Artist emulation

For my artist emulation, i was trying to emulate gregory crewdson. I really like his style of photography. He does alot of surreal scenes and he always includes people. i like them also because they are for the most part all very simple. I tryed coping his form of art. however i choose to copy the the more realistic and simple part of his art. i think it seems to work a little better for him. my images are the same in the way of the natural background woith only one person. that way the mood of the picture is sad in a way. which i believe all of his photos have in common.

Series pictures

The first picture i took was of my drum set. I put a yellow par can (light) on the set and picked an angle that looked right. I think that the soft yellow tone throughout the picture really unifies it. I think that the drum sticks/snare is the focal point of this picture.

The second picture i took was at my church. There is a table with the elemnts on it for communion. I was just messing around with the settings on my camera and i found one that looked awesome... it pulled alot of darker colors out of the photo. I also used some extra lighting laying around to accomplish the darker photo with the warm glowing of the candle.

The last picture i took after school today. i was walking by and i saw the tree. The lighting was just right. The way the light was reflecting off of the snow made it look like the crystals were glowing with a white/blue color. i thought that the brown of the branches also made the color of the snow pop.

The overall theme i tried to convey was the use of color and light. In each picture i used the light that i had available to make the image have unity. overall i think i was pretty successful in doing so.

2)How would you define fine art photography?
I think that fine art photography has to do alot with mood and color. The different mood you want your picture to have directly reflects the colors you should use. as well as the colors you use, brings out a mood in the picture. so in other words i would define fine art photography as the use of color and mood to portrey a certain item/scene.

Album cover

For my album cover cover,I chosse to take a picture of me, and do a tutorial on it. The tutorial i originally wanted to do didnt work so i ended uo doing this water color effect. I think it probably would have worked better with another picture with less detail. I still think it looks decent, however the parts of the photo with the most detail are lacking a little bit. overall i would say its ok.

The first picture i took was in my living room of my djembe and lamp. I choose to do this because the reflecting yellow stuff on mylamp and the brown of the wood on my wall, really gives it a warm feel. its a very relaxing mix of colors. i put in the djembe because it too had several warm and relaxing colors.

The second picture i took was of a mirror haning in my house. I thought the lighting and the way the light was casting a shodow off of the knock down gave the picture alot of depth. The color grey usually stands for something bland or boring. however i think the grey in this photo really compliments the white and the brown on the border of the mirror.

The third piture i took was of a sculpture that i made when i was a little kid. I put ut up against some cabinets in my bathroom. I think that the red and the yellow up against the brown backround really sticks out. also the shadowing in the picture gives it alot of depth. I think the red and yellow really do the shape justice because the shape is really a loud and interseting shape.

This first picture i took was of my brother. i photoshopped in some fire to make it look like he was bretheing fire. i took the picture outside so the white of the snow wouldnt conflict with the oarnge any yellows in the fire.

The second picture i took was of amber. I thought it would be fun to have a small person standing in someones hand. i just cropped amber in and put her on the hand. I didnt exactly follow the rule of thirds, but i think it works with this picture.

My last picture i took was in my grandmas back yard. i photoshopped a picture of a snowman in. I tried feathering the edges a little bit. i did usw the rule of thirds on this image.

My Montage

I made the first photo because i love snowmobiling. This picture resembles things l i love and dream about. I cropped the two snowmobiles from another photo and i added in the toaster with a pizza in it because i was hungry at the time.
The second photo i made resembles my love for cars. I made this because the corvette is one of the most iconic sports car ever made. Also most people can identify corvettes so this picture would catch their eye.

My Camera

So i bought my camera a couple years ago, and i have only used it a handful of times to take videos and pictures of my snowmobiles and motorcycles. Its a Lumix DMC-LZ7 which apparently is made by Panasonic. I dont know how to use it to its full capacity so it was relatively easy for me to learn things through the owners manual. Here are ten things i learned bout my camera

1 - Takes an SD video memory card
2 - There are 17 different color settings for different scenery
3 - It has 7.2 Megapixels with 6x optical zoom
4 - Lumix is made by panasonic
5 - I can hook up a 3v power supply so i dont waste batteries
6 - I can set it so it is less sensitive to light for fireworks, bonfires....
7 - There is a burst mode so i can take multiple pictures very fast
8 - I can hook up my camera directly to a printer
9 - It has an effective flash range from 1.6ft to 17.7ft
10- It only has 28MB of built in memory which is only enough for a couple pics

2 Questions that i have about my camera are
-Does the camera have any type of warranty for the moving parts or not?
-Can you upgrade the microphone at all thats on the camera?

-Neggers