Final Project Proposal

For this project I want to focus on things and people that have been damaged. For the digital photo I think I will mainly focus on portraits while showing the majority of the damage through the physical alteration. Some physical alteration ideas I would like to experiment with include tire marks, fire burns, crushed pills, and knife scratches. I feel that these alterations will add more depth and create more of a story for the portraits.

Project 5

Appropriated video files

Appropriated still images

Original still images

Viral

 Cinemagraph

Cinemagraph- in class

HDR

Thanks Will!

Alien GIF

when you see it..

matzos!

trying to catch up!

Project 4

Project 4 proposal

For this project I want to experiment with the idea of disappearing and ghosts. I want to photograph people that are leaving something behind as they go on. I will start with the person in their full form. Then to make the illusion of disappearing I will stack pictures and make the person more ghost like as they continue to move through the photograph.

I am the same height as this tree...

Kim and Paris go on an adventure- in class

rasberries

So this is where I've been hiding the past few days..

Milo and Howie came to visit!

Grid

face in the grass

Favorite Slide

Tick tock

Project 3

 Self Portrait 

Not a Self Portrait Portrait

Fall

The Color Ring Around

The Self Portrait Proposal

For the self portrait I want to focus on what has made me who I am today. I spend a lot of my me time in nature. That is where I go to reflect. I want to experience with how I can work myself into nature and portray my feelings and past through a photograph.
For the not a self portrait I want to make an image that reflects how I see life through my eyes. I have been wanting to try some sort of lens manipulation. Maybe shooting through lace or a jar. However, I am not sure where or what I want to focus on yet.

Chapter One

Throughout chapter one, Charlotte Cotton focuses on the purpose and importance of creating an image. She says "The act of artistic creation begins long before the camera is actually held in position and an image fixed, starting instead with the planning of the idea"(21). Many examples of planned and staged images are shared in this chapter. From the different photographs, I learned a great amount about the many strategies photographers use to plan for their image. For example, Gillian Wearing's work, Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say, exhibited partial planning and while the rest was left to the subject. She knew where and what she would be photographing, and though she had an idea of what she wanted, she was unaware of what would be written and the emotions that would be displayed. Unlike Wearing, photographer Georges Rousse took a much different approach in the planning of his images. Rousse would transform scenes by painting an area of the space a specific shape then angle the camera to complete the illusion. When first looking at the photo, one might assume the shape was made after the original photograph was taken, however the shape was carefully planned. Chapter one had several demonstrations and techniques that go into making an image. It shows the importance to planning rather than just taking meaningless photos. This will be especially important when thinking about our upcoming project.

I want to learn how to do this!

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