Xee Vue/Artisit Statement

“All about me”
This quote or statement came into my mind while I was putting all my photos into groups. Like the beginning of this class, I’m been doing a lot of project regarding many different task in each one of them. For each one of them I’ll use Adobe Photoshop and many different tools in there. In Adobe Photoshop, the tool that I would use the most often is Smudge, Burn, Dodge, Blur, and the Desaturated and Saturated Tools.
So for this time being, I’m done with the semester of having Advanced Photography. I really like this class, and I was hoping to improve more in the future with my photography skills and my Photoshop skill. I could say that I’m at a regular skill of using the regular tools. Before, I had taken Advanced photography, my skill was poorly. Therefore, I really hope that I had taken something out of this class with me and bring it forward to use in the future.
Throughout the entire project that I had done so far during this semester, the project that I enjoy the most is the “Retro” project. In this Retro project, we had to model something from the past. So basically, it’s like I have to use an image from the old centuries and use my own photo to blend in with it. I like this project the most because, I really have fun and I really enjoy myself on this project. The tool that I use the most often in this project from Adobe Photoshop is the Smudge tool. I love using the smudge tool the most because it makes my photo blend in with the other images. Therefore, I had a lot of fun with this project.
Throughout all of my photos in all of my project, I still do pay homage to Paul Strand. I still respect his way of taking his photo. I now noticed that my images are more like his. By saying this, I mean that now I know that I’m more into the black and white photo better than the photo with colors. I know now that my photo would look best if it was in black and white. I also noticed now that besides taking photo of landscape and settings, I also love to take photo of people so basically like a portrait of someone.
Overall, I really find it interesting how I still really admire Paul Stan d image and I always look up to his image.
"All about me"
This statement, still describe me and my photo best. The reason to it is because each of the photos is a part or pieces of me and my life therefore it’s really important to me.

Winter Photo:

Winter Photos:

Winter Photo:

In this Project, I have to take some Winter photo and then somehow enter it into the contest at 360's photo contest.>.<
First photo:



This is the first photo that I took. It wasn't that much fun but I decide to take it in the mood of black and white. As it was stated by Mrs. Canelake, We couldn't edit these photo so I decide to use the Flash button and the Black and White mood very often. Hopefully, this photo is okay>.<

"Slideshow of Letter Project....."

Letter Project 2

Second photo of my letter Project...It's not too good but at least I try... Anyways, I added the dots on the letter "E" and "A" to make it stand out more! >.<

Letter/Font Project....

First photo of my letter project....All I did in this photo is that I used the font called " Letter Gothic Std" I also added the side marks. I included this to make the letter seems more gothic and more scary. Anyways, this is just the first letter of my project....hope the next one would be better!!!

TYPOGRAPHY!!!

Got a new project today in my 1st hour class and it's call "TYPOGRAPHY"! In this project, I'm suppose to create a group of designs based on letters, fonts and word designs. First I would pick up a word and somehow design it with different fonts that would interpret the word. I could pick a images to go along with it. This is my project for now>.< GOTTA GO!!!

Slideshow of Project>.<

ADVERTISING

Another photo for this project...not that good but I'm still working on my skills....I think that this photo is from the 1990's something....forgot about the date already...>.<
In here, I used the same tool as before...

Hmmmmm........

Okay, another photo for this project....Didn't work out the way I wanted it to but yeah...In this photo, I used every tool that was needed... And those tools are the smudge, blur, cut and paste, and images size, clone, and etc... It really takes time to just fix one picture....I'm currently working on another one....so just wait forward to see the next one>.<

SAY CHEESE!!!!!

This photo seems not quite right, I think it's because I didn't quite blend in the hair and the face...I'll work more on that....Overall, I really like this photo because, the background and her posing makes you think that she's going to attend something formal. >.<

Being Rich....

Another picture for the project...When I work on this photo, it gaves me the feeling of being super RICH. The reason I say this is because, by looking at her outfit and the jelwery that she had on, you can tell that she's rich. Annyways, I think this photo is not bad...Let's hope I will make a better one next time...>.<

Fourth Images

Hahaha..found a wedding dress...lolx I think I do look pretty nice in a wedding dress. >.< Right?

