Inspiration: Richard Avedon

I think Richard Avedon would be my inspiration for my portfolio because I like how he'll use mostly black and white photography. He also has very sharp pictures. With that you can see people for who they are; their wrinkles and their clothes. For his blurry pictures you are still able to see what action is happening. He pictures are also a bit grainy, which I enjoy.

Dirty House

All these pictures have to do with seeing smell or any other type of sense. This is why I have different colored smokes that match that object. I also made widows dirtier. I had to darken up the spider in the web so you were able to see it and made the webs more visible on the gate by going over them and lowering the opacity little. For all these pictures I wanted to find weird angles to have it seem distorted and feel out of space.

Yellow Boat Assignment

In this picture Breanna (left) is helping Sachi (right) to get up to the ledge. sachi is the one with HIV and Breanna isn't afraid to help her. Breanna doesn't care that she has to touch Sachi. Sachi's goal is to just be like everyone else and Breanna is there to help her.

I changed their shirts to red to represent the HIV/AIDS ribbon. I made the sky brighter. I also made the whole picture glow more. I think this picture has no balance because all the heavy objects are on the left side. I also hate how you can see the gate. The space above is good, I think. I had to cover up the light some way, so I copied the parts around it and pasted it above the light and used a "Darken" affect and it took most of the light cover away. I couldn't hide the bar some way.

I didn't really like this picture I took because I thought the assignment was difficult to do or to think of something.