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For this assignment I chose to photograph a part of a town during winter. I chose to capture different things I noticed while walking around. I found it interesting how different things can look different if you keep walking a little further. I liked how this assignment challenged me to get out of my comfort zone.

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For the final I chose to do the different fazes in a game. Me hitting, fielding, throwing exc. I love baseball, it's a great sport but it's way more than just a game. There's a lot of inside to baseball that you learn about along the way.

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For my something soft I took a close-up of the squish mellow that one of my roommates got from his girlfriend. The color was interesting in combination with the lighting of the room creating the illusion that it was glowing.

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For my hard abstraction, I took an up-close picture of the game of giant Jenga we were playing at the time.

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For my homemade landscape, I just used my bed covers to create the landscape of a mountain/mountain range.

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For my final, I incorporated elements of street photography to tell a story through images depicting a theme of basketball/someone's hoop dreams. I decided to capture images that were slightly cliche but paid homage to iconic perspectives/imagery portrayed in pop culture's depiction of basketball. I made the choice to make all of the photos in black and white because to me it made them feel quieter, which is to emphasize the fact that basketball helps quiet my mind and tunes out all the white noise.

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For the soft object I chose to take a picture of snow because it can be moved and melted making it soft

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For the hard object I choose to take a picot of a countertop. I chose this counter because you can tell it is not a soft surface.

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For this landscape I decided to make it look like the ocean along some rocks. I used a bag to create the ocean floor. Shadows to make it look like dark. Finally I used shoes to create the mountain edges.

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For this image I was in the same store and noticed a shadow made form the lighting and some jackets. I find it intersting you can find shadows created inside and outside.

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For the reflection I chose to highlight the open sign. The open sign is reflecting red light.

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For this still life I chose to use yellow as much as possible. All of the food was yellow or had yellow tones. I also added other kitchen items that are yellow to add to it.

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For my dramatic light still life I chose to use my friends cardboard cut out of someone she likes. I chose to have both the lighting in the background and a flash from a phone becuase he is famous and often has lots of cameras on him.

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For this still life I chose to capture a banana. I chose this as it is one of my favorite foods and it is easy to capture on a camera. I like how you can see all the different colors including green and brown.

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For my backlight photo, I used myself as the subject. While I was admiring a sunset out in the Marin Headlands, I set up my camera to take a slightly meta picture of me taking a picture. The light coming from behind the subject creates what I think is a pretty effect of some of the orange light rays reflecting off my darkened silhouette.

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For my use of front light, I took my camera out to an event with my friends, where I got this picture using flash to create the previously mentioned front light. I chose this picture just because of the ironic context behind it, someone had thrown the random cliff bar at one of my friends so he picked it up and posed with it. Even though the picture isn't very artsy I still enjoy it, as the front light creates a good contrast between the darkly lit chaos unfolding behind him.

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For my final portfolio I chose rainy days as my topic. I thought I would go with this because growing up in Napa Valley it never snowed on Christmas (or you know ever), but the closest thing we get to snow is rain or hail. I love the rain and it's always nostalgic when it's raining, I think these pictures came out well and represent a lot more to me than just a final. Thank you for everything prof.

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This was my final photo and I loved how it came out, I didn't really know what to expect since I couldn't really see from the angle, but it came out really nice. I would like to thank everyone for this class and say I know none of us got to really talk but I loved seeing your guy's photography grow and appreciated all the compliments and critique!

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I don't know if this is technically a portrait but I thought it worked nice and if it was a photo to show case the jeans it would really be good on a website like depop.

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I wanted to expand more on the lower angle, so I changed his pose and repositioned him under the telephone wires to sorta reflect him?? I don't know but I love how it turned out!

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I was just letting him do his own thing and when he posed like this, I knew I should crouch to get a better shot. I loved how this came out and how soft the background is behind him.

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My cousin really wanted some good photos to post so I decided to use him as my model, and he got some good pics to post on social media too! This was the first angle, I tried to incorporate the clouds and skyline as much as possible.

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I had a lot of fun with reflection using my mom's vintage hand mirror.

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This is the picture I chose for shadow. I liked the way the leaves (or seeds??) are still in the picture, casting their shadow against the house. I thought the mute colors and slight tinge color from the leaves went well together.

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I thought this one was really cool too because the duck had a fish in its mouth.

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For my final I chose to go with the Beauty of Nature topic. I chose this topic because taking pictures of nature is what mostly inspired me into taking a photography class. I wanted to get more familiar with a actual camera like the one I got which is a canon. I am super happy with how much I have learned in this class and will definitely keep on taking pictures of nature, they will definitely look way more clear and better from what I was doing before! I chose to go with more of a plant/flower kind of nature theme!

