Jessica Todd Harper

I chose Jessica Todd Harper for someone to look at for this assignment because she is photographing in a similar lighting conditions that I will be working with. In the photos that I was looking at are one using sunlight in an interior space. I've already taken test shots, and I am pretty happy with the results that I am getting, but The part I'm hanging up on is the idea of "concept." But Actually after looking at her images I do have That maybe adding other people into the shots, not to create narritive, but I guess tension could be a rout I could go in. Or I also could still do single shots with one person, but shoot other people, so it's not just one guy in all the shots. I'm hoping to get some feed back in working critique. I'm counting this as my proposal, other ideas I'm bouncing around in my head are ultra hipster or someone cross-dressing, just have to find a volunteer. Website

Brooks Rynolds

I found this artist from just exploring around the internet, I like the way he is using light in his compositions. It doesn't say what light source he is using, strobes I would venture a guess along with ambient lighting creates interesting compositions where the subject matter is enhanced by the use of lighting in the photographs. You can find his website here, and I am posting images that I really liked how they were lit. The one with the ship captain is my favorite more for the subject matter, I find humorous, which I really enjoy in art, I love it when I can look at something and laugh because it's done in a humorous manner, not because its done bad or something like that. Also if anyone knows where I can change the link text color in the HTML let me know so I can change it to something brighter the the dark color it is.

Assignment One Ramblings

So I feel that I was in the same boat as everyone else as to trying to figure out what it was that I wanted to do. I felt when I got this assignment I had a deer in head lights moment, and didn't really know what it was that I wanted to do. The only thing that came to me was Film Noir which is cool or can be, but to be honest I wasn't crazy about the idea, but it was the only thing in my head. I knew that if I wasn't crazy about it then it would not look good as a whole project, I am not saying it couldn't be done, it can, I just didn't want to be the one to do it. This is also a good reason to write down an idea when you get one because you can always use it later. The Idea of Photographing the driver using only ambient light came to be driving back after shooting my photo 2 final project. It was late at night and my car has a bright blue stereo deck in it, so much so, that it fills the entire car with blue light. Using it for this project I was really happy with the over all effect of the images I have collected for this project. Which also brings me to another point of self editing, I had extra images, so I would have 10 images covered. This was helpful because when I looked at the images together in the folder, I could easily see what was working together and which one were sticking out like sore thumbs.