This is the first page of my new sketchbook I got for my Birthday. I’ve been really busy with school and work these past few months, so I really haven’t had a good chance to just sit down and draw, which is one of my favorite things to do, so I wanted to take this picture to hopefully symbolize a new beginning for me this year where I’ll have more time to myself to fill up the rest of this book!
I’m not sure if a toilet constitutes as trash, but I tried to capture the concept of making something pretty out of something not so pretty. I’m pretty satisfied with how this picture came out.
With this picture, I wanted to show balance in the lighting composition, as one side of the picture is clearly darker than the other. I also wanted to take advantage of the lines created by the brick wall and window to stretch between the dark and light.
I was admittedly a little stumped about what to do for this prompt at first, considering my hometown of Holyoke, Massachusetts is all the way across the country, but I ended up deciding to capture our old family car’s license plate, which both me and my little brother have had hanging on our bedroom doors since we moved to Mountain View.
For this picture, I chose pink and purple flowers and captured them using the shaded white balance. I’m really happy with how the colors turned out, and I like how the dark purple in the bottom left flower is cancelled out by the orange white balance, creating a bright pink.
This week, I tried to capture intersecting lines as well as leading lines, which is why I decided to use a bookshelf, which features vertical lines from the books as well as horizontal lines from the shelves.
For this prompt, I initially thought of photographing my step-mom and my dad, but I decided that would be a little boring so I instead opted to capture my step-brother, Eli, lovingly enjoying a nice slice of sourdough bread.
I wasn’t really sure which direction to go for this prompt, so I decided to try to find an interesting composition that looked heavy and light at the same time, which I think I feel I mostly accomplished. I think if I were to take this photo again, I would remove the background and leave the blank wall behind the composition.
This challenge was truthfully really difficult, as finding large examples of symmetry in nature is kind of uncommon. My strategy here was to include as few objects as i could in order to make the symmetry as visible as possible. Although the end product isn’t perfectly symmetrical, I’m still really happy with how this picture turned out!
For this photo, I decided to capture both physical warmth and emotional warmth. To me, this picture provides both physical warmth from the candles in the Jack-O-Lanterns, as well as emotional warmth, as it represents a happy memory of carving pumpkins with my little brothers for my last halloween as a kid.