LHS Digital Photography Blog - Amanda Taylor

Over the course of this first semester, I have learned not only the different kinds of factors going into a picture, but also my what my own photography style and how that affects what I may do to different kinds of pictures I take. Obviously, my "style" is not definitive yet, but it has certainly become more clear than in the beginning of the year. I hope that semester two will get me even more acquainted with the ways I can work on my art.

To create the two kaleidoscopes above, I took one picture of a heavily graffitied wall and one picture of a pumpkin resting in some succulents. I edited the first image to portray a dark and menacing look by increasing the contrast and emphasizing the reds. The pumpkin was too perfect to edit.

This project was focused on exploring all kinds of contrast and balance in photography. Because contrast is one of my favorite subjects in photography, I found this project almost as exciting as the color project. At the same time, I wanted to explore different kinds of photography to see which one appealed most to me. The photos below provide as examples for scale, color, value, texture, and shape contrast, as well as symmetrical and asymmetrical balance. Scale Contrast Color Contrast  Value Contrast Shape Contrast   Texture Contrast Symmetrical Balance  Asymmetrical Balance

Color Contrast (Cindy Sherman) Value Contrast (Ernie Brooks) Texture Contrast (Ansel Adams) Shape Contrast (Richard Avedon) Scale Contrast: Contrast of Two or more objects having a very different size contrasting each other (Walker Evans) Asymmetrical Balance (Liam Silva) Symmetrical Balance (Rodney Smith) Radial Balance (Imogen Cunningham)