Final Works in progress

 

Blog Prompt #26

Brainstorms! (In an effort to expand, improve, add complexity, and push your final projects further, please pick 10 of the following to discuss.)

1. Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside?

This project is seriously irritating on top of the fact that it's the end of the year and I'm not really into doing anything.  I'm not sure what to photograph and where to photograph How people should be positioned and lighting. I've done a lot thinking on this project and as I started to take pictures the idea developed more which has helped in making this peice more fun.

1. What is the “opposite” of your final project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”?

The opposite of my project would be people in their clothes where you see people in clothes not just clothes without people I thought about includeing the people still in their clothes but I'm not sure if I like it thoguh.

1. What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project?
2. Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project.

Clothes; action; feeling; movement; lose; bright; positioning; identity; environment; how we view others; time; emotion felt not seen directly;  type of person; what we wear everyday; a double-check; colors; pride; standing out; being above; self-espression.

1. At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep!

 What I like about this Project is the photoshop work I really get to challenge myself with it and try things I may not have fully grasped in photoshop. Plus it interested me when I first started.

1. Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project?

If money and time wasn't an issue I'd be going everywhere to get different back grounds frrom far away places like New Zealand or the Rockys and I'd fine the most outragous outfits and photograph them. I'd use different color lights and effects make the image really pop.

1. Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form?
2. Look at one of your images. Redesign it entirely.
3. Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind.

the three components would be depression; excited; and work; when I divide the pics up the depression pics could be a broader subject because depression has  many forms and same goes with excited.

1. List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these.

Simple; easy going; thoughtful. It may look simple but has alot of complexity in how it is photoshoped and lined up; easy going in how it makes the viewer feel but has many different emotions; and finally the meaning behind the series.

1. What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future?
2. Remove something from your project. How does it change?

When I remove the element of the human figure the picture changes dramatically that the image loses its meaning that is was originally meant to have it just truns into a scenery pic instead of a image with a story.

1. Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed.
2. Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks.
3. Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dreams to your project?

I don't really have a memorable dream but I have an idea of a person walking a girl in a long sleeve dress carrying books in a huge garden. I could take a picture of a person walking to class and photoshop them into a scene with a garden add a sunny day to it the dress in optional depending on if I find a dress I like.

1. How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project?

To make my project more of a story I would shot the scenes in a scequence so that the subject is going about their daily life and it shows what is being done around the subject.

1. How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually?
2. What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually?
3. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why?
4. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why?
5. How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected?

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Asssignment 5 Constructed Reallity

This is my video to a stopmotion piece i put together. It consists of around 60 stills and two bits of audio I used Movie Maker to create it. I really love this piece. ^_^

Projector image

work in progress assign 5 part 2

 

work in progress assign 5

Constructed idenity/reality

Prompt #25

You as Curator
Look through the list of recent entrants to this call for photography.
http://pdncuratorawards.com/entries.shtml
Pretend you are curating a show and choose 7 photographers to include in your show. Describe why you would pick those particular artists and what about their work stands out to you.

Keith Lewis        I chose Lewis because his work isn't in focus it was different and from a distance the girl gives off a mystical feel which I really like and the lighting and the way the colors look fit well together. The little bit of fire along the base of the wall  just awesome.
     
Molly Salzbrunn           What drew me to Molly's work was how simply beautiful her images are the color scheme here is so mellow toned that its relaxing to look at.

Grace Oh               Grace Oh's  work is just wow  the use of lighting and positioning of shadows  make this image very interesting And from the looks of it the image appears to be a CGI image a 3D model of a reflective circle. Its a piece that I'd like to see more of.

mitchell           In Mitchell's work the colors seem to be all the same and at first look you don't see the vehicle that's in the scene because of the colors. Also the way the image is set up with only having the very front and very end of the truck being used and fitting it in the aisle the whole scene just makes me uncomfortable with how the truck sits in there.
Heart & Hurt                   With this piece the emotion captured is powerful to me the lighting in it really emphasizes it and being in black and white helps with emotion better than if it was in color.
Jim Tetro         Tetro's works is mind boggling with it being mirrored the affect is just so well executed that the piece draws your attention. Plus the two orange lines help you up and down the image.

Albert C Karges          Ah Albert I chose him immediately I'm a sucker for cloud and sky images they're my favorite. And Albert's  pics remind me of my own cloud series they're just out there. 

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”.

 I think this scene I'd use barbie dolls and dress them in night gowns then use my barbie living room set and use the chairs and couch and find a little. For lighting I'd use my orange light which would help give it a lighting more similar to the original.

 I really like this one its simple yet mysterious and messmerizing I wouldn't know how to remake it I just thought it was awesome

  For this one I was thinking of still using the video/book store but replace the people with action figures Maybe croped/ photoshoped in.

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.

My first Idea back fired I wanted to take pictures of Cosplayers at an anime convention but they didn't turn out so well.

Now what I want to do is kind of something we've done before but I'm throwing in my own twist. Do you remember when we did the camera exerxise where we took pictures of each other holding a sign with a saying of thought we had. Well my idea is similar only I'm going to take pictures of my friends and classmates that are willing and ask them to write their major or field of study on a handheld whiteboard. The idae is majors are different. Showing all the different majors around campus. They will be different from one another in how they will be photographed in diferent areas around campus.

Blog Prompt #23

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

Trying to be someone I'm not in the way I dress and see myself. I sometimes put on an act so that people will like me. I dream everynight that I'm this outgoing not shy strong girl who doesn't take crap from nobody. 

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

People telling us how we should act and who we should be. Saying we need to keep races separate and not interact it doesn't seem to be such a proplem now but it was back in the day.

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

The way is which we set up our dorm rooms and houses. The way we build our cities with certain building in certain areas and people in certain places.

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

A sunset I consider to be real an a smile that happens while you laugh you just can't fake that. What I consider to be fabricated is love and governments also realtiy in general it all just seems so fake that none of it makes sense nor does it seem real.

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).

Two swordsmen dueling one in traditional Samuri grab and the other is in a black leather jacket and blue jeans more of a modern feel they're are both tired looking breathing heavily. The Samuri has torn clothing with some blood and the leather jacket swordsman has cuts on his face, his pants and his left side bleeding alot but not flinching. They're in a stand off reading each other waiting to see who will make the first move.

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).

Dogzilla attacks have a miniature city of legos with cars, people and the works then have my puppy Snickers walk through it. It will look like a monster is attacking a city like Godzilla did with Tokyo and New York.