Check this website out, “A Photo Editor” chose 30 young photographers to keep an eye on… There is some really awesome stuff, I’ve been coming back to look at a few of these every once and awhile to find some inspiration and new ideas.
Working with the view camera has been a whole new experience for me that has definitely proved to be challenging. I’m looking forward to having waaay more time in the future to get to know the camera better after the project is done. Anywho I’ve also been using my Holga more after 290 and its rather refreshing to be able to just CLICK THE SHUTTER and thats IT! Here’s a couple that I scanned in today (second is a double exposure of Jasmine!)
So far, I’ve enjoyed working with the holga. The things that I am attracted to the most are the easiness of double exposures/panoramas/overlappings and the square medium format. I like the square crop look a lot. I wish we could use color film in this class, but I’ll just have to experiment with that on my own.
Definitely like the simplicity, I struggle sometimes with technical aspects so it’s nice to just be able to shoot and then have some interesting, weird results.
Dang, already made the mistake of taking what I thought was a great picture, with the lens cap on… i’ll keep on practicing with it!
Having an obsession with rays of sunlight and shadows these days. Ties in a bit to the different types of light we’ve been talking about. I had this particular picture in mind when I took the one below on my walk to school today. (shucks didn’t realize the similarities between them until i saw them together now!!) Click the picture above to check out Christian Patterson’s work, it’s awesome!
Obviously this was a helpful reading to do before we start studio shooting. It’s something I don’t have a lot of experience with and I’m excited to work with it, but I’m also technically challenged so there was a lot of information in the book that I’m sure I’ll be referencing. Mixed light and natural light is more of my thing, but the ability to manipulate so much in the studio is also intriguing.
Just starting to think about the night and day assignment. Shooting at night tends to intimidate me, just because it’s something I haven’t done a lot of and it can be tricky. But it can also be so kool!!! Here’s a lil bit of inspiration for me, maybe for you too!
Just wanted to holla at one of my favorite photographers. Olivia Bolles, she’s from Portland and a few years younger than me. I’ve been following her on flickr for a few years and her work is always so interesting and refreshing. A lot of shots about just being a teenager and stuff, which I’m definitely a sucker for. Anyway, check out her flickr stream…here’s the link.
The reading was a helpful review for me, especially the information on SLR’s. It’s been a few years since I’ve really spent some serious time with darkroom photography so I’m excited to get back into the swing of things. Also nice to get some Lightroom pointers. The pinhole cameras and camera obscuras were sweet too! I’d love to experiment with some of those.