Panorama

I pass by the site of this construction every week and I never really notice it. To me, it was just there, it was something I passed by. I never really paid attention to it until I really got up close to it. I was looking for a cool panorama to shoot and I passed by the crane and the color and the height really got my attention. The one by it, which was black actually didn't catch my eye because it blended in and was normal. I loved it so I shot it and I was hoping it would turn out well, turns out it's one of my best panos. I love how the bottom of it is disproportionate because it adds to the photo, it's one little weird thing that you just have to notice. I would always go to the same old places to shoot, the park, my house, other people's houses, etc. and I really wanted to find new places, places that were hidden to me before. I wanted to find places that I had never shot before and I succeeded. I've realized through this that sometimes, the coolest photos are never in the places you expect them to be. They're in the most normal places boring places, but the photos turn out awesome because it's not something everyone shoots. People would usually be like, what is cool about this place? It's just a crane and there's nothing that cool about it, but there is. This photo is one of those. Before I found this crane, I was feeling frustrated that I couldn't find something good enough to shoot and when I saw this, the frustration didn't go away that fast, but there was a happiness in me. I think the crane shows my emotions from then, it's a red and it's successful and a great photo but the hard metal texture of the crane and its strength shows the little bit of frustration left in me at the time. I think the reason it's good is mainly because I was shooting how I felt and it somehow just came to me naturally rather than me trying to search everywhere for something that didn't fit.

Final Project

This is more of my final project, apparently the last post wasn't the last of it. The first one is of a business building and there was a walkway between that building and another and the white in the photo is that walkway. I thought it would look so cool if I intersected the building and the walkway and the contrast of the colors is so great that it makes it the focus. I love the simplicity of the 3 colors and it's unique but it's so simple. The second one is of, I think, a restaurant, but I don't really remember what it is because I can't really tell what it is. I love how it's abstract even though you know it's a part of a building, you can't tell what part it is. I love how the yellow stands out against the blue and the purple. The shape and intersection of lines is also really interesting. The third one is of Bajio's. The side of the restaurant had these cool lines so I really wanted to take it. I love the shadows on one side and how it's light on the other side. The contrast is cool and I also love the sharp corners, the shape of it is awesome. It's simple, yet different.

Final Project

These are my last photos from my final project. The first one is of the movie theater near my house and I loved the rectangular shape of the building with the rounded edge of the lower roof. It was a big contrast but it was totally cool. The color is similar too but it's still different enough to show the contrasts between shape. The second one is of the same movie theatre and I loved the layers of the signs and the lines and color of it. It's so unique and I love the layers how it creating different shapes and designs. I've wanted to shoot this sign for a year and I finally did it. Haha. I love the contrast between the red letters and the yellow back. The third one is of a business place and I loved the zigzag pattern of the building on top because usually buildings aren't zigzag, they're flat or rectangular. It's a simple shape but it's so unique, I love it. I love how the zigzags aren't all the same too, like when one of the places it caving in the layer below it is jagging out, so it makes it not too symmetrical. The fourth one is of another business building. There was a straight line going up and so I just stood close to the base of the building and looked up to take it. My first shot of it was too close and you couldn't see any details so I backed up a little and it was a lot better. I really like the symmetry and the intersecting lines. Sometimes symmetry is boring, but because of the cool lines and different colors, it's interesting. I like the gold on either side and it doesn't coincide with the other colors or take away the attention, it adds to the building.

Final Project

These are two more of my photos from my final project. The first one is from a part of the city hall of Salt Lake City and I originally had it not zoomed in as much but Mr. Slade told me to crop it and it looks way better. The detail is seen better and the uniqueness is seen better without all the stuff around it. I love the simplicity and color of it. It's just two colors and not too many colors. The one on the right is of the capital building and I love the angles and the shapes it takes, how it slants and then suddenly there's a dome. I also like the style of the architecture. I love how ancient it looks even though it's not. I love the shape and style!

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Final Project

These are some of the photos from my final project. I wanted to show a different view of buildings and architecture. I wanted to show the part of the building that was unique and different. The first one is of the Salt Lake Library with another metal structure by it. I thought it was really cool how the slanted edge of the library differs with the roundish shape of the structure by it, how the structure dips down. I love the shape of it. It's a simple combination but it's so much. The second one is of the library also but it's another view of it. I saw that little window sticking out and usually windows aren't that shape so I thought it was simple and unique. I didn't want the photo to be all that color so I added some sky into it to make the shape interesting. I like how the side of it slants down instead of being straight. The window isn't symmetrical and I really like that because it's not perfect but it's unique. The third one is of the Salt Lake City city hall and it's the bottom side of one of the sides. I love how the it's round closer to me and how the building slants out in the back. I love the differing shapes. I also really like the texture of the rock and how cool it can be when you sharpen it up. If it was just plain it wouldn't have been as cool and unique. I like the reflection in the window because it would have made the picture more plain without it. The green at the bottom adds to the photo also because it creates a contrast between the green and the yellowy color of the stone.

This is a photo I found on google images and I think it's really cool but I don't know who took it. I love the feel of it that it goes on forever because you can't see the end of it and it gets thinner and thinner. I love the lines on the side and top and bottom because it makes the photo more unique and less plain. People shoot stuff like this all the time but I think it's very unique because of the lines and the light is beautiful. I love how the light comes down and is very natural and subtle but it totally adds to the photo.