Holiday Spirit- Alexis

My family only uses the heat of the wood stove in the winter time. So that means that in the fall we have to split and stack a lot of wood! Our shed is completely full of frozen wood. It's a lot of hard work that pays off with the heat from the stove. 

Inspiring Digital Artist- John & Alexis

Food. Alexis

Deviled Eggs,

My grandmother's specialty,

My family loves them,

She sprinkles the paprika on them, 

Making the colors more vibrant, 

Expanding the taste buds on an adventure,

With every bite, 

Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without, 

Deviled Eggs. 

Lewis Hine Project

This is the link to my project that I had done for my photo class, I had to play the part of Lewis Hine. If you follow the link you can see the slideshow of him and my entire project. 

Thanks!
Alexis 

Out of the window_ Alexis

 This is a picture of the front of my house, the walkway to the front door. I got down on the ground for this picture to show a unique angle! The grass in the pathway is starting to turn brown because it's getting colder outside and we're heading towards winter! 

This picture is of the back of my house, there's a tree that has a bird feeder and sits out back, I thought that seeing my house and focusing on the tree would blur the background, which in this case is the house. I like how this came out. I think it has a very cool touch to it.

Spooky, Scary Image

This here's my best friend Bridget. She's in acting class and I was extremely excited about this assignment that I had. She wanted to be my 'dead model'. I think that she did a terrific job, it gave me goosebumps as I touched the shutter button.

Alexis, Hobbies

Photography 

I have a very strong interest in photography. 

I take my camera everywhere I go.

You never know what you could see. 

Something interesting. 

Something scary. 

Something Amazing. 

Something no one has ever seen. 

You never know. 

One thing you do know is... 

you see through the lens differently than anyone else. 

That's what makes your images Unique. 

 "Diamonds are a girl's best friend." 

(Softball) 

David Hockney Collage

2. What scene were you trying to communicate? Were you successful? What three things did you learned as a result of doing this project?

• I think overall we were pretty successful, It was rather difficult to arrange the sizes of the different images out on the poster board. I didn’t think that it would be as difficult as it was. I learned that you need a variety and pictures that would actually fit together better. Looking at the examples that were given, They made it look easy; It wasn’t that easy. Overall the poster board looks pretty decent, I would change it a little bit with how everything lines up, but that’s what makes it as unique as it is.

Creative Portraits

As I was taking these photos of my best friend, I decided to use the "Rule of thirds" I was feeling the breeze coming at my from behind which was making her hair flow away from her face making her look absolutely stunning.

This one I decided to use "Background Blurred" I focused on her face to make it very dramatic. I made her laugh by telling a joke and it ended up perfectly. The wind was behind her showing the effects that wind has in a picture, showing more of the scenery. 

David Hockney

When did the Cubist Period occur? Who is credited with this style? What are aspects featured of the Cubist Artwork?

The Cubist period was the 20th century, Between the years 1907 and 1914. In paris Pablo Picasso and George Braque created the paintings. The Cubist style was basically from techniques of two dimensional, flat, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling and more. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour, and space. They presented more of new paintings that radically fragmented objects, whose several sides were seen simultaneously.

Who is David Hockney? What kind of work does/has he done? What Cubist features do you notice in David Hockney's work? Where and how might he have been influenced by the cubist period?

David Hockney is still alive today and is a  British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer. He became internationally successful in his mid- 20’s and has stayed known as the most well known British artist of his generation. His success isn’t just from his art and photographs, it’s from his personality that apparently people love. Most of his photographs were considered “Pop Art” In California 1960’s, he looked at his art differently, he looked at the sky, the sea, the sun, young men, and luxury increasing Naturalistic Dimension. Cubist's looked from different views. Hockney was most likely was influenced by the cubist period by all the people that were in California.

Cumberland Fair- 2013

Portrait Mode- I took this to focus mostly on the little girl. I asked her if I could take her photo, she instantly turned and smiled at me through the smell of manure. The air was a little cold but the warmth of the sun made the afternoon at the fair absolutely perfect. The mother said this little girl has been with this cow since the first got it a week old.

Landscape Mode

Macro Mode

Macro Mode 

Top 5 Ways to take stunning photos

1. Alter your perspective: Change the way that you look at the subject, not just from eye level, change it up and move around. Go above the object. Below the object. At an angle. Anything really to add perspective. 

2. Break the Rules of Composition: You don't always have to have the subject dead center. If you put them off balance inside the photo it makes it interesting, but then again it could be just as interesting in the center for some photos. 

3. Obscure Part of your subject: Focus on what you want the viewer to be focused on, with a little imagination. This being, add something to accentuate the subject of the image but make the viewer almost come up with their own ideas. 

4. Take a Series of Shots: Take images in a row, Series of Images. With people/children that tend to move fast you can take images "faster" sometimes to capture the better pictures. 

5. Introduce a prop: Pretty self explanatory, Bring in a prop that would make your photograph more interesting to the viewer. This could be any object that would make the viewer see what was going on. 

Famous Portraits

(Eugene Smith, New York, NY, 1977)

I believe that this portrait from Arnold Newman is a great, interesting, creative way to view this elderly men. The way that he looks through the lens at what he's trying to capture is a different way than most people. I am definitely will try to capture at least one of my pictures in a similar way as Mr. Newman.

truman capote (1974)

In this photo by Richard Avedon he captures the man's facial and emotions more than anything. I feel like this man is depressed, The way that Mr. Avedon captures most of his pictures doesn't have a lot of variety, but it's how he takes his photos. 

"Alice In Wonderland"

Annie Leibovitz's photo of Alice in Wonderland is a lot different from her others. She has a very large variety on different photos that aren't like any other photographer's I've ever seen. She's very Unique with her photos. 

Signs of Fall

I chose this image as my Signs of Fall because of the rain storm that we had took down one of my trees, This tree was very important to my mother so I took this picture for her. If you can see how the truck of the tree is focused on the moss of the tree with the blurred background. 

Compositional Strategies

I chose this photo to show my Compositional Strategy of Diagonal Lines because I thought most people wouldn't use rope and turn it into a very interesting photo. The way that they all intertwine makes the eye want to follow the rope and find the ends. The way that the grass goes around and through the rope makes it even more interesting.