Sam Pastore's Photography
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Diptych
Here is a picture of Joe Francis. In the first picture he is screaming and the second he is covering his ears because of the loud noise.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Friday, May 1, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Food Photography: A Comparison
The Egg and Cheese Croissan'wich from Burger King. The picture on the right is clearly the one that I got from the actual place and the picture on the left is what they show as the advertisement.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Surreal
This is a picture of Maura, under the sea with some of The Little Mermaid characters swimming above her hands.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Surrealistic Theme
For my surreal picture I would like to do a picture of myself, and my face kind of being pixilated out on one side. I would also like some flowers to be coming through my face as its being cracked or pixilated. I will have to take a few picture of my face and will most likely take my own pictures of flowers, if not I will get some images from the internet. I will take the pictures outside so that there will be some natural light on my face to make it look a lot more realistic.
Surreal Artist Comparison
Tommy Ingberg is a surrealism
photographer, born 1980 in Sweden. As a child he was always into art. He had a
sketchbook he would draw in and always had a fascination with cameras. His
first camera was a Praktica with two lenses.
Ever since then he has been photographing. He was always a good student
and got good grades, it was the social aspect of school that gave him a hard
time. To this day he says he still deals with those issues. He went onto college to study for a degree in
computer science. After graduating from college as a computer engineer and
years went by, he realized that something was missing in his life. He was still
photographing as a hobby but he found that art was a sort of therapy for him
and helped him. So he started to do it more often, just for himself. He didn’t care
what others thought because everything he did was for himself.
Vladimir Kush is a surrealism artist.
He was born in Russia, in a one story wooden house near the Moscow forest park
Sokolniki. He started art at the young age of seven. There was an art school he
attended until late evening where he was exposed to all different types of art
and artist. When he was 17 he went to the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School,
but just a year later he was drafted. After six months of training, the unit
commander realized it was more appropriate to have him exclusively for peaceful
purposes, like painting propagandistic posters. In 1987 he started to be apart
of exhibitions organized by the Union of Artists. Soon he went to Los Angeles
where he worked in a small home garage that he rented, but couldn’t find a
place to display his paintings. Finally in 1993, a dealer from France noticed
his work and organized and exhibition in Hong Kong for him. It was extremely
successful and opened many other exhibitions for him. In 2001 he opened his
first gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii.
Artist Name: Tommy Ingberg
Title: Torn
Date: 2011
Description: There
is a man being held down by a rock but brought up by balloons.
Analysis: Just
like all of Ingbergs other pictures, this one is in a sort of black and white.
There are bright clouds in the background that do highlight the picture. As you
can see the person head was removed as well and balloons were put in. To the
left there is some shadows that darken up the clouds.
Interpretation:
I feel like this picture is trying to describe when there is something that is
bringing you up and going good in your life, but at the same time there is
something not so good, bringing you down in some way so you end up not really
going anywhere.
Judgement: I
think this piece was extremely successful and I think that a lot of people can
relate to it as well. Everyone goes through something similar to this at least
some point in their life.
Artist Name: Vladimir Kush
Title: Pearl
Date: 2001
Description:
There are two people holding open this clam showing the brightened pearl.
Analysis: This
is a very colorful oil painting. Some might see the pearl as being the sun of
the sky and it happens to be in the middle of the pearl, but others could see
it as the pearl being the thing that is highlighting the entire picture.
Interpretation:
I see this picture as the “pearl” actually being the sun just because the whole
picture is lit up.
Judgement: I really like this painting; I think it’s so
pretty. All the colors that were used go very well together.
Both of these pictures are
surrealism, similar but different in many ways. The first picture is a photo
and the second photo is a painting. With the photo there had to be some editing
done, but with the painting it’s completely original, no editing involved. The
painting also has a lot more colors then the first picture which makes it a
little more appealing to the eye. Both of these artist have different styles
and it shows.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
Photowalk: Primary Colors
In this picture there is all three primary colors.
Here is a picture of a yellow shovel.
All three colors lined up.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Report
Adobe Photoshop
Express
As everyone knows, in
photography class we use Adobe Photoshop. This app is so similar to it. It’s
very nice and easy to understand. As well as having different filters to choose
from, you can also edit the picture in many other ways like adjusting the
exposure, contrast, and many more. Just like the program we use on our
computers.

The only downside to this app is
that you can only use it to edit your pictures. It doesn’t let you work with
your pictures until it is actually taken, unlike other apps where you can
adjust things while you are in the camera mode. Other than that, this is a
great app to use to make your pictures better.
There
are many different things that you can work with. Another thing you can do on
this app is blemish and red eye fixes. You can’t do these types of things on
Instagram. The only thing you can do on the app is add filters.
The
two pictures above are obviously the same picture but on has been edited by
adjusting many different things. In the
first picture (the original) it’s really yellow because of the lighting in my
room. The app gave me the option to change the temperature of the picture which
allows you to make it more yellow or bluer. To cancel out the yellow tint in
the picture I made it cooler to give it the blue color. In the end I feel my
editing was pretty successful and the final product looks better than the
original.
David Hockney Inspired Collage
This collage is of Greta. I cropped about 15 different pictures I took at different angles and put them all together in this collage to make one picture.
Here is a picture of a view down my street. I took many different pictures of this as well so that I would be able to crop each one in different places and make this one.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Photowalk Depth of Feild
The focus is on my finger in this picture with Brenden in the back as well as Matt and Joe's shadows.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Partner Portraiture
Here is a picture of my dog, Greta, and Matt on top of her head putting his foot on her ear. I took a picture of Greta and had Matt take a picture with his foot on a chair. Then I put Matt's picture in Greta's picture and adjusted Matt's picture so it looks like its apart of the original dog picture.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
I'd Rather Be
In this picture I am with some of the Victoria Secret angels on the carpet before an event. To get this picture the way it is now, I cropped my face out of one picture and placed it into this one. After that I just altered my face so that it would match the rest of the picture and look somewhat realistic.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Portrait Series
Portrait Series
Here is a series of pictures of Maura Farley getting ready before she goes out. Every picture is showing a different step she takes to apply her makeup. The picture to the far left is the finished product, her completely done with everything and the following pictures to the right are the steps leading up to that.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Photography Composition
Leading line is when there is an object leading the eye to an object, or it’s something that can create depth.
This is a picture of a railing that is creating depth, showing how far it is going. The railing is really close to the camera lens so that’s where your eye is focusing until you look to left and see how far the door frame is from where the picture was actually taken.
Horizontal
A Horizontal picture is when the picture is wide rather than tall.

This picture was taken horizontally, and you can tell because it’s not just focusing on one flower itself. It’s showing all the surrounding flowers. The picture is also showing a variety of different flowers.
This picture was taken horizontally, and you can tell because it’s not just focusing on one flower itself. It’s showing all the surrounding flowers. The picture is also showing a variety of different flowers.
Formal Balance
Formal Balance is when there is a sense of symmetry in the picture

In both sides of this picture, is the same thing. A form of symmetry is going on. The same tables are on both sides. And the isle in the middle of the picture is playing the role of the line of symmetry.
Silhouette
A Silhouette picture is when the light is coming from behind the main focus of the picture.
Here is a picture of Brenden, where the light is coming from behind him. With the light coming from behind, you can’t see the details of his face but you see the shadow of his body.
Distance (close)
The main focus of the picture is going to be very close to the lens.
Mango, being the main focus of the picture is very close to the lens. Making it a close up picture. You cant see much around Mango since the picture is so close.
Monday, February 9, 2015
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