In Progress Crit FINAL PROJECT

Ideas on presenting? Mounting? Suggestions? Comments?

Blog Prompt 25

Write a detailed description of your “motivations” for your final self-proposed project. Why are you interested in this subject? What do you want to convey? How do you want viewers to respond? Why are you inspired to make these images/this project? Do you want to evoke emotions in viewers? Shock viewers? Make them laugh? Make them think? Inform them? Reveal something about how you see the world? Reveal something about yourself, a person, a place, a feeling, a memory, a moment in time?


For this project I wanted to capture motion. I really like the photography of Chip Forelli, but after trying and trying to get something close to his, I have decided that his pictures take a lot of planning I just don't have time or money to plan something like that. Enter the Shutter Zoom technique. While my images will not be exactly as soft and dreamlike as Forelli's there will be a feeling of movement still. 


Forelli's images are my entire inspiration for this, and his images always look so smooth, they almost look drawn or painted. So I want the viewer to feel the same way about these images, but at the same time I want them to understand that it is being created with a camera. I will be photographing people, but I don't care if the people are smiling, or straight-faced. 

Blog Prompt 24

A. Pick two images from any of the “constructed reality” photographers presented in class or linked on the assignment sheet. Describe how you could recreate these two images on a “smaller scale”.

a. Steph Goralnick 

This one is interesting to me, because Goralnick chose to pixelate herself, and keep everything else in focus. To recreate this one, i would set my camera behind a mirror so that I would be able to see the LCD screen, because the picture of the man would have to be lined up pretty good.... then I would pixelate in photoshop...

 

This one I would recreate in a pretty similar way as the original, because it is a pretty easy picture to recreate. Maybe I would have someone looking like they were doing a hand stand. 

B. Describe your plans for your self-proposed final project (if the plan is the same as before, paste it here again and give a bit more detail). During the final critique for Assignment #5, you will discuss/present these ideas to the class.

b. For my final project I am going to play with the zoom lens to create a radial motion blur such as below:

I was going to photograph objects at first, but i didnt think it would be interesting enough, so I think Im going to photograph people and just play with the shutter zoom aesthetic. I hope to use good lighting for all of my pictures, so that I can get more contrast out of my images, without making them look too grainy.... I think that the high contrast would make them look more interesting....

Final Project Presentation

I have way too many ideas for this, and i'm just trying to think of what would be possible to do given the time frame and conditions.... Anyway, this is one of my ideas, along the lines of constructed realism. I like this look because it looks like the bike is falling into the sky.... I would basically take several objects, and make them look like they would be falling out of the sky...

I really like the idea of playing with gravity, so maybe even doing a couple pictures like the one below:

Yet another idea I had was to play around with Motion Blur the way Chip Forelli does. He is one of my favorite photographers that we researched in class. His images take a lot of time and planning though...

In Progress Critique Assignment 5

Blog Prompt 23

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

Makeup is one way that I construct my identity. It started when I began High School and while it is not as important to me as it was then, it has become a part of my identity, because it has become a part of my every day routine. 

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

I think that our social environment is constructed by keeping in touch. Our cell phones, computers and facebook construct our social environments. Also, the people that we surround ourselves with.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

My physical space is constructed by the walls around me, my belongings, my furniture, my car.... the trash i keep in my car, etc...

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

To me nature is real. the friendships and relationships that i have with people are real. Products are fabricated. 

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” ( Constructed Realities: The Art of Staged Photography Edited by Michael Kohler , 34).

I would take several pictures. In each picture a different person is in focus. All the people i photograph would be pieces of a much bigger picture. They would all be doing something that influences the next picture. Like someone throws a banana peel, another person slips on that banana peel, someones belongings are thrown around after someone falls on them by slipping on a banana peel etc...

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” (Kohler, 34).

I would take a picture of a doll house, or maybe a bath tub filled with sea animals, having it look like the ocean.... or maybe i would take a picture of a life size room and make it look like it's a fake room. 

Blog Prompt 22 (did we skip 21?)

A. Series: Brainstorm various ways to make a “series” of photographic images.


A series of photographic images should be a series of photos that all share some sort of same aesthetic or subject. I think if I were to make a series of images it would be, perhaps "a day in the life", or maybe a series of images exploring the way light plays off on human muscle and skin... maybe even a series of abstract photography. Or a set of pictures with a slow shutter speed, capturing light streaks, like left by cars, flashlights etc...

B. Final Project: Your final project in this class will be designed by you. If you could tackle any photography project, what would it be? You could combine other media with photography (video, sculpture, drawing) or you could take one of your earlier assignments and expand it to create a larger project. If you are expanding an earlier project or creating an entirely new series of images, shoot for a series of at least 5 images. Describe an idea you have for your final project.

Im not really sure what I would want to do for my final project. I think im leaning towards capturing the way that light plays with the contours of the human body, but i'm not 100% sure yet. I think im gonna research it a little bit more. Now that im thinking of it I really was inspired Chip Forelli's photography. I tried to tackle it in Assignment 4 but did not succeed whatsoever. So maybe I would refocus on that. Oh, or maybe a occupational set; focusing in on different occupations...not exactly sure yet. Plan on researching it over break though.