here it is...

outside mudhouse...
it FINALLY loaded!

panoramas, landscapes...trees

so our assignment for this week was to make either a David Hockney or a panorama. Hockney is a photographer who started out as a painter but he wanted to paint rooms and he could not just take ONE picture of the room, basically the angles would be all wrong and the details wouldnt be as good....he needed to paint it afterward so details are extremely important.
This is a work by Hockney, see how he has takes multiple pictures of the chair and then painted them and put them together? Thats what we had to do....except we didnt have to paint it. This is probably a good thing as im not so skilled with the paint brush....

Anyway, the day i did most of my filming was GORGEOUS. the sky was that amazing dark gray color and the light hit the trees so that all the oranges and yellows and greens popped. Probably the best weather for taking pictures, probably the best weather. ever.

So i attempted some Hockney and a panorama or two...heres what i came up with--

the photoshop ones wont load at the moment...annoying..here are some of the others i took that day.
























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both elements and principles!

The second assignment was on 'elements and principles' where we had to focus mainly on the elements and principles of the photograph. shockingly. anyway, we had to turn in an image that was photoshoped into perfection...mine is at the bottom... it turned out alittle darker when printed out then i had hoped, but im generally pleased with it.

just the beginning...

As the first roll of film that i was presented, it is quite natural that the first images that i was to produce would be the worst that i would ever take. Strangely, i seemed to have done relatively well with these two! Although, the lighting is a little gray--i feel that the focus was, on a whole, pretty good.

I guess you could call this a preface...

Photography can be either the best representation of emotion, or the worst. Thats what i love about photography...you never really know what your going to get; Especially with a film camera. Capturing the emotion of real people is, i feel the most important part of the photograph. My favorite artist---Dorothea Lange along with a few others that photographed the Dust Bowl really capture the feelings of the people. That is my goal as a photography student.
Another 'genre' of photography that i love is surrealist... Melting clocks and beds floating on the open ocean have always intrigued me. Its not so much that they portray the emotion of the portraits (above) but they have a sort of zen quality that portrays a certain thought or idea instead of a personal emotion. http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/2980791-2-surrealism.jpg