Vintage/Retro Editing

Edited Work

    The goal of this assignment was to crop in a picture to combine with your own. Since my photographer was Minor White, I found it difficult to find some of his work that would fit nicely with mines, as his photos were mainly of textures and landscapes only. The hardest part throughout this whole assignment was cropping the image in so that it would look real and un-photoshopped. It took some tedious time, as I had to blur the edges to make they look like they belonged, and to erase all extra space that the cropped picture had. In the end, I finished editing a couple of pictures and put in some of my own work into the slide show. 

Homage: Minor White

HOMAGE: a public show of respect or honour towards someone or something.

       I will be paying homage to this photographer, Minor White. Being inspired by Minor Whites photographs dealing with textures and such, I have taken photos dealing with texture myself. I've gone around Highland and taken pictures of texture whenever I see it visible. Using some of Minor White's techniques, I apply some of them into my photography, in hopes of paying homage to Minor White. 

In the last couple of weeks I've been going around Highland Park and at my house and have been attempting to take photos using Minor White's many techniques with texture and such. Down below are some of my photography that I am using to pay homage to White.

  

In the first and second photo, I took pictures of different types of textures. In the first photo, I took a picture of a wall and shelf outside of Highland Park. I found the wall to have good texture, along with it's different tones of colors. The shelf simply adds to the texture. In the second photo, the leaves on the ground give off good texture. The leaves also show different tones in colors as well. 

In my third photography in paying homage to Minor White, I used his technique of mirror imaging. Some of White's photographs were centered on the idea of mirror images. Therefore I decided to take some pictures of images in windows. In my third photo it shows the reflection of some girls at Highland Park Senior High School's courtyard on one side, and on the other, if you look closely enough it shows the inside of the room the window belongs to. You can see the chairs and the floor as well as a table.

 In my Fourth photo, I chose to take a picture of a batch of pumpkins. I thought it showed great textures and also showed the range of sizes and colors as well. You can tell that the pumpkins have different textures and are not all the same. My Fifth and last photo is a picture of a hose. I thought this picture greatly showed the display of the texture that the hose creates when it is arranged like this and goes in different directions.