This week we were challenged to symmetrically transform a portrait. I decided to use a photo of my friend Klavie that I took for her Senior Portrait.
Compositional Symmetry
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Culture
This week’s photo challenge was to “Take a photo that shows us the story of your culture”. Since I am multiracial and celebrate many different cultures, I decided to photograph my magnet collection of different world locations in order to showcase my multicultural life. I put the Lausanne magnet in focus in the photo, as I was born in Switzerland and felt it was most important to me out of all my magnets.
Exit
This week’s challenge was to represent the concept, “every exit is an entry to somewhere else”, in a photograph. I chose to represent it by photographing a soda can being opened, as the soda exited the can while air entered it, meaning the hole in the can could be seen as both an exit and an entry.
Geometry
This week’s challenge was to use geometry in a photo. I chose to walk over to Oak Elementary and photograph this play structure, because its geometric shapes intrigued me and added depth to the photo.
Freedom
This week’s challenge was to tell a story of “what freedom means to you”. When I saw this jet in the sky, I was inspired to photograph it for this prompt because I felt that they were a good representation of freedom in the sense that they have no limit or bound and can trace whatever shape they wish in the sky.
Tell a Lie
This wee’s challenge was to prove wrong the saying, “the camera never lies”. I interpreted this prompt as
Leading Lines with Food
This week’s challenge was to use leading lines in food photography. I decided to photograph easter eggs I had colored and use the lines of the carton to create depth in my photo, along with the transition from lightness to darkness in correlation with the focus disappearing along with it.
Stranger
This week’s challenge was to tell the story of a stranger. I decided to photograph this simplistic necklace because strangers are often remembered by one characteristic, and the necklace represents a symbol of how a single letter may tell you nothing about a person or stranger.
Serenity
This week’s challenge was to answer the question, “what does serenity mean to you?”. I decided to photograph my cat in an aesthetic light using lights I found in my room in order to portray the calmness of serenity.
Lighting
This week’s challenge was to use our Speedlites creatively. A Speedlite is an attachment to the camera that emits a flash quickly in order to capture a single moment in time. I decided to test how quickly the camera took a photo by tossing my ukulele in the air to give an illusion that it was floating. I also took this photo in the dark in order to prevent having too much light in the image.