Photographing Flowers in Nature

Poster Project

For this project I created a poster advertising an gallery opening for a macro photography exhibit entitled "Elements of Texture." I used several macro photographs of natural elements on the foreground and used a live trace of a photograph to create texture in the background. I used two different fonts, and one of the logos created. I used some feathering and drop shadows to create depth and highlights.

Flower on Film Logo

For this final version of the logo I simply took the graphic flower drawing and put it in a box made to look like a film negative. Again the up close flower represents macro and the negative frame represents photography. Creating a very simple logo which I am pleased with. I kept the logos simplistic and mostly in black and white because most logos need to be used for various reasons i.e. on products, business cards, clothes, brochures etc. Keeping them simple ensures that can be used for several mediums.

Flower and Camera Logo

For this version of the logo I added a graphic drawing of a flower up close. I put this side by side with the camera graphic which created sort of image sentence with macro represented as flower and photography represented as a camera.

Eye and Camera Logo

For this logo I decided to keep with the eye theme and delve a little deeper with the idea of the camera/eye connection. So I added a logo of a camera where the iris/pupil would be. I also added some triangular lashes to spice it up a bit. I struggled during my first attempt with how to represent macro photography as a logo - but I feel this one is a better representation.

Eye Logo

For the logo project I struggled in the beginning to come up with a logo that represented macro photography as a whole. The first thing i thought of was an eye because the camera mimics the eye and it is our eye that allows us to look through the camera and view the world with a macro lens. So my fist attempt was this eye.

Anything Goes - Crudo Corazon

I used several photographs for this project to make a photographic collage entitled - Crudo Corazon or Raw Heart. To create this image I started with a picture of an open book. Then I found a drawing that I really liked from Leonardo's notebook. I put this image on top of the notebook and made it transparent. The image from Leonard's notebook fit with the theme of macro photography because it is a drawing of something up close something not usually seen. Then I found a macro picture of raw t-bone steak and I made a copy of it. I made the steak layers transparent and messed with the hue/saturation of the whole image on an adjustment layer. I also used the burn tool to make the crease of the book show up more and made some final adjustments using the blur tool to make things blend a little more. To top it off I added the text Crudo Corazon to the bottom left corner.