Independent Study 1

I, Blair Paez, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

The first four was from an a-z project we did in ROP where we had to take a photograph of an object from a-z such as airplane for A and bat for B. Once we got all the shots that we needed, we went back to the computer and edited them on photoshop. The last step for the project was to make it like an a-z strip you would see in a kid's classroom. How me and my partner did ours was we put the picture on a blank sheet, and then placed the letter over the picture. Then on photoshop you can make it so the picture shows through the photograph by making it transparent. This project took about 3 classes to finish.

This is one of the first photographs I took in ROP. We were working on getting textures, so I took this one and cropped it alittle on photoshop.

This is another project we did in ROP where we had to compile four photographs that told a story. My story was that this kid was sad, but then he found an ipod. Once he started listening to the music he was filled with joy and started dancing. The background is a texture I took at the beginning of the year, and I changed the original color from yellow to black. Then off course had to put the photos on top of the background in a creative way. The arrows in the middle point to which way the story is going.  This assignment took about a week to do.

This photograph I took because are assignment was to look for good scenes that would look good in black and white. On photoshop I converted it to black and white, and then I used the marquee tool to create a vignette around the rock and paper. This was my favorite photo of the day.

This is another photograph I took for the same assignment, and i did the exact same thing on photoshop.

This was the photograph I turned in for the abstract photo assignment. It took about a week to complete it because most of the work was done on photoshop. First I had to go out and shoot, and then pick the picture I wanted to use. Then on photoshop it took about a whole class to get this photo to look exactly how I wanted it too by messing with things on photoshop like curves and sharpness. then once it was done we all in the class had to present how we got our photos to look like they did.

This was one of the first assignments I did in ROP, and we got about a week to complete it. We had to take photographs of leading lines, and then turn in our best one. I picked this one because I thought it had a nice curving line that led straight to Edmond.

This is one of the photographs that I took in ROP for what we are currently working on which is landscape. On photoshop I changed the curves to auto, and messed with the hue and saturation to make it pop.

This was another photograph that i took for abstract that I really liked as well. Its a picture of water, but I messed with it on photoshop a little to make it look like a piece of art. I almost turned this one in for the assignment, but decided on the rose.

Here is another photo that I took while we were working on black and white conversions, and the marquee tool. I think this one looks the best with the marquee tool because it kind of makes it look like there is a horizon. 

This is one of the photos I took for our still life assignment. Like each assignment we have about a week to take photos, edit them on photoshop, and turn in our best 1. I picked this one because I love the lighting and I love hoe the bus has the side door open.

This is just a random photo I took because I wanted to try out the technique of blurring the background, but having the main subject in focus.

All these photographs I took of mardiella was for a the personality panel assignment. It took about 3 to 4 classes to complete because you had to get 9 different expressions from the model, and then place them all together on a document. These were the ones I ended up choosing to use because I thought the contrast in color was beautiful and overall just the best ones I took.

These are the individual photographs that I used for the story panel. Out of all the ones I took I thought these were the best.

This is just a flower I took while working on the rule of thirds. I used the curves on photoshop to add some light to it.

Interpretive: Starting off with the A-Z project that took about 3 classes of ROP to fully complete and turn in. That means that it took a couple classes to get all 26 shots, and then another day to edit all of them on photoshop. So that project represents 9 hours of work. The next photgraph of the flower was taken on day in class when we were shooting textures so it represents 3 hours. The next photograph which is the story panel took a week to complete. This means going out taking photos, picking the ones I liked the best, and then editing them on photoshop. All in all that photograph represents about 6 hours of work. The next two photographs were taken on a day we were working on black and white so they represent 6 hours of work. The next photo which was for the abstract photograph assignment took a whole week to complete which was 6 hours. That meant in the week I went out and took photos. Once I felt I got enough shots I went back in, picked the best one, and then edited it on photoshop. The next photo was the leading lines assignment which took 6 hours to complete. It was the same process as before. You go out and shot. Then you come in, and pick the best photograph to use. The waterfall  photograph represents 3 hours of work. That day we started on landscapes, and were practicing it before starting the actual assignment. The next photograph represents 3 hours of work. That was the day we were learning how to take abstract photos in ROP. The photograph with the bug is the photograph I took for my still life assignment, and it represents 6 hours of work. Its the same process as all the other assignments shot, pick the best one, and then edit. The next photograph is just one I really liked, and wanted to post. The next 8 were photographs I took for the personality panel project which took about 3 classes to finish. So those 8 photos represent 9 hours of work. Then the last ones I posted so you can see the individual photos for the story panel assignment.

Applied: Taking these photographs helped me see that the best ones had the best lighting in them, and that the colors were vivid. Also the best ones had more direction in that they weren't just a snap shot, but had careful thought behind them such as rule of thirds and composition.