Photography by Navyaa Jain

1. Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, CT. She is a famous American photographer who is most known for her work with portraits, specifically with celebrities. Her photos aim at capturing her subject's personality and inner life and try to bring out their expressive aspects. During her childhood, Leibovitz had lived in many different cities across America, where she had come in contact with many styles of art. Because of this, she initially studied painting at the San Francisco School of Art, hoping to become an art teacher, taking night classes in photography just to experiment. However, just months after she began her studies, one of her photos was used on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, jump-starting her career. She continued to work with Rolling Stone as a commercial photographer and was soon promoted to Chief Photographer, being the first woman to hold that position. After working there for 10 years, she mo

This week we learned about the difference between a selfie and a self-portrait. Although I was used to seeing both styles, I had never really seen any self-portraits done in photography and I enjoyed researching them. The self-portrait was probably the hardest part of this project because I found it hard to get a creative picture while having to prop my phone up against something. In the end, I had fun with this assignment and it was a great reason for me to go around my house during this *not so active* time. My Inspiration Photo:  https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/v1492203893 My Selfie/Self-Portrait Grid: Self-Portrait: For my self-portrait, I wanted to replicate the idea of only using the top portion of my face, especially my eyes. Although it took me quite some time to find the perfect spot to put my face through, I found a flower pot filled with water that gave me the reflection I wanted. The long sticks in the photo are actually flower stems which I tried t

For the past couple of weeks, my school has been participating in online school because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Online school for other classes isn't that hard but how can someone do photography class without cameras. Well thanks to technology, we carry around little cameras in our pockets all day, our phones. This week's assignment was to take two portraits of random objects around our house and pay attention to specific elements of design in our photos. The following photos are taken from my phone and edited using the app Snapseed. Hope you like them! While looking for objects around my house, I found this old clock that I knew I had to photograph. The photo uses lines, color, rule of thirds, symmetry, shadow, and space. While editing it, I put a vignette on it and reduced the white in the background. I also brought up the highlights to focus the light around the clock and bring out the reflection of the hands.  My guitar is my favorite thing in my house

This weekend, my class had to make a food post. This meant we had to cook or bake something, take photos of the process, and post a page describing the recipe and its steps. Our main objective was to focus on the shooting of the ingredients and the final product. For this assignment I decided to make Mini Chocolate Tarts and really tried to focus on how I positioned my photos. I hope you like the photos enough to make the recipe :)

This week, our task was to take one of our favorite poems and take photos to help bring the poem to life. Pablo Neruda is my favorite writer and I immediately thought of this poem because of its great imagery. I really enjoyed this assignment because it left so much up to interpretation. I hope you enjoy the photo and make sure to check out the poem on my sparkpage!

Edward Weston was a photographer who dedicated his career to photographing food. But this was not just any food, he took single fruits and vegetables and made them the subject of his photos. This week we were tasked with the same goal, and I decided to use a pineapple, a pepper, and a tomato. Initially I expected this to be easy but it really is not that easy to make a tomato look "different." However, I developed a lot of skills on this project and I hope you enjoy the pictures.