Finalized Homage Photos

I am very happy with these images. I feel like they correctly portray Jack Radcliffe's ideals in capturing emotion.

Homage Photos

For this shot I used my Panoramic setting. I love this photo because it captures each person in their own world, reflecting their own emotions.

I know you said that you didn't want to see too many party pictures, but this one really caught my eye. I really like that Elmo (my friend Travis) is just kind of staring off into the distance. I plan on correcting this image with Photoshop to enhance the colors.

Yates. Great guy.

My room mate Scotty, the Chicken :)

My boss.

I want it!

Anders was eating carrots, and we get a fantastic view of them!

Homage

I was really excited when we were assigned this project. Just recently I was perusing the internet and stumbled upon Jack Radcliffe's series of his daughter. The pictures were deeply moving. Each one exuding a certain emotion. He wrote that these pictures showed him the significance of capturing human emotion. He also realized that his earlier subjects were isolated and detached, and that the photos in this series had more meaning and depth. Jack Radcliffe recognized that when you have a connection with the subject/s it shows up in the image. The image becomes more than just a pretty picture; it becomes something that everyone and anyone can bond with.

I love all of my photos, but I really became attached to the ones of Wes and Claire. I feel like this is because I had an attachment to them, I had a relationship with them.

I plan on capturing relationships and emotion. I want the people who look at my pictures to feel something. My biggest dilemma will be finding someone who will let me document their most "exposed" moments.

Shooting from the Hip!

Color as a Subject

I used a flourescent White Balance setting. It brought out a "real" white in the walls and really highlighted the colors of the fruit.

I really like this necklace and I was taking photos of both the necklace and the shirt when I realized that my shower curtain had almost the same exact colors. I used Tungsten white balance setting.

I found a small flashlight and used it as a spotlight for this picture. It gave the blue heart some "pop."

I used the flashlight as a spotlight in this photo as well. I really like the shadows it creates.

For this picture, I tried to over expose so it would turn out a little brighter than the room lighting was. Regardless, the photo turned out a little darker than I was hoping.

I really like this photo, it reminds me of a whirl pool. I used the Daylight setting for the white balance.

This is a hammock that was a crumpled up on my front porch. I used the Daylight setting for the white balance.

I used Tungsten as the white balance setting. I took so many gosh darn pictures of this ashtray so I could find the right setting to bring out the blue.

I used a tungsten setting for the white balance.

WOOT!

I did a little blurring in the background but kept Wes in focus. I also "burnt" the edges a little, to give some sort of spotlight feel.

When I took this picture, I immediately saw a heart formed by Claire's hands. Sooooo, with a little help from photoshop, I made one. I smudged a little pink from the heart on her lips and cheeks. I also overexposed, leveled, curved and turned the picture to black and white (a little obvious on that last one, but oh well)

This photo was easier to work with. Curves and Levels helped me brighten the picture!

I think the cropping was necessary. Then I got to play around with a little bit of everything in photoshop! Gosh I love it.

Using Curves was harder than I thought, but at least you can see Wes now... :)

Portrait of Claire

For this picture, I used a thin T-shirt as a diffuser. It worked a lot better than my scarf that I used as the diffuser for Wes' pictures.

With these photos, I used a spotlight. I played around with the shadows it created.

For these pictures, I used a sheet as a reflector.