Monday, November 23, 2015

Portfolio 1










Artist Statement
For this portfolio, I had to select 8 of my most cohesive images, meaning that they have a lot in common. These 8 are my most cohesive images because they all have a focus pieces of infrastructure in urban areas, they all have wires that divide up the frame and empty spaces, they are all black and white, and they all show depth. The wires are also used to create depth or lead to the subject . In all of these images, the sky is the negative space and it light, while the buildings and other infrastructure are either darker or slightly lighter than the sky. Because of this, there is always a contrast between the sky and other parts of the images.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Gabriele Basilico #4
















Artist Statement
For this batch, I tried to capture different urban landscapes while maintaining a focus on buildings and a couple of other pieces of urban infrastructure. Note that some of these images were made in New York City. When taking photos, I focused on the rule of thirds and sometimes symmetry and most of these images incorporate the rule of thirds. I also paid attention of the effect of shadows and highlights in this batch because I realize that it is a very important part of an image that I did not focus on previously. In editing, I tried to emphasize differences between shades of gray to create more vibrant images that better showed depth. This also created a more clear line between the sky and other shapes.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Gabrielle Basilico #3


















Artists Statement
For this batch, I tried to not resist including pieces and parts of trees and plants in my images because I realized that they were simply part of the urban landscape of the city. This affected my photographs because I included images with more plants in them. From doing this I found that the plants add a lot to the architecture. In addition to focusing more on the relationship between plants and architecture, I also did not hesitate to put more of a focus on power lines and telephone poles in my images for the same reason. Wires and telephone poles are an interesting way to divide up large swaths of sky by producing interesting shapes. The consious addition of wires, telephone poles, and plants with architecture more completely and accurately represents the reality of the urban landscape.

Friday, November 6, 2015

Gabrielle Basilico #2
















Artist Statement
For this batch of my Gabriele Basilico series, I made many improvements over the first batch. Most of my goals and improvement had to do with narrowing down and making my work of a more specific category and more similar. I made sure that almost all the images that I took had the sky in it and were in black and white. To make better quality photos I did several things. I took more balanced photos where the weight of the sky counterbalanced the weight of the building or used elements from the rule of thirds to purposely create slightly unbalanced photos. Lastly I made sure that every image had depth. The combination of all of these changes allowed this group of photos to have a common theme and be of better quality.