Night Photography Second Draft

Here's the second draft of my night photography series. I shifted my focus away from motion, but remained looking towards light to bring another aspect to my shots. I originally planned to shoot primarily in black & white, but I found the natural color of many of the shots to be preferable. Editing-wise I kept things simple, only really doing some color-balance when the temperature of the photo was a bit much.

Motion and Night

This is my first draft of my newest series; a combination of motion and night photography. I wanted to go in with a very specific idea that I could really flesh out through multiple nights of shooting. I focused on long-exposure shots of light at night. I had some initial problems with my shots being overwhelming by extraneous light, but I solved the problem by using a tripod and raising my f stop. The editing process was fairly simple as I didn't do much outside of reduce the temperature of the colors and some minor cropping. Click on the images for full resolution.

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Dan Eldon Collage

Our most recent project was  creating and shooting a collage, inspired by the collages of photojournalist Dan Eldon. Eldon had a subtle way of telling a story through a collage, and the message very often related to the real problems he encountered in his travels. The hardest part of this series was the actual shooting and editing of the collage; attempting to find a way to take away the "papery" look to it. I was happy with the result, though more comprehensive editing options may have helped.

Graphic Notation Grids

This series is a continuation of our graphic notation work, but in grid format. I only used dual-grids here, as I wanted to allow for more detail in each portion of the collage.

Graphic Notation

Our most recent assignment was Graphic Notation, one of the more challenging series I've faced at Drew. Graphic Notation is the representation of music through something visual, in our case, photos. I focused on more abstract shots, looking for rhythm and variation. Some shots required heavy editing to really bring out the parts of the shot I wanted to be focused on, while others only required quick simple changes.

Perspective Assignment

Our first challenge of the year was perspective. We were instructed to view one object from multiple different angles. I chose a wall garden. I mostly utilized simple editing, but with one shot I created significant color contrast to really bring out the photo.