House Project

This is my collaged images that i used for my house project. Through this experiment, i found it to be super inspiring. I went to my friends house because their house is made for this project. The walls ae covered with papers and projects and drawings and clutter galore. I used my own camera for this project and i used my flash for the lighting. I found myself taking pictures of almost everything, even the toilet, which has little drawings inside of it aswell. Although the pictures i took of the grey water system in the bathroom, was almost too disgusting to post for my house project. Through this shoot, i found beauty in the smallest little dirty thing. Even an old sink with rust, could be inspiring and beautiful to me. Not only did i take pictures of the inside of the house, but i also took pictures of the outside as well, an old car, sans the wheel was rusty and was nice among the tall grass. As well as the occupant's bicycles that were laying around against the fence they share with the neighbors. I loved this assignment and im excited to finish the actual house.

The first picture is a really crappy picture of my finished assignment that i took with my iphone. It doesn't at all capture my work but i figured since Ms. Miles (you) are already able to see my house in real life. I really enjoyed this project and the middle slide is probably my favorite. I used copper wire, beads, misscelanous rusty/grimey items from my garage, hot glue, as well as xerox transfers to embellish my house. By creating layers with the transfers, it made my house more intriguing and believable.

Environmental piece

Location: Old Town, San Diego

Model: Ileana

For this shoot i wanted to show the inner self of the model, from my perspective. I feel like these pictures really show the model as she is. She wants to start modeling and so she throws herself out into the wilderness and is vulnerable to every little thing anyone is capable of saying about her and her integrity, which creates alot of insecurity within her mind. These feelings of insecurity may not always be on her face but it always seems to shine through. She definitely uses her sexuality to comes across as confident but it is usually very vulgar and makes the viewer feel like this 18 year old has lost all innocence. I manipulated all of these pictures in photoshop to create either more or less contrast to highlight the nature around the model. For the lighting i used the natural light around the environment, like the sun, when the sun was going down as well as my flash when we were in darker areas of the trees. These pictures work for me aswell as the model because i like the way she is shown and she likes having more pictures for her portfolio.