Jada Goodwin - Crit 4: Memory

 

 

Device Used: Samsung Galaxy S4

Opertaing System: Andriod, version 4.3

Apps Used: Google+ Photos

This two photos recieved the most comments and are two very different shots. This first you may remember from a few weeks ago ina previous critique. I captured the picture mid day when the sun was coming through my balacony doors. I was actually laying on the floor when I took teh picture which resulted in the unique angle. Previously the picture was very dark, so for this week's critique I added a a vintage filter from with Google + Photos and lightened the saturation so that it gave the picture this nice blue tone.

For the second photo, I was in Busch Gardens. That theme park has amazing shooting scenes and subjects. While crossing one of the bridges yu look out into the beautiful picuresque scene. It really just took my breath away. The picture really had a great amount of elements. The boats traveling towards each other, the bridge on the other side added depth, the trees were not quite in bloom yet but you can see the slight color begining to come back to theme and to top it off it was abeautiful but not grogeous day just the right amount of sunlight. I didn't do too much to alter the picture because I really enjoyed the colors it contained. I added a blurred and reduced it so taht it was only at the very edges of the picture and then added a shadow to the edges as well. I believe this made it seem more like dynamic and added depth versus the audience looking at a static photo.

Kristi Flesher / Memory&Vintage Recipe

iPhone5
iOS 7.1

CameraBag2 version 2.4
Afterlight version 2.3

For my POW this week for topic 4 I used two different photo applications. I first shot with the camera on my iPhone and then I opened it in CameraBag and applied the filter 'portofino'. This filter added contrast and exaggerated some highlights. I then opened this version of the image in Afterlight and added a 'dusty film' to the picture, number seven, and brought the exposure down a little. This is how I attempted to create a vintage feel to the image.

Originally when taking this photo I knew I wanted to present a similar style to old school candid type polaroids/photographs. This is why the subject is in action or caught in action, touching her head and laughing and smiling at something. To add a little mystery I decided to not show the full face and cut her to be slightly outside of the frame.

Crit4: Post Apocalypse

 
I shot my photos using an iPhone 4s with iOS 7.0.4. These two photos above were edited using the app Snapseed 1.6.1.

For this recipe, I am going to focus on the techniques and strategies I use to create very mysterious and desolate looking photos. I have found throughout the weeks that these are my favorite types of photographs to create. I like to create photos that draw the viewer into the scene and have them feel as if they are a part of the photo and at this specific location. I also like the viewer to stop and pause while looking at my photographs to see all of the specific details and textures that are in each piece.

The techniques I use while shooting have a lot to do with composition. I like to shoot in a diagonal angle to my subjects because I find them more visually interesting than straight on shoots. This is evident in a majority of my work throughout this semester. I also really like to shoot in the evenings because lighting is a big inspiration for me when I look at a possible subject. The photo on the left was shot in very low lighting at night and the photo on the right was shot in the evening with the sunsetting which created the long shadows.

I also employ certain techniques in regards to my filter selecting. I am drawn to filters that either suck the loud colors out of a photo and give a faded look, or create a more vintage grungy look. Both of these photos were done using the Snapseed app I referred to at the top. The one on the right was enhanced by the "drama" filters and the "grunge" filters found in this app. The one on the right was created by using the "vintage" filter. All of these filters enhance textures and create certain color scenes in these photos.

I often combine techniques to come up with my own personal strategies as a photographer. I like capturing subjects at a certain angle to enhance my shadows and create more visual interest. Shooting in the evenings often helps me to create these shadow angles that appear more visually interesting. On the photo on the left, because the sun was very low, it helped me get this more dark and mysterious look with a few bright spots where the sunset was still visible in the water. Also, because I was shooting water, the reflections definitely helped bring in a lot of visual interest and enhance the mystery. Overall I try to use my form to enhance my content and not overwhelm my original photo.

While looking around the web this week I found the photographer Michael Lavine who is now a very famous photographer. I connected mostly with his entertainment posters that he photographs for because he has very grungy or dark feel to a lot of his work. We are very different in our shooting styles because I like shooting more scenes or buildings, but he often has a direct subject because of his now Hollywood influence. He photographs lots of different subjects and it's really interesting to see the variety he shows in his work. I'm sure everyone could find something to connect to. A link to his personal website: http://www.michaellavine.com/#/Photographs/Entertainment/1/

Hynda Blum Crit 4 Recipe

Phone 4S // Afterlight App 

The techniques I used were pretty consisted with most of my pictures. I saw a subject that I thought was ideal to photograph and I set myself up so the photo would be composed in a tasteful manner. I usually held down the screen before taking the shot so that the camera would adjust properly to the lighting and focus. I also experimented with different angles for my shots. Some were horizontal, some were vertical and some were perfectly centered while others were angled a bit differently. 