Third Images!!!>.<

This is the third photo that I did for this project...I really like this photo a lot because to me, it seems like she's really in the picture. BTW, this photo was during the 1990's and I used my younger sisters face>.< Hopefully she doesn't get mad....lolx

Second Images....

Second Images of this project!!!! Well, I didn't use anyone that I know of...but instead I Photoshop the anime face to one of my favorite taiwanese Actress. I hope it's alright with the project...anyways, this is my second images.
And umm...In this images, I uses the colon tools, the cut, paste, the dodge, and burn tools. So basically, I could say that I use almost all of the required tool.
To me, I personally think that I like this photo better than the first one. The reason is because, their face blind in better and the quality of this images looks better! Therefore, I really like this photo!!!>.<

Back to the past creating a retro/vintage look/ yearbook look

This is a new project given to me in class on the 16th of November.
So basically, "Back to the past creating a retro/vintage look/ yearbook look " means to modeled something from the past.
In this project, it's require to pick an old photo and photograph it with the close-up setting on the camera. The setting on the camera is the tulip or the flower symbol. When taking the photo be sure to hold the camera so that the images is not distorted. Also, you should be making sure that the borders are parallel with each other.
Again, Use photoshop editing software to get the retro look. And so on...
On this project I'll be using Layers, copy &Paste, blur tool, adjust contrast, selected wand, cut, Eraser tool, letter tool, transparency and many more other tools on Photoshop.

Back to the past creating a retro/vintage look/ yearbook look.

Xee Vue/Artist Statement

“Plain and Simple”

A quote that simply I made up to describe my photo that I had taken so far. Basically, I’ve been focusing on many different projects but all of them I did edited it in Adobe Photoshop. In Adobe Photoshop, the tool that I would use the most often is Smudge, Burn, Dodge, Blur, and the desaturated and saturated Tools. Basically, I would just say that I used all of the regular tools.

So as for right now, I’m focusing on Street Photography. In Street Photography, I edited it in Adobe Photoshop, like the others project, but instead of using only just those tools in there. I used Artistic Filter, Paint Buckets, and the Gradient tools. I chose to use these tools in the Adobe Photoshop because according to my vision or my thinking, I thought that probably this would make my photo stand out more. Within these three tools, I would use the Artistic Filter more often. I guess I just like how it makes my Photo turn out into a totally different photo. For example, I would use the Colored-Pencil, Outlet, Charcoal, and Poster Edges. Out of all the Artistic Filter, I liked using the Poster Edges because it makes my photo shows the black outline of it and I liked how it makes the contrast level higher than usually. I could say that I liked using high contrast. Therefore, I would use the Poster Edges more often on my Street Photography.

In my Street Photography, I pay homage to Paul Strand, the photographer that I chose to pay homage to by not just taking photo of people wondering around the street. But also, I had taken photo of building or Cars, or anything on the street that would create some kind of pattern. Like in Paul Strand’s Photography, he would often take some photos of some object that is plain and simple and makes it into unique pattern. Therefore, I believe that in order to pay homage to him, I would too, takes photo of not just people wondering around streets but instead have some sort of pattern. The differences between our photos are that, in my photo, I had more of a High contrast while he had more of a Low contrast. The reason probably is, because of the difference or the uniqueness of the contrast that attracted us to different things. Also, the difference between my photo and his is on how we took our photo. The reason I stated this is because in each of the photo that I seen of his work were either portraits of people or pattern of object. In my work, it’s full buildings and landscape. But in some ways, we both had some sort of pattern together. This is how I pay homage to Paul Strand.

“Plain and Simple”

I still think that it’s still the quote that describes my photo, because once you look at it, you might be thinking. “ Why did she take this?” or “What’s so unique about this?” or even “ What is her message of this photo?” But if you look deep into it, you’ll see something that others might not see. Therefore, I believe I would still have the same quote “ Plain and Simple”

Final Slideshow=]

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This is the Slideshow, I got so far...Hope it's right according to the Final Project>.<