Daily Practice

          For my daily practice I decided to focus on water. I have found that incorporating water into my photos has been a consistent pattern throughout my projects since last year in intermediate photography. I decided to focus on capturing photos in which a color popped and would draw in the attention of the viewer. Although not all my photos display my intentions, found these pictures to be the most interesting of the photos that I have taken this last week. The focus in each of my photos contributes to the intense vibe of each photo. In future I would like to take long exposure shots of water and I plan to hopefully do that outside of Branson.

Water Color - Final Blog Reflection

Conceptual Intentions:     I have always been fascinated with images of water in motion especially right as it comes into contact with another surface to create a splash. This was the spark that influenced the rest of my project. I decided to pursue taking pictures of water as it comes into contact with a bowl/cup filled with water. Although this did not end up being my final print, it was the beginning of the process which would eventually lead to the picture below. I felt something meaningful about his project was I learned how to manipulate and play around with water in a way in which you could really capture a shot that evoked motion but was in a still picture. I addressed my conceptual concern of my project with the use of the camera. My goal was to capture an in focus moment of the water coming into contact with a larger amount of water to evoke a sense of motion within the viewer. To do this, I dropped water that was colored with into a clear container full of water. Earlier this year I said that one of my favorite areas to work in is digital photography and working with water. I believe my voice as an artist emerged in this project as I was able to use both digital photography and water in my project.

Stretch & Explore:     Throughout the project my intentions were fairly linear, although, the last week of shooting I explored capturing images in which the ink disperses in water inside a jar. I thought this was really intriguing. What lead me to try this was I had exhausted my motivation to capture purely water drops dripping and splashing on a surface of water. Although I did experimented a lot with this technique, I wanted to try something a little different which led to the use of the jar and ink. I feel I could have explored using water and ink a little more, but I am still extremely happy with all the pictures I took. I also used a very high ISO to make the pictures brighter as I had a very high shutter speed. The high ISO made quite a few pictures grainy so I wish I could have found a solution to that earlier.

Formal Intentions:     My guiding formal concerns for this project were to use water in a way that would evoke motion in a still image. Issues As I was working on the project, I deepened my understanding of these concerns as I was able to overcome many obstacles that got in the way of me taking the right picture. My intentions in employing these concerns were to, like I said before, evoke a sense of motion in a still picture. Problems I had with my experiment were the timing of taking my photos. Capturing the exact moment when the water drop hits the water in the container was fairly difficult, so in order to to overcome that, I used continuous shooting and a very high shutter speed. I felt that I was successful in achieving my intentions within this project and am very pleased with my final product.

Interm Blog Reflection - H2O

          My projects intentions are to use water in a way that evokes motion and shape within a still image. The artist I am basing my project on is Corrie White. She works in liquid photography. I am really captivated by many of this artists photos and feel it really connects to my project intentions. The conceptual intentions of my project are to like I previously said, create a sense of motion and shape through still photo using water. Critique I received from my classmate was to use more color and shoot from different perspectives as well as use different colored lighting and surfaces. In each of these photos I used a bucket and colored water to create each photo. To reach a final product I am planning on continuing to take photos like I have using different objects and techniques as well as use different lighting and surfaces. So far I am really happy with the direction of my project and can't wait to see the final product.

Final Blog Reflection - Voyeurism

Conceptual Intentions:
           We chose to evoke a predator prey relationship in our project as the unseen spectator. We wanted the predator to be the unseen spectator. After numerous ideas brought up in our brainstorming phase, we felt that this was the most intriguing idea. I felt I really gained an appreciation for sculpture. I really enjoyed the week long process of creating our 3d diorama. Although no one in our group was very skilled in sculpture we were still able to create a very realistic, winter landscape. The composition of the photos and landscape features of the diorama evoke my voice as an artist. I feel that as the project progressed I changed and altered our base ideas to accommodate my ideas as an artist as well as my fellow group members.


Stretch and Explore:
             At the very start of the project we wanted to evoke a man made vs. nature relationship using an animal and a camera. But after a day we decided that the predator prey relationship would be more intriguing. As the project progressed, especially when we were photographing our project, we were constantly changing the angles and perspective of the viewer. We finally chose a photo that we felt most resembled our first intentions for the project. Occurrences that led to these changes came after we would observe our work from the previous day. We would upload our photos, go through all of them and then decide what we need to change and improve. During the sculpture process we ran into many obstacles as we were unable to create many of our initial ideas as we did not have the materials or knowledge of how to create these things such as a peak of a mountain. I feel that we could have used some more trees to make a denser forrest and that way we could play with depth of field and lighting a little more. I also think that we could have used a different substance for our fake snow because it was fairly messy. But other than that I think we did a very good job with our approach to the project.


Formal Intentions:
            Formal concerns for this project were our ability to really capture and evoke the sense of an unseen spectator. Another concern was if we were going to be able to create a realistic diorama to photograph. I felt that just purely working on the project and spending a week photographing and a week creating the sculpture allowed me to gain a deep understanding of how to photograph a model diorama and what affects to use in order to make it realistic. To make our photos have sense of realism to the viewer we used a fog machine to blur the background. We also added small details to the model animals such as placing snow on their backs as well as the trees. I felt the these concerns definitely expanded the conceptual experience of the project as I felt I learned a lot from my experience.

