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In order to take this picture, I had to carefully sneak behind this peacock. However, right after my shutter clicked the bird quickly retreated and flew onto the grass seen in the background. After seeing the many peacocks in the zoo, I wanted to be able to capture their majestic feathers. This image, I think, displays not only the detail of the feathers' eyes, but also the range of colors found from the front to the end of the bird.

Photoshop Altered Image

This pop art image was created using an image of a flamingo which was Photoshopped four different times and then stitched together. We learned this Andy Warhol technique in class and were able to play around with it a lot. Originally, the picture captured the whole flamingo. Thus, I had to crop the image in order to zoom onto the flamingo's head, as if I took a portrait shot.

Detail

The detail photo I took was of the chapel which I also took a architectural picture of. I chose to capture the detail of the roof pointing to the sky because I got the feeling of a chapel as being one's way of being closer with God. This detail not only captures this theme, but also it emphasizes the chapel's symmetrical structure.

Chapel 2

This photo was taken at a chapel near my house. When I walked into the chapel, I really noticed how the whole room was symmetrical. Being interested by this, I tried to find the best way to capture this mirror-like image which I saw in my head.

Chapel

This is a picture of a light hanging in the Mater Dolorosa church in South San Francisco. This assignment was to take an architectural type picture of a chapel and I thought that this like exemplified this. Not only did the like reflect the chapel's design (wood-like design, stained glass) it also brought a warm feel to the mass that was going on (yellow light).

Color Landscape

This is a panoramic picture that I took of a few houses on my block. I merged about 5 or 6 pictures in Photoshop in order to create this image. This was my first panorama and therefore, I was not aware that my picture would have unwanted lines and also I was not so conscious during my photographing that I needed to be very careful about how the houses would line up when I edited them. In order to improve this shot, I would capture more of the sky and use a tripod.

Photo Essay

These pictures are a collection of pictures which makes up my photo essay. The topic of this "essay" was a day in the life of a 9 year old. I used my brother as my main subject and followed him throughout a period of time, capturing the essence of what it is to be a child of his age.