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Artist's Statement

Artist’s Statement

By Justice Marquez

            Photography has always been a passion of mine. From holding the camera to snapping the scene, I enjoy being an amateur photographer. I love how I can capture a moment in time. It becomes a visual memory. A picture speaks a thousand words. I can capture a thousand words in a millisecond. Can you? It’s amazing how my job is actually needed in the world and I can be happy doing so. Every one enjoys preserving a memory or history. I can become a person important in photography and turn this hobby into a career.  I do the work I do because I am the work I do. I am art, therefore, I live within art. An art shall be captured.

            I’ve always admired living in a world where you are smaller than everything else. I want to live under the hat of a mushroom and see the sun through the petals of a daisy. I enjoy low angles where the world is not so much bigger, but I am so much smaller. This is why my photographs are of things on the ground. I want to be able to look up at a pebble. Living in the grass is a dangerous life to live; it’s also an interesting one. What’s better than being able to capture the life you want to live in?

            My challenge is the camera being larger than the object I am trying to capture; or also the fact that the object is shorter than the height of my feet. I conquer this challenge by lying down, climbing trees, and chasing animals to get their feet running in the grass. It’s a hard photo style to achieve, because the small challenges my camera’s life might get, I do not. I do not have to fear being stepped on, but if I’m lying down I do. You might find me stuck in a tree one day, because some birds were hatching above my head. It’s weird, but it ends up to be an amazing photograph.

            This is what I try to achieve as a photographer. My view of the world captured in a fragment of a second. Let me tell you the story of little people and their view of life.

Homework Problems

My cat doesn't think I should do homework.

It's a mutual agreement.

Huntington Witherwill

This artist takes photos of many types of things ranging from cars to animals,
but this album here was my favorite due to the angles and beauty captured in these photographs.
Some pictures are even photoshopped to surrealism.
Photosynthesis

Adding Text - Lesson 9

Moving An Object - Lesson 7

Removing An Object - Lesson 6

In this photo, you hated the pole behind his head, so I removed it.

Blemishes Removable - Lesson 1

In this photoshop edit, I removed my freckles and small blemishes.

Liza Hennessey Botkin

This photographer does all her photos in black and white. My favorite selection of them are her album called Moments. In this album, she catches people in almost humorous moments and saves them. With no exact theme, these pictures are rather cute.

http://www.lizabotkin.com/moments/index.html

Comments:

I commented on Bria's and Monica's blog.

Another Lovely Random Photo

This photo is of a fence, across the alley from my house. I wish I had noticed it earlier. Her backyard is a photo I had in the Framing assignment. 

The reason I am so interested in this photo is because the fence was ten feet high and covered, I mean coated in vines. I just though it was beautiful, especially the way the sunset was shining it's light on the top of it all. So here's a picture of no angle in particular. Just a pretty natural photo. 

Enjoy.

To show you what I mean by coated: 

Framing Photography

I tried my best.
WHY IS PHOTGRAPHY SO TIME CONSUMING?
That is my only complaint.
Oh, and I was cold.
But here you are.

Here are my attempts.

Come again.

Random Photo.

I took this picture of a sunset when I was finishing my Rule of Thirds assignment and wanted to share it with you guys.

So here you are.

My Progress Today

I APOLOGIZE, but my camera is dead. Today, I am buying batteries for it.
I'm dont with most of everything else, but as soon as my camera lives again, I will have framing photos.

Lance Keimig

This photographers take beautiful photos of Iceland:

http://www.thenightskye.com/portfolios/iceland-bw/

My Progress

5 Sentences For Framing

http://www.schoolofphotography.com/21-analysing-an-image-framing-an-image/

In this link, you want the photo to have good composition. Sharpness and exposure can make a photo as great as you can get it. Framing a good photo turns it into a great photo, but having a horizon in the center of the frame can lead to a misleading line. Most framed images can be saved with cropping or differed angles. Without frames, most images just look mudane.

http://digital-photography-school.com/frame-your-images

Framing an object in a photo can give it depth and layers. Also, a frame give you a feeling of location. A frame can take any form and be anywhere majority of the time. They can also be the foreground or background of an images, but majority of the time are in the foreground. Try finding a frame that matches the shape of the item you're framing.

I have commented upon..

Emily's and Bria's.

My Attempt At Rule Of Thirds.

Now, this is a very hard subject (in my opinion) to master. It's taken 3 photography and yearbook classes to finally get some kind of grasp of it. BUTT, nonetheless, it's due soon and i must upload.

I'll order these from "Not that grand." to "Grandest photo ever!".

"It's beginning to look a lot like-" THANKSGIVING. Give it a chance.

 Ew.

Make a wish a blow.

Texas, ladies and gents.

I love full moons. Especially before dark.

We have a lot of pecan trees in Texas, I noticed.

And by far, my favorite photo yet.

5 Sentences About 5 Habits

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photography-tips-five-habits-photographers-should-learn/

If you want to have a range of possible great pictures bracketing allows this to happen by taking multiple shots in different exposures. Try keeping up with how your camera is working and take plenty of care of it. "A picture tell a thousand words," is a great way to explain how your photograph could be with a simple snap. You do better with a hands-on experience, so practice more and spend less time editing. Also, practice is key if you want good pictures, even looking into other photographers might help.

This is not an assignment. I just want to post these random gifs. Enjoy.

My cat thinks I'm a chew toy. 

Meet my Pepé le Pew.

What people hear when me and my friends talk.

Me attempting to not get caught eating in class.

Look what I can do. Try it. 

(You now look dumb.)

"Oh, hey, man, sorry. I didn't see you there."

"BLAHGERUR."

"Hold on. What the heck-"

"BLAHGERURGLURG."

When someone ditches me.

The Rule of Thirds, Madam.

The rule of thirds is very basic, but also needs to be seen with your own mind. It's a way to frame an image, but not using the actually frame along the outside. The rule of thirds is dividing a photograph into nine sections, using four perpendicular lines. The crossing points of these lines are where you want your audiences' eyes to be focused on. It's where you have the main points.

Blessed People To Have My Comments.

Emily & Carla.

Almost forgot this was due today.
"What Patriotism Is."

EXTRA CREDIT - OVER HERE, MRS. WHEELER.

http://ineedaguide.blogspot.com/2012/05/charlotte-caron.html

The art in this link is almost surreal and animalistic. It mixes painting with photography, humans with animals. I enjoy art like this almost as much as I like completely surreal art. Though it in itself is not 100% photography, it is an amazing skill to combine in art. This blog is amazing as well as the artist. Charlotte Caron is a true artist.

The history of Halloween is nothing like it is today.
Now-a-days, it's candy and costumes. Ghosts and things that crawl at night. The dead, or even the scary living. Halloween is about being afraid.