Week 5 - Filters

This is the shot without any filters. I thought it would help to have a comparison for all the filter shoots.

Original Bottle

The filter used below is a nylon. I think it gives the photos a vintage look.

Nylon-1

Nylon-2

The filter used below is a dark magenta gel. I wanted red so the green bottle would be very black and the black necklace an even more saturated black, but I couldn't find this gel.

Gel-1

Gel-2

The filter used below is a pool skimmer which has a blue hue, I call it pool blue, and is just slightly noticeable.

Pool Skimmer-1

Pool Skimmer-2

The filter used below is a window screen. These are also the only ones with sun because the first ones I took using this filter I didn't like, and when I went back out a little later the clouds had broken up, so it's sort of hard to see, but if compared to the original with no filter there is a slight difference, but I think the sun sort of interferes with being able to see the effect of the filter.

Window Screen-1

Window Screen-2

Week 4- Critique

I chose this photo out of all the manual photos because the color was the closest, the lighting was as accurate representation of the overcast afternoon, and the focus was the best. Some had one or another attribute, but I felt this one had all of them.

Pumpkin Harvest-2, f/5.6 & 1/125

Pumpkin Harvest-1, Program mode

Week 4- Manual Shots

A sampling of the manual shots:

P5, f/27 & 1/15

P4, f/13 & 1/125

P3, f/8 & 1/125

P2, f/5.6 & 1/125

P1, f/4 & 1/2000

Week 4- Automatic Mode Shots

A shot from each of the automatic modes:

Pumpkins-5, A-Dep mode

Pumpkins-4, AV mode

Pumpkins-3, TV mode

Pumpkins-2, Landscape mode

Pumpkins-1, Program mode

Week 3- Critique with Out Takes

Original

These the attempts I made. "Try 3" is the one I chose for critique. I wasn't sure what else I could do to my photo mosaic from last week. So I decided to try something a little more challenging, a person. I figure a landscape was a fairly neutral subject when it comes to photo mosaics, and rendering a person through a photo mosaic I thought would be harder to do and it was. It was a toss up between "Try 2 & 3". I used the same individual trash photos from last week. The out takes from that are at the bottom.

Try 1 Try 2

Try 3 Try 4

This is what I started to work on before I remembered I could use an application that would help me create a photo mosaic, like Chris Jordan's. So used the software AndreaMosaic. Plus it wasn't really emulating his work.

Postcard from Hell... err I mean from Florida

This was my first attempt with the photo mosaic software, and thought it was okay, so I modified the settings for the ones to follow, but ended (last week) picking the one I made on my second attempt.

Forgone Beauty 2, 2009

This one I had eliminated some photos and forgot to repopulate the list. Ooops! Who knows this could really be what it might look like if we as a society don't change our ways.

This was the last attempt from last week, which I had tried using less individual photos than before and this time remembered to repopulate the archive which the software references.

Forgone Beauty 3, 2009

Week 2

Artist Chris Jordan - "Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months."

Skull with Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh]


My photo mosaic: I am hoping you will be able to click on the photo and be able to zoom in to see the photos used in the mosaic. If have included a sample of the photos I took and used below. On Chris Jordan's website he also shows zoomed in sections of his work. I can only imagine the awesome technology he uses to create his final artwork.

Artist Lisa Whitman - "Depicts the tragedy that is taking place everyday, all over the world, which is destroying marine and mammal life."

Forgone Beauty 2, 2009


These photos below are a sample of the over 40 I took and used in my above final photographs.

Week 1

Simplicity

Fine Wine

Ode to Cezanne

500

Memories

Memories (b&w)

Family Tree