Social Issue: "Paradise leads to my death"

In the picture I took of my social issue there is a two way meaning. I decided to put sort of like a desert with footsteps describing or meaning there are many death in the desert. I was looking for dark colors to represent the footsteps and with the red over them represents that they are sort of the emphasis.
This picture is about immigration and its death. Many people have crossed the desert looking for the paradise they once heard in a beautiful city and they want to get that far. Unfortunatley
those people have not made their wish. This would affect me in different ways. I have meet friends that have family that have died in the desert. This issue means alot to me because my dad had crossed through the desert a couple of times and he could of been one of those people that couldn't made their wish come true.

Scary Effects

My favorite picture was the Halloween Vampire because I love scary things that have to do with halloween. I also liked how it came out and the background looking through the broken glass. One of the new tools i used was the making the broken glass with the paint brush. Another tool that i enjoyed using was the Burn tool to make my skin like if it was dark. I also liked how the texture of the Alien picture looks like. Some of the difficulties I went through was that I wasn't able to burn my skin that well. I think I really did a good job in the vampire to get the scary theme across. The vampire pictures would probably be used as a poster for halloween or maybe promoting costumes because its a vampire.

Formal Critique

There is a man in the middle walking forward with his back pointing to us. He almost disappears with the ground because of his dark suit and his shoes. Him and the dark ground make the opposite contrast with the sky and the smoke. There is a strong leading line that takes us to the man. There is a strong fire that has made a furious line taking us to the man in the middle. Lots of water bags hanging from his shoulders, as if he would be going to a long journey. The water bags are full of water to calm down the fire. I think the artist was trying to get the message of contrast with the smoke and the sky. The artist made it clear what he or she was trying to get to.

Photographic Effects

Out of all the tricks and tools i liked the one that i liked the most was the cross process. The third picture going doing show crossprocess and it looks so pretty. I also like the black framing on the outside of the picture, it makes it even more dramatic but in an artistic way. I would love to keep working on the cross process and the mask more time. On my own I discovered how to make a picture of myself just bluring the background and me standing out.

Portraits

I was most successful with the senior face portrait because it came out like if I was a real photographer. I also liked how the contrast came out. For the artistic picture I just looked for something that would make the feeling as if someone were to be trapped and were really sad. For the costume we decided to do as a Hawaiian girl. My surprise picture is not so unique but it involves one of the compositional tricks that I have learned and that is the extreme angles.

Contact Sheet

Out of my nine pictures i loved the macro texture. This picture was my favorite because it looks so complicated to find out what it is. In my next projects I think I would be most using the drawing with light and/or fill in flash because the pictures would not look as good with shadows across than the ones where you could see everything in the picture. My favorite picture was the macro texture because i loved how the green in the middle is just bright and the strings are all over the outside of the green area.

Compositional Trick #8 Fill in Flash

Fill in flash helps your picture stand out because if you have a dark picture with your emphasis not well so we can see then it is not a good picture. Fill in flash also helps your picture to have a little glow because of the sun light.

Compositional Trick #7 Drawing with Light

By playing with the light the picture or the emphasis stands out because they have either the light hitting them or they might have shadows on their faces. When I look at this picture I feel like sad but at the same time I feel like thoughtful.

Compositional Trick #6 Framing

Framing might help composition in many ways. Framing might help the emphasis to stand out more then the other things in the picture. It helps identify the emphasis and bring it right in front of your eyes. While in my pictures it doesn't really show the framing idea, it does show me being framed by objects. In the first picture Im being framed by the rectangle in the back. In the second picture m being framed by the branches of the tree. If I could make my pictures better I would not try to get the frame with me, I would of separate the frame with me.

Compositional Trick #5 Extreme Angles

Extreme angles might not be a good look for your pictures but it gives an artistic look. It also helps composition because it gives a different look than the other regular pictures. In these pictures you get to see your emphasis from a different point of view than you would usually see them. I think these two pictures show extreme angles because you don't see these angles so often but on the first pictureI should of taken the picture from a lower angle.

Compositional Trick #4 simplicity

Simplicity is one of my favorite compositional tricks to use. Simplicity lets you take the pictures with your main object to stand out than whatever else is going around in your picture. When using simplicity, you must make sure to take the picture of your main emphasis alone and not too many objects around it.

Compositional Trich #3 Macro

Macro is a wonderful way to take pictures. Macro adds simplicity to your picture. Macro also lets you zoom in on an emphasis and makes it your main object in the pictures.

Compositional Trick #2 Leading Lines

leading lines is a trick of finding your emphasis right away. In this pictue the wall may be the leading line taking us to the boy sitting at the end of the wall. Although there are many lines in the picture, it makes it a little difficult to know what the emphasis is.

Compositional Trick #1 Rule Of Thirds

The Rule Of Thirds is a very useful way of taking pictures. The photo is divided into nine squares and your emphasis has to be in either one of the four points. The Rule Of Thirds is a very exquisite way of making your pictures more interesting to look at.