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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Defeated

Dimension: 2636 × 3028 pixels, Description: This photo was taken during one of our last football games where the opposing team scored the last minute game winning touchdown. Once I looked around at the team, everyone's hope of winning shut down. This photo has so much power in it because we can see both players on the same team are in a depressed position. The player that is farthest is seen to be injured and depressed because he cannot do anything to help them win. The closest player shows the emotion of exhaustion and depression because he knows that whatever he does in the game changes no outcome.

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So Young, So Little Time.

This was taken on a great day with my cousins. It was a Friday in the county fair having a great time with my cousin. I brought my camera to capture memories and to see if I can get a good photo. Having a great time and taking a step back from all of my unnecessary thought of stress went all away as I was in the moment the whole day truly enjoying the night, seeing friends and eating good food. Seeing people every year change as we meet up again in the fair is something that surprises me every time. It makes me think about how every year is a another year we grow older and more mature, just the thought that everyone’s life moves so quickly and that we all have our own thing going on really made me think and appreciate the things around me. It made me feel that we had so much time to joke around and have fun as kids, but also made me think about all the time I have as an adult. I felt as if I had all the time in the world, but at the same time I felt that there was not enough time. That is why I called it “So Young, So Little Time”. The spinning of the ride and the people around us are all young living life the way the way it is, and hopefully living it to its fullest because you might blink & it’s gone.

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Lighting Up the Dark

This photo is a beautiful representation of lighting up the dark. To tack this photo my model and I stode in complete darkness with fairy lights. The fairy light created the rings of light, but it took along time to expose the photo. Looking back on this photo I relize the great metaphor that this shows. It tells us that there is always light even in the darkest times. Even when it feels like you can’t see were you are going there is always light to lead the way.

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Darkness Captured

The photo shown is a photo of the model staring straight ahead while I am taking the photo. I used a digital camera to take this photo as well as a light set up. This is the photo that I am most proud of because it shows how you can still be standing and fighting even when everything else is dark around you.

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Foggy Morning

To make this image i woke up early in the morning to take advantage of the soft early morning light. I walked up a hill and set up my tripod and camera. At first I did not notice the fog rolling in and was focused on something else. When I realized that the fog looked really cool i pointed my camera to it but the sun was getting higher by the minute so I had very little time. However I am happy how it came out. My favorite part of the image is definitely the light in the sky. The gradient of blues and pinks and soft greens in the land makes it a very pleasing image to look at. I am proud of this image because it was the first time that I tried out landscapes. In this image i wanted to capture the soft light of the morning but also try to push the boundaries of my skills.

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Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin Photography, 2024 Paulina Vo-Griffin

Golden Gate

This is a unique double-exposure photo. That captures one of San Fransico's most excellent staples. Growing up in SF, the Golden Gate Bridge meant so much to me, so I wanted to capture its unique beauty in a not basic or stereotypical way. I hope you guys enjoy the image!

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Double-sided Landscape

I love how eye-catching the photograph is, It has so much to look at. My photograph is a creative work of art that has two different outlooks on it. The way i created it was by just flipping the image and i started messing with the highlights, shadings and color. I love the original photo but this one looks so much better to me.

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Secret Garden

I took this photo in my garden where I remember playing pretend as a fairy when I was little. I wanted to capture some of the magic of imagining you are something so small that a flower towers over you. I wanted to capture that feeling of awe and insignificance that you feel when you are surrounded by very tall trees. I focused on the pink flowers because they look almost otherworldly, contributing to the feeling that you have entered the garden and been transported to a fantastical world of fairies and towering flowers.

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Busy Street

When I was younger, I always wanted to be the first person to greet my parents whenever they got home from work. I figured that in order to do that, I had to wait on the balcony and watch the cars zoom by, on lookout for my parents’ car driving from the busy street and up towards the hill. As I’ve grown up, I haven't had as much time to be on the balcony and admire the cars. I took this photograph as an opportunity to be my younger self again and capture the busy streets.

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Downhill

This sign is located on the backroads of Novato. Whenever my family and I went on an outing, seeing this sing was a way to know you are close to being home. We would always stop at this sign to enjoy the view and pick the grain, throwing it at each other. This sign is more than a sign. It is a childhood memory that I will never forget.

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Serenity

My sister was about to leave for homecoming when I took this picture. The sun was setting which had this really nice soft lighting which made this picture more magical than I was expecting. This was my first portraiture assignment and a day earlier I had gone to the fair to practice my portrait compositions. This was one of the first photos where I really started to move the head in the upper third of the image and it executed really well.

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Through the Crowd

I took this picture on Market Street in San Francisco—street photography in a metropolitan setting has always been my favorite way to shoot. The intricacies of the surroundings mixed with the hustle and bustle of human activity provides a complex environment with many interesting shots waiting to be taken. I love this picture because it perfectly sums up the urban street environment: capturing the unemotional face of a man on his way through the crowd, framed in between another man walking in front and yet another waiting to get on the bus. The color balance of the photo immediately jumps out as well, providing a compelling overall composition.

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Amity

I took this picture for my first portraiture assignment in my photography class at the Civic Center Farmer's Market in Marin. I remember my hands shaking on the shutter, feeling like an impostor, a nervous high school student dressed up as a photographer. The mirth and warmth emanating from the band as they chatted and tuned their instruments was palpable. I made my move, walking up to the two leading ladies adjusting their microphones and asking if they minded a picture. "Oh, do we!" The women fell into pose immediately, contagious laughter floating through the air and lifting a weight from my shoulders. It doesn't take much to make someone's day. Whether or not they would remember me was irrelevant; I thought of those two kind strangers long after I took their picture. There are a multitude of reasons modern photographers choose to make black-and-white images, but for me, the decision was as simple as seeing that these women didn't need to be depicted in color for it to shine through anyway. I think there is something so beautiful in the simplicity of the interactions between friends, and so I called it "Amity" for how they shared it with me.

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