My final project, Watering Hole, is a representation of a hobby, that I picked up like millions of other people had done to occupy themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Idle and growing tired of staying inside, I decided that I would learn what kinds of birds were native to the Stony Brook area, and photograph them coming to my yard. Month after month of surveillance, my camera, and the help…
“The stream is shrunk–” from How Fear Came, The Second Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, 1895 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet who wrote the classic children’s book, The Jungle Book. This poem precedes the first chapter of The Second Jungle Book, How Fear Came. In this poem Kipling describes the unspoken “water truce” between all of the animals in the jungle, predator and prey, during times of…
Media has improved our lives through a more easily transmissible means of sharing information. Compared to when people had to figure out things by trial and error, or use encyclopedias with small pictures and static pages of text, the internet provides informative photos and videos that are for the purpose of tutorial and instruction. We are now able to easily learn heuristics and skills from other people through media, directly…
Watering Hole Project Description My final project is inspired by the aestheticism of wildlife, or more specifically, bird photography. I have decided to use photographs that I have compiled since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in mid-summer 2020 up to 2022–of birds that have visited the bird bath and feeders in the front yard of the house I was living in at the time. I had only moved…
Sand St. Beach, Stony Brook My destination for this project was the Sand Street Beach, a small, pebbly beach adjacent to the Stony Brook Yacht Club and Village Center. Before recently moving, I would walk from my house to this beach often to take in the scenery and relax. The landscape of the beach fluctuates with the tides and seasons, revealing sand bars and marshland at low tides, and colonies…
Message: For the message aspect of this project, I thought it would be a challenge represent an idea not through literal messaging such as the usage of words, but by the manipulation of light and the posing of a particular object. My object of choice was a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary that my mother found and took home from somebody’s trash several decades ago. It’s been in my…
Portrait: I took this photo of myself leaning over the railing on the dock of the Sand Street Beach in Stony Brook. When editing this photograph, I corrected the distortion that resulted from me not being able to take a photograph parallel to the surface of the water, and I cropped the photograph to be slightly smaller. I also adjusted the color of the water to be more green as…
For my edited image, I decided to create a composite image of my three instruments: an acoustic guitar, a ukulele, and a kalimba. It wasn’t readily clear to me how I wanted to combine these three objects together into one photo, so I first experimented with double exposure so that the instruments would bleed into one another. This resulted in a muddled image, which lead me to return the instruments…
I took a photograph of several wooden barrels that are placed around the Port Jeff Brewing Company, because I thought that the positioning of the barrels in front of the company’s brick exterior would make a for a rustic-looking, monochromatic composition. The processing of the image involved several aspects of editing: First the exposure was raised slightly to brighten the entirety of the image, and then the contrast was increased…
1-3. Exposure Bracketing 4-5. Highest and Lowest ISO 6-8. White Balance 9. Stopping (freezing) of rapid motion (fast shutter speed) 10. Blurring of rapid motion (slow shutter speed) 11. Shallow depth of field (wide aperture) 12. Deep depth of field (narrow aperture) 13-15. Angle/POV: standard; additional
