Multiple Exposure Assignment

I was always amazed by multiple exposure and wanted to know how to do it. At the beginning of the photo semester we were meant to find our favourite photographer and mine happened to be Jerry Uelsmann who is the GOD of multiple exposure and when I first saw his work I wanted to the things he was doing. His images were so beautiful and he is such a talented man that I wanted to follow in his footsteps. Later on in the semester we were suppose to do a multiple exposure but in Photoshop  I knew it was my chance to see how well I was able to make multiple exposures and it turned out to look awesome. Jerry Uelsmann worked with up to 8 different enlargers when he created his masterpieces and I worked with 3 different ones when creating my multiple exposure. It doesn't really look like I used 3 different photos but at the bottom where the trees are is one photo, the top where the clouds are is a different photo, and the eye, obviously is a different photo. I really like using eyes in my photos because I feel like eyes express the most emotion no matter what. If someone is truly happy or just pretending to be happy their eyes will tell the truth. They are also all so different and unique and beautiful and the way the eye works and looks is unbelievable. I really enjoyed doing this project because it was really fun and I finally got to see how this stuff actually works. I love my multiple exposure because although it was a tough process and sometimes annoying it was worth it for the result I got.   

Acrylic Gel Assignment

side + front + back

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These three photos are of the same picture just different ways to view it. For this assignment I decided to do, I used a photo that i took when I went skiing in Vermont. I really liked this picture because I took it on the last day I was spending there and it turned out to be the most beautiful day I spent there. The sun was shinning, it had just finished snowing and the scenery was just beautiful and picture perfect. My favourite thing about this photo is the sun, if the sun wasn't there then I think the photo would look dull and wouldn't be so beautiful.

I was really looking forward to doing this project because when we got it demonstrated to us, it looked really cool and fun and I really liked the outcome of the whole process. I knew that this was one of the options I was going to do and I think that I will do this type of art more often and maybe even at home considering that you need simple materials.

Breaking the Rules

This photo above breaks the rules because of what the main focus is suppose to be. It also breaks the rule of having balance because all the attention is focused on the right side of the photo where the frog and the hands are while the other side of the photo has nothing. In this photo I was meant to take a picture of the frog because everyone was getting excited over it and wanting to hold the little frog because it was so tiny and cute. Instead of taking a photo of the frog and making him/her the main focus, i decided to make the hands in focus. I felt like it was a much better photo because it captures the excitement in the children that wanted to hold the frog. You see all those hands reaching to grab the frog while the frog is just there, like a little toy that everyone can play with and throw around. By making the focal point the hands, you get a feel of how much these children wanted to hold the frog and it kind of looks like they are fighting for it. I actually really really really like this photo and i'm glad that I took it this way because I think that if i had made the frog in focus that it wouldn't be as good as it is now and it would look too ordinary.

This photo breaks the rules because it breaks the rule of thirds. This photo is completely centered in the middle of the photo and the photo also sort of clashes with the girl that is in the background of the photo. I really like this photo because the burning marshmallow is completely in focus while everything else is not. I also really like how it's dark out and you can see that it is dark outside because of the background but the marshmallow almost looks like it was taken in daylight and I think it's cool because it almost looks like the marshmallow on a stick just came out of nowhere. It kind of looks photo-shopped but really kinda cool at the same time.