Bansky Wall Art

I combined these two famous wall stencils by Banksy. They are on the wall in the Palestinian West Bank that separates Israel from Palestine for the sake of "protection" when in reality it is a wall 8 meters high that costs over 2 million dollars to build that disconnects innocent Palestinians from their own land. Israel does this to them and no one is aware of it. The wall is twice as high as the berlin wall and MUST come down.

Long Exposure at Night

This was a 30 second exposure at night of the night sky without a tripod (the camera was resting on a car pointed up toward the sky). In those 30 seconds, I was about to capture the movement of the clouds, stars and the shift of the moon. It was a windy night so the clouds moved quite fast. I really admire this image, it was the first time I attempted a night shot with a long exposure without a tripod and I think it was very successful.

Project Two: Idiom "A Chip On Your Shoulder"

This is the re-worked image after crit on thursday. I made the chip bigger and more rounded on the shoulder. It resembles more of the tattoo suggestion that Erin mentioned and I incorporated my original idea of the chip being a part of the shoulder but on a smaller scale than what I had in mind. I am not completely satisfied with this piece, I feel like it needs more work before I can say it is complete but I can't quite figure out what it needs just yet. For my piece of mind and satisfaction, it is a work in progress.

Best of the Week

This is a snapshot I took of my little brother at the boardwalk. I wanted to just get a portrait of him but he had to throw in his own little twist to it. I like how you can only see one of his eyes and he is directly confronting the viewer with a glare. I worked the image through camera raw to make it less blown out in the highlights and I adjusted the curves and levels in photoshop. I also burned the highlight areas in the wall behind him to keep the focus on his face rather than the background.

Best of the Week

I took this at Nakatos Japanese Restaurant. The chef guy was putting on a show for us and light an tower of onions on fire. I took the shot with my Nikon D80 on the auto setting with the flash on. I was surprised with the turn out of the image and how black the background was in relation to the orange flame. I really love this image, its all natural with no photoshop retouching at all which really makes me love it more.

Final Piece

Final Piece - I'm not very satisfied with all of the color but I did achieve the romanticized blue horse that was my original plan. I like the print better on screen rather than actually printed. I feel like the colors are projected better on the screen and printing makes the whole image flat.

Work In Progress

It is progressively getting better.