Arriana's Photography Portfolio

 In this photo series, I used different abstracting techniques in class. I used the objects before the camera and edited pictures with layering. Those two pictures that I layered are my two favorite pictures. I used to do that in high school for computer literacy, so I find it easy. 

Assignment 3 :Protraits   I took pictures of one of my closest friends and my roommate. The theme of these pictures was to portray reactions to trending news topics. In the series of images, I have edited one of each person's set of photos to be black and white to show seriousness and pressing news stories. The color is used to bring warmth, highlighting the spectrum of reactions from concern to joy. News can provoke that and that's what I wanted to express through these pictures.  Models: Taiylor Carter  Jada Hines  Lighting Chart: 

 Motion Pictures: In this photo, I wanted to capture the motion of the bush. It was very windy, and I wanted it to feel like a tornado winding through it.  Also, the original picture was darker, I used the color balance feature to brighten up the background to make the picture setting look more daytime.  This picture, as you can tell, looks blurry between the fingers, and the sharpness of the background stands out.  In this picture, you see someone's hand in the far right corner grabbing a puzzle; this effect was done in motion as well, and everything else on is clear.  Depth Of Field:  I wanted this picture to resemble someone playing hide and seek. As you can see, the camera is in the tree peaking out to the tree.  In this, I edited with in the color section to make the colors brighter. I wanted the white to stand out more and the purples.  I used color balance to make the tree look more green in vibrant.  I wanted this picture to be more f...

Attempting to make picture blurry by moving hand. It's a little blurriness in the picture.   Attempting motion in this picture.  Using portrait mode to see the blurriness in the background. Playing around with the stillness and clearness of the spray-paint can top.  

 These are my five black and white edits for Assignment 1. I chose this picture with raindrops on a branch. I made this one look more mysterious and dark in the background and pay more attention to the raindrops to make them stand out and sparkle. This one is more pale so to me it looks like a semi-bright day in black and white I used more white undertones to make this effect this way.    I wanted this effect to look like a Western film. A little more browns and tans are in this picture. I used levels to make the picture more brown and a little rusty red. This is my perfect image. I really like the western feel to this picture.  This is close to looking like another one of my pictures but I was trying to make it look brighter and blurrier in the background so I used a lot of blurring. This is my original photo.   

  Hi my name is Arriana Johnson. I'm from Memphis, TN. I love shopping and watching television. My favorite show is  Insecure.  I am sociology major. In high school I took an extracurricular activity in culinary. I am starting a food business of campus.  I am a only child. I am in Renaissance Choir.  This my first time in a digital photography class. I took other classes in computer literacy. I love working on poetry. I made a book my junior year haven't published it just yet. With the help of this class I might just put it on a blog to publish it. I love listening to music such as Summer Walker, Elmiene, and SZA. This is one of my favorite songs right now! Click HERE.