Digital Photography Spring, 2008

Surreal

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sunset

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Skelly at the Beach

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I took two of my skeleton shots and merged them with two different views of the beach: one which incorporated sand, and the other was only of waves...I played with the opacity and levels and this is what came out!

To end the class, a surreal self-portrait

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a little bit of everything

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The top two pictures are surreal photos, first with madison beach, and the second one of my cat spencer, mixed in with a apple tree. The bottom photo is a macro picture of Spencer.

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at the beach at dusk

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jess up in the clouds!

More shots of Skelly

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"Hanging out"
I liked the perspective of this shot - how his ribs echo on the ground beneath him. This was taken last Friday afternoon, out on the lawn in front of Aquinas.

"Baby Got Back" ...emphasizing the shadow...
"innocent."
Portrait :)

surreal

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the eye is an alligator eye!

Surreal Photos

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This is my sister and my cat. I think the fur looks really cool around my sister's eyes.

This is my applemoon.

This is a surreal pic that I made of one of my favorite movies. I started with the tornado and layered from there. I think it's pretty cool, as it goes along with the surreal aspect of the film as well.

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Just thought this was a cool picture (plus I love neil young). This picture was taken by Danny Clinch who has done many photos of famous musicians.

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I took these two pictures of my friend Kamala and blended them with pics I took from google and flicker. I thought the words would be cool because she is a poet, and the flower just reminded me of her.

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alittle too much fun...ok they're root beer bottles! :)

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Love of my life

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Seeing purple

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I took a picture of my eye a few weeks ago, and I also took a picture of the base that was around the bottom of a tree in Providence. I combined the two pictures, changed the opacity and changed the hue, levels, burned/dodged around the eye and edges. Tada!

sad sad snowman

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hes sad because its spring and hes gonna melt.

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This is a picture I stole from one of my brother's girlfriend's albums. She's a violinist, so I included the top of a violin (a John Juzek, like the one she plays) in the background. Then I used a watercolor filter to unify the picture.
Tyler's a musician, so I included a piano keyboard and sheet music on his portrait.
I call this one "Parody of Cremation"...the horizontal x-ray is of a healthy chinchilla, the main image is of a chinchilla peeking out of its cage and the other image of flames I took at the All Mansion BBQ on Tuesday...
I had a chinchilla for 12 years; her name was Smogley and I had her cremated in 2005.

more surreal

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more surreal stuff.

Cool Pics!

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Nevins helped me take ordinary pics and make them look cool!

portraits

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These are portraits of my friend Arlyne. We went to the dock boat ramp near my house the other day when it was really nice out. I really like the first photo, even though it is blurry, because it is so candid.

surreal

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these are some surreal images i worked on last class. i guess the theme would be eyes.

surreal images

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Surreal

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I also got around to creating one surreal image in the painter program. My thought was to have legs waling down the stairs.

self portrait

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Here is a self portrait that I also forgot about.

randomness

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I found a bunch of photos on my camera that I never uploaded so there are some random marcos.

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I know I have not pasted in a long time! I have some catching up to do from softball!

Here are some Macros!

light and shadow

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Here are some light and shadow pictures i took at the beach last week when it was warm and the sun was decending. I like the line conversions of the dock and the shadows overtop. I also liked the way the water moved around a little island formed by the low tide.

Brit

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This is Brit. She was sitting outside of Aquinas Hall the other day. It was a sunny day but these pictures were taken in the shade.

more macro...

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Portrait

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This is Chris. He was nice enough to let me take pictures of him.

Jill

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This is my friend Jillian Zampaglione. She told me that if I took her picture my camera would break. It didn't.

I am in this picture too. Can you find me?

Goofing Around

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Here are some fun photos that I worked on and really enjoy. The multi-colored one was my attempt at a warhol, the shoes I wanted to play around with part of the picture being black and white and the rest in color and lastly the reflection of myself, Jess, Claire, Erica and Mal was us having fun outside.

Jessica Lynn

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Here are just a few of the portraits I did of Jess.

