My Plan
For this project, I want to take a picture of a dancer who is jumping or leaping to show their height in the sky. I want to have a lot of oranges and yellows in the picture, so I might take it outside.
Photo Shoot
I took photos outside my friend's house because the sun was setting and all the leaves were bright orange and yellow. I asked my friends to leap in the middle of the street, and the photos turned out really well. I got different leaps in, along with one of my friends in a tree to show height. I really liked incorporating the trees into the photos because it gave that extra pop of color.
My Edits
For all of these photos, I made the oranges and yellows more bright, which helps pop the colors. I also made the blues and purples in the photo pop more so that they would contrast with the warm colors. I made the edges a little darker to show depth and to help focus in one the main object, the girl.
My Printed Photo
For this project, I decided to print out the picture with the girl leaping in the street. I chose this picture because I got the sunlight in just the right area and the girl is in a perfect leap. In this photo, there are trees in the background, which are all orange and yellow since it's fall. The sun was setting, and so it came in from the left side of the picture. There were many leaves when I took the picture on the street which added some nice pops of color. The girl is almost silhouetted from the sunlight which is very pretty and simple. The street's color, which is a more bluish tone, shows contrast because of the complementary orange sunlight and leaves. It really enhances all the colors in the photo and makes them pop. Her shape in the air helps identify movement in the photo. Lines also help show the emphasis of the picture which is the girl because her lines are completely different from the rest of the picture. When I see this picture, I think of joy and fall. The girl is having a good time and looks like she's just living life, and all the colors in the back help emphasize that its fall time. I also think of height and how she's just jumping and having fun and not caring about the worlds' issues but focusing in on the good ones. I really like this photo because for one I got the perfect shot with the sunlight, but also the colors contrasting looks really nice. I'm really happy I got to do something like this because I feel like I don't get to take enough dance photography and this gives me the opportunity to do so.