Thank god for no more cardboard!!!

So here's the giant cheese grater! It'abour 6' tall but looks a little short here for some reason....

anyways,I'm glad it's all over!!!! Hope everyone has a fantastic break! Happy holidays [:

Fixed the uploading problems!

This was for a portfolio for a college that actually wasn't UD! ( I ended up using it for the portfolio here, too though... )

ink&prismacolours


Here's another ink drawing I did before the one above... practice for the technique I used

Project 4!

Here's my final image for the fourth project!
I used two images for the main part of the poster. The first was the picture of the powerplant. For this one, I made the sky red with color adjustments and darkned up portions of the towers to make them have a darker mood. I added several more inches to the canvas in black.

The second image was of a tree branch with several leaves and monkey balls ( those little spikey things on trees around here?) I adjusted the levels so the image was completely black, then selected the branch and inverted the colors so it was white.
I duplicated the image twice and transformed them so they looked slightly different, then arranged them in a way that I thought worked well. I also played with the opacities a little.

I made the text out of wire and scanned it in, then changed some of the letters into white or red for the bottom half of the poster [:

Overall I'm pretty happy with how things turned out! I'm not too sure how I like my text, but what's done is done. Hope you like!

For the next digital media project, I'm planning to use the song Lake Michigan by Rogue Wave.
I want to do some sort of environmental statement ( again, I know, I promise it will be a bit different than the last one!)so I went to the Valero power plant near my house to take some gloomy, rainy-day pollution pictures. A couple turned out ok but I can't upload them at the moment. However, apparently taking pictures of power plants is frowned upon as a couple workers there asked me to leave after about 5 minutes. ]: Hopefully I have what I need.

So on a note [almost ] completely unrelated to photography, halloween is this Friday!
My boyfriend and I have decided to go as Clark Kent and Lois Lane ( low budgets?) so it should be pretty interesting!

Be sustainable.

Here's the finished product for the third assignment for Digital Media. I originally wanted to add a LOT more to this, but I decided that maybe simplicity was key, especially for the message I wanted to put out.
Living a sustainable lifestyle and minimizing the impact we have on the environment in which we live is important to me, and I wanted to show that.

The colors look a lot nicer on the Macs than they do on my PC, so hopefully to all of you they look a lot more vibrant than what I'm seeing!

Letters, letters everywhere! A little bit from the next design project.

Letter E, in a different kind of font. I thought the shape was unique. Unfortunately, the display I shot this from was moved so I can't go back to reshoot ]:














I wish I could have burred the background out a bit more fore this one but I did the best I could in such a limited space.










































This was by far my luckiest letter.
I found this pipe part sitting in the grass under a tree with this leaf just hanging out on top of it. I thought it was too perfect to pass up for a Q.












I liked the juxtaposition of the dark metal against the red plastic on this one. My favorite solution for X.

I took this back in May before I really started to learn about my camera. We were in Miami and it was just starting to rain around 9o'clock pm and I managed to get one shot that wasn't tooo blurry!
Hope you like it!

This one was in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Taken right as I was getting off the cruise ship.

This was an accidental tie-dying experiment! I liked the way it came out.

Here are a couple from a walk around campus a coule weeks ago. I like finding shapes in nature, so I was happy to find the leaves in the second picture!

http://johnwillems.photoworkshop.com/

Mixed Media Photography

http://www.sallymankus.com/mixedmedia.html

Sally Mankus

Bicycles

I wanted to capture the interlocking, almost spider web-like pattern of the spokes on these bike wheels. I focused on the foremost wheel to givet he picture depth.