With this topic, I used a few different shooting strategies. Firstly, every photo taken had some sort of message behind it. Every shot contained a subject or location that was memorable for ,me in some way. I intentionally made most of mine a bit abstract as to the exact message so the viewers could conclude ideas on their own. I also used the Afterlight application to add light leaks, filters, an aged appearance and different lighting and contrast adjustments. 

My exact recipe goes as follows: first, the lighting of a situation catches my eye. To me, lighting can truly make or break a photo. Next, I usually see something that inspires me. I then utilize the lighting and the subject and I work on the perfect angle. I adjust the phones settings to get a clear shot and I press the shutter. From there, I open that photo in the Afterlight app and I adjust the alignment of the picture. I like when my photos are level because if it is at an awkward angle, it takes away from the shot. I adjust lighting and add features as needed, and everything combines evokes mystery, emotion and interpretation.

Sam Spellman- Crit 4 Recipe

"Trail Ride"

I used an IPhone 4s to take my pictures and it runs on the IOS6 version because I refuse to update it to IOS7.  I took all my photos with the standard IPhone camera and then edited them using some apps that I downloaded in the app store.  For this particular photo I used the FX Photo Studio app version 5.1. 

For all of my pictures I used the FX Photo Studio app and chose the vintage category.  In that category there were 12 different options to choose from to make them look like old fashioned photos.  The app lets you chose the different effects you want on the picture and even combine the effects to create a new effect.  For this picture in particular I started out with the Sepia effect.  After applying that effect to the photo I then added the Aged effect to it as well.  The sepia just added a browner tone to the photo that the aged just didn't do by itself.  

All the photos taken were put through this effects process and I messed around with all of them choosing the right filter for each individual picture.  

Sean Rogers - Crit4 Recipe

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.4
App: Snapseed

For this photograph I wanted to capture a memory from the house I grew up in. I took the photo to show the deterioration of things that were once new, the passing of time. Framing the shot, I wanted to get as much into it as possible. I framed it so that I captured a large amount of the floor because I like how that really grounds the shot. After taking the shot I put it into Snapseed and played around with a few different vintage filters. I ended up selecting one, but then lowered the saturation and raised the brightness to get the effect that you see here.

Steve Brydzinski - Crit 4: Post-Processing/Memory Recipe

POW #4

Using: 

- iPhone 5

- ios 7.1

- Snapseed App by Google

For this crit, I took the "post processing" more seriously than the "memory" aspect, in hopes that it would create a feeling of memory or a piece in time.  I tried about 5 or 6 different apps that offered vintage, old time, or other filters...none compared to the app by Google called "Snapseed."  I felt myself being drawn to this app every time I would edit the photos for the crit.  At first I would try out one of the other apps, but would almost always go right back to the Snapseed app.  It offers TONS of filters that are completely customizable.  For this photo, it highlights a space in my heart for skateboarding, and means a lot.  The simplicity, to the photo and the situation is the story of my life.  A skateboarder doesn't need much to be happy.  

In this photo, I wanted to capture a b&w feel to add to the simplicity.

Using Snapseed:

1. Upload photo into app

2. BW filter

3. Grain turned up to 25%

4. Drama filter

5. Contrast turned up to 15%

6. Export to camera roll

I highly suggest this app.  Taking a look at my other photos in this crit, most of them were created using fx and filters from this app.

alex sikora vintage texture crit 4

I used My iPhone5 running the 7.0.4 OS (updated)
Edited - Photoshop (overlay blend mode)

I took the photo of the swing and the pots in my yard.  These objects seemed somewhat forgotten after a long winter and i wanted to capture the isolation they reflected.

After importing the photo i began processing.  First i desaturated the photo and took out some contrast to make it look flat.

I then used the chip board texture that i found on freestocktextures.com and imported it onto a new layer onto of my original photo in PS.

Using blend modes on the layer containing the chip board I selected the "overlay" option and decreased opacity to 70%.

After i was finished adjusting effects within my layers i flattened the image and had my finished product.

Rita Kraynak - Crit 4 Recipe: Memory

iPhone 5: OS 7.0.6

App: Afterlight

This picture was taken early one morning before I even climbed out of bed. I woke up, lifted my head, and loved the way the light was shining in through the doors to the deck. I didn't want to take a generic picture of just the room, I decided to focus on capture the light on the ceiling as if the viewer was looking up. In doing that, I created mystery in this picture. I'd bet that before saying those were two doors in the back, most people would even think it's just windows. The beam on the ceiling on and the bricks above the wall create lines to guide eyes across the picture. I leave the viewer wondering what's on the ground in this room.

