I will be working with water, mirrors, and nature material. My goal is to create photos of people, animal, and plants with the use of raindrops, puddles, and mirrors. I will be using a lot of props such as glass, mirrors, patterned acrylic, and sprey bottles to create my work. The theme of the photos will be the emotions of nature, and the message I want my audience to see is the emotions of the nature is colorful and different, different parts and color of nature and different angles of nature can reflect different emotions. To show this message, I will be taking photos of the same objects with different color and different angles reflecting to different emotions. I will be mainly using framing, balanced, negative space for my photos, and for the techniques I will be making sure I use IOS and shutter speed.

This photo focuses on the water drops, demonstrating rain. The raindrops reflect the contour of the character, showing hundreds of faces. The face in the back is blurred, making the whole photo look gloomy and sad. But at the same time this way of taking the photo creates a scene of the character looking through a window that was just rained on.

This photo is tooken in the same way as the first one, this one is taken sideways. This photo also has weak lighting in the back making the whole scene look more sad, and with the facial expressions of the character making the photo full of stories. The colors used in this photo (background and shirt) is also working in concert. There is also more color on the right side of the character’s face.

Both of these photos looks more happy, the focuses are different though. The first photo focuses on the raindrops and the other photo focuses on the character’s face. The second photo shows depth of field, and both the photo’s show negative space.

This photo is edited into black and white, the black and white coloring shows heavy contrast in the lighting and the dark parts of the photo. The ice cubes reflects the character’s face in different angles, referring to the ice cubes. The hands on the platform shows works as a leading line towards the ice cup. The scene of this photograph is a person starring at the ice in a ice cup and the different levels shown with the character and the ice cup creates a scene of the character working hard to be tall enough to reach the ice cup.

This photo shows negative space, balance, depth of field, leading lines, and negative space. The platform creates a really strong color contrast with the background, the color of the character’s clothing is also dark which makes the photo as a whole look more balanced. The top of platform, side of platform, the character’s glasses, and the side of ice cup, all shows leading lines. Reflectons are shown both on the ice cup and cubes, and also on the top of the platform which creates a mirror-like effect.

This is the colored version of picture 5. The ice cubes reflect the character’s face, finishing the bottom half of the face. Negative space also shown.

Leading lines shown with the character’s hands, the look of the character’s eyes makes connections and tells the audience where to be looking at. The hands on the top of the water tank makes it seem like the character is looking from the top into the tank.

I chose this picture because of the focus and the eyesight. The photo is not balanced and the middle of the rule of thirds is not specifically shown in this photo of what it specifically is, but the picture really focuses on the details of the character’s face. Negative space is also shown in this photo. The fog ice created on the plastic cup brings texture to the photo, texture deconstrated with the help of the hair and the skin texture creating a realistic texture to the photo.

The character’s facial expression creates a serious and mysterious vibe, the weak lighting also brings the focus on the character’s face and his facial expressions. This picture shows the rule of thirds, the lighting focuses on the character’s nose and creates a bright spot and fades out in the dark. The

The mirror reflecting the trees and the sky makes a color contrast in green and blue, the mirror also creates a frame. And with the hint of red in the background, makes the photo more colorful.

The background is showing negative space. Because of the reflection, the color of the whole photo adds a hint of yellow, showing color contrast.

Naoya Hatakeyama

Naoya Hatakeyama‘s photos are colorful and gloomy, his creations are all taken with reflection and with water concepts. Water concepts incloode puddles and rain. I really like how all his creations are all really colorful, the first picture is taken from the reflection of a water puddle after rain. The puddle reflects the light of different objects on the streets, street lights, signs, and even reflections from glasses can be caught in the puddle’s reflection. The second picture is taken with a glass, the glass has just been washed with rain. The rain drops on the glass creates multiple reflections of light and color from outside. Outside looks like a lake with cool strips of color in the sky.

Antonio Gutierrez Pereira

Antonio Gutierrez Pereira has a really creative and unique style in photography. A big unique way of his photo styles are the use of reflections. Unlike other photographers, his use of reflections are through glass and mirrors.

Both the two artists use reflections as a material to create their piece. The differences between these two artists is that they use reflections differently. They both use refelctions but their reflections are different. For example,  Naoya Hatakeyama uses reflection through glass and with water. Antonio Gutierrez Pereira’s photography takes pictures through glass filled with water, making the focus object in the back seem bigger.

Reflection, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image. My first thought of the word reflection is water and mirrors. Reflections can be shown in different ways such as water, glass, and mirrors. I’m interested in colorful and fun styles in photography, I really enjoy looking at deep photos and videos where the piece looks like it has a lot of stories. I enjoy taking pictures with materials like nature plants and colorful lights.

Tatsuya Tanaka uses everyday objects to take creative photos of the objects used in another way. Examples include using tiny figures of human, and placing them on our daily objects. The figures on the object makes the object look huge. This is a creative and unusual way of taking pictures, it creates a large size contrast between the figures and the objects. I like how Tatsuya Tanaka is super creative with his placements, all the people in his photos look busy.

