For this set I chose to photograph this branch because it was big and strong, even though it was dead. It reminded me of something once strong and powerful and was white as bone. It took pictures from these angles because I wanted to capture the full mess of roots and all the twists and turns of the smaller roots. This tree was partially over the nearby lake and to take the picture I had to balance on the trunk and be careful as to not fall into the frigid ice. I liked how the white contrasted with the black ice underneath it. Taking these photos made me calm.
Dead
Muted
When I took these images I had to stand in two very different locations to capture the whole lake. For the first I stood by the shore of the lake. For the second image I had to climb a hill to achieve the angle I wanted. I like these images because there is white snow, trees, and sky to contrast with the black ice and trees. I was fascinated by the submerged trees so these pictures were mainly focused on making them a focal point.
Up close
Fuzzy
These images were taken in a different area than the first two sets. There was a rocky and icy shore next to this river. I am fascinated by photos of water caught mid-movement and I was glad that I got a picture like that. At one point my dad yelled at me for getting too close to the water, but I stayed put to get these pictures. I took the pictures facing away from the mountains because I did not want to distract from the river.
Pop
Green
Since I was in 7th grade I have loved to take close up pictures of nature. I thought of them as background images, like the photos preloaded on iPhones. I have had a trend with my sets of photos so far of almost falling into freeing water and I was happy to continue the trend with this set too. I loved how most of the image background is blue, gray, and black, but it has sea foam green and orange on top of those color and they pop. I also tried to capture a lot of depth in my with the rocks, more rocks in the background, then the river behind it.
Sunrise
Focus
On the first day we were in Montana my dad woke me up at 7 and told me to look outside. That is when I took the first picture, I was half asleep and looking at one of the most beautiful sunrises I’ve ever seen. The second photo I took on the last day out of the same window. The photo was slightly left of the first one and was way easier to capture without much color or light to worry about. I like these pictures because of the contrast in them. In the first one it is a contrast between the sunrise colors and the trees. In the second one t is a contrast between the black trees and white snow.