Thursday, October 31, 2013

Abandoned Examples

Abandoned Examples

http://michaelmanningtv.blogspot.com/2013/07/on-repurposing-amazing-architectural.html

I really don't like this photo but it is a good example of the theme abandonment because it's literally an abandoned home that people used to live in.

http://www.creativebloq.com/street-art/examples-street-art-612334

This photo is by far one of my favorites.  I really like it; it makes me think of the death of an elderly man, who as stuck in a chair for most of his life.  His feet are still anchored to the chair because they're what made him move and his arms propelled it forward.  He had to abandon his chair in death, leaving it where it sat.  I like the visual analogy that the ghost is still attached to the chair and that the chair is left somewhere that looks like it hasn't been touched in many, many years. 

http://kuwaitschool.blogspot.com/2012/01/extraordinary-ordinary-abandoned-chairs.html

This photo of a desk in an abandoned building made me immediately think of a movie I saw, where all the kids in a psyche ward died in a fire, believed to be caused by a ghost attack.  It makes me wonder who once sat here and what they wrote to who or what kind of mind they had.

http://imgfave.com/collection/57592/abandoned

For some reason, this particular picture reminds me of the victorian ages, with the green, stone walls and the way the windows are shaped.  It makes me think of an abandoned castle or something, somewhere in Europe. 

http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=74&SubsectionID=104&ArticleID=119654

This photo is extremely emotional for me to look at, as this breed of dog (Pit Bulls) are often misunderstood and abandoned / left to die when they become too much to handle. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonment

I like this photo mainly because it's black and white; it also reminds me of a scary story my grandfather once told me when I was a young girl.

http://indulgy.com/post/2yVPxzYPN1/abandoned-card-catalogs-later-turned-int

I once watched a supernatural horror show, and there was an abandoned post office.  This photo reminds me of the ghosts opening and closing the drawers, trying to find letters their significant other wrote and they never received. 

http://graphicssoft.about.com/u/sty/galleries/hdr-images/Abandoned-Gas-Station-in-Center-Hill-Florida-by-Shane.htm

This is a good example of abandonment because it gives off a spooky, cob-web kind of feeling.  When I first look at it, I thought it was straight out of a horror novel, as it reminded me of one of the settings of a book I read once, where a house burned down and the family abandoned the property. 

http://labs.radiesel.com/?paged=2

This photo reminds me of something my youngest cousin lost a couple weeks ago.  It looks as if a child would've played with this stuffed animal and they must've forgotten about it somewhere, like a bedroom or an old house, so here it sits, to be photographed. 
http://kuwaitschool.blogspot.com/2012/01/extraordinary-ordinary-abandoned-chairs.html

I feel this photo is a good example of abandonment because no one is sitting in this chair, which is surrounded by dirt and a lot of broken pieces of concrete and looks as if it hasn't been touched in years. 

Monday, October 28, 2013

Professional Photographers



Michael Kenna


http://artperson.org/usa/michaelkenna/

http://colt-rane.com/michael-kenna/
     I find both of these photos by Michael Kenna interesting.  I can connect with the first one in the sense that not everything is in the same speed of change.  Different things are far away, hence the blur, and other things are just in reach, hence the clarity at the bottom.  In the second one, the sky seems to be going fast and all over the place, whereas the ground is stable and unmoving, clear to the eye.  When I first saw the second photo, it reminded me of my life - where everything seems to be fast and out of reach, but some of the things that can help me get to that far out place are right in reach. 

Jim Brandenburg



picture one: http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/how-to/icons-of-photography/539374/photo-insight-with-jim-brandenburg-young-fox
picture two: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-jim-brandenurg/

     I find Jim Brandenburg's technique and style of photography interesting.  Firstly, I can relate to the first picture by feeling stuck and having too much motion, excitement and life surrounding me.  The fox stands alone in a feel of living things, but yet, it looks scared and somewhat dead in it's eyes.  In the second photo, I can relate to the wolf by being only half seen.  Everyone I know only sees one side of me because I don't let my guard down; it's those select few that decide to look beyond the one side and see me for who I really am.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Animal Morph Samples




These are all animals morphs and I worked hard on them.  The only two that really worked out well was the first and last; for the second one, I should've picked a different human face to morph. 

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Texture Examples

Texture Examples


http://th09.deviantart.net/fs39/PRE/f/2008/331/6/c/Scratch_Texture_by_markopolio_stock.jpg


http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs10/i/2006/134/4/f/texture_leaves_by_kuschelirmel_stock.jpg


http://fotobg.ru/upload/img1349370450.jpg


http://static3.depositphotos.com/1005348/198/i/950/depositphotos_1987290-Cracked-ground-texture.jpg


http://wallpicshd.com/texture-background-wallpaper-full-hd-free.html


http://knowledgeoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tree_stump_texture.jpg


http://cdn.designinstruct.com/files/275-pebble_textures/pebble_texture_05.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Colors_and_texture_of_a_brick_ground_artlibre_jnl.png


www.bene.be


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Brick_texture_-_Saint-Omer_(Pas-de-Calais)_-_01.JPG

Each of these photos is a good example of texture.  

Friday, October 18, 2013

Select Samples




These photos are all edited and select images that had to have an insert from another image.  I found it extremely interesting to use the tools but now, my eyes burn and I'm sad.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Replace The Sky


I personally think this looks like I drew the tree branch over the sky photo.  I really don't like replacing the sky in photos because it takes up a lot of time and it looks fake. 


It doesn't even look like I replaced the sky but I did.  I only reverted it to black and white so no one could tell there was a difference in the pigment of the sky. 

Replace The Sky Samples



These photos are my sample replace the skies.