Cami Rettinger

To help make each glitch different, I took each photo on the printer scanner and started to move them to create the glitch effect. This process was a lot of trial and error as I couldn't see the result until way after I completed the scan. After scanning a single image a couple of times, I would combine the image’s best parts together to create the best glitch possible. After doing so, I created RBG color glitches in the image to make the image feel more cohesive.

I love how her images make you feel like you are watching or interrupting in a private moment. The drastic high and low angles constantly keep me intrigued with her work. Something I realized about her work is that she has a very minimal media presence as she is a very private person. It made it fairly difficult to find her work and interviews with Hediger. Overall I really love her work and the way each image can make you feel saomething different every time.

I chose this image because it was slightly different from the rest and I love how the photograph looks inverted. The people on the bus look almost transparent like time is passing in this single frame and that is so fascinating how someone can portray that. It feels almost like completely altered or a painting because how detailed people clothes look.

Warhol’s approach to his subject matter, individuals, and their relationships, was accessible and fluid, reflecting a decade of social change.

Fayman’s work mostly consisted in the 1900′s and the works featured in the exhibit were from 1949. She was a photographer and filmmaker and really experimented with color when it was just starting to become available. I feel like when I look through these images, I see how powerful colors can be to create a beautiful image and it makes me appreciate them so much more. She pushed the boundary with experimenting abstract photography and it really worked in her favor as people back then appreciated them then as we do in this modern time.

With my video I wanted to create a passage of time through cooking breakfast. I wanted to create something that would be something I do almost every morning. I feel my stills are different from my footage because they are one, of a different dish and two, I didn’t get the birds eye view shot I wanted to create initially. 

I found this image from online to convey my passage of time. I want to create a baking/cooking video. I’m not entirely the best at cooking but I’m wanting to improve my skills and it makes me try a lot hard when there is a camera filming. I might record some sounds from cooking so you can really listen to it coming together. I think this shows a great transition of time.

The first two glitches I used were of the RGB glitch. I wanted to mess around with the colors and warp effects. I turned my images into black and white and once I switched them to each layer of the RGB, it brought something different to the screen glitch. The last image I wanted to learn about the pixel sorting. I think it’s so interesting once I started stretching the image. What’s even cooler is that the image I used pixxel sorting on, it is a whole different image that happened to match really well! I feel like I’m learning a lot through each experiment. Glitch is one of my favorites to work with.

These are my two identity montages I created that represents different parts of me. The first one has somethings I enjoy such as reading, poems, photography which is featured with my favorite type: film photography. Under the burned part of the page is one of my favorite poems called "O.C.D." by Neil Hilborn. The second one is a picture of me with flowers growing from my body. I feel that every day I still am continuing to grow as a person and I want to keep improving my skill and grow more into the person I want to become. The text in the second photo is a quote from one of my favorite films of all time which is Shawshank Redemption. Film is a big part of my life so I wanted to incorporate it in my montage.

For the first photography “scavenger hunt” I wanted to focus on the elements of design and composition. While doing this, it will help me create a better structure for my pictures. For a couple of the images, I used a big light to give a big contrast between the subject and shadow. Out of the elements I wanted to focus the most on texture. Before this, I never really paid much attention to how important it can be to display texture in a photograph. Learning more about composition and design elements made me had a better understanding of the structure and visual techniques to produce better images.

Hello! My name is Cami Rettinger and I am a senior with 1 more semester at UTD. My major is Design and Production. I have taken a couple photography classes here at UTD and I learn more and more every time I take them! I take pictures to express myself and my favorite type of photography is portraits. I love taking pictures of people and taking them out of their comfort zone and feel more comfortable and feel good!

Day in the Life: Making the Most of Quarantine

The overall theme I wanted to portray was a day in the life of quarantine with a fashion magazine look. So I composed this series to start with her waking up and trying to find something cute and dance in the living room, read magazines and go on a picnic. I saw this trend where photographers put cling wrap over the lens and dab vaseline on the edges like a vignette border. Although some came out too blurry we came up with a couple of good ones with a dreamy hazy look. After shooting for a while, I wanted the colors to have a grainy and vintage feel to them to keep the images consistent with each other. I think natural lighting is the best lighting for the style I was going for so we used the windows in the rooms to help with soft lighting. For the outdoor photos, we had used the shade from the tree to prevent harsh shadows on her face. The images I have taken for this project has helped me learn the importance of color in photography and the techniques I used I learned throughout the semester.