2D-Design Photobook

     Hello everyone, this blog is about my end of semester project for ART112  2D-Design at Yavapai College.  My theme was senior portraits with my niece, who also happens to be my.   She is a wonderful model to work with because we collaborate on our ideas for the shoot.  The best thing about it, she has started learning and finding a passion for becoming a photographer herself using my old DSLR NIKON D40.  I hope you enjoy the following photographs.

Shape: outlines or boundaries creating a form or design. 

Visual Texture: a way to indicate something is tactile.  Smooth or rough.  An optical illusion within a photograph.

Gestalt by Continuation:  Lines and similarities that move through a composition together. 

Symmetrical Balance:  equal composition.  Where each side of the composition mirrors each other.

Figure & Ground:  Figure being up close and the main subject, while the detail behind (ground) supports the figure.

Visual Unity:  When you look at a composition and everything compliments each other. 

Focal Point:  A point in the composition that demands your attention.

Proportion:  In reference to more than one subject or object being placed in a way that makes it look smaller or bigger than it actually is.

Intellectual Unity:  Where objects in a composition are complimentary to each other although they are not the same.

Gestalt by Similarity:  When things are grouped by similar subjects/objects/colors.

Value Contrast: the difference between light and dark values. 

Emphasis by Placement:  Where the importance of an object is focused.

Emphasis by Isolation:  creating a composition to make the subject separate from the rest of the image.

Emphasis by contrast:  A way to make something stand out.  Red and Green are contrasting and complimentary colors.

Negative Space:  a portion of the composition is not filled with any focus point.

Gestalt by Proximity:  Things that are close together are related to each other than if separated far apart.

Asymmetrical Balance:  Having an equal weight within the composition but being completely different.  Both demanding to be a focal point.  

I hope you all enjoyed my interpretations of different forms of art.  Drop a line if you have any questions or comments.