Post V

So, I just wrote up my project proposal and I already think I've changed my idea of how I will be printing and how I will be displaying my photos. I mentioned the way I was thinking of displaying them in my proposal and I really like the idea. 

Here is my idea:

I would like to shoot all of my images and pick around 25-40 images for my final portfolio and display them with the pins like a bug collector would. To make a commentary on how these emotions consume my life the way that a collector is consumed by their hobbies. That is my thought process right now. I may even add images of myself in with all of the random broken things as a way to make it more personal. 

I am still figuring out details that will only be figured out from actually shooting and testing out my ideas. 

More pictures and ideas to come soon!

Post IV

I have thought more about it and I really want to take pictures of things to express how I have been feeling lately. Dark, broken, alone, deserted. I want my pictures to express my emotions and what I've been going through lately. I don't want to spell out exactly how I feel in words though, I want people to be able to interpret the photos how they wish to. However, I also want the photos to give off the right feeling. 

I am going to go shoot some more pictures tomorrow if the weather permits. I really enjoyed the window picture that I posted on the last entry (and at the bottom of this one) and I think I am going try to shoot more like it. 

Post III

After class today I was inspired and really wanted to go shoot some photos that I may or may not use. I can't stray too far from Ellensburg, so I went to some of my usual haunts; but tried to shoot them in new ways. I had a lot of fun with this adventure and I think it helped me get more amped for this project. A lot of the images have lovely textures that I tried to focus on a bit too. Lately, I haven't been too inspired, I am dealing with a lot of personal things right now and I kind of want those to be shown in my work. We talked about how our life is shown in our work, but I want mine to be more obvious. I don't want you to be able to tell exactly what it is I am dealing with, but just enough to almost feel the same way when you look at the images. I feel like I am not making sense...

I want the viewer to feel what I feel and see what I see when they experience this body of work. I don't like to open up about the issues I am dealing with, but I think I can portray it without fully cutting myself open for all of the world to see. Again, I don't know if I am making sense... I am still trying to figure everything out as of right now, but you will be happy to know that I am one step closer to figuring that out.

Oh, when I shot my images today, I had my ISO up really high and so my images are very grainy. I don't mind the grain, but I may go shoot them again with a lower ISO for less noise.

Post II

For my project, I have decided that I would like to take pictures of things that I find interesting. Usually it is stuff that is broken, decaying or falling apart. I know I did something similar every quarter, but it's something I really enjoy taking pictures of. However, I do not want to limit myself to just death and decay. I am going to be focusing mainly on making something from nothing like chapter 4 in the Cotton book. I always love taking pictures like that anyway and I'd love to do an entire project in that style. I think that overall my images will be tied together because of the polaroid format I chose. I also have a feeling my images will tie together nicely because I am always intrigued by things that are broken or ugly in some way or another. 

I am really inspired by artists like Wim Wenders, William Eggleston, and Uta Barth. 

Uta Barth

William Eggleston

Wim Wenders

Their work is all very beautiful and vibrant and all have elements of rot and decay in them. Not all their work, but they are there in the work that I am focusing on.

 

New Quarter, New project

For Fall 2014 I am inspired by the workshop I did involving the Impossible Project over the summer. I knew as soon as I started to play with the instant lab that this is what I wanted to experiment with throughout the quarter. I knew since the workshop that I wanted to use polaroids for my printing process, but I was inspired to make each polaroid a fraction of a scene by seeing this image by Thomas Kellner:

I really like the idea of breaking a scene up in fragments for for the most part fit together to make an overall image. As of right now, I am thinking of taking pictures of things that are already broken or in some form of decay so as to show their true nature. I am still trying to figure out the minor details of the overall idea, but I feel like I've got a pretty strong start. 

I will be faced with many challenges with this project, such as the complexity and planning I will have to take in order to figure out how to shoot the scenes, how to edit the scenes and the biggest challenge I keep falling upon, the challenge of how to display the polaroids after I've pieced them together. I actually found a few ideas on pinterest, but I am also going to look into how artists would display work similar to this, such as the Starn Brothers (who were also a big part of my inspiration for this project as well).

                 Example:

               

                Possible Display Example:

I still have a lot to think about and figure out, but I think I've got a good start. I will post more about where I am thinking of shooting, what type of shots they will be, and all that other good stuff in my next blog.