My Portfolio

Alphabet Photography

"Cassidy"                                                      C. Knudsen

                      

Diptych



"Snowball Fight"                           Cassidy K.

I took a picture of my cousin throwing a snowball and a picture of him getting hit by one. Then I put them next to each other so that it looks like he is throwing a snowball at himself.

 

 

 

I wanted to capture the concept of hunting from the deer's point of view along with the hunter's. I took a picture of the deer's eye and put a picture of a hunter aiming a gun at it. Then I took a picture of my dad's eye because he is a hunter and I placed I picture of a deer in it.

Business Card

1. The focal point of this is supposed to be the film strip with pictures I have taken.

2. This describes what type of photographer I am.

3. This is supposed to be a formal business card.

 

 

This is the business card that inspired me. Being able to see pictures the photographer has taken would make me more willing to use them as my photographer if I could see how their work is.

First Snow

Watermark

Color Grid Photo Display Effect

Stop Motion: The Serial Scrambler

False Advertising:Photo Walk

Advertisements are not always what they appear to be. They can be very misleading. The sole purpose is to get customers to purchase whatever is being advertised, thus Photoshop is used to make the food look much more edible and appetizing to the customers to lure them in.

The Lion King (Movie Maker)

Creating Gold Foil Text in Photoshop

I chose to type Christmas and fill it with a picture of Christmas lights.

Surrealistic Photomontage

I originally wanted to incorporate all of the seasons in some way, but my project came out better than I thought it would. I chose to use a portrait I had taken of my little cousin holding a leaf up to his face. I decided to incorporate earth and its natural elements such as water and fire. I also wanted to include nature which is why I have butterflies scattered throughout along with the vines.

Idea for Surrealism Project

I'm not exactly sure what I want to do yet. I was thinking about using a portrait of my cousin and somehow creating something that incorporates different seasons. I plan on using the pixels explosion effect. Right now I'm just messing around to see what I can come up with.

Surrealism

Vladimir Kush is a Russian surrealist painter and sculptor. When he was seven years old he began to attend art school. At age seventeen Kush went to the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School. He painted propagandistic posters for the military. When he came back home he painted portraits on Arbat Street to support his family. Kush began to take part in exhibitions organized by the union of artists. At one show in Germany in 1990, almost all of his displayed paintings sold. He bought a ticket to go to Hawaii using money he had earned by drawing portraits on the Santa Monica Pier. A dealer from France organized an exhibition in Hong Kong of his work. In 2001 he opened his first gallery called Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii. As of now he has four gallery locations in the USA and plans to open more throughout the world.



Jerry Uelsmann was an American photographer born in Detroit on June 11, 1934. He received a B.F.A degree at Rochester institute of Technology and his M.S and M.F.A at Indiana University. In 1960 Uelsmann started to teach photography at the University of Florida. His work has been exhibited in over one hundred shows in the United States. Many of his photographs are in permanent collections at museums throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, and so on.

Artist's Name: Vladimir Kush
Title: Behind the Trees
Date: Unknown
Description: A deer is off in the distance with the hunter down below searching for him. There are trees and a beautiful light shining through.

Analysis: This piece is fairly symmetrical vertically with all of the trees, except for the sky and deer. It is asymmetrical horizontally.

Interpretation: I think this painting illustrates the whole "hunter and prey" theme. The hunter is so focused on finding and killing the deer. His future trophy is all that is on his mind. This manipulates the way he perceives things around him including how beautiful the world is surrounding him.

Judgment: Overall, I think Kush created a great piece. It has a deep and meaningful theme to it. I love the fact that the four darker trees in the front almost looks like the deer's legs.

 

Artist's Name: Jerry Uelsmann
Title: Mechanical Man 2
Date: 1959
Description: A man contains wires and mechanisms inside his body as if he were a machine.

Analysis: This piece is fairly symmetrical vertically,  but not horizontally.

Interpretation: I think this painting illustrates how our (human) bodies are like machines and each part has a certain task to do. Our bodies are hardwired and are built like "machines". On the other hand maybe he simply thought it looked cool.

Judgment: Overall, I think Uelsmann was successful with this piece. I love the fact that he uses negatives to create his works, unlike how we use Photoshop today. The idea behind this is amazing.

Comparison: Uelsmann and Kush's work is very different from each other. Uelsmann's works are in black and white and all he used were negatives from films. Kush's works has a lot more detail and color. It may seem that Kush spent more time on his work, but based on Uelsmann's strategy it's hard to say. Overall, they both are very creative and original. It is clear that they carefully think about what they want to achieve in their works.



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Optical Art

Object Series



Fire

For my object series I chose to capture fire through different perspectives. I used a stove, a candle, a match, a lighter, birthday candles, and lit paper and a picture on fire to make it more interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Famous Painting Parody

Adaptation of Salvador Dali's, Persistence of Memory

Artist Inspirations

©David Langley

I was given the opportunity to take a photography class with this photographer as my teacher. He taught me a lot and showed me a lot of his work that isn't public. The way he captures everything amazes me. I couldn't find a title or date but my guess is it's only a few years old.

 

Superman, Henrik Knudsen 2013

The way he captures scenes from movies as they are now is very interesting to me. He also happens to share my last name.

 

 

Reflection of Kiwis by Window, Scott Kiche

The way he paints his fruit looks very realistic and the reflections catch my eye.

 

 

Book of Books, (2001) © Vladimir Kush

I love surrealism artists especially Kush. Many of his works somehow incorporate butterflies which I find fascinating.

 

The Legend of Giants, © Natalia Rak at Folk on the Street in Poland

I have a thing for street art and her work is always so vibrant with beautiful colors. She used nature to create her work of art around.