FINAL PROJECT!

So I couldn't make it to our final critique for personal reasons :( I was so bummed!  What I decided to do for my final project was a combination of self portraits and the night photography I did for my previous project.  For this project I used a 30 second exposure again with my fstop either all the way open or all the way closed.  This project though I took everyone's advise and tried not to show my light source.  My whole thought behind this project was trying to portray a feeling of being trapped and then coming out of that.  I have been having a hard time these past few months because of a variety of things and I felt like this project was a final way to express how I have been feeling.  I have been feeling for so long that I have to walk on egg shells around certain people and that I have to keep my mouth shut and not say how I feel.  I think I have been holding my feelings in for so long and I finally realized that it is ok to be myself and you don't always have to let other peoples opinions and feelings on you affect you in a negative way.  I just haven't felt like myself lately and this project helped me branch out and breath in a way.  I know that some of the images aren't in focus or they may not be as technically good, but I think in some they work to get the feeling of stress and confusion.

I really enjoyed this course and am so glad I enrolled in it this semester.  I had never taken digital photo at a college level and I feel like I really took a lot from it.  At my past schools the students in my courses weren't anywhere close to how talented everyone was in this course.  I think being surrounded by a totally different and unique group of photographers really opened my mind.  I wish everyone the best and hope everyone keeps pursuing photography! :)

Final Project

My order got messed up in putting them on the blog.  I will put up my artist statement later.  My whole concept was kind of a coming into your own kind of thing... I'll add more info later.

Finals

Final Project Contacts

Conceptual Project

In class the other day we had to shoot a bunch of pictures and make it into one picture.  I went out and shot some nature ones but then I realized I had a whole series of pictures I had never used for anything. 

I also had an image kind of similar to my latest project that I wanted to show Julee.  I was printing in my darkroom one day and started to clean a print of mine.  I noticed that the image in my sink looked like my friend was drowning, its' pretty
 creepy!

Favorite Artists

Paul Strand, Dan Eldon, Annie Leibovitz, Mark Romanek, Tokihiro Sato, Lois Greenfield

Social Landscape Finals

For this assignment we weren't allowed to look up the definition of "Social Landscape."  I toyed with a bunch of ideas of what social landscape could be.  I was thinking maybe my personal everyday life could be social landscape meaning my friends, my environment, and my everyday activities.  Then I decided on a personal approach with images of my boyfriend that no one would ever see.  I decided finally that social landscape's definition is indefinite.  There are so many ways to portray some sight of social interaction.  The way I developed my images was to shoot strictly at night (which I have never done before), with either an aperture of 2.8 or 22, and a 30 second exposure.  I didn't want people in my images but I wanted to elude to the fact that my subjects were places where people are everyday without showing any people.  I really loved how a lot of my images turned out to look like day time even though it was late at night.  I definitely want to start doing more night photography.