Robin Michals | COMD 1340 Photography 1

Author: Joel

Final project proposal & mood board

For my final project I want to do a portrait of my neighborhood Corona Queens. I’ve grown up in Corona my whole life and I am very proud of where I came from and all the local businesses that I interact with every day. One of the businesses that I would like to photograph is my local tattoo shop that I live one block away from. I’ve gotten all my first piercings and my first tattoo there at that shop, so it holds a special place in my life. I mainly want to photograph the tattoo artist Luis who did my first ever tattoo when I was 19, I would like to take pictures of him and him tattooing someone. Another local business that I’ve gone to is the world famous “Lemon Ice Kings” ice cream shop, every tourist comes here to get ice cream so if I could capture the motion of people getting and eating ice cream, those would be great pictures. Another local business that I have been going to for years my favorite Colombian empanada spot “Empanadas Café”, I love eating empanadas from there its so delicious. I’ve been going there since I was kid, it is a women-based business so I would love to photograph them. A new local business that appeared in Corona is this new Mexican taco truck that is my favorite spot to get tacos de birria, so delicious! The owner has always been to cool to me and nice every time I order food from his truck so I think photographing him and his truck would make cool shots. I want to take pictures from my roof to get some birds eye shots and capture Corona from above and show what’s around me. There is this building called “Terrance on the Park” that is a venue that hosts parties and it lights up at nights, I would like to photograph that building to show how it looks at night. The theme of my project would be the people of Corona showing its diversity and culture that I grew up around showing that Corona is forever. 

HW 1 composition Joel Barbecho

The image that I choose was “The Lams of Ludlow Street” “Drying laundry” image as it really stood out to me with all the colors and the sky with the background of New York City. The image shows clothes being hung on a rope getting air dried with a view of the city, the hangers are only red and pink, this could be the owners favorite colors. The purpose of this photograph could be that drying your laundry doesn’t always have to be in the machine, but it could be with a cool view of New York City on your roof. The image also feels like that New York City is his background and that air drying his clothes on his roof is something that he has always been doing and nobody can tell him anything. The mood/ feeling of this image is giving chill vibes, once you put the clothes to air dry you can sit back crack a cold one and admire the city view as your waiting for the clothes to dry, you could even fold the clothes up there too! The first formal element that I choose to describe this image is “Rule of Thirds” because when you put the lines in the image it points on the rope being used to hang the clothes and the buildings in the background. The second formal element I choose was “leading lines” as it can be seen in the rope that is holding the laundry in a straight line from left to right in the image. The third formal element I choose was “symmetry”, the hangers were all lined up and it looked satisfying to the colors of the hangers all going down in a line. Another element that can be seen in the photograph is “pattern” with the hangers that go from pink to red hung on the rope. 

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