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What is your theme/message? How well do you feel you achieved this?

For my theme, I went with the dramatic feel of a basketball. The way I did this was with the basketball having a fire effect around it, and the background being dark. I believe I did a good job completing this feeling/effect.

What artist inspired this project? How did you expand on their original photo, series, or body of work?

I was not inspired by any artist in particular, but there are many artists that I took ideas from like: Eric Staller, Troy Pavia, and lastly Chanette Manso.

What rules of composition did you use?

One rule of composition I used was patterns, as the fire is in somewhat of a pattern. I think I also used the foreground effectively with the fire and ball, the middle with a person, and the background with nothing.

How did you improve your photo in photoshop?

In Photoshop, I made the background darker, so it would seem more dramatic, and the fire around the basketball more red. Lastly, I made the lighting around the ball red.

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What is your theme/message? How well do you feel you achieved this?

The intention of this photo was to express emotion through lighting. I think I achieved this, as there are multiple emotions one could interpret this photo expressing

What artist inspired this project? How did you expand on their original photo, series, or body of work?

This photo wasn't really inspired by any photographer in particular, but I was inspired to take subject photography by Jack Bridgland

What rules of composition did you use?

I mainly used color to isolate the subject of my photo

How did you improve your photo in Photoshop?

The only thing I really did to change my photo in photoshop was changing the brightness so that it is easier to see

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What is your theme/message? How well do you feel you achieved this?

The theme/message I tried to achieve was like a dystopian/abstract world compared to our own. I think that I've achieved it somewhat but it needs more editing in photoshop.

What artist inspired this project? How did you expand on their original photo, series, or body of work?

The artist that inspired this project was David Noton. I originally wanted to go for his type of nature landscape art style with a beautiful sky. However, at this time it was hard for me to access the type of nature images that he had, so I took a picture of a city and transformed the sky to make it beautiful like in David's pictures.

What rules of composition did you use?

How did you improve your photo in Photoshop?

Rules of composition that kind of used were leading lines, somewhat rule of thirds, and balance between the background, middle ground, foreground, and subject. I improved my photo in photoshop so far by adjusting colors and tones of the background and my subject.

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What is your theme/message? How well do you feel you achieved this?

The theme of my photo was the beauty of nature. My focus subject of the image was the flower with the bee on it. I believe that I achieved this because I have a clear subject in which I used a wider aperture to make it stand out more, as well as used a macro lens to get a clear close up of the subject.

What artist inspired this project? How did you expand on their original photo, series, or body of work?

I was inspired by Galen Rowell because he captures photographs similarly to what I hope to achieve to capture. For example, I love looking at nature/landscape photos along with the high resolution and saturation colors style that Rowell is known for. I expanded on this by photographing nature (flower) and making the colors more prominent by increasing the saturation just like he is known for.

What rules of composition did you use?

Some rules of composition that I used were asymmetrical imagery in which I cropped in photoshop to use the rule of thirds. Another composition I used was creating a shallow depth of field by using a wider aperture to make the flower in focus while the background is not.

How did you improve your photo in Photoshop?

I improved my photo in Photoshop by changing the levels to make the colors more prominent. Then I increased the vibrance and a little bit of the saturation of the photo. Next I decreased the yellow saturation making the colors of the photo less of a yellow hue. Lastly I masked the bee and increase the brightness and colors to make it stand out a little more than it did before.

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The theme is solitude. I think I achieved it very well. I was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson. I expanded on his humanistic and surrealistic styles by displaying a dark, ominous setting that displays the dark parts in our lives. I specifically chose to isolate the subject and use symmetry in the photo which gives a sense of tranquility within solitude. I used photoshop to create a darker, more ominous background that also made the subject stand out. Specifically I shifted the brightness and contrast levels, also adjusting the light levels and selective color.