Artist Statement

Inside this portfolio you will find artwork that I have created from last semester to now. It has different photos, different concepts, and you’ll be able to tell just by how I’ve grown with ones are from this semester. Adjustment Layers, Self Portraits, Shutter Speed, ISO, Light Metering, Personal Metaphor, Aesthetic Experience, Hybrid, Movie Moments, Chocolate Frog, Shadows and Reflections, Program Designs, Aged, Balance and Frames, Random Object, Egg Challenge, My Favorite Project From Last Semester, and Last Semester and extra things are a list of the pictures we had to take from the beginning of the school year to the end.
I have learned about different modes of a camera that I never knew were there. For example, Shutter Speed, ISO, Light Metering, Rule of Thirds, and a lot more. When we first learned about what the modes on the first camera we had I knew that it was going to be a lot that I didn’t know. I think I was most successful with the black and white photos we had to do. I found those pictures successful because you have to see black and white before you actually take the picture. Which just mean if you have too much light when you take the photo, then change it to black and white, there’s a good chance that it won’t come out the way you intended on it.
I mostly struggled with my emotions and composition in each of my photos. I either look the same in all or they all give you the same feeling. In some I expressed an emotion I wasn’t trying to express so people would get the wrong idea when it came down to it. I could improve in the future if I become more comfortable with the concept of taking pictures that show the “me” I want the world to see. Right now I’m just stuck on getting it done not caring how I look. But in the future if I become more comfortable with it my photos could be a lot better. As long as I keep looking on our class main page at all the artist we learned about I’m sure I’ll get better. These men and women have some of the most amazing photographs I have ever seen. Even the ones who didn’t paint or take picture but worked with their hands have great things. After seeing what has been done in the world makes me want to get better so I can make it where their photos are.
There’s a lot of growth in my artwork and artist statements alone. At first I was all about not caring or just finishing. Now I work harder and longer to make everything look perfect and make sense. I believe that the photos I have taken and the ones others have taken of me shows who I am. Except for the ones we did in Photoshop, which was where we made our photos a different color, add a different texture, and even put text on the photos. Photoshop helped me fix a lot of projects, especially if I was in need of some serious cropping. This is just when you take away some space that’s unwanted in the photo.