Assignment 5
My Plan
My plan for this assignment is to take pictures regarding Thanksgiving. So, either the food or the people or the atmosphere. I am not totally sure yet.
My Shoot
For my shoot I went around the resort I was staying at and tried to take a bunch of different photos. I really like some of them. The resort was really cool and was built into the hillside so the buildings were going up the hill. Most of the buildings were tan so it worked perfectly with my theme for my portfolio. There was some red buildings and the green palm trees that kind of threw it off but I still think it looks really cool. I tired to get a picture of the mountains and the sky line but the sky was really blue so it threw of the neutral theme too. Overall, I am really happy with the way this shoot turned out.
My Edits
I really like the way my edits turned out. I am not sure which one is my favorite yet. I really like the one of the buildings against the hill side but I don't really like the palm trees in it. I am really happy with skyline one because I was able to tone down the blue sky, although I don't love how the top of the building looks. I don't love this third one so much, it is cool but probably not my favorite. I really like this last one too, although I don't love the green trees. I am happy with the way I could edit these, I used some yellow hue in my edits to enforce the neutralness.
Final
It was really hard for me to pick a favorite for this one. I picked this one because I really love the way the mountains look. In this photo you can see mountains and part of the city over the orange roof of the resort. An element of art in this photo is space. Space can be see because you are looking at how close the top of the building is and how far the mountains are. You are also looking at an elevation drop from the resort to the city. A principle of design is perspective because the photo is taken just overlooking a roof top. It is not a clear shot of the mountains, it incorporated the surroundings that were immediate. The purpose of this photo was to capture the mountains, the city, and the neutral colored life around it. I think this photo met its purpose. The story behind this photo is: right outside of our hotel room, there was a little hill right next to one of seven pool (I know, crazy) and we climbed to the top of it and found these cool little benches. When you turned around you could just see over the resort and have this view of everything. It was beautiful. Overall, I really do like this photo. I think it ended up very similar to how I envisioned it and I think it goes well with my theme.