Multi-Frame

Artist Statement

For this project, I had to make multi frame collages. The goal of this project was to cohesively put together different images, meaning that they shared similar aspects without looking like parts of the same image. Some of the images also play with changes in time between frames. To achieve this, I looked through my personal photo library and found pairs or groups of images that I had taken in the same place, but that each had different perspectives of the consistent landscape. Then, I imported groups of similar images into Picmonkey and used the collage feature. After choosing the layout of the frames, I placed the images into the frames and positioned them to look cohesive, but not so similar that they looked like one image. For some of the frames, I edited photos to make the lighting and the exposures more cohesive, and I also rotated some and put others in black and white. After doing this, I chose the frame thickness and color that fitted the images best. Usually this was a thin black and white frame. These steps created the desired products. However, if I had more time to enhance my photos, I would individually edit some images to be more precisely cohesive.

Memory Layer

Artist Statement

For this assignment, I had to create images that elicited memories or emotions of the past. To do this, I looked through my personal camera roll as well as previous projects from photography class. I then chose images that I had memories about taking or about when I took them and that I felt that I could edit to look like genuine old images. After selecting the images, I edited each one in picmonkey© by overlaying various antique-looking effects such as layers from the edifice, smudge, or daguerreotype groups. I adjusted the transparency of each effect so as to ensure that the images did not look like pictures with effects on top. These steps allowed me to create 10 successful images that evoked old time memories or emotions about the past. If I had a few more days to work on this project, I would have chosen more images, edited them and then spent more time selecting the best images.

Motion Abstract

Black and White

Colored

Artist Statement

For this assignment, I had to make images that were abstract, that showed motion, and were mysterious. The motion that the images show help create the abstract effect with a mysterious feeling. To create these images, I took a number of different steps to achieve the effect. First, before taking images, I adjusted my camera's settings to Aprature Priority, which allowed me to adjust how long the camera would expose for during each photo. Then when taking photos, I lengthened the exposure, clicked the capture button and moved the camera around the objects that I wanted to have in the frame. This created the motion effect and essentially blurred the shapes of the subjects of each photo. I mostly focused on ordinary objects like hallways and stairs. To create a more mysterious effect, I put some of the images in black and white and also turned down the temperature and vibrancy of the colors in some other photos. All of these steps came together to create 15 very successful motion abstract images.

Fall Portfolio

Artist Statement

For the Fall Portfolio I had to find my most cohesive photos, meaning the photos that best go together. To do this, I used some photos from my fifth batch along with other that I used in my portfolio first draft. All of the images that appear in this portfolio were narrowed down from a much large number of images. I narrowed down my photos to these images which all have many common characteristics. They all have many electrical wires, which help create depth and divide up the frame, especially the sky. As can clearly be seen, in each photo, the sky takes up at least half of the space, while buildings make up the other half. In addition to the depth created by the wires, all of the buildings in the images are captured from a diagonal angle in order to create depth. In editing these images, I kept the images in black and white, but I also edited the contrast of the images to show a larger differentiation between shades of grey. This dramatically improved the quality of each image.

Gabriele Basilico Series 5

Artist Statement

For this series, I created images that were inspired by my first portfolio draft. To incorporate similar aspects from my portfolio while also improving on quality, I took images that had sky and electrical wires in them in addition to pieces of infrastructure. Over the course of this project, I have found that electrical wires are a very important feature to the images because they divide up negative space (the sky) and provide depth. In the past, I did not always use wires to assist in the depth of the images, but in this batch I really focused on creating images with good depth. I successfully did so by pointing my camera at buildings on an angle and using wires to aid the process. In editing, I kept all of the images in black and white, but also made sure to bring out the different shades of darks and whites to create a clear differentiation between parts of the image. 

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