Still Life

Photos of still life sculpture

Not part of the still life sculpture but I thought this was a pretty cool photo

Unseen Spectator Reflection

Reflection:
           Our intentions in this project were to capture the predator prey relationship by using the model wolf and deer. We also really wanted to retain a wintery, cold feel in our project that is why we decided to make this photo black and white. I believe we were able to capture a very ominous scene with our use of the fog machine and different camera angles. We felt that focusing on one of the model animal would really evoke the ambiguousness of the photo but still evoking the predator prey relationship. In our photo we focused in on the wolf thus blurring the deer. Although it may be hard to make out the deer in the photo I feel that it adds to the obscure aspect of the photo as well as the predator prey relationship. The wolf was meant to be the unseen spectator as he is supposed to be stalking his prey, the deer.  I felt that our sculpture was well put together and allowed us to get a sense of realism in out photos (especially the use of the fog machine). I felt that I was able to not only contribute to the photography aspect but also the sculpture parts of the project. But I believe that all together each group member contributed equally. Comments on our photos were that our photo evoked a feeling of anticipation, coldness, winter, fear, ominous and mysterious. We were told we could improve out photos by cropping and limiting the view in the photo. We were also advised to lighted some of the darks.

My Artistic Voice - guided free write

Habits, I tend to use similar colors in my project primarily blue. I also like to create pictures with symmetry and focus on one object, person, animal ect. I love making art because of the great feeling after completing a project/series of pictures that I am proud of. My favorite series/project was from last year in intermediate photo which was my picture book I made. this was my favorite because i felt as an artist that project exemplified my abilities and interest as a photographer fairly well. I like to work in digital photography. I tend go back to are focusing in on one object, I also like to focus on scenery such as landscapes what not in my projects. I felt that the predator prey relationship was a good idea that came from my voice and was a contributions to the project. Especially the setting being in the snow. I believe as an artist I am able to express my voice without using words but rather my art.  

Diarama - Notes and Outline (Lizzie, Maggy, Charlotte and Ethan)

Landscape:
Snowy land scape (trees, forest) with predator stalking prey as the unseen spectator

Desert lion stalking gazel

Ocean with shark looking from below up to a fish/human


We are gonna choose between this three

Water & Symmetry

Reflection

Conceptual Intentions:

      The purpose of this series was to evoke light as a character within our photos. I purposefully used the reflection of light off water to create symmetrical pictures (not all my pictures are symmetrical). I approached each day differently taking my photos at different angles, distances, lighting, objects and so on until I found that capturing lights reflection off water was very intriguing and thus the rest of my project was based on the foundation of using lights reflection off water. I felt that this project allowed me to explore my photography new techniques when taking pictures. I thought this process was very meaningful because I was able to find what I was most comfortable with taking pictures of and I really appreciated that the topic was so broad thus allowing me to really experiment when taking my pictures.

Stretch and Explore:

     Through out the project I was constantly changing what I was taking my photos of and how I was taking them until I found something that really caught my interest. As the weather, lighting, and environment changed I found new ways to take photos. One day it was raining and I used the opportunity to take photos. The photos I took that day ended up being what I used in my series. I think that I could have taken pictures outside of school when it rained during the duration of the project because I could have definitely taken some cool photos off campus, but I am still very happy with how my series turned out.

Light as a Character - Water, Reflection and Light

In this project our goal was to use light as the main character within our photographs. For each photo I wanted to use water and reflection in order to evoke light as the main character within the photos. The first photo I used the reflection of the building on the water to create two halves of the picture creating a symmetrical picture. I also did this with the second picture. The third picture was a reflection off of a bench which I then flipped creating an abstract reflection off of the bench. The next photo I used the reflection off of the water droplets to really drag the attention of the viewer to the reflection in the three water droplets. I also used water droplets to bring out light as a character in the next three photos. I in almost all of my pictures used depth of field to grab the attention of the viewer to the object that I wanted to be the main part of the photo. I also got fairly close to the object that I was taking a picture of to accomplish the same goal as using depth of field. I was really happy with how all of these photos turned out!

Light as a Primary Character

I think that in each of these photos light plays a role as a primary character. In the first photo the dark background really evoked light as primary character. The dark background forces the viewer to focus in on the light making it a primary character in the picture. The second photo uses light as a primary character through the reflection of the saxophone. The reflection of the light off of the saxophone draws the attention of the viewer to the center of the photograph. In the last picture the dark side of the building contrast the light side of the building which draws the attention of the viewer to the lighter side of the building making light a primary character .

Digital Photography reflection

Exposure triangle photographs--what are the strengths of of these 3-5 images

I think that the strengths of these 5 photographs is the variation of color and lighting. I think that the lighting in almost all the photos really makes each one (to me at least) strong in certain aspects. I feel that using depth of field to get certain parts of the photo in focus and some out of focus really adds to the composition of the photos. I think that using a low ISO also added to the sharpness of some of my photos further separating the difference of the in focus and out of focus parts of each image.

High key/low key--post one high and one low key image, what works about them

I had a lot of trouble taking a good high key picture so I am leaving the results of my attempts at high key pictures out of this post. But I was able to capture a, in my opinion, good low key photo. In this image I believe that the use of a very high shutter speed I was able to capture the actual flames of the fire in my image. I think that the darkness of the image really evokes the brightness and orange/yellow flames of the fire.

Off camera flash / studio lights--2-5 images, address how the use of light serves the image