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Surrealism

I chose this painting because it speaks to my love of the ocean and my love of music and I like the realistic yet cartoonish style. I...

Lightroom Project 1

1st set is a photo stylized through lightroom 2nd set is an overexposed photo fixed 3rd set is the front of Santa Cruz High School with...

Portrait Study B

A theory has been proposed that the left side of someone’s face is their best/their strongest. I personally don’t think this theory is...

Principles of Art

Balance is a principle that displays multiple things in an image that create a feeling of balanced, can be symmetrical or asymmetrical,...

Elements of Art

Line is a Element where an image shows continuous movement of a point along a surface, my line image is in the middle and my line is...

Static versus Dynamic

Static in photography is an image that is fixed. It’s capturing something still, there isn’t any true movement. For example, a picture of...

Lecture Notes

Notes on Principles and Elements of Photographic Composition Compositions -Refers to arrangement and relationship of principles and...

Rule of Thirds

In photography, there is a rule called the rule of thirds. It usually has a grid made of 9 squares that has an emphasis on 4 middle...

Iso Test Image

The most essential part of photography is exposure. Without it you couldn’t have amazing shots with detail like objects being frozen in...

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