hannah lee

Hi, welcome to my portfolio!

Assignment 1 Walk Through: Texture: Godzilla figurine on the porch. Taken by Hannah Lee on September 10, 2020 in Somerville, MA.

1/10s f5.3 40mm iso100

Assignment 1 Walk Through: Depth. Blue toy cars in order of size. Taken by Hannah Lee on September 13, 2020 in Somervilla, MA.

1/13s f36 50mm iso400

Assignment 3 Panning: Man on bike on Beacon St. Taken by Hannah Lee on October 2, 2020 in Somerville, MA. 1/30s f11 18mm iso400

Assignment 6 Composition: Fill the Frame. Leaves on ground taken a day after a snowstorm. Taken by Hannah Lee on November 1, 2020 in Harvard Yard. 1/200s f6.3 55mm iso400

Assignment 6 Composition: Isolation. Plant separated from background or distracting elements. Taken upwards with background against the sky 1/200s f8.0 24mm iso400

Assignment 7 Lighting: HIgh Key: Spawn figurine. Taken by Hannah Lee on November 8, 2020 in Cambridge, MA.

1/50s f5.0 35mm iso400

Assignment 7 Lighting: Low Key: Spawn figurine. Taken by Hannah Lee on November 8, 2020 in Cambridge, MA. 1/100s f7.1 35mm iso400

Assignment 8 Still Life: Professor Chalice. Taken by Hannah Lee on November 12, 2020 in Sommerville, MA.

1/80s f8 50mm iso400.

Assignment 8 Still Life: Water Pail. Taken by Hannah Lee on November 12, 2020 in Somerville, MA.

1/80s f8.0 48mm iso400

Assignment 9 Narrative: Thanksgiving dinner waiting for cranberries to pop over the stove. Cooked with tangerine peels and sugar. Taken by Hannah Lee on November 26, 2020 in Cambridge, MA. 1/40s f5.3 46mm iso640

Artist's Statement

The panning shot of the bike rider uses a technique that we learned in the shutter-speed unit. I like the colors of the fill-the-frame photos of the cranberries and the yellow leaves; we learned about filling the frame in our composition unit of the course. The high key and low key images are ones I shot for the lighting assignment and the still life is one that followed, where we used the techniques of the lighting assignment to create the black abyss as the background. I enjoy those photos the most precisely because of the effect of the white or black abyss created by the lighting with the backdrop.

The photograph whose subject matter means the most to me is the Physics professor chalice, because I found that chalice the day after I half-heartedly decided I would be a business major instead of studying quantum physics after I get my bachelors and maybe masters degree at Harvard extension school. Finding that chalice on the side of the road, which I mentioned in my reflection, reaffirmed by decision to study something that is challenging and time-consuming but that is a long-term goal that I want to pursue.