Hair,+Brittany

I do the work that I do not only for an outlet, but for others. I do this because I want to inspire people. I want my work, my feelings, to relate to other people. I want them to look at my work and say "wow, I totally get what you're saying". My goal is to inspire others to express their thoughts, ideas, and feelings in anyway they can. When I’m out taking pictures, I never really know what to expect. I usually don’t have a set theme before I’m at the place where I want to shoot at; sometimes themes just come to me and I think of a way to portray that idea. When I’m outside, especially, I use anything and everything I can. For example, I sometimes use my sunglasses as a filter or surround my lens with leaves to create something like a vignette. It’s difficult to say how I come up with such ideas; they just come to me. I use my surroundings. Currently I've just been experimenting with the different kinds of ways I can manipulate a picture. This quarter was color and changing the setting. (Pictures are posted below with reasons why I made the editing decisions that I did).
 * Quarter Two**

For this picture I wanted to use unnatural colors while bringing out the natural colors. I changed the background to a woods setting because I wanted to go along with the unnatural colors and make an unnatural setting. Before I moved to my new house, my old room always had this beautiful redish/orange color and it was probably my most favorite part of the day and I wanted to try to recreate that and recreate the feeling that I felt. When people look at this I want to feel happy. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with this, but i decided on pink because the carousal reminded me of the carnival, which reminds me of cotton candy. I almost wish I had changed the background, but I enjoyed the setting and I feel like I would have lost a lot of the movement if I did. With this picture I wanted to create almost the same kind of feeling that I did with the warming colors. I used blues and purples to create a calming feeling and she looks really calm and at ease and I wanted to try to intensify that by adding those colors.

I do the work that I do not only for an outlet, but for others. I do this because I want to inspire people. I want my work, my feelings, to relate to other people. I want them to look at my work and say "wow, I totally get what you're saying". My goal is to inspire others to express their thoughts, ideas, and feelings in anyway they can. When I’m out taking pictures, I never really know what to expect. I usually don’t have a set theme before I’m at the place where I want to shoot at; sometimes themes just come to me and I think of a way to portray that idea. When I’m outside, especially, I use anything and everything I can. For example, I sometimes use my sunglasses as a filter or surround my lens with leaves to create something like a vignette. It’s difficult to say how I come up with such ideas; they just come to me. I use my surroundings. Currently I'm working on a Capstone project for school. What I want to do is learn anything possible about photo manipulation and create the madness I see for everyone else to experience. I want to roll around at least 10 of my art pieces in a life size box around the city and have them critiqued by the average person.
 * Quarter One**