Emulation Project

Here are my few finished prints for the emulation project. To be honest I am not pleased with my work. I set out to emulate George Inness but I did not succeed.  Instead my work is very dark which is nothing like Inness. This style is a bit like Jacob van Ruisdael.

Emulation project: George Inness

For my emulation project I will be emulating George Inness. I decided to emulate him because I am interested in shooting more landscapes and that is his main topic. I hope to emulate the overall feel of his paintings.

Words>Image

Here are my two final pieces for the word>image assignment:

 Stair                                                                           Stare

Pare                                                                               Pair

More independent work

Other than my iPhone work I also experimented with color film for third quarter. These photos were taken with color negative film and then scanned onto a computer. Only minor adjustments like brightness and contrast were made, as well as spotting. These were all taken at Smith Rock State Park

The monkey face

Some of my own iPhone work

Here are some of my best iPhone photos so far:

Independent Research: iPhone Photography

Recently I have been experimenting taking photos with my iPhone. Over the years the quality of phone cameras has greatly increased. Currently the iPhone has one of the best cameras and can produce some really great images. There are also a number of apps that can assist in creating these images like "Camera+" and "Snapseed". Here are some iPhone images that inspired me.

Jimmy Mazur (Winning image of the 5th Annual iPhone Photography Awards)

Past winners and honorable mentions

  Greg Schmigel (Pioneer in mobile photography who uses iPhone as main camera) 

His website

For more examples check out www.iPhoneography.com which is the biggest iphone photography blog right now.

Book making inspiration

Here's some inspiration for the book I will be making based on the poem, "Morning" by Billy Collins, which is below:

Morning

BY BILLY COLLINS

Why do we bother with the rest of the day,

the swale of the afternoon,

the sudden dip into evening,

then night with his notorious perfumes,

his many-pointed stars?

This is the best—

throwing off the light covers,

feet on the cold floor,

and buzzing around the house on espresso—

maybe a splash of water on the face,

a palmful of vitamins—

but mostly buzzing around the house on espresso,

dictionary and atlas open on the rug,

the typewriter waiting for the key of the head,

a cello on the radio,

and, if necessary, the windows—

trees fifty, a hundred years old

out there,

heavy clouds on the way

and the lawn steaming like a horse

in the early morning.

Relating words and image

Here is some inspiration I found for both of the assignments for this quarter where we are asked to relate words and images.

Stefan Stagmiester:

Barbara Kruger:

Some of my attempts at camera tossing

First I tried camera tossing with my phone. I used a simple self timer app and tried to make it go off right at the peak of the throw.

I also tried some camera tossing indoors, using a few simple patterns I found on a camera tossing blog. 

Here are the patterns I used to create this images: