This semester I intend to take advantage of new techniques and applications such as choosing a variety of film speeds, using filters during shoots and tones in the darkroom. I am anxiously awaiting the development of my experimental photos, so that I can understand how to use colored filters in different types of lighting.
My final project will be a continuation of my self portrait that I worked on last semester. The work will consist of several instances where I am placed in a scene surrounded around typical people doing things common to society today. However, I will be slightly out of place by using materials that are not common to today’s world, objects from the past. Last semester, I photographed a scene that took place in a typical coffee house where everyone was working on laptops and I was using an old portable typewriter. Another from last semester is a group of people at a bus stop listening to iPods, and I am checking out some records. Now that I have gotten more comfortable asking people to join the photoshoot and am using other techniques, I will re-shoot every scene from last semester and add others to the list. This time around, I will photograph each scene from different stand points, to vary my options for selection (which I did not do last semester). I also will put myself more into the scene instead of directly in front.
This project is very important to me, because I feel it truly captures the essence of who I am and brings together the components that make me that way. All of the objects I use to pull me out of a typical scene, I actually own and display in my house. I have a fascination for antiques and appreciation for the past. I think it’s interesting how dated materials almost seem sturdier than things made today. There is a foundation for everything.
I have in mind one more project I want to work on this semester. I have recently gone through some old photographs from my parents’ childhood and young adulthood and want to recreate those using people who look similar (i.e. my self, my brother and my cousin). This is where the sepia tones will come in to give these recreations their proper tone. This is a project I can expand upon in later classes.
I am looking forward to this semester’s work and I feel much more confident shooting these scenes after the foundation work in Photo I.
1 comment:
your ideas are well developed for a proposal for this semester. we will at a certain point, look at proposals from artists, to give you an idea of how to write one for your own show in the future. i would like to see you work on reducing the staged feeling of your work that comes across in some instances - the cell phone image, and ipod image come to mind. how can you integrate yourself in the environment with an object from the past, without overemphasizing the object of the present? are there enough clues from your casual environment to allow the the viewer some credit to "get it"?
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