Title: Gloomy Sunset
Size: 9 x 16 Medium: Cloudscape Photography Completion: August 2021 Exhibition Text For my 2nd project, I chose photography. The photo, Gloomy Sunset was captured in the parking lot off of 27th and Loomis. The pictures shows a mixture of black and purple clouds together with a sunset in the background and a mix of yellow, purple and blue in above the clouds in the sky which was inspired by Richard Wong. The focus is the sunset between the clouds. |
Richard Wong
The inspiration I chose for my project is Richard Wong, a famous photography, best known for the Lonesome Cypress Tree. Richard was born and raise in Southern California. Growing up, Richard was always admired by landscape photography but didn't take interest in photography but what got him inspired by Galan Rowell which driven him to pursue photography as a lifestyle. The Lonesome Cypress Tree is a famous photography of Wong's work that was captured in Alameda, California. The pictures shows a dark tree at sunset with a colorful sky of pink clouds, blue skies, and orange sunset. and the background shows a mountain out in the distance, rocks by the tree, and dry ground landscape. |
The Process
I was on my way home, the sky was so beautiful at sunset but what caught my eye was this cloud. What made it so beautiful was when I was looking at the sky the clouds was dark gloomy and probably was raining in this one area but when looking up, you can see the sunset hiding behind the clouds. With the dark clouds in the distance and still be able seeing the sunset in the sky is what made such a perfect photo to capture so it can connect to my inspiration so I used different types of techniques when filtering my photographs when capturing different shapes and forms of the clouds in sky. After I took the photo, I added a few adjustments to the photo, I adjusted the sky more for that the sunset could be more noticeable, after that the last thing I did was adjust the tint for it to have a beautiful color to it. There wasn't much adjustment to it the brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation and other things to it. After I finished the picture for my final piece, I took more pictures around the neighborhood using different technique like what Wong did with his photography and I did the same by adjusted those photos with changes of saturation, shadows, tint, sky, contrast and more.
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Reflection
The best part about this piece is that big and how even though its dark you can see the pink and purple colors on that clouds. Although the picture I took wasn't planned, I am amazed of how it turned out. Like any project I experience positive and negative side. What was challenging about the project was trying to have the camera focus towards the clouds because if it doesn't focus, the photo would come out blurry and hard to see. What I like about my piece is the purple clouds on the top that's mix with the dark blue sky. The mix colors in the sky is what what I admire and what connects to my inspiration and his work. That week I did wanted to take photos around the city, but because it was so gloomy, cloudy, and a lot rain that week, it was difficult to find a nice day at least to take pictures for the project. I do regret that I did show the dark clouds showing in the distance as well. I wanted that, and the sunset all to be in that one picture but the camera on my phone couldn't capture both of it but overall I am still impress and proud of my work with paying close attention to details and how the editing of the pictures turned out well but I do hope to improve more on my photography skills, have more practices on different types of techniques and learn from different photographers for inspiration. |
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Compare & Contrast
Similarities
I notice the similarities about mine and Wong's picture is that even though the pictures's focus is the tree, its the sunset in the sky that makes his picture so beautiful just like mine, the focus on my picture is the clouds but the sunset in that makes it so beautiful. Differences I notice what is different about Wong and my picture is that his work capture not only the sunset but land such as trees, grass, sidewalk, a bench, and an ocean in the background while mine only captures the sunset in the sky. |
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ACT Response
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause- effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork? Richard Wong captured the beauty of nature for that to show the good and beauty of nature and hopefully to make the environment a cleaner place for different species and population. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration? Richard Wong's overall approach of his work was to capture the beauty of nature with his colorful skills in landscape photography. What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research? The central idea or theme of Wong's work was to explore places and captured beautiful and colorful nature. What kind of (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research? As I did more research about Richard Wong, I learned that he was inspired by Galan Rowell and I was also inspired by Rowell's photography as well. |