Griselda, 6th Grade, RYSS

I like this picture. I like the colors and shadows and the creativity it has with the patterns in it. When I took this picture, I felt a lot of creativity and emotion. It was really bright and dark with the shadows, shapes, and the movement of the sky.

Griselda, 6th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas.

Valerie, 7th Grade, RYSS

In this picture, I am showing my teacher, Mr. Chambers. He is a nice person. Next to Mr. Chambers, there is a pole that is gray and skinny. There is a white line crossing Mr. Chambers' shadow. I think this is a great picture. There is a shadow of a pole. I like this picture.

Valerie, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas.

Cynthia, 8th Grade, RYSS

I like this picture because of the tunnel effect and the desks that are in the picture to make it look like as if it is the right way for education. The back and front make it look like what will happen if you get a lot or just a little bit of education. You can see that the front of the picture looks cleaner than at the back. The back looks like if you get a little bit of education your life is going be a mess. The front of the picture looks like if you get a lot of education, you’ll go to college and get a good job. You’ll have a good, clean and successful life. This picture inspires me to go to school and want to study so that I can have a better career and won’t be living on the streets.

Cynthia, 8th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas.

Juanita, 6th Grade, RYSS

I like this picture because it shows my feelings about darkness. There's a small hole, which is covered with grass. At the very back, you can see a red, long pole which describes my favorite color. If you look carefully, you can see that half of the picture is light and the other half is dark. This shows my feelings about nature.

Juanita, 6th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas.

Aide, 6th Grade, RYSS

What's so awesome about this picture is the ball with my school colors, and it looks like it was just added or pasted there. And there are all the volleyball players and the walls with the stripes. And if you can see the red sign in the corner almost at the right, you might think it's just like a red dot. The best thing is, the ball looks like if its going to hit the girl with a ponytail. It's just hilarious like it was the first thing you saw or came to your eye. What I feel about this picture are the volleyball players practicing, which makes the school better at volleyball.

Aide, 6th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas.

Aide, 6th Grade, RYSS

What I'm thinking right now about this picture is its shape, and you can see that it's from big to small. Plus, the shadow is cool, and you can see my favorite candy with the stick and pink gum. The trees and sky form shapes. And there's the little roof that covers the door, and it looks like the chair too. But my favorite part are the people in the back. They are blurry and the same size like the stick with the gum. And there's texture in the trees, fence, poles, the grass by the wall, chair, candy, and the beautiful stick with gum. The gum has a shape like a 3D rectangle or something. The picture is great because of all the sunlight, shadows, especially all the GREEN, sky, concrete, and many more things.

Aide, 6th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas.

Katie @ EMS

This image is called Flower Tower. It is straight photography, but I adjusted the lighting in order to enhance the picture. This made the picture better by creating more contrast between the sky, trees, and flowers. I chose this picture as my favorite because I thought the edges around the flower looked interesting, and received the best effect from the lighting adjustment.

Katie

Julieanne@ EMS

I think this is my best photo because I really ‘captured the moment’. In the background, there is a whale tail, and this was what all of Alaska looked like. There are mountains (behind the whale), beautiful flowers, trees, stone, and rocks, all these nature products are pictured in this picture. Also the colors vary and there is a lot of prospective, from the flowers to the big rock, to the water, the mountains, and the mountains behind the mountains. When I took this picture my grandma (artist) told me this was going to be an award-winning picture. The picture includes all the colors of nature, green, blue, brown, purple, and grey. This picture also shows shadows because I took this picture around 1:30 so there would be a little shadow (a shadow is present because of the tree branch is hanging over the rock).

Julieanne

Allison @ EMS

I think this is my best manipulated image that I have completed during the cycle of this class. I like this image for various reasons. First, I liked how I took all of the pictures myself, including the plane wing. I learning a lot about enhancing the picture because the only way I was able to get the picture of the plane wing was out of a window. The window fogged up the image so I learned how to fix it. Another reason why I liked this image was because I enjoyed taking the pictures of the people. They got to pick their own poses and it represents who they truly are. Once my family and I were getting a picture taken and I had to stand on two wooden blocks. The photographer said to me, “Pictures lie.” That is another one of the things I learned with this project. I had to make simple pictures into something nonrealistic. That is why I named the picture “Realistic?” I especially enjoyed the lighting in this image. The bottom of the picture is very light and the top of the picture is darker. Manipulated photography was one of my favorite projects, too! These are just some of the reasons that I liked this image the best.

Allison

Katelyn @ EMS

I think this is the best picture I’ve created in this class. I think this because the idea behind it is very interesting and unique. The picture may look manipulated, but it is straight photography. Most people don’t believe me when I say this though. All that I did to take this picture was, I used the reflection of my feet walking in the window. The reason that my feet are really dark and the rest of the picture is light, is because the sunlight is casting a shadow through the window and my feet are the shadow in the picture. The background is just an empty courtyard with rocks and that’s what gives the picture such a good effect. This is my favorite picture because it is one of the coolest to look at from my point of view. My eye travels easily through this whole picture because there is a good amount of color contrast throughout the picture and there is a lot going on which is good.

Katelyn

Harry @ EMS

I think this is my best photograph. I think this because it has two of my best friends in it. Also it has some of Eisenhower’s mottos and best phrases such as . . . . . . . Believe, Achieve, and Succeed. Lastly it has a great message not just to us, but also for the children of the future!!!
“Eisenhower is Drug Free!!!!”

By: Harry

Christian @ EMS

In my best photo I made it look awesome. First I colored one of the pictures to make it look the way it does. I just colored all the different components of the person. Then I doubled the canvas size and then copied the picture. Lastly I rotated one of the pictures. To make it look like the person is back to back with himself.

Christian

JP @ EMS

This is my best photograph because I used some great layer styles and effects. In this picture, I made short lines on top of a photo. Then, I added a layer style. This created an interesting photo. Also, the topic is pretty interesting. The background is also eye-opening. To make the background, I used a “special effects” brush. Ultimately, I believe this is a great photo because it has many great elements.

JP

John @ EMS

This was my best picture by far. I used a picture of a basketball hoop that I took a while back but I gave it a twist. I found a basic picture of a scoreboard and painted over it to make it look like it was the end of a basketball game. I found a picture of a basketball and pasted it in. I made a trail of stars behind it to make it look like it was going towards the hoop. Then I painted the edges of the hoop red like a hoop in a real basketball game. That’s why I called it “Buzzer Beater”.

John

Damian at EMS

 

I was walking around the school looking for some pictures to take. I walked all over the place for something that would "drag" me in to take the picture. I walked down a hallway and saw that all the lockers had no locks and were bolted shut. I thought that if I could bend down and stand off to the side it would be the best picture. I took 50 pictures and this one is the best.