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!