Goldfish

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There is a goldfishing that's been living in my pond for years. He reappeared for the first time the other day. I mangaged to get pretty close before he noticed me and swam away.

light/shadow

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i liked the way the sun came through the trees and cast a shadow over the boulders at east rock, i also liked the persepective of the angle too.

light and contrast

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This is a picture of a waterfall, i like the way the snow is so bright against the dark rocks.

Marco

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It must be spring.

portrait

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These are portraits of my firend Amanda. She was laying on my bed goofing around with my bandana and I took these shots.

Spring Macro

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Portrait Shoots: Mackenzie.

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I love how genuine her expression is in this one...
I wanted to capture how the different light illuminated both sides of her face...

The last one is a tad blurry toward the top of the picture, but the expression was too soft to pass up!

Wanted!

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Wanted!

Cuddles

Hair: Orange

Eyes: Amber

Height: Unknown

Weight: approx. 8 lbs.

This is my attempt at taking a portrait of my cat. I used him for the Macro project, as you all know, but I thought taking his portrait would be a challenge as well (which it was). He looks a bit frantic, and I can't help but think that this looks like a mug shot as well.

Portrait

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This is another portrait photo of my sister. She kindly posed for me a second time, although she claims that this is not her good side. Prof. Nevins helped with the editing.

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on our fishing trip!

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Ok, ok these are both of course VERY BLURRY but I was experimenting with using no flash at the game. These are two photos that I thought were cool, they are of our two pitchers, jess zanghi and meredith berry.

Back in Ty's room

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I liked how the sunlight sliced his face in half in this one.
It's interesting how the shadow of his profile was naturally blurred upon the wall.
And who could resist grabbing Bob for a photo-op?!

Seeing red?

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I liked how I didn't plan this photoshoot and he chose to wear that green-striped shirt and green plugs that day -- playing up the complements with the bright red wall (of my room at home) and his auburn hair. I pushed the saturation and highlights on the second shot.

Dakota

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This is a picture of my dog Dakota; she is a husky so yes she does have a brown and blue eye. In this picture I decided to desaturate the image and just highlight her eyes. If you look closely in the second photo, you can see me taking picture; thus creating a self portrait of myself.

My brother, Tyler

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without his frames...these were taken against a wall in his room and the color isn't edited - they ARE neon green :)

playing catch up

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There are a few photos from my spring break. I was with the softball team and we went to all the disney park. The top two are my favorite pictures that I took of cinderella'a castle and the last one is blurry but I still really like how it looks.

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I was taking a few pictures of my hands trying to get the details of the lines in my hands. This shot wasn't my goal, but I thought it was cool anyway with the dark jeans in the back, contrasting the three fingers.

Lounging

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Fuzzy Man grabbed my hand while we were relaxing on the couch yesterday morning. I reached over and got my camera while trying to stay still so that he would not move. He didn't and I snapped one photo.

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The last 4 are actually from my last trip to Maine last summer! I just love them so much! It's so beautiful there!

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trying to do macro on the flowers but my camera doesnt work too well on macro setting:(

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hehe remember koosh balls?!

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I loved the way the vase was reflected on the counter!

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Happy Easter!

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macro beads

more macro!

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just a few more macro.

macro!

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these are some macro shots i took while i was hoem over sprink break. There are lots of woods around my house and the rose was from my moms birthday. enjoy (:

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Stonington Borough

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These were originally in color but I changed them to black and white with photoshop. Then I altered the levels.

Portraits

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These are portraits of my sister. I took them yesterday in the evening when the sun was still out. Of course, Cuddles makes yet another appearance on the blog.

SHADE&LIGHT

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This is a macro shot of my typewriter. I thought the receading keys would make a cool shot.

MORE MACRO!

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another macro shot.....

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macro shots

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These are just a couple of macro shots i took over spring break. I like the first one because of its simplicity.

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This is a shot I took over break of the ice/heavy snow hanging off the roof of my boyfriend's apartment. I liked the way the bright sunlight was captured in the frozen water...

