Ansel Adams Series 4

In this series, I feel like I have pretty much solidified my technique. It starts with a picture of a tree (or multiple trees) and I edit the sky in a separate layer than the trees or foreground. Sometimes I'll even take out a telephone poll or power lines.

Ansel Adams(ish) - Series 3

I mainly focused on making the leaves dark and the sky bright with photoshop. I cut the background out and edit it on its own, while editing the foreground and subjects by themselves, and merge it back into one picture.

Ansel Adams Series Draft 2

For this series, I focused a lot on high and low exposures, before and after editing. This draft was made when I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing, and I changed it in the middle of the week, hence the three photos.

Ansel Adams Series 1

This series is trying to assimilate the works of the esteemed artist Ansel Adams. He took lots of landscape photos (most famously in Yosemite), and edited the exposure of each element, making one part of the photo overexposed and super bright, or underexposed and super dark. I tried my hand at it and these are my results.

Portraits

This whole series was based around people that blend into their environments. Most are my friends when they played at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma this weekend, or just other random shots I got. I used a Canon T3I rebel mostly on 1/200ths on 3.4ƒ or 5.6ƒ.

Balance, Symmetry and Asymmetry

Asymmetry

I really like this photo because the background is pretty symmetrical, as well as his face and posture. The only thing that is Asymmetrical is his hair, which is what the picture is mainly focused on.

This photo had no symmetrical value or balance to it whatsoever.

This photo is great because everything is so lined up, but nothing is symmetrical.

This one is nice because the line of focus is straight down the middle.

This photo is nice because it has a rule of thirds going on.

Balance

This photo is a great example of Balance because of the subjects. There's 2 subjects on the left, some negative space in the middle, and 2 subjects on the right.

I liked this one because the ruffles of the curtain are only shown on one side of Khan, with Isaiah to balance it out.

I really like this photo because Ade is obviously a tall guy, and Kasani isn't, and Cora is in the background to balance the photo.

This was taken when I crossed the street right before it changed and everyone had to wait because no one here would ever jaywalk. The sidewalk provides a line to focus on, with cars on the left and everyone on the right.

This is great because Ade is on one side, and Kanye is on the other side and it balances really well.

Symmetry

Ade did not have a sweatshirt on that wasn't symmetrical.

BasedGod here strikes a pose that makes him equal on both sides.

This was really great to find a symmetrical plaza. I was happy that all the lines turned out straight.

This window is in the basement. The chainlink fence really makes it.

I really liked this one a lot. It mainly focuses on symmetry (the gates) but also uses balancing a bit.