Draft #3

In this draft, I continued to use Anton Courbijn's work as an influence in the images I took. I also tried to focus on capturing shots of their faces that show emotion and at different perspectives/angles.

Draft #2

For this draft, I tried to focus on taking images similar to Anton Courbijn's style of photography. His pictures, include somewhat dramatic lighting and extreme contrast, which was I tried to to do in my photos. I continued to focus on what was happening or what was there in my backgrounds. I tried to have people in the background or have my subject up against a lively background that puts a lot into the picture.

First Draft

This series of images is my official first draft of my Series Project. I wanted to take portraits of people, but not in the sense of Richard Avedon's style. I want to add a bit of life in each picture with a lively background. In the first several images from the bottom, I had a neutral background, but as i continue to work on this project, i hope to add more abstractness to it.

Series Project 2011

In this draft, I tried to take the same approach as my last draft, but I wanted to add a bit more life to the background.

Series Project 2011

For this series project, I chose to take portraits of people. However, my pictures are will not show neutral facial expressions, but they'll show emotion. one thing I am trying to include in this series, is to add color and somewhat of an abstract vibe to it. Trying to go a bit on the wild side.

Op Art:

–noun

a style of abstract art in which lines, forms, and space are organized in such a way as to provide optical illusions

For this project, we had to take images that we previously took and turn them into optical illusions. For my series, I used some abstract pictures that had a lot of color to make it stand out. One thing I liked about the hypnotic effect was that you were able to have a fade of the original image in the background, which is what you see in the first two pictures.

Grids

For this project, we focused on creating grids. As we captured our images, we thought about how one picture would flow or relate to the next picture when we put it together as a grid. We focused on six specific topics: large scale, minimalism, people, patterns, abstract, and close-up shots.