An Angry Casey

When describing a visual for this piece i do indeed see an angry yet curious girl sitting & leaning off of a wall with no hesitation of falling or slipping off. She seems to have a good stance & grip although on top of a high source. I also see a posting fence in the background with what looks like tumble weeds & outlines of trees. The composition for this work i find to be better than what i intended it to be. The placement of the girl & where the post from the fence stand i find to compliment each other. The subject i stayed upon while taking this shot was the focus & placement of the character's body including her locked arms, knees, and her hair. I asked the model to move her air to the opposing side of the shot to get a good look at the features on her face. I am thankful for the instruction of my guider because she allowed me to play with depth of field in this picture and although it only shows the trees out of focus it really helps with the feel of this shot. With both anger & curiosity as well as endearment being communicated through this photo, for myself & perhaps many other viewers there is a sense of confusion in the model's eyes and the whole expression of her face. This can be explained since i did not inform the model of the exact time i was taking the photo. To be my own critic, i wish i could of made more contrast with blacks and whites to have less gray shades. However i find this work of mine to be successful, fore that i do enjoy the overall feeling of this print as well as the placement shown.

Fair Lady

This photo consist of  a beautiful scarlet who is standing slightly off center & who is posed in a still manner. Also in this photo there stands a leafy tree which is shown in the opposing section when compared to the model. Once the vision falls away from both the girl & the tree the light trail beginning at the side of our beauty captures the focus and brings the eye to the far left end. While shooting this image the wanted focus was to emphasize the contrast of her skin when compared to her shirt although this being my focus, during the time of printing, the wanted focus switched to emphasizing the texture & the contrast of the leaves of the bustling tree beginning in the center & ending on the left making it an figurative photo rather than an abstract one. This photo possess many gray mixtures as well as some solid tones such as black shown from her shirt & whites from her skin. The line placement of the trail leading to the up forth portion of this photo drastically changes the composition of both the girl & the tree fore it helps lead the eye even though Casey holds the focus when the first look is made. In the effort of fully creating this photo to its entirety i planned on communicating  a certain emotion, anger. I asked the model not to smile & to fill her eyes with disapproval. Her surroundings relatively have nothing to do with the wanted emotion but the sense of winded air brings somewhat of an intensity to the communicated feeling. I find no difficulties in judging this piece fore this photo is my own & goes beyond what expectations I had for it.  I was very pleased with the contrast of shades presented in this photo. As for the placement of the girl, I now see that perhaps a sense of movement would of helped to make the picture more pleasurable to gaze at. & for its entirety the photo of the fair lady was successful due to the contrast and the overall sense of emotions brought through.