Kelsey Kondraski Critique 1 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.

These pictures demonstrate a variety of techniques I used. My main technique was to find interesting angles. I noticed the storm drain while outside. I thought about taking a picture looking down. I then remembered that there was a window below and thought that looking up is a unique angle. Not many people see this view of a storm drain. I also tried to shoot very dark colors contrasted with very light colors. In the hand photo, I contrasted my light skin and rings with dark nail polish, coat and pants. I also used the auto enhance function within the apps.

 I think that my strategy in all my photographs was to get unique angles, and contrast colors, to make the black and white filters really pop. I took my pictures in color at first. My recipe is to first find an interesting item to photograph, much like the storm drain. Even if it is a common item, I tried to think of ways that I have never seen it, hence not taking a picture looking into the storm drain but looking from it. For black and white photos, I made sure I was using really dark and really light tones. I tried to make sure they were next to or near each other in the photo so you can really see the contrast.  Next, I used the auto enhance in the photo apps to touch up the picture. I then used a black and white filter. Lastly, I sharpened the pictures to make them clearer.