night photography -sushi field trip

JR inside out project reflection

by the way i didnt realize we only had to choose 2 questions so i answered them all so yeah haha.

I found it very hard to represent LFAS, because we had to do so with very little to work with. Our models had to wear all white and have a plain background so it all we really had to work with was their facial expressions and body language. Which is a lot to work with but at the same time very little. It all depends on what aspect of LFAS we were trying to represent. Because representing the arts its self was kinda difficult without using props. But I think we managed to represent the lively accepting creative atmosphere we have here. And that is very clear in a lot of the pictures everyone did. The challenges I faced with getting people to show their true personality’s in the photographs was that a lot of the people I photographed were very shy, And they weren’t sure what to do. I tried my best to make them laugh and get them to play around so I could get more candid shots. But it was kinda difficult to get them to open up. I found it extremely hard to show the art of my model, 2 of my models were drama and so I tried to get them to be as expressive as possible but it was very difficult. And another was dance so I tried to get some poses but I didn’t really want to use props because personally it felt a little bit like cheating so I found it very difficult. I could probably get some good ones if I caught them in their art. I didn’t really have any technical challenges in the photo taking process but when I came time to make my 16” by 20” I had some sort of unexplainable issue with the enlargers on the left side of the room. My print kept coming out hazy and grey and no matter how much contrast I put it barely affected it. I had all the magenta up and the aperture all the way up and my time was at 800 seconds at it still wouldn’t expose correctly and I tried 2 different enlargers on the back wall and it wouldn’t look good. So I ended up having to take enlarger 3 and unbolt it and turn it around so I could project it on the floor. And within 20 minutes I had finished my big print and it was perfect so that was pretty much the only technical difficulty. I learned that I’m not very good at portraits when I have to get them to model I need to plan out the photos I will take more. I also know that I am very good with technical stuff to do with film and studio lights. i learned that kids are adorable. I didn’t learn a whole ton about photography but I just improved my skills with all the practice. I would love to be a portrait photography but I don’t like the people aspect of it I more like the way you can form the picture more with a person in it. But working with people is a pain cause then your relying on a another person. So I would probably want to be mixed. So over all this project helped me expand and grow as a photographer.

night photography examples

mixed lighting

 i know this isnt the complete assignment but i played around with lighting using the external flash and i got a couple of different effects.

black and white dance collab follow up pictures.

i'm still not positive on what my exact theme is but i just wanted to try out something creepy. so i went out at night and took acouple of creppyish landscapes and what not.

b/w inspiration - creepy theme

so the theme i'm going to go with is creepy, like darker themed cause thats what i think of more when i think black/white. i dont usually have a creepy theme to my work so i thought i would take this opertunity to try out and expand on what im capable of and do like dark scary creepy things. like photographing dolls, and gohstly like images.

1.Describe the piece.
well this piece doesnt involve photography and is mainly a design piece, looks like a old letter sign for a autobody shop. mainly focuses on text and design and uses it to convey the concept.

2.What do you think Ken Lum is trying to communicate?
People often don't express there sexuality so openly, because their afraid of people may treat them. and ken lum is like overexagerating his point to make more of a statement. and some people make a huge deal about comeing out of the closet and he could also be saying it doesnt have to be such a big deal. he is mainly focusing on teh issue of homosexuality and sexuality.

3.How does it explore race, culture, language, class, and/or identity?
Well hes gay and in most society's and culture its not the most acceptable thing and in some it can be considered a bad thing, and also he could be showing that hes found his identity.

4.Define conceptualism, how is this work a conceptual piece?
The meaning or message behind a piece of work or art. so like the deeper meaning, or reason for doign a piece or what your trying to convey through something, it could also be included as a theme. this piece is conceptual in it has a deeper meaning, and the concept focuses on homosexuality and personal identification.

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Why do you like this? Why did you choose this?

Well I chose 1,2, and 4 because i thought the perspective was really cool, like the way they installed the photos made I different type of impact. I also find them kind of funny like #1 is makes it look like the guy is looking up people pants, and such. And #3 I just thought was very sweet and I liked the back round it was on and the effect of the photo made it visually fun. #4 looks like the person is getting closed in by the ivy which can send a certain mood and message to the viewers of that piece.

Can we do this for lfas? How would it work for lfas?

Well as for the different perspective’s all the photos have, I don’t really think we could do that at lfas cause were just putting them up on the school but maybe we could do a couple of different things like how #3 is, on a portable or something. Also I like how #2 is split up we could do that on different parts of the school that have separated roofs and such.

What sort of scale?

I think the bigger the better but not to big but big enough that it makes a large impact and big enough for people to be able to see from the road, and if we did some on the portables then I think they should be huge like #3 but it depends if we are going to have them more unified or not cause if there unified then they should all be the same size and probably as tall as an average person.

Background?

I think that we shouldn’t cut them out because it would look a tad cleaner if we kept it more unified as for the format of the picture.

 Expressions?

I think the expression on their face should represent how they feel about art or how art makes them feel when there doing it.

 Poses? Will the portraits be full length? Or just head and shoulders?

I think the pictures should be head and shoulder shots but then it would be hard to represent art in so little space, for example for dance it would be better if it was full length to catch them in a dancers pose.  So it depends what’s going to be in our photos.

color shoot- media arts

contact sheet for color

these are just photos from the scannar i didnt make prints of these, i just scaned the negative into the computer