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Portraits are pictures of a single person that might be in emotion to aim for realistic. Portraits are mainly displayed in art pieces and photographs differently.

Making a good portrait needs a high requirement (even there isn’t a guaranteed formula for taking portraits), however, there was still ways to improve the quality of a portrait.

-Interact: communication with the model/individual

-Revealing character: details or items that can represent the subject (character) should be photographed with the subject.

-Quality light and shadows

-Be more close and know information about the subject/model/character

-Sharp eyes: Focus on the eyes on a portrait

-Catchlight: Guides the direction of light

-Centered Iris: Centering the eyes

-Eyes in the upper third

-Out of focus and uncluttered background

-Dominant eye in the center of a photo

-Change of angle

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Part 1:

My artists photographs are abstract because comparing from other photo, these photos have a complicated emotion in it.

I really like the style that how it have patterns in these photos, most of them look really neat when it have a specific pattern (repetition). For example, in 99 Cent II, there is a pattern of repetition in the snacks and other objects.

I will adapt this type of style of repetition in my photographies. This strengthens my photography skills and the visual effect of it. This image inspires me because of the repetition and the variety of color choices. It gives a deep impression from my first eye.

Part 2:

The reason that I choose this image in particular because this image is one of the most classic picture shot by Andrea Gursky, and it have a really good scale and angle for this picture. The scale of this picture depends how much of the content can be covered and the angle will effect the visual of this picture, the photographer uses a wide angle and a large scale, making most of the supermarket can be seen clearly. Besides the size of this picture covered, the color and the shapes have a specific patterns, these pattern and color can easily bring people’s attentions, including mine.

In this photo, what I find really surprised is about how much content it cover with one picture, this kind of style is unique and this kind of photo is unprecedented (kind of unusual). Another element that is quite unusual is how it can balance the overall focus of this photo, because this photo have a large range for the camera to focus.

In this picture, most of the elements in general are quite important, but the most important element in this picture is the shapes. Firstly, the packages of different product are the objects that mainly forms this picture, which is formed mostly by shapes. Second, if the shapes are not existed or prioritized, then the effect of the photo will be either really bad or this photo won’t even exist. Overall, this picture have especially rely on the shapes.

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The message of my triptych will be about the appreciation of nostalgia buildings. Old buildings are shown in an aesthetic way in nowadays. I want the audience to feel about the beauty and the craftmanship and appreciate about it. Feeling how the building is built and treated by craftsman. I will get inspiration and develop my ideas by looking for photographs that is related to abstract architecture and try to understand those photographs. So I can gain a further understanding for expressing ideas. This not only emphasize my understanding, supporting more for my skills in photography. In my perspective, nostalgia building (old architecture) could be understanded in an unique way, that can bring you to another different perspective.

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In my perspective, element 6, 8 and 12 are presented the best.

I personally think most of the picture had worked well, especially element 6, 8 and 12. Some other element like element 1, 2, 4, 9 had also worked okay (mediocre). It is mainly because these elements could be used, but not presented good comparing to element 6, 8 and 12.

In contrast, picture like element 10, 11, tend to not work that well. It is mainly because it is more difficult to achieve the similarity between the example and an actual photo. Which this is the main reason that cause pictures like element 10, 11 tend to be harder to take.

1. There is lots of commodities that is shown in the photo, which is probably taken in a place that is quite close to the roof of the building
2. In the front of the photo, there is a large 99 cents that is shown in the supermarket, which probably means every commodity in this photo is sold 99 cents or less.
3. Most of the commodities are either drinks or snacks, and most of them even though have different colors, but the overall look similar.

I personally think a name that I would give this photograph is “Bring this supermarket for less than 1 dollar” This name is since all commodities cost only 99 cents, which is less than 1 dollar.

In this picture, there is quite lots of pattern that is displayed in this photo, where commodities are presented in this picture are arranged in a pattern. It creates a rhythm of this picture; it would cause audience to have a deep impression of this photo because of repetition. Meanwhile the commodities have a specific pattern, but most of the commodities have a shape, which most of them have a shape of rectangle and squares.

The photo also uses a tone of dark for right side and a tone of light for left side (since this picture is split into two different pictures,) This causes a comparison between two photos, that effects the texture of this photo. One of them looked warmer while the other looked colder.

Lastly, the focus of the piece of photography, if the author is using a digital camera, it is probably taken by AF-A, it is because this photo is focused on some scene that is stationery.

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In general, formal elements mean the parts that makes a hard piece, which in photography, it means the elements that make the content of the photo, formal elements in photography include line, shape, repetition/pattern, texture, value/tone and focus.

Line: Straight objects/subject from a picture, it could be in any shape as long as it is a straight line.

Shape: any objects/subject in a picture (basically everything in a picture except for most background pictures belongs to a shape)

Repetition/pattern: Usually when there is more than one similar/same object, then a pattern shape will be formed, the main purpose for this is to create rhythm in a photo.

Texture: It is usually used to describe how the photo feel by touching it physically. Which the word texture is mainly used to describe the feeling of a physical photo. It could also used to describe a picture just taken by a machine, and people are able to feel this visually.

Value/Tone: It is usually how dark or how light a picture is, which is adjusted by ISO and shutter speed mainly.

Focus: It is mainly the quality of the photo, it can be adjusted in two different forms, af (auto focus) and mf (non-auto focus that rely on how familiar you are with the camera.)

1. Give an example that emphasizes each element (you can use your own image or an image from somebody else – but it must be cited!)

An image that includes the element, focus.

An image that includes the element, value/tone.

An image that includes the element, shape.

An image that includes the element, line.

An image that includes the element, repetition/pattern.

An image that includes the element, texture.

An image can show multiple elements at once, which means if the picture get shapes and lines in the photo, it still can get good texture. Emphasizing about the statement that an image can occur more than 1 element at the same time.

https://www.turton.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Intro-to-Drawing-Formal-Elements-Yr7.pdf (error occur during mla)

All pictures are taken by myself