Reflection 02/12 -02/18 (Josh)

Last night I returned from a snowboarding trip out west in Colorado. The mountains are gargantuan compared to the east coast. The longest lifts would take up to 10 mins to get you to the top. During this time you could chat with the people on the lift with you or as I did a lot, I found myself staring in awe and reflecting on a lot of things. A feeling that the mountains of the east can just not inspire.

Therefore, I thought, why not combine a perspective of staring into the distance plus my trademark pose that I've been capturing for the past 5 years? 2 hours of my novice Photoshop skills later, here is what I managed to produce.



Here are the two originals that I made it from.

Reflection 02/12 - 02/18 (Jeff)

Hello All, This is my first post. So here's hoping the first time is special, even though we all know it will be confusing, painful, and sloppy! Feel free to let me know what I have messed up! Enjoy!

Santana's Prayer:



Santana Moss was a very close friend of the late great Redskins Football player, Sean Taylor. Both attended "the U", the Univeristy of Miami, and became close during Sean Taylor's tenure in Washington. Although Sean Taylor's death rocked the National Football League, in particular it affected fellow Miami alums as well as teammates, including Santana Moss. What this photo is capturing, is the pre game ritual in which Santana prays before the game for his safety and then says a prayer for Sean Taylor, and his surviving family. Fans are yelling at this point to sign autographs and give some high 5's, but he remains focused, and the crowd and surrounding areas melt away. His reflection leaves high single-minded of purpose, focused and inspired.

Here is the Original Pic:

Reflection 02/12 - 02/18 (Jaime)

I really love this topic, unfortunately, I did not have enough time this week to do what I had in mind, but I'm still happy with the result of what I could do.

This is a view of driving on the toll road reflected off of sunglasses, reflected off of the rear view mirror...

Also, here are a few other reflection pictures that I've taken.

This one is my favorite.

Reflection 02/12 - 02/18 (Pere)

I started playing with my Petanca Trophy from 1994 in my old room and I think the results are quite playful and nice. My room is small but has a double mirror in one of the walls so the reflection from the trophy together with the back mirror added tons of content to the pictures...

I quite like these two






P.S. For those not familiar with the great sport of peatanca

Trophy was for second place :-(

Reflection 02/12 - 02/18 (Scott)

I made it a goal this week to not take a dark picture, and couldn't quite decide whether I wanted to explore a reflection of the self, or a mirror style reflection. I also played a little with refraction and ultimately choose the below image - shot on my double pane window, reflecting the TV image, but each pane refracting a different wavelength (color) of the olympic speed skating competition.

I like this image alot as the double lines which should be parallel play with my senses, contrasted by the off-center slightly blurred human image, with the slight shadow drifting right.



Original, un-cropped, here.

Reflection 02/12 - 02/18 (Sara)

For this assignment, I really wanted to go to a lake nearby and take a reflection picture. When I got to the lake, however, everything was frozen, and ice does not give off the reflection I was hoping for. In any case, I was inspired at while fidgeting with my itty bitty toys on a conference call.



Original can be found here. Post processing elements made the background darker (because our cube walls are ugly), increased contrast (to make it pop more) and sharpened the image so that the reflection was more clear.