Photo2Q2.8: End Q2 Best Photo

This quarter felt more like going through motions, to be honest. There were some interesting projects, but still, the images I feel that are my best are far different from the topics that we explored this quarter, or they don't necessarily relate to it. I would argue that I'm going through a "sophomore slump", or perhaps it's just senioritis, but that would be too generous, as quality production of my photos this quarter reached an all-time low. I am still passionate about photography, but it's just been difficult to find the drive to take photos after my brain gets drilled from everything that's been going on this senior year relating to college and life in general. Next semester, I look forward to changing this. I used to be incredibly productive back in Photo 1, and I hope to continue that for the second semester. No partially completed assignments (hopefully). In fact, I purchased this app called Tick Tick, to help organize literally all of my tasks in life and education, so perhaps my production in this class will increase as a result.

But I digress; these are all personal difficulties. In photography, I look forward to the studio lighting and Pow Wow. These two seem very intriguing, and I want to take advantage of my last year in this class. Instead of succumbing to senioritis, I want this semester to be all about putting the "cherry on top"; finishing strong.



Okay, not gonna lie, this best image was taken in priority over my slow shutter project. I was doing one concept for that project and I was like "man, I really want to recreate the Frank Ocean "Blonde" album cover. A mini ITSO that I never got to do. I photoshopped an overlay of the actual cover onto my replication of it (you can see the green hair merging in the middle). I like this the best amongst all the other images I've taken thus far because it has a lot of personal meaning. That album came at a time where I was quite broken, and at a time that I considered split my life from adolescence and maturity; a coming of age. I still listen to it today because of the vast array of emotions and messages it carries.



This free choice photo is of Britney Cabuhat, a close friend of mine. We were doing this spur-of-the-moment photoshoot at school while we were waiting for the Winter Concert from SO. I based this off of an image I found online a while back and asked her to do the same pose.



This second free choice image was one of my fast shutter concepts. I just found the food coloring to be incredibly neat, and it's something I've never seen in person. I still have the food coloring today and I'm quite honestly thinking of doing another photoshoot with that same food coloring just to try and see the different color combos I can get.