Amber Hartin - Novelty

It's a picture of a polaroid of a polaroid camera.

The polaroid itself is the novelty. I will be handing in the polaroid itself, not a print of this, I think.

Amber Hartin - Theme 1 - Fast Food - Update

So here is my updated version of fast food. Basically just with more images to better emphasize the idea.

Amber Hartin - Theme 4 - Cosmos

I will write something later.

Alright folks. So I did these using some Polaroids. I pretty much just took a photograph of whatever and manipulated them in various ways. Mostly I started to burn them before the picture was given time to expose except on a couple. I also cracked a couple of them open because the burning makes the plastic bubble up. Basically I fooled around in photoshop with the scanned polaroids and came out with these nifty little results. I also had previously taken a picture of the sky at night which I overlayed on top of the first one (on the left). I will probably fool around with the third one a bit to make it more cohesive with the other two (and perhaps a couple others I've been working on). I tried just the two to the left on their own and didn't like it as much. 

I don't think I really need to explain how they're related to cosmos, since they look like...the cosmos. 

I edited the last image a bit and think it works better with the others now. 

There's the diptych of just the left two. I'm pretty set on the 3 but what do you guys think?

Amber Hartin - High School

Decided to go with a simple still life consisting of the everyday items used/worn/carried around in high school, or at least at mine anyways. So there it is. I've tried a couple different crops which I will post later, don't know that I'll keep this as a final image but it's all I could muster up for now.

Amber Hartin - Family

So I went through a few ideas for this assignment and ultimately decided to use some old slides my grandmother had given me. The two above are pictures of my aunt and dad and essentially I'm thinking when I go home next week I'm going to photograph them up to date. I would like to do this with all my family members but we'll see if time warrants such a task. Anywho, these slides were too gorgeous not to use so I scanned them and edited a bit. I'm sell working with the background colour and the like. Let me know what you guys think/suggestions please (:

Amber Hartin - Fast Food

Basically I'm just trying to show the dual nature of fast food, both appealing and repulsive. I felt the best way to do this was to give a generally unbiased image of them but isolating them from any real context.  I'm not really finished with the idea yet. My intention is to maybe include more items but I'm not sure yet. What do ya'll think? I do realize I need to tone down some of the highlights.