deCordova Field Trip Pictures

Home Work # 5 - One Color

Choose one color, different lighting situations, bright light dim light artificial light natural light.

Home Work # 4 - Time of Day/Type of Light

Using only natural light the assignment is to take photographs morning, midday and evening. Sunny, clear, hazy, or cloudy. Urban, residential, or natural.

Home Work # 7 - Flaneur

I enjoyed this assignment "one who leisurely, yet alertly strolls through an urban environment."

Home Work # 6 - Seven Deadly Sins

Gluttony, Sloth, Envy, Avarice (Greed), Temper, Pride and Lust.

Home Work # 3 - White Balance - Self Portrait

For my first picture I was inside in the afternoon with only natural light my shutter speed was 1/40 and aperture f5.6 with sunny white balance. The second shot is with the flash white balance setting. The first shot i like the blue feeling the picture has, but the second shot the color of the wall is more realistic to what the color actually is.
For the next set of shots 1/40 5.6 iso 100 cloudy, 1/40 5.96 100 shade it is intersting to me how much warmer the picture came out at the different white balance setting.
For the tree picture the first picture is Incandescent white balance 1/40, f5.6 and ISO 320 again it came out much bluer than the one with a white balance of direct sunlight. I almost like the green of the first picture rather then the more realistic colors of the second picture.
The last picture is in my bathroom mirror. There is natural light coming in from the window in the afternoon as well as the light on inside. I also used the flash for these pictures. Set at incandescent again with 1/40, f5.6, and ISO 100. The first picture is very blue, opposed to the second picture which is more realistic colors using the cloudy white balance function.

Home Work # 2 - Scan O Gram

For this assignment I was searching around my house for items that would fit on a scanner, have visual interest, have meaning to me, and be pliable. I came upon my "stash" of eaten shoe laces by my cat Henry. I kept them because they were special colors from my puma shoes.

I liked the fact that there were many different colors and textures and the were pliable, movable, and soft.

I spent a lot of time scanning images in having fun with the laces making faces. I got more serious when I added a background. The face didn't seem to work with the background I had picked out.

It was a good learning experience with the scanner I'm glad I had an opportunity to try a lot of things out.

Photomontage/Self Portrait

This is my first attempt at photomontage, and upon gazing around the classroom and from the examples given during the power point presentation in class, I feel like I have missed the mark on this assignment.

I stayed in my comfort zone and did what know. What I ended up with was a collage but one that did make a cohesive picture with a color scheme or a theme. I do feel that I represented myself and used symbols to do so.

One of my favorite symbols are puzzle pieces. There is a rhyme and reason to how there are arranged on the page but there is also a sense of hap-hazardness and chaos. They also can and do fit together but they are arranged that they are floating and sometimes takes some extra work to make everything fit together properly. As is a lot of things in life.

Each puzzle piece is a symbol. There are many images that include what I do for work. I enjoy my job a lot and has become a huge part of my life.

RACHEL PERRY WELTY

Lost in my life

Wednesday 6/30

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