Examples of Tatsuya Tanaka:

These are my top 5 photos taken by me:

Unedited:

Edited:

1. The first photo is of a stone on a floating block of grass on water. I chose this photo to be one of my top fives because this photo shows color contrast and negative space, the water and the base of the water is black and reflecting. The block of grass and the base is on different levels and the color of the grass is also lighter. The character (rock with eyes) is a greyish white color, this can also atract the audience’s eyes at first sight. After editing, the photo had more light on the character (rock with eyes) and the color contrast is more shown.
2. & 3. The second and third photo is also more of a nature-themed photo too. These photos has two characters in different color and I also placed different colored fake trees to create color contrast. There are two photos edited because I wanted to try different angles and they are croped differently. On the other hand, the first edited photo shows balance and depth of field with the background depth. The second photo shows rules of thirds and perspective. Both of the photos have a frame with the leafs, rocks and sticks creating a frame framing up the two characters.

4. The fourth picture is built with books as frames. Through the books on the bookshelf, theres this character’s livingroom. The character is doing yoga with the TV on and some snacks on the table. This photo contains framing and perspective. Looking through the books has this misterious feeling that the figure is actually alive and living inbetween books and bookshelfs. The edited version of this photo adds a tiny bit of lighting to the background making color contrast show. The focus on the figures are controlled and the figure has light on the surface.

5. This photo creates a movement shoot, the figure in located on a slope. The green, brown, and transparent blue colored pieces of plastic underneeth the figure is placed in a shape where it looks like the pieces are sliding down the slope and bringing the figure with it. This photo shows leading lines, negative space, and balance. To make this photo better, I edited the color darker and created a focus point on the figure. This increased the color contrast and the darkness of the background making it a darker contrast and a negative space.

6. The last photo is created with different material props. I used children buildable toy pieces and a piece of fabric to create a litttle house/tent like area for the two characters. This photo shows leading lines, symmetry and patterns, balance, and framing. The triangle walls have lines leading to the characters, this makes audience spot the characters at first sight. Also with the impact of the character’s placement is in the middle of the photo too. The frame of this photo is the space created for the characters. After editing, the colors look more balanced. The photo now has a better framing and the characters have better focus.

Favoirte photo:

This photo is my chosen favoirte, this is because this photo has great angles and this photo looks like a lot of story. The whole picture is filled with the scene made.

Rule of  Thirds:

The picture itself has the character on the right; also with the addition of leading lines, the photo looks imbalanced.

The edited version of the photo edits the problem of the lighting, because some parts of the photo is too bright it affects the clearness of the photo. Editing it into a darker color makes the photo look more clean.

Leading Lines:

The unedited version of the picture is a bit too dark. The character is placed in the middle of the photo showing balance, and the leading lines are the hallway walls. The walls make perfect lines that lead the audience’s vision to the character.

The edited version of this photo solves the lighting issue, it created a brighter center and darkened the edges to make it look more balance.

Symmetry and Patterns:

The unedited photo looks plain. If the lighting of the photo are changed and placed in different angles the photo would look more unique.

So that’s what I did for the edited version. Even though the changes are not obvious, the photo still looks more focused and the patterns on the back are more obvious and darker in color.

Framing:

The uneditied photo looks a bit too dark, I used the whole of the chair to create a frame.

The edited version is a bit brighter, and the photo looks more balanced. This photo gives me a old fashion feeling, probably because of the coloring.

Depth of field:

The lighting and the focus of the unedited photo is unbalanced, the colors look simular and the photo does not give out unique. The character is in the middle of the photo.

After editing, the photo becomes more colorful. The colors are not simular anymore.

Negative Space:

The unedited photo of negative space is plain in color and dark. At the same time, the focus is also a bit off.

The edited version is better with lighting and the balance of the color is adjusted. The focus is also on the character and the edges are darkened, making the entire photo look more clean.

Balance:

The unedited photo does not look the best, it is not that balanced because of the frame outside is not really straight. Leading lines are also shown in this photo such as the cube shaped lines. The lighting is not focused enough on the character, which really effects the overall.

The edited photo fixes most of the issues of the picture. I croped the edges of the photo and created a lighting for the character.

Perspective:

This photo was taken at home. Because of the limited props at home, this photo was created. This photo has weird lighting and weird colors, so I decided to edit it into a black and white photo.

The edited photo looks more balanced, the color and the lighting makes the photo look 3D even though the photo is black and white.

Overall, my favorite photo is the framing one. This is because the framing photo is taken in a really creative way and it really represents framing.

These are the final three pictures I chose, these are chosen because my theme is color and sight. My topic is also confidence. These three photos shows confidence from eye contact with the camera, looking into the mirror. I chose these as my final pictures because the lighting is really cool and i really like the color contract in the background and the red color on the shirt and makeup also with the apple making a really sharp spot.

These two practice pictures are taken from the side, with the lighting it shows good angle. I think the pictures can improve if I could try some colored lighting.

These three pictures have included a mirror as a prop, I want to use an apple as a prop.

I would like my theme to be about confidence, bright colored makeup and color contrast showing more of a strong and confident figure. Color contrast can also be about a strong figure not fearing to be unique, the eye contact with the camera better shows off the point.  So this is going to be about a recognition of the sources of individual pressures within society to conform or adjust our behavior and appearance.

The title of this project is Confident Figure, the issue I want to explore with my photographs is women rights. I want my audience to feel confidence, strength, and independence in my photography. I will get inspiration and develop my ideas by looking for photographs that have models looking directly to the camera showing confidence not fearing the camera. I also want to look at photographs that has color based spot lights in them.