Though these shots aren't the type of portrait that is expected with window light, I really loved Joe's expression in each. In the first, he was about to take a swing at the ice&snow hanging over his parking spot because it wasn't sliding off the metal roof and was potentially quite dangerous. In the second, I took the photo on his deck, looking at him through a mesh screen.

Stonington Borough

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I drove down the street to Stonington Borough the other day. It was very stinky. I think that these are lobster traps.

Rainy Day !

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a couple pics I took on a rainy day. I thought they were kinda cool. i really like that the rain drops came out so clear in the first pic. what do you think?

It's Time To Wake Up!

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No...

wine glass

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Here are two pictures of a wine glass that I took during Easter dinner.

Bright Blinds Blind Daniel

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This is a photo of Daniel Connor. It was taken in the morning in the bedroom. The sunlight was very bright and he complained that it hurt his eyes. He closed them and I took a photo.

EMiLy! :)

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My Uncle's Beautiful daughter. she will be 1 years old in May. She is a big girl!

The Pigeons Are Having A Feast

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Walking down the street

Turn into an alley

It's lunchtime in Providence

The pigeons are having a feast

Come one

Come all

Come every man and beast

Come

Gather around the dumpster area

Watch the pigeons eat

The pigeons are having a feast!

shadow of a tree

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Finding oneself among sand, salt & snow...

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I took this in Brownfield, Maine about a month ago.

light and shadow

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here are some shadows around school...

Macro self-portrait & tunnel shot

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As I was shooting Macro shots, I zeroed in on Pooky - and anyone who knows Garfield will be able to appreciate Pooky!!! ...I liked how you could make out my hand and my camera in his nose and a little bit in his eyes :)
This is a shot taken while driving through the tunnel on 84 going through Hartford...I liked the way the colors blurred from my dashboard (blue), tail-lights (red), on-coming headlights (white) from the other side, and the tunnel lights (dotted yellow) along the walls...

Macro

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These a few pics of flowers that I took not too long ago. Comments are wanted! :)

Macro goldfish...

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This is my friend's fish "Juno."
I took these shots at a high ISO, so there was a lot of "noise" in the pictures - I used the film grain filter to emphasis this quality and push the images to be even more 'different.'

around campus.

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I went out for almost an hour and a half the other trying to find something to inspire me to take picutres. I found somethings to take pictures, but they didn't come out how I wanted. I came back to campus and the sun was setting and this is what I took some pictures of.

Macro Art Part II

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This is a portrait I painted of my brother's girlfriend, Emily.
...a macro shot of her painted portrait...
This is a portrait I painted of my brother, Tyler. He was farther in the background, so his features were obscured to make him appear slightly out of focus...
This shot is of Ty's hands...he is a musician, so any portrait of him should also include his hands. I liked how gestural my marks turned out, this part of the painting is very small and I thought it was cool - zeroing in on the brushstrokes and canvas texture.

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Both of these were taken near my bay window. I liked the intense colors of the orange the the green when the sun hit them.

Open Way Beach at Lord's Point

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This morning I decided to go for a walk with my camera. I walked down the street to Open Way Beach. Here are some of the pictures that I took. They were originally in color but with a little help I learned that the pictures could be beautiful in black and white. One of the pictures includes my footprint. When I got home, I took this picture from my bedroom window. It is a dream catcher with glass pieces hanging off of it.

Macro Art Part I

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These are macro (& portrait) shots of paintings I've created.

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I took the two tree bark pics at East Rock the other day. I just think bark can be so complex looking. The third is a rusted lamp post on campus.

Macro Cuddles

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This is my cat Cuddles. A little background about him...he came to our doorstep on Christmas Day 1996 and we decided to take him in...needless to say he's been ruling the house ever since. I've been trying to take pictures of him for weeks, and I finally got him sitting still.

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Working the Pub

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Don't think I'm an alcoholic! I work at the pub here on campus and was bored the other night so I dumped all the bottle tops on the counter and took a few photos. I also took the time to make a pyramid with the bottle tops too.

more flowers.

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I took the yellow flower with my digital camera, while the carnation I scanned. You can see soo much more detail with a scanned photo!