I would consider this photo of the moon to be deceiving because I used a wide-angle lens to capture it. The wide angle lens distorted the edge of the frame and made the moon look smaller than it would appear to a human eye. I remember taking this photo and wondering why the moon looked …
I photographed my friend laying down in a tree to portray serenity because I think that being in nature never fails to bring a sense of calm. Moreover, my friend’s position suggests that she feels relaxed and content. In Adobe Photoshop, I added a warming Photo Filter because I tend to associate serenity with warmth.
I unfortunately did not have my camera with me when I took this photo, so I just used my phone. I positioned the girl and her dog in the bottom left corner of the foreground, and I let the magnificent sunset dominate the rest of the composition. The colors of the sky were so beautiful …
I decided to put a red “X” over my face in the mirror to portray this theme because it turns the mirror, which typically connotes self-reflection, into a surface to cover oneself. I also wore a dark cap and shirt. I used a slow shutter speed to give the subject a ghost-like effect because I …
This is a photo of plastic package wrapping (that I was planning to throw away) from some clothes that I ordered layered on top of a colored light. I wanted to take advantage of the clear plastic and emphasize the words on the packaging by putting it on top of the light. In Photoshop, I …
I took this photo during golden hour in my house. The sunlight was coming through a window, and I placed my hand in its path. As a result, the shadow of my hand looks like another hand reaching and touching fingertips. I used the Shade white balance setting, which intensified the golden color and introduced …
This photo contains glass pumpkins of different weights and colors, but I still wanted the photo to remain balanced. The pumpkin on the left is clearly larger and takes up almost the entirety of the left side of the frame while the pumpkin on the right is much smaller. However, the photo still has balance …
The subjects of this picture include two dark pine trees silhouetted against a somewhat cloudy sky. I chose to capture this photo to represent my mood because I feel like the dark trees represent how I’m feeling about my junior year of high school. Like my friends (represented through the second tree), I’ve been pretty …