Maggie-Taylor Inspiration

Rejection

This is a piece I created for our emotion assignment. It is my interpretation of the emotion associated with rejection. It is a combination of images from stock exchange, as well as text, which is an excerpt from a poem in The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Documentation

The following three images were taken and edited for the documentation assignment. I took the day and drove around Bluff Park, visiting many of the places and spots that intrigued me as a child. These three shots are not necessarily an accurate representation of my childhood but they were the most artistic of my shots. Although I don't feel that any of the three assignments I fulfilled for this quarter were, by any means, my best work. But they are here for your critique.

Horses

The following three photographs were taken for the animal assignment. The animals were to be, ideally, nondomestic but this was about as nondomestic as I could get. Horses are my favorite animal and these pictures were taken at a barn where I used to ride. I think horses are beautiful and make good subjects because of contrast between their strong muscle tone and bone structure, and the natural grace and elegance of their bodies and movements.

Feet-No-Head

The following three pictures were taken for the feet-no-head assignment. I did various different adjustments to each image. All three shots were taken in Chicago and capture, I feel, a sense of the spirit and diversity of the city.

Wink

I took this picture in the studio for our human abstract assignment. I converted the image to black and white, messed with the gamma correction and exposure, curves, and levels, and ran a smart sharpen filter. I also used a quick mask to get rid of some distracting pixels around the eyebrow.