westsidestory iowa city west high school
2901 melrose ave.
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FEBRUARY 2014
Through the looking glas Photos by Miriam perez
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Pages 4-5: Framing Pages 6-9: Shutter speed, aperture, ISO Pages 10-11: Portraiture Pages 12-13: Lines Pages 14-15: Light Pages 16-17: Perspective Pages 18-21: Free form
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Top left: This is a picture of Isabel Mcdonald’s eye ball and her Iphone is framing her right eye. Top Right: Katie Mcgrane is fixing her ponytail and her right arm is framing her face in the mirror. Bottom Left: This is a picture of a whole on the wall right outside the commons.
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Top Right: a pair of brown combat boots in the snow, taken with a high ISO. Bottom Right: Valentina jumps up from her chair in excitement, picture taken with shutter speed. Bottom Left: a pair of printed combat boots in the snow, taken with a low ISO.
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Top Right: is a picture of a guitar standing on a stool as the picture is taken at the top of the guitar’s view to make the strings on the guitar much more visable. Top Left: a picture of Silvia, my mother and her mother, Amelia, who is also my grandmother, are sitting at the couch laughing at something that was shown on television. Bottom Left: a picture of an ice cold lemonade from Olive Garden as the suns light is hitting the glass cup and only making the cup clearly visible to see.
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Portraiture Right: Isabel Mcdonald sits boredly as she waits for her friends outside of the auditorium. Bottom: Valentina, my cousin, looks right at the flash just as i take the picture with food all over her face from eating Thanksgiving dinner.
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Lines
Top: a picture of a locker line. Bottom: Eleanor Ho walks away in an abandend hallway.
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Light
Left: Isabel Mcdonald sits at the edge of the window posing as the winter light hits her from behind. Right: A picture of Isabel Mcdonald standing near the auditiorium posing, her face toward the light and her back facing the camera turning her into silhouette.
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Perspective Top: a picture of the leaves in the commons, the picture sits on ground looking up at the leaves to portray a worms eye view. Right: the plastic bird is placed on the counter, creating it’s own shadow and portraying a bird’s eye view because it was captured at the top of the bird.
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Free Form Bottom Left: a picture of myself as i stand in front of a huge window that portrays an image/shadow of my figure. Right: a picture of a book Allegiant by Veronica Roth is left standing on my stair case with the light of the lamp giving a beautiflul background making it look bright.
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Top Left: Eleanor Ho sits on the staircase at West High school, while looking through her photo’s in her camera. Bottom Left: a picture of a bird sitting on a counter and the vases with marbles inside portray a frame for the bird, as the bird also casts its own shadow with the lamp light. Top Right: i capture a photo of Ivette, my sister, with a lighter as she is about to light a candle.
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