Week 4 Photos: Flat Space

I love my Buddha. I decided to get up really close to him and make it so only he was in focus. I liked the contrast and line the background created behind him.

This is all the medication I took this week and it’s how I got through this week (and every week for that matter). I love the different colors and shapes of the pills along with the randomness of their placement.

When I was going through my clothes I realized just how many shoes I have. I thought it would be interesting to take all my left shoes (it's my dominant side) and organize them into a circle in similar colors.

The sky was so beautiful this week. I loved the the orange against the blue. I decided to show mostly sky since we were talking about how everyone thinks sky is deep but how it looks flat on camera.

This is in the second floor of the hfac. I see this most every day but when I had my camera in my hand I saw it in a different light. I liked the pop of color with the red.

Childhood Film: Don't Walk Away

When I was three, I loved to move and didn’t care what people thought of me, even with a burn mask on. As an adult, I always worry about what people think and not looking like an idiot. In this film I wanted to show that change along with the longing to be carefree again. To show this I wanted to have a young woman studying, stressed then when a song that reminds her of childhood comes on, I wanted her to decide to dance, timidly at first but by the end not caring what she looks like.

To show this I chose a home video of me dancing in my living room and tried to make the girls modern living room look the same (big window, two tone walls, a couch and fan) but with opposite colors for the objects and her. I wanted to start wide and in deep focus, to show she is aware of everything around but as she gets more comfortable get closer and closer to her with flat depth showing she is in her head. I also wanted the camera to move more as she moved more.

I had a very clear picture of how everything would look when it was done but it ended up very different than I thought. I was really excited to how it would turn out and even confident it would be decent but after filming and starting post I thought it would be an absolute disaster. Thought it is not as good as I hoped originally, it ended up better than I thought it would when I first started editing.

There are quite a few things I would do differently next time including making sure sound is being recorded, and communicate to her exactly what I want, pay more attention to continuity of movements on set and tell the actor to do the same and figure out a better way to light the space.

Week 3 Photos - Deep Space

This is the view I see everyday. I liked the diagonal and horizontal lines. I also thought it was interesting that it is sunny out, there is green grass, snow on the ground and dead leaves still on the trees so a little bit of every season.

Wednesday had such a beautiful Sunset! While enjoying it on my way to the Quarry, I saw this house and loved the colors and beauty on every plan I was seeing, the sun set, the house, the greenery, the fence. I wanted to show as much depth as I could so I centered the house between the trees in the foreground and took the photo through the fence.

This was taken late at night in the Law Building. Again the lines were interesting to me but also the symmetry. I loved the emptiness the photo has and how perfectly the painting fits at the end of the hallway.

There have been so many beautiful days recently. I took this while walking to work. It is more asymmetrical and right heavy I loved how pretty the mountains looked and the pop of the building against the sky. There is a lot of depth, the road seems to go on and on.

Week 2 Photos

Every winter I bring out my glass snowman. This year I put it on my night stand next to my clock and I noticed the upside down reflection is makes in the head and I thought it was a cool picture. Almost like the time is ticking until winter is over.

When I went out to get the mail I liked the frame the box made. Because the box was so dark, the outside was more blown out then I would have liked. Also if I ever retook the picture, I might have done a deeper depth of field. 

As I'm sure you are all aware, it's the middle of January and my roommate hasn't but away her mini Christmas tree. The day I took this it was a sunny day which I thought contrasted nice to how you normally see Christmas trees. 

This week I went to Husk’s Kolaches for the first time. It was also the start of the Provo open house so of course people went to both. I loved the old spring colored fence contrasting the fancy dressed family in winter.

Walking home late on Thursday I heard some weird sounds and saw three deer eating. I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a picture... I was wrong. I only had my phone to take the picture, it was super dark and hard to see anything and the closer I got the more I made them nervous.

Week 1 Photos - Pet Edition

I decided to spend my week photographing my dog and cat to show their different personalities and relationship

I wanted to start on close up for each of my pets eyes with shallow focus because I think you can learn a lot from eyes and I didn't want anything else to distract from it. She looks peaceful, old and wise to me. (She is about 15 years old) Just no care in the world. Getting a close up clear picture of a moving cat is a difficult thing. 

Today I focused on my dog. The idea was similar to the first picture, close-up, shallow focus so all you can see is the eye. I wanted her eye (the most important part to me) to be at the cross section of one of the rule of thirds. Comparing her to my cat, she seems more nervous, scared and young.

Next I wanted to show their relationship. My dog Kya gets very jealous and loves being the center of attention so my family likes to tease her by giving attention to the cat. I wanted to capture that moment.

Like I said, my dog loves attention. Today my cat Peachy Keen was sitting high on my Dad's lap but my dog wanted to be closer to my Dad obviously so she squeezed herself in. My dog is so concerned about things like this but my cat doesn't seem to get the hint or care.

Today we put one of the dogs beds in front of the fire and the cat decided to sleep in it. Our dog noticed too and decide she wanted in and they slept together. It made me happy. With the other pictures of both of them they were on opposite sides and about the same closeness to the camera but here I wanted to add a little more depth and show them physically closer to each other.