In editing the picture, I added a bit of highlights to enhance the brightness of the sun shining through. I used the "clarify" option in Afterlight to add the harsh lines around each of the initial lines in the picture (i.e. the beam, the wall/brick line, doors, corners, etc.). After doing that the picture already had an older look to it but I wanted more. I wanted to play with the lighting so I found a layer which added the specks of light on the left and the tinge of red/white light on the bottom right. After completing that, I immediately thought the picture looked as if it was scanned from a box of pictures from 20 years ago--it was perfect. 

I love the abstract look in this picture. There isn't really one subject to focus on, there are different parts around the room that collectively pull this photo together.

Aubrey Bourgault- Critique 4- Memory

The left photograph is the original that I shot, and then the right above is after editing.  I used my Iphone 5c that runs on iOs 7 to take this photo.  I shot this photo in the normal photo setting, with the flash and HDR setting off.  To edit this photo I only used the application Afterlight, which can purchased through the application store for a dollar.

The first thing I did to this photograph was crop out the road and part of grass.  I felt like it took away from the building and made the photograph look sloppy, so I cropped it out using the "Free" scaling option in the crop setting.  The day I took this photo it was overcast outside and I felt like the picture needed to be brightened slightly.  I increased the exposure and the highlights to add brightness to the photograph.  I then proceeded to add saturation to pick up some of the yellows in the shrubs and the grass surrounding the building. To add some tone without overdoing it I added the filter thorn in the Seasons section.

As I mentioned in my self evaluation, this building is deep in the woods behind my house.  When I walk my dogs at home I often see it in the distance but tend to stay clear because it creeps me out.  I finally got enough courage to get close to it and take a few photos.  My grandmother says that a family used to reside there until a fire forced the family to leave.  There is a lot of memories that are left behind from the family in this house and I wanted to capture that.  I wanted to the viewer to feel like they were on an adventure and they found this place that has not been touched in decades.  I like leaving the viewer wondering. . .

Laura Prince Crit 4 Recipe

iPhone 5C, OS 7.0.6
App: VSCO Cam

For this crit I tried to take photos of scenes that I would want to remember and that would have a lasting effect on me and hopefully the viewer of the photo as well. This photo was taken while I was visiting my family and we drove out to a lake to go canoeing. The brightness of the photo and the colors make me feel as though I am there still out on the lake with my sister. I made sure to get the whole scene of the lake in the picture - the trees, the water, and the weeds on the ground.
After taking the picture, I used the VSCO Cam app to make the photo brighter and to change the color of the highlights of the photo. I felt that changing the colors to make them look a little washed out but still keeping the clarity of the photo intact made an interesting look to the photo. On the one hand it looks like it could be an old picture, but it also looks modern because of how clear it is. Trying out different things with different apps was one of the best parts of this crit.

Maggie Gottschalk- Crit 4 Recipe

Device: Android Galaxy S2

Software version 4.1.2

App: Pixlr Express

I took advantage of the recent warm weather and shot my photographs outdoors because I love how the natural sunlight appears in photographs.  While looking for things to photograph, I sought out spaces that have contributed to my past.   The majority of my photographs have some sort of personal connection to me and through my choice of framing, angles, and filters, I hoped that the viewers would be able to understand this.

            Similar to past weeks, I photographed the various spaces and/or subjects using the standard camera app that comes with the phone.  Next, I utilized a few different apps to edit my photographs, but for this specific one I used an app that I have used in the past called Pixlr.  The bright sunlight combined with the colors of the trees and bridge created vibrant colors in the photograph.  As a result, I thought it was important to make the colors appear duller, so I used a filter within the “too old” effects called “agatha.”  This filter changes the photograph to black and white, but I only wanted to adjust the colors slightly so I used the fade option and applied the number 38.  Lastly, I gave the photograph a vintage feel by using an overlay technique called “worn.”

            I strove to convey a sense of time in my photographs.  I feel as though I captured a successful photograph if the viewer recognized an emotional significance in the photograph and was able to relate to it.

Kathleen Fitzgerald - Crit 4: Memory

Kathleen Fitzgerald

Professor Berkowitz

Smartphone Photography

April 17^th, 2014

Smartphone Photo 2831, Crit 4 – Memory, S14

POW: #8

Phone: iPhone 5s

OS: 7.0.6

Apps: LongExpo, BeFunky, Camera360

While photographing my chosen subjects, I paid close attention to the way I framed them. I would move my phone around to find the angle and frame that was most appealing. I chose to put some things in the very center of the photo, like in photos 4, 10 and 14. Otherwise, I framed subjects in different ways, like in photo 8 above. I wanted to capture the headboard, picture, and sunlight from the window in an interesting way. My favorite part about this photo is the lighting. I had walked into an empty bedroom in my house at the perfect time, just before the sun was setting. Beautiful light poured in through the window and I had to capture it. After I took every photo, I would test different filters and enhancements to see what complimented the photo best. In photo 8 above, I used a ‘warmth’ filter to bring out the light and warm tones in the photo. I loved working with color for this project. I think a lot of photos that are vintage and evoke memories are portrayed in black and white or sepia, and I wanted to shy away from that and experiment with colors.

