Monday, September 12, 2011

"Night"



Shooting went alright. There's a small window of time where interesting people are out and places are still open. For every one person who allowed me to take their photo, there were probably four that denied me. Slow shutter speeds and big apertures make for a non-sneaky demeanor, so I wasn't quite as aggressively sheisty as I normally am in the day time. I'm 79% satisfied with my series. I feel that I am in the same rut as Cole described to us the other day. A combination of technical setbacks and confidence issues still plague me as the semester rolls on. I feel like I can't get my footing, and I'm scrambling sideways to create series. That's been an issue also, my series cohesiveness. I can't do it? I don't know. Photography is so exciting to me; The chemicals, light, time, etc. It's still prestidigitation. I guess if I can keep that mindset I'll inevitably make it out of this. I'm lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut right now!

Monday, September 5, 2011

Project 2 Favorites




Daylight Project

I'm pretty sure everyone has had some qualms about this project, seeing as how it rained scads. But we all pulled through, right?! I might not have. I had three inspirations for this project, and tried to do both because today started overcast and ended bright as shit. And fuck bringing my camera into the rain, because it's already being weird. Werner Amann was my artist research-insipration.





^This is a portrait of Heidi I took several months ago. Harsh sunlight portraits!


^ I took this in New Orleans. Shit on the ground in weird light!

Let's see what happens!