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Silhouettes

Silhouettes

For this photo blog challenge I had to try and tell a story though a silhouette. To take this photo I had to wait until it was getting close to sunset. Then me and my dad went out with my camera to go to Springer elementary school to see if we could get some silhouette photos there. While my dad was driving us there we saw some palm trees in the neighborhood so I thought I could take a photo…

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Color without Color

Color without Color

For this photo blog challenge I had to try are take a photo of something that shows color but without color. For this challenge I was thinking about taking a photo of a mural because I know that there are lots of colorful mural around Mountain View and Los Altos. the mural that you see in this photograph is the one that I chose to take a photo of because its the one that I know the best since I…

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Who Inspires Me

Who Inspires Me

This is Jerry Liang, he is a senior at MVHS and Freestyle Academy. He was also one of my classmates from the am Freestyle class last year. I chose to take a photo of him for this photo blog challenge because he is a really nice person and his artwork is amazing. He inspires me because whenever I get stuck trying to figure out what I want to do or how I want to do one of my projects I…

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Friends

Friends

This is one of my old friends from when I used to go to a private school called St. Joseph. In this photo you can see her working on one of her current crochet projects. Back when we both went to school together at St. Joseph I remember that she liked to crochet things like clothing items or small gifts for other people. One time on valentines day she crochet a heart on a paperclip as gift for everyone in…

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Reflection

Reflection

For this photo I had to try and capture a reflection. When I was coming up with an idea for the photo I didn’t know what to do but one day while I was sitting in my room on the weekend doing my homework it was raining outside and a few minutes later the sun came out and there was a rainbow in my backyard. My dad told me that a rainbow can represent a reflection because the sun is…

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Culture

Culture

For this photo I was challenged to take a photo of something that shows my culture. Since i’m from a Chinese background I thought about taking a photo of things bunched up together that represented the Chinese culture but I wasn’t sure how to do that so I just scrapped that idea. After thinking about it for a while I came up with a new idea which was to have one person hold a red envelope and make it look…

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Flowers

Flowers

In this photo blog, we had to take a photo of flowers. To take this photo I went outside onto my front lawn and looked at some of the flower bushes. I used the 75-300mm lens to try and zoom into the flowers then in Adobe Photoshop I put a Screen Blend mode on top of it to make the background a little brighter. Using the brush tool in Photoshop I erased the Screen Blend mode on the flowers.

Geometry

Geometry

For this photo blog we were challenged to take a photo that shows Geometry. To take the photo I went to the Google building in Shoreline. Before that I was looking at some images of sculptures that are close to where I live and I found a photo of “The Orb” which is at the Google campus in Shoreline. In the photo I was trying to capture all of the shapes and the curves in the sculpture.

Tell a Lie

Tell a Lie

I this photo blog, we had to take a photo of something that tells a lie. To take this photo I used the 50mm lens to take a photo of two rubik’s cubes that I put far away from each other so that it looks like they’re both the same size but one is actually bigger than the other. The pink rubber duck sitting on top of the bigger rubik’s cube in the back was just a random object that…

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Angles

Angles

In this photo blog, we had to take a photo of something using different angles. To take this photo I went to Downtown Mountain View with my dad and we were walking around to try and find a building that I could take a photo. While we were walking me and dad were thinking of taking a photo of City Hall. I used the 24mm lens to try and capture me look straight up at the building.