Miranda Photoshoot

These are a couple photos that I took of my sister, Miranda. She won an award for piano and needed pictures of her playing, so this is what I came up with. The lights on the stage were extremely bright, so her face is very bright in a lot of the pictures. I played with black and white contrast a lot here as well.

Dear Photograph

For this assignment, we had to choose an image from the past and place it in the same environment that the subject is in. I decided to use a picture from about 8 years ago of me playing with a hose in our backyard. I have many great memories of playing with my sister and brother in the woods behind our house, so it was a good photo for me to reflect on. It's really strange to see how much our forest has changed since then!

Song Lyrics

For this assignment, we had to pick one of our favorite songs and make a collage representing it. I chose to do Blackbird by the Beatles, because I think the song is really beautiful with simple lyrics. It's been one of my favorite songs for awhile, so I had to do it! The song gives me a classic, old vibe, so I went with crumpled paper for the background. I also went with black details because of the subject- Blackbirds.

Water Head

This project was a fun, off to the side project that I really enjoyed. Last year, I created an image similar to this one, except Ben's head was covered in smoke rather than water. For this picture, I took a picture of Ben's profile. I then inverted it and duplicated the layers to create a translucent look. I then warped pictures of water in his outline. After I cleaned up the edges with the Eraser, I added droplets of water to make it look real. Favorite project so far!! 

Silhouette Collage

This image is culminated from a picture of my brother standing in front of a large panel of windows. In order to make it a personal collage, I decided to replace each window's background with an image of a place that Ben and I have been to together (the Maid of the Mist, Sunday River, the CN Tower, our favorite show, How I Met Your Mother, Crystal Beach, and the London Eye). Though the project looks simple enough, it was actually pretty difficult to layer mask the lines in the window. I had to make sure all of the lines were even and not looking ragged. All in all, a very fun project!

Silhouettes