maya angelou

for this one we had to use a maya angelou quote and take a picture for it . my model for this one was my sister PFC Barillas .she is in the Marine Corp, i picked my quote because of the fact that it started off with "women should be tough" and this picture goes perfect with that . the rest of the quote i think is just the way we should be ... happy people just live longer lives . i also wanted to incorporate the american flag into and am happy with the outcome of it .

for this project we had to take a picture and make a backround for it . it was pretty fun to mess with it i didnt want to exaggerate it so i made it very simple . i really liked the way it came out . if i was to do this again i wouldnt have her barefoot and take the chair out and either have her standing up or sitting on the ground .

OBAMA

one of our assignments was to get a picture of Obama and make it 40% ours . i had fun messing with this one . i like the filter i used because highlighted his face really nice. the reason i put "change is here" is because it is i beleive he's going to do a lot of good things. i made the words red white and blue to match the colors of our flag . i put a border around it because this is something i would frame pretty big part of history . i would like to do this again but with a picture i took of him . hopefully one day i can.

SELF PORTRAiT (:

this one was our self portrait . i had fun doing it because we got to use "photo booth" and we usually aren't allowed. when it came to messing it with photoshop i knew i didnt want to change my appearence much so the filter i used just highlighted my face and made it kind of fuzzy . now for the symbols i made them all bright colors so that they would pop out on the black backround the "A" is for my first name ( Alexis ) the hearts were put there because i liked how it looked xD no real reason for the skull ... but the number 17 was put there because my nephew was born on august 17 and he means the world to me. if i was to do this again i would probably put a lot more time and thought into it .

FASHiON !!!

this was the fashion shoot . i was so excited for this one because i knew i was going to be able to dress up one of my friends a model . so her look was based upon khloe kardashian because she had a trench coat that was very similar to my models . it was fun shooting with the strobe light and everything made it feel like a real fashion shoot . i liked doing fashion it was something new and its something that it forever changing . i do wish to do a fashion shoot again but in color.

CRiTiQUE

this photograph was taken by Bernice Abbott. It is called the "Tempo of the City." The title fits because it shows people walking every which way and then the clock makes it seem as if they have a certain time to get where it is they need to be. I love that its in black and white because i think it gives it more of an intense look.

rl

while doing this little "photoshoot" i was very excited to start i wanted it to be sort of hippy-like even though it didn't really end up that way. But i still liked the outcome they looked very laid-back and thats what i was looking for. When it came to Photoshop i was very overwhelmed i didnt know what to do because there were so many options to choose from. Thats when i added the brushes/stamps because to me it empasized the out doorsy look with the leaf stamps everywhere. Doin this assignment over all was very fun and interesting beacuse it taught me that there is so much you can do to make a photo look better or older or whatever you wished came out in the photo that hadn't.