Self Portraits

Well all I wanted to create was the mood that I was in and that I have been in for the part 2-3 months. My idea was to create a dark and gloomy mood so I could become what I have been becoming. My ideas did change when I saw I was running out of time so I had to improvise. As soon as I did this all my ideas went down to drain and I had to focus more or I wouldn’t have got anything done. The most creative portrait would have to be the one where I’m laying down with blankets covering me. It’s creative because I got to change the lighting on me to see which things looked good some places. The thing that was hard about this was getting the right emotion in the right lighting; I didn’t know what to do.

My compositional decisions weren’t as good as I wished it could be, but it is good enough. My pictures were set up like I wanted but they weren’t as good as I thought it would in my head. I wished I had brainstormed a little more that way it could have turned out better. The things I did was plan out where my picture was going to be taken what mood and what position but I could have brainstormed the ISO and the shutter speed and everything else that makes a photograph great. The picture that has the most composition would have to be the rule of thirds photograph because my body was in a great position to have it taken as the rule of thirds; my face expression tells it all. The one I would change the composition would be the element photo. The element photo isn’t well composed and it doesn’t even have any shapes that were working with the way my body was.

My craftsmanship on these photos was actually better then I imagined because I didn’t even pay any attention to the F-Stop ranges and ISO because I didn’t think I needed to. The photos turned out really good and I can’t complain on how the picture was. I didn’t even think about the camera techniques because I was running out of time on my pictures. It’s not that I didn’t understand it; it’s just that I forgot to include those into my brainstorming. In a level of 1 to 10 my craftsmanship would have to be about a 7 or 8 because the reasons I’ve stated above. The strength’s of these photos would have to be the fact that I didn’t use any techniques I’ve learned recently and the pictures actually turned out great, and my weaknesses would have to be the fact that I didn’t use any of them and that it could have turned out a lot better.

My overall opinion of my photos would have to be fair because two pictures came out awesome and 1 didn’t but I haven’t even done the last one. My composition would have to be the best thing in my photos, and if I had to do this assignment over again from scratch I would have brainstormed more then I did. My favorite shot was the rule of thirds picture because it’s simple but it’s me because I have been stressed these past few weeks and it’s really awesome that I could get that and put it in a picture. My least favorite would have to be my element photo because it wasn’t well composed as in composition and craftsmanship. This assignment was great because it felt good to express myself like I did.