April 14th, 2023
This is my most recent selfie that only had me in it. In this photo I wanted to put the main focus on myself and Kauke. I started off by cropping out a bench on the right and a distracting tree. I then used the sharpen tool on myself and the building in the background. I like this photo mainly because its rare to see photo of a singular person in a popular area. I guess the irony of this photo is that im wearing a Villanova Hoodie.
February 19th, 2023
This is a photo of me playing basketball. For this photo I wanted a more narrow structure to match the subject of the photo (Me, the ball, and the hoop). To focus more on the subject I blurred everything in the background. Then I sharpened hoop and the ball more. Finally I adjusted the brightness to be slightly higher.
April 1, 2020
This photo was at the start of the pandemic. As some people may know, most basketball courts were off limits due to Covid restrictions so my dad and I drove around one day for a while to try to find a court for me to play on during the pandemic and we finally found one. And this photo is at that court.
First off, similar to my other basketball photo, I wanted to make the image fit with my body position so I cropped the sides of the photo inward. After that I blurred part of the background that either had big distracting colors or lettering.
The second photo’s strong sense of movement really stood out to me. It had captured the energy of that moment.
Your first photo is really well edited and I also think it’s cool that you were able to get a photo with nobody else in it. Your stance in the first and third photos are also very similar which is a cool way to connect the two images that were taken a long time apart. This to me is a special way to show growth from 2020 to 2023, where some things have stayed the same even though where you are has changed.
I loved the second photo of you dunking. Blurring the photo is an amazing idea because it puts more emphasis on you. I also like how your selfies show your strong love and identity for basketball, also my favorite sport.