cross walk, and the pizza place into the background of the shot.

f/stop: 9.0

SS: 1/1000

ISO: 3200

Writing with Light

I went to my friend's house (who also has a strong interest in photography) and he was spinning the Steel Wool around while I had the BULB button down for a few second to create the many many streaks of light.

I don't have the metadata for this shot because my friend had it on his camera and sent the shot to me.

 Zooming
I focused in on the flower off of the tree then zoomed in from 18-40mm pretty fast while having a somewhat slow shutter speed.
f/stop: 18.0
SS: 1/10
ISO: 100

Panning

Again, I was watching the cars in NY and saw this brand new shiny car pass and traced in with my camera so I could freeze the motion of the car but still blur the background.

f/stop: 18.0

SS: 1/25

ISO: 400

Chrono

I went to a baseball game and had a very very fast shutter speed to capture everything that was happening all at once then combined the shots and raised the saturation to make my chrono shot! :)

f/stop: 6.3
SS: 1/2500
ISO: 800

Motion Contact Sheet

Motion Planning

~Planning~

Blurred Subject

* Taxi driving through NYC

* Someone biking through Central Park

* An interesting subject running through Time Square

Panning

* Follow someone's motion of running down the sidewalk in front of Stardust Diner

Freezing

* Kayleigh jumping off of a swing 

* Broken glass as it's breaking 

Zooming

* try and zoom in on a meaningful or cool text in a book or magazine 

* zoom in on someone running towards the camera

* Kay running across the creek at the camera so you can see her while seeing the water splashing in the background

Writing with Light

* Using Sparklers to outline Kayleigh 

* Use these little laser light things to flash lights to spell out a word in Central Park 

* try different things out with laser lights or glow sticks

Lighting Final

 Existing

 Natural Light

 Natural Light

 Artificial

Natural Light

Why is this person important in your life? 

Parker Hillard is important to me because he's one of my closest friends. He's always there to make me laugh and he just treats me like one of the guys. Park is always there to hang out when I'm sad or mad at the world and he's just there to make me laugh.

How does their personality dictate your artistic decisions?

This kid is a pain in the butt to photograph to be honest. He never stays still and he hates posing for the camera. So when and doubt, take candid shots. The candidness of these shots really exposes the person that Parker is, which is a jeep loving, food hogging, creative, goofy person. I had him outside with his Jeep because he is IN LOVE with that thing, and I took a photo of him in the garage making something so I could get him in action while he was doing something that he loved. 

How has this unit affected your photography? 

This unit has affected my photography a lot because I discovered that I had to follow him around for a while (not to sound creepy at all) to get a good photo because he always moves around. I also had to change my patience level during this unit because I'm used to photographing people in the studio in 20 minutes and being done with it. I had to hang around Park for 2 days to get shots that were up to my standards but also expressed his personality.

Lighting Final Contact Sheet

Working with Silhouettes

Gradient

Shape

  

Solid

Pattern