I am proud of both my silhouette and negative space photos, and I applied certain
techniques and angles to both. Since the silhouette pictures had to be taken with the sun in the
picture as the primary light source, most of them are from an upward angle with the subject
facing downward towards the camera. With the silhouette pictures I also enjoyed changing the
background coloring, which was the sky. I used orange, yellow, purple, and a light blue to add
some otherwise nonexistent color/feeling to the pictures. Only one of the pictures I took I did not
edit at all, it turned out very well (the dog hand puppet). Generally the ideas I had thought of
beforehand worked out as I had planned. I really liked the silhouette photography technique
because it manages to be both a simple and beautiful art.
I would think that although the concept behind negative space pictures is rather simple, I
had a harder time finding interesting subject/background combinations. Even after taking five
pictures I liked, one was still less of a negative space picture and more of a rule of thirds picture
but I liked it so much I kept it. I believe I like it so much because the subject (Josh) is just
standing alone on campus looking off to the side of the picture as if he was interested in
something off camera. The angles varied with how the subject was presented. I took one
downward at my shoe, two up to the sun and a passing crow, one directly at Josh, and one angled
down a table. All but one of my pictures did I adjust the brightness and contrast settings. For the
first time so far in Photo class I preferred to wash the pictures out with high brightness and low
contrast.
Both of these photographic techniques turned out to be very fun and I enjoyed using
them. So far in Photography 2, I would say that these two techniques were actually my favorite. I
was able to add my own preference to the pictures while retaining the point of both the silhouette
and negative space techniques.
techniques and angles to both. Since the silhouette pictures had to be taken with the sun in the
picture as the primary light source, most of them are from an upward angle with the subject
facing downward towards the camera. With the silhouette pictures I also enjoyed changing the
background coloring, which was the sky. I used orange, yellow, purple, and a light blue to add
some otherwise nonexistent color/feeling to the pictures. Only one of the pictures I took I did not
edit at all, it turned out very well (the dog hand puppet). Generally the ideas I had thought of
beforehand worked out as I had planned. I really liked the silhouette photography technique
because it manages to be both a simple and beautiful art.
I would think that although the concept behind negative space pictures is rather simple, I
had a harder time finding interesting subject/background combinations. Even after taking five
pictures I liked, one was still less of a negative space picture and more of a rule of thirds picture
but I liked it so much I kept it. I believe I like it so much because the subject (Josh) is just
standing alone on campus looking off to the side of the picture as if he was interested in
something off camera. The angles varied with how the subject was presented. I took one
downward at my shoe, two up to the sun and a passing crow, one directly at Josh, and one angled
down a table. All but one of my pictures did I adjust the brightness and contrast settings. For the
first time so far in Photo class I preferred to wash the pictures out with high brightness and low
contrast.
Both of these photographic techniques turned out to be very fun and I enjoyed using
them. So far in Photography 2, I would say that these two techniques were actually my favorite. I
was able to add my own preference to the pictures while retaining the point of both the silhouette
and negative space techniques.
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