I photographed a lot of things from around my house, because that is where a majority of my memories have been made growing up. I enjoyed this project because it made me think of memories and brought happy thoughts to mind. For example, photos 1 and 3 make me think of gardening with my mom growing up and always admiring flowers in the wake of spring. Photographing these things around my house made me more appreciative and thankful for my home and my family. It’s not everyday that I photograph my outdoor and indoor tables where my family has shared many, many memories, so it’s neat to look at the photos and remember the good times we had.

Janelle Roedan | Memory/Vintage

I used my iPhone4s, version 7.1 IOS for this assignment. The applications I used to shoot my photos were the built-in camera and the ProCamera application I downloaded from the Apple store. When I took the photographs, I thought about the filters I would like to use in order to make my photographs look more vintage. I chose to use the historical filter under the vintage option on the ProCamera application. I thought by being consistent and using the same filter on most of my photographs, it would really catch the eye of the people looking at it and really tell a story as you scroll down the photos.

I picked photo 2 and 3 from the assignment as my POWS because I really like how these photos came out. I was able to capture two beautiful moments and still give them a memorable/vintage look to them. I feel as though these two photos really capture what the assignment was about. In the first photo, I was able to capture my boyfriend smiling as he is looking back at me and the people surrounding him are just walking around and going about their lives. When you look at it, it just makes you feel like it was just a stop in time and soon enough he would be going about life like everybody else surrounding him. The second picture captures a beautiful moment between two friends. I like how it is just a caught in the moment photo and how the bricks and the surroundings look.

I wanted to make all of my photos look vintage and kind of tell a story about my life or what I surround myself with on a daily basis. Most of my photos are just a snapshot, in the moment types of photos and I think that's really unique!

Megan Valenson: Recipe- VIntage/Memory

Device: iPhone4s

Version: 7.1

App: snapseed

I wanted to take a different approach when I started this project. I feel like i typically associate the idea of memory or vintage with more muted tones. Because of this I tried to incorporate a lot of vibrant colors into my collection. This is one of my only photos in my collection that I didn't use that technique. I think this actually made the photo stand out. I took this photo back at home when I was walking along a beach off the bay on Long Island. It was a sort of bright day but still a little cold outside and the sun was starting to go down. I thought that it was a really pretty scene so I took a quick shot using the preinstalled camera app on my iPhone4s. 

After taking the shot I later uploaded it into the snap seed app and started to mess around with some of the brighter filters I was using in other photos. It wasn't giving off the right fell to me though. Then I decided to crop the picture to a square to make it reminiscent of a Polaroid shot. From there I blurred the edges to give the photo a more mysterious feel. Finally I put on a filter that added the scratches and discolorations. I lowered the brightness a little bit to emphasize the feeling of mystery again and increased the sharpness to make the unblurred portions of the picture (primarily the waves) clear.

Overall  I wanted the shot to have a feeling of longing to it. I wanted the scene to look like a snapshot of a distant time or memory that may be fading away.

Michael Zimney - Crit 4 - Vintage / Memory

I really wanted to embrace steel, brick, and concrete.  I really felt like through those elements of industry I might find the emotions I was trying to convey.  There is something about the permanence of buildings, of wood and stone coming together that makes me feel like vintage has been expressed.  As far as my recipe, there was very little set up, in that it was more about the shot finding me than me finding the shot.  I was attending an event at an old warehouse.  I was standing in the center of the room and looked across and saw what looked like a scene which might do a good job of conveying the feeling of memory.  I held my phone up and saw if frame into my camera and thought it looked good.  After taking a couple of shots, I turned the phone to a slight angle and suddenly the shot really fell into place.  There was something about turning the camera on a slight angle that really helped make this photo feel like it was a window into someone’s memory.  I actually just used my regular Iphone5s camera for this shot.  I edited it pretty minimally.  I simply selected “auto enhance, which made the colors a bit more vibrant, and then I selected a pre-set setting called “Instant” which added a nice pale yellow tone to the photo.  I did not crop the shot, nor did I have the “subject” pose; she was unaware a photo was being taken, and I think that helped capture something candid.

Iphone 5s  I.O.S 7.0.2