Intro to Professional
Photography

Favorite things on Campus

This was the first assignment of the course. The first week was just getting us used to our cameras and the seond week was re-taking 6 of the original 10

Portraits

We then moved on to portraits. The First week we were sent out to figure everything out on our own. After a group critique and a lab day of learning lighting and editing we were sent off again to retake or re edit 4 of the original images

Narrative

This assignment relied heavily on editing. For the image in the green room there are about 5 pictures layered and cropped on top of each other to achieve a doll house-esque total focus. In the Dorm room, I'm featured int he foreground as well as my friend Jac being pictured twice (on the bed and opening the door.

Style

In this assignment we were to research a photographer. I chose to imitate Jeff Wall Saying:
Jeff Wall's work is static but still manages to have extreme depth with his use of large apertures and vibrant colors. Wall is able to capture a moment in time in which you can see an action taking place without the need for motion blur. When he has a human subject the photographer is unseen by the subject and this gives a sense of them living in the space they are photographed in, not placed like we know they are. In his inhuman subject pieces there is a feeling of just missing someone, the clothes are strewn about, the soap is still wet, the sink is shiny with water that has just stopped coming from the faucet. He somehow creates the feeling of “you just missed them” and “I've seen this before”. Wall also uses color to his advantage grey scaling and over-saturating to emphasize the monotony of color beauty in each scene.

Final

The Final Project spanned 4 weeks with a class critique each week. At the beginning of the process the proposal was written and had to be stuck to, no exceptions. 
My Proposal:
For my final project I’m planning on taking pictures at night of places around campus, specifically the places I see on my walk home from going out on weekends. In the past 2 semesters I’ve been able to have so much fun and feel so much like I belong in such a short time and while walking home I tend to be alone, but I never feel lonely. Finding this feeling through pictures will be challenging but that feeling is what im aiming at, dark and happy. I am interested in looking at the way different light sources change through different exposure times and how those changes manipulate the tone of the photo. To accomplish these pictures I will have to give up some hours of sleep. I'm also planning on using different photographs with different exposures to make sure that I get the dark details I want without to extremely over exposing other details in a picture. With the extended time frame and critiques I will be able to re photograph using different times with the same and similar places because my subjects are not people. I hope that this project makes me think about light in a more complex way and about angles as well. I have been taking a lot of fast action shots in my spare time for triathlon so with this project I want to explore the opposite and take my time