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I liked this picture for my shadow because it was of me taking a picture of my friend and like we're both in the picture.

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I chose this for my reflection because I liked how it was outside and how I am not super like lit and more just like a silhouette and then everything behind me is super clear.

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This picture represents reflection. This picture was so hard to take I couldn’t really get it right, my cousin has the best view from her balcony which I knew I had to get another sunset picture, luckily there’s a river a couple streets down which is where I went to capture this image

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I took this picture using f4.5 with the flash on. It was dusk and super cloudy out, so I figure a lower F-stop would make sense.

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This was also taken during my trip to LA for basketball. The picture was taken in the evening, but there was still a fair amount of sun, so I chose to take the photo with f7.1. I really liked how the photo turned out, and this is one of my favorite photo's of the semester

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I took this photo a few months ago while shooting around casually outside as the sun went down. The green in this photo helps evoke a sense of calm, while the hints of orange coming from the remaining sunlight convey a feeling of warmth. Both of these moods help describe how I was feeling in the moment, as shooting hoops is like therapy to me and it feels like a safe space.

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This photo demonstrates split complementary through its use of blue as well as orange and yellow, which are one space off of being opposite blue on the color wheel.

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I took this while out at the coast recently when I had to go pick someone up from the airport early in the morning. Admittedly, I hadn't planned to take any photos while out so I only had my phone to take them, but I still am using them because this photo expresses an analogous color scheme, with different shades of blue, and a bit of violet and purplish mixed in as well.

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Just a few moments later after I told him I was done taking the picture, he relaxed and I'm pretty sure someone said something absolutely insane so as he began to laugh I took a candid photo of him being more of himself, or at least the person I'm used to.

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Instead of capturing two sides of myself, I captured my friend Ian while a group of my friends was at Zilker park when I was home in Austin. Here he seemed to be very focused on trying to look good for the camera which was kinda funny at the moment, given his normal personality.

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I had a little difficulty with this one but when looking in the fireplace I thought I could use this piece of ash on the bottom left-hand corner the burning wood and coals giving off a warm, surreal landscape.

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I took this also while back home in Austin. This expresses complementary colors with blue and red being on opposite sides of the color wheel.

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I took this picture at a concert I went to recently, and while for most of the show, the lights were red, casting a sinister glow over everyone in attendance. But, for part of the set, the lights went white creating a very sterile, monochromatic image. I edited the picture to emphasize this, but even in the original everything seemed to be generally one color.

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This is the shallow DOF portion of my complimentary aperture. After I looked over the pictures I got here, I was a bit disappointed with my results for this aperture, as I wish the back ground wasn't as in focus to create more contrast to highlight the cactus itself.

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For my deep DOF portion, I captured part of Joshua Tree National Park's landscape. I thought the valley of this special type of cactus was cool so I decided to get the landscape and a shallow DOF of the cactus itself.

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Also while back home, I used a slow shutter speed on my friend Adonis as he was moving, which caused him to appear almost ghostly due to motion blur.

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I took this picture of my friend Kalen using fast shutter speed while back home in
Texas. We were hanging out with some other friends messing around in the backyard and I captured the moment he went flying full speed onto the trampoline.

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I couldn't get many of my reflection ideas to work the way I wanted, so I just decided to capture the sun's pretty reflection out of one of my rearview mirrors.

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For my use of shadow, I set up my camera to capture me doing a little bit of shooting as the sun went down, but instead of actually showing me with the basketball I used the shadows to capture me mid-shot.

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When thinking of something to do for this assignment I was super stumped, I wasn't sure what I could use that I already have at home to make look like homemade landscape. I then remembered I had a white fuzzy sweater that could look like a snowy ground, so that is what I am using for this assignment!

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This is 4/4. Where she took it. She loves her crate, it's her safe space and where she feels comfy.

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This is 3/4. When she had it.

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This is image 2/4. When she was jumping to get it.

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This is 1/4 I chose to use my dog as something that I could photograph for this assignment. I used one of her favorite toys and tried to make it where I could capture each thing she did, sit to wait for my command to be able to get her toy, when she was actually jumping to get it, when she had it, and where she took it when it was all over. This took many tries and she was such a good girl when we would have to try again.

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For my final portfolio I decided to choose the topic: Beauty of Nature.
Personally I love anything that has to do with nature, whether it’s flowers, the sky, etc. I mainly focused on the sky as you can tell in most of these pictures. My personal favorites though are the ones with the sunsets. On my trip to Tahoe I was able to capture these images of it snowing which was super exciting, this was a great way to end the semester!

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Overlapping occurring through a top angle looking down at the branches of the Christmas tree overlapping one another.