Month: October 2016

My magazine cover is of my friend Grace. I tried to incorporate some of her favorite things, such as the color pink, fashion, and beauty products. For the title text I wanted to make it very classic, so I used a font very similar to the one vogue uses. I didn’t want it to be boring, plus the white on one side and black on the other side of the picture meant I had to use a color for the title text, so I used some pink flowers as a texture for the title text. I spent a lot of time messing around with the texts on the rest of the magazine in order to make it look professional and also to grab the attention of the reader. I had so much fun with this assignment and love the way it turned out!

Mirror Lake is probably my favorite place on campus. I figured it would be the perfect thing to capture as a panorama because you can’t capture the whole thing in just one normal picture. I enjoy the fact that panoramas give you the ability to capture a full scene instead of just part of one. Panoramic and 360 degree photos may distort images a bit, but you cannot expect a digital version of a vision to be able to exactly replicate the vision of the human eye. Photos are a moment captured in time, while in real life we are able to move around and look around and experience things in live action. This being said, I really enjoy the wide angle that panoramas provide. As long as you don’t try to capture too much more than 180 degrees, the photo doesn’t become too distorted. I think that the wide angle adds to the subject matter and aesthetic value of the photo, because you can capture the trees, water, fountain, buildings, and the sun all in one photo.

(my photo did not show the full 360 degrees so I was unable to use the website to create a 360 photo)

Also, please enjoy this halloween themed version of my photo. I was playing around with the colors and this edit felt festive. Happy October 🙂

This is my long exposure photo. I used a flashlight I had and put a timer on the app and set my phone down, and when it started the 16 second interval that I set I started drawing my name backwards. The filter I used on it was the “glowing edges” one and when I used it twice it gave a really cool effect.

This is a picture from a couple weeks ago of my friends heading to the Kesha concert, walking down the sidewalk. The sun was going behind the clouds straight ahead of them and you can see some of the rays emphasized by this “glowing edges” filter. I like the fact that this picture looks like nighttime after the filter but it was taken in the evening and there are shadows in the picture.

This is a picture I took of the lights in the Koffolt Lab. I pixelated the picture a bit and then did a “render” “extrude” function which brought those pixels out in block form.