Enviormental

This project was to take a photo of someone in their enviorment, like a chief while he is cooking or a teacher during class. I decided to take a picture of Ashley Reed in a dumpster because she dumpster dives at least once a week to help out a great cause!! She searches for food in dumpsters so that she can help feed the homeless every Wednesday in downtown San Diego along with all the other caring people involved in Food not Bombs. The dumpsters at school were pretty dirty and nasty, luckily we found a recycling dumpster and she just jumped right in. I was able to take some great photos, not too many because it was a short period. I really like these two shots the most, I fixed both of them a bit on photoshop, changing the exposure and contrast level. The pictures came out a bit dark and I was worried but after I saw them on the computer i really liked them.

House(UGLY)

We were assigned to take 24 pictures of our house that were somewhat ugly, the assignment given was to take pictures of  our house that wouldn't normally be appealing to the eye at first glance or maybe never to anyone who wasn't a bit artistic. Ms Miles wanted photos of a house full of things that were unnecessary and dirty(piles of dirty laundry, dishes, dead plants etc...) but another trick was that we couldn't rearrange anything, at first I thought this was going to be difficult. I began to shoot inside my house, I took pictures of dirty dishes but I really didn't like the pictures. They didn't look very professional especially since I took them with a digital camera. I decided to take some pictures outside and I found that they looked way better and there were better things to shoot like my grandpas old rusty tools and nails. I ended up shooting more than 24 photos but when i was working on them on them on the computer I ended up only liking about 13, I wish I would of taken more photos. I painted my house that Mrs. Alvarez helped me make then I put the photos on it then I decorated it with those same nails and tools I toke photos of. I really liked my end product, I felt like it was exactly what Ms. Miles asked for.My house was in the Grand theater exhibit so i wasn't able to take a picture of the final outcome but i will as soon as i get it back. Here our some of my favorite:)

Activism through Art

This assignment was inspired by the yellow boat play, it is currently being performed here at our school(SDSCPA). This is a wonderful play about a child who gets AIDS because of a blood transfusion, but always try's to see the brighter side of things, a very optimistic kid. This is true and very uplifting and sad story. When  Ms. Miles assigned this project to show activism through a photograph I just couldn't figure out what I should do for a couple of days. It was hard I wanted to take a great photo that drew attention to this horrible illness and I didn't want to offend anyone or be inappropriate . I never took a photo that had to show any kind of activism, but after a while i got a hang of it and i took a couple of different shots. first i thought about how AIDS just takes over your body and destroys your immune system so i decided to take multiple shots of a flower slowly falling apart and them i remembered that there was this building on campus that was crumbling on the bottom and I thought that would be good to show how the infection destroys peoples body. I began to do some research on AIDS because I didn't feel well informed and thats what led me to the next shoots I took of Ashley Reed holding some pills, I decided to do this because I found out that people have to take medication at a certain time, everyday to keep their body healthy. The pills that they must take are very toxic for your body and make you sick for a certain amount of time before your body gets used to them. I thought that all the ideas I had were pretty good, my favorite picture is the one with just hands and all the pills, I took a lot of time fixing it on photoshop. I learned how to make the picture look gritty, and i changed the lighting of it.