Diptych #5

The fifth diptych is of frozen yogurt I had at Coco Swirl in downtown Pleasant Hill. I wanted to capture the vividness and richness of the luscious red berries, hence the top picture of the full cup. To go along with the overflowing cup of yogurt and berries, I thought a photo of it half-eaten with fewer berries would be a nice addition of time passing - representing that everything changes, nothing stays in its original form. Though I like the subject and composition of these photos, I don't like the discoloration in the whites of the two photos. In the test strip I made before finalizing and printing, the discoloration wasn't apparent, though in the final print it was. The whites in the top photo are slightly too red, and the whites in the bottom photo are slightly too yellow. In addition to the issues with discoloration, the photos are also slightly out of focus, but there really isn't much one can do to change that after the photo is taken.

Diptych #4

The fourth diptych I made is of two cars I happened upon while walking around downtown Pleasant Hill. The appeal of the top photo (white car) was the license plate, which reads "MEOW2ME." My friend, my sister, and I thought this was quite comical, so I felt it necessary to document it. And then later that same day, I came across the red car with the "Wild" seat cover, and found it interesting, as well as possibly a good pairing for the white car. Later I was told that a photo of a cat would have also made a good diptych pairing with the "MEOW2ME" license plated car.

Diptych #3

The third diptych I made is of my sister. I took random shots of her, both up close and from farther away, while we were walking around downtown Pleasant Hill, CA. I took the bottom photo (of her nose and lips) while we were sitting in Coco Swirl (frozen yogurt shop), and the top photo (of her eyes and nose) while we were sitting outside. When choosing pictures for this diptych, I first chose to use the bottom photo. I originally paired it with another photo of the bottom half of her face, with her hand splayed in front of her mouth, but then I came across the photo of her eyes, and liked it better.

Diptych #2

For my second diptych, I wanted to portray some form of artwork, in terms of painting or drawing - something I am passionate about. I thought taking a photo of my current project and placing it next to one of art supplies would make an interesting pairing. When reviewing my photos, though, I decided that a photo of a tote bag from the Academy of Art University would make a more interesting, as well as a slightly less obvious pairing. It didn't turn out quite as well I would have liked, but I'm still fond of the idea and of the subjects themselves.

Diptych #1

With this diptych, I chose to take my dress form and clothe and position it to personify a woman getting ready to go out, and compare it with a photo of an actual person.

Retouched Photo

This is an [obviously] old photo of my uncle as a baby, taken in 1954, I believe. If I'm mistaken, I'll make sure I come back and change the date later. The picture on the left is the original, and the one on the right is the finished edited copy.

The Lovely Coco Chanel

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." ~Coco Chanel I was looking at photos on google and came across this photo and quote from Coco Chanel. She's a favorite of mine [being that I want to one day be a fashion designer myself], so I found it fitting to put her on my blog. Plus, I must admit I agree with the quote.

Chuck Close 2

This is another photo I decided to edit with the Chuck Close style in mind. It's not edited by grid, but rather by free-hand, as I pleased during editing. I find it rather whimsical. =)

Chuck Close

This was the Chuck Close assignment; I finally got around to posting this. =P The photo is of my best friend, Julia. The assignment was to take a portrait, then edit it using photoshop, creating a Chuck Close-style edited portrait.

So this is the third part of the Hockney assignment - the landscape. For this part of it, I guess one could say I chose to take a minimalistic point of view with the number of photos merged together for the collage. Also note that the larger sunset to the far left of the collage is part of the smaller image, just blown up - or zoomed in, however you want to put it. I probably would have left out this part of the image, just because it didn't fit into the larger picture size-wise, but I liked the vivid color of the sunset too much to exclude it.

Hockney Interior

This is a second part of the Hockney assignment mentioned before. We were to take photos of an interior, so I chose to take them of the interior of my piano. It's not the entire length of the piano - only about two-thirds of it, actually.

Hockney Portrait

This assignment was to take several photos in the form of a portrait, and make it into a collage. I chose to do a portrait of a portrait; it's actually of a previous art assignment I did a while ago. The original is a photo from a magazine, cut in half, and the second half is drawn in pencil and then filled in with makeup.

Monday June 16, 2008

First day of class, excited for summer. Let's test this out. . .more to come later. :)