Check Out Old Photos

Here is a link to look at some of my favorite photos I have taken since my freshman year of high school. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarose12/sets/72157625931793063/

The picture that inspired it all

I took a photography class my freshman year of high school, this is one of my favorite pieces. I loved playing with contrast and I loved eyes. So I put black make up on my left eye with white mascara and then heavy black mascara on my right eye. The line down the middle of my face is not the best but the idea came through. I based my freshman collection off of this piece. I named the photo Looking Through My Eyes. I have named my collection of pieces the same because I though it was appropriate due to the fact that I am capturing photos from my prospective... through my eyes.

The Story of My Life

I'm in my final semester of high school and ready to explore. Mostly I am an over achiever, always taking the hardest classes, filling my plate up to the top with activities and clubs. The last four years have been hard, I have pushed myself to prove to everyone that I can do anything. I took all honors classes, joined endless amounts of clubs, played three sports a year and in the summer I worked sixty-seventy hour weeks. I lost myself in the endless amount of doing. So when I started applying to colleges and they asked me “What are your passions?” I froze. I thought for hours, what did I love? I had to look back to when I was a child. I realized I loved to capture culture through my lens. It stated when I was eight. My family and I traveled to Seattle Washington for a wedding. I bought six disposable cameras and used them all in the first several days. I would spend hours bending down to get the perfect angle to capture the bug or the wind blown trees. Ever since then I always had a camera, snapping photos here and there. In the seventh grade I traveled to Mexico. Capturing the street venders and the Mayan ruins were fascinating. I wanted to learn about the natives and the history behind the ruins. While last year I was privileged to travel to Ecuador, there I was allowed to take photos of a native Achuar settlement, a culture mostly untouched by the outside world. All these experience made me realize I would love to travel and be able to capture a life that is unknown to me. To answer the colleges questions what lights my fire? Discovering culture and the diversity all around our world through my lens. So about me, I’m an overachiever trying to capture the simplicity of the world around me.

Vintage Black and White

 Photography has been a small hobby of mine, taking snap shots of trees and sunsets. People were always hard for me to capture. Everything has to be right, the angles,  textures and the shape, all have to be working with the background and the model. I wanted to capture elegance and the simplicity. So I gathered one of my vintage dresses, styled my friends hair and started snapping photos with my Nikon. As you can see capturing a face is still a little intimidating to me, the expression has to be just right. And when your working with your friend who is laughing and is embarrassed of the whole situation, I decided focusing on the body and the background would be ideal. + It was a very cold day !
All in all we had fun with this photo shot and there were a lot of photos that were just terrible, but it was entertaining and interesting to realize the shot also really depends on the model and the light.