Kelsey Kondraski Critique 2 Recipe

I used an iPhone 4 to take these photographs. It runs on iOS7. I took the pictures with my regular iPhone camera. I tweaked them in apps that I downloaded for free.  I used Photo Editor by Aviary which was version 3.2.0. I also used Camera Awesome version 1.1.9.  I played around with the apps to see exactly how much I could do.

I used several techniques with these photos. I got close up for alienate the colors in the photographs.  In the picture with the hand you can only see a few main colors. The colors that really “pop” are purple, red and white. These draw the eyes in from the hand to the pen to the paper. In the light photo, I took a picture of the top of a television. The light cast a green shadow which is mysterious and interesting. The light itself is brightest in the middle and shadows darken as it expands. This is the green lighting I used to make the photograph more interesting. If this was a regular light it would be a dull picture but the green gives it an element of mystery. I also used angles that are not commonly used. Not many people look down over their television or up close to what someone is writing.

My recipe was simple. I wanted to find simple objects to photograph that could be brought into a complex light. I first chose to use a close up to use a few colors as possible. Then, I shot several pictures from different angles to experiment with the photos. I then auto enhanced the photos to even out the colors and brightness. I didn’t do much with the pictures after shooting them because I prepared beforehand.