Black and White

Brooke

This is a portrait of my friend, Brooke. I love how her skin looks against the dark blue background. I darkened the picture a bit and color balanced it.

Grateful Dead

Colors

Jackers and Burt

This is Jack and Burt. They are best friend. Kind of cute, right?

Yellow Wallpaper

I'm pretty upset with how this picture turned out. I had a really great plan to take it of my friend Brooke playing the part of the woman, but Brooke ended up throwing up and going home... nice, right? So with about an hour left of the day I rushed to take this photo. The message of the woman in the story being locked in the room is shown pretty well by the closed door. I just put a screen over the photo and lightened it a little bit. The photo turned out fine but it could of been a lot stronger.

Relaxation

When I see the color blue, I see relaxation, sluggish-ness, and laziness. So for my blue picture I took a picture of the boyfriend relaxing on the couch. I like the look of the bright window in the background because it creates interest in the photo. The rule of thirds also applies in the picture because Jack is laying across the bottom "third" line. I color balanced the photo, changed the curve and also upped the blue a bit. I'm not crazy about how it turned out but it gets the message across.

Uninspired

This is the photo I plan on turning in... but the photo above this is the original that I also really like.

Thinking of colors, their meanings, and photos to represent them was hard for me. I was just feeling uninspired. While sitting in math class, I tried to think of some ideas (maybe that's why I'm sort of not doing so hot in that class...) but anyway, I was staring at a white board and noticing how boring it was. White board, white fluorescent lights, white wall. For me white equals boring. Because we can't take pictures at school I adapted this photo to work in a basement. The basement has a white wall, white fluorescent lights, and a white couch. I nicely asked/forced Jack to sit in the photo for me wearing a white T-shirt, just to make sure the "white" message was clear. I really like how it turned out. The colors look intense and not washed out and their is also good contrast between the shadows and the white. I color balanced the photo and upped the contrast a bit.