Light Inspiration

I'm having trouble deciding where to shoot my project. At first I was thinking domestic spaces but then the color scheme of most of these places are all the same, along with design scheme. Everything that comes to mind is typically neutral. Maybe I can change direction and use that to my benefit? Depend on amount and color of light rather than the found textures and colors of the space I'm shooting in? Yeah, I think I'll do that. I'm imagining moodier scenes... maybe.

Philip Lorca DiCorcia

(3 images above)

Jeff Wall

Here are two guys that make wonderful things by holding a camera. It's like everyday life but better- highlighted! There's something magically delicious about both of these photographers. 

Closure and then some

I saw a psychic today. Very wild and all the while very mundane... I've never seen one but for some reason after this summer it's just been in the back of my head. Mustering a mixture of greed, curiosity, and boredom I found myself sitting in her home, listening to my past, present, and future. In terms of art I'll apparently move away from photography and make other forms of art dealing with my hands. She said a lot of things. We'll see where I bring myself.

HelloVon

Robert Longo

Here are a couple artists I found (via ffffound.com) whom I've really fallen in love with, especially HelloVon. For both of them their subjects aren't as engaging as their style. These two particular pieces caught me for a few main reasons: intensity, realism, and stillness. I'm really drawn to their use of negative space. Although initially these two works differ, looking at them together I feel like they could be husband and wife. HelloWon paints creamy (yes, creamy) feminine lines that flow in and out of the piece, while Longo's charcoal is hauntingly aggressive, showing only what you need to see to understand/feel the piece.

Check out HelloVon's stuff though- he does a lot of pop culture/media stuff but his techniques are great. He really highlights the mediums he uses.

Research readings and slight epiphanies

"There is a link between breathing and our emotions. When we're overcome by grief and frustration, when we're fatigued, hopeless, or depressed, we breathe shallowly. When we're excited, angry or keyed up we breathe deeply." - Talking Between the Lines, Peter A. Anderson

It makes complete sense, but I honestly never linked emotions and breathing together. It's a no brainer now that my attention has been brought to it - I thought I'd share. Oh, also, I never realized that "opposite" emotions can have similarities in breathing.

Favorite word of today, rapture.

Read ze body

My project deals with relying on body language to read people so this is a perfect time to share this video with all of you. If you watch it, watch it till the end!!!!

Favorite of hers

Woods and Roses

by Kelli Connell

"This work represents an autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of  the self in intimate relationships. Polarities of identity such as the masculine and feminine psyche, the irrational and rational self, the exterior and interior self, the motivated and resigned self are portrayed.  By combining multiple photographic negatives of the same model in each image, the dualities of the self are defined by body language and clothing worn. This work is an honest representation of the duality or multiplicity of the self in regards to decisions about intimate relationships, family, belief systems and lifestyle options."

I think she really does a great job at capturing the grey times in life. By grey times I don't mean dull, simply not in the extremes of black and white... The moments aren't calling for attention, but are generic moments in our lives and relationships. In the photographs, some more than others, you can really see the genuity and individual personalities come through. I just love how humble this whole series feels. Can't get enough of it-

Here we go--

Project Name: Sometimes I Feel

Project Description: Masking facial expressions and keeping body language at bay, I’m going to capture human emotions based on color temperature, lighting, and setting. Using these techniques I am taking advantage of how photography captures time, and translating my subject’s emotions through color and light quality.

Conceptual Concerns: Aside from talking, body language and facial expressions often enable others to read our emotions. Our slightest gestures, the way we carry and adorn ourselves, and what we surround ourselves around, give observers a glimpse of our personalities even before we say anything. Without consciously doing so we pick up on each other’s vibes, we read faces and body language, and we intuitively feel another’s energy to categorize how a person is feeling.

We are all too familiar with what it looks like to be happy, tired, or any other basic emotion. We have it engrained in our minds how a lonely sad old man might look or the expression of an excited child. If we took away the physical indicators that we use to describe one’s emotions what do we have? We heavily rely on body language and facial expressions to translate emotion.

Color. They say staring at a certain color more than another can change the way you think and feel. Red makes you feel impulsive (Buy! Buy! Buy!), orange heightens your appetite, green relaxes, and etc. Color explains as much to us as facial features do. When we look at photographs and movies, colors have a lot to do with changing the way we analyze a scene; our feelings and emotions alter depending on the color palettes used.

Technical Skills: Submersing myself in understanding how color affects people. Proper color correction and lighting will be an important aspect to this project. Something I want to really improve on is how I want to display my pieces.

Formal Guidelines: 14 x 16 or bigger, 4+ digital printed photos

Artistic References: Kelli Conell, Elinor Carruci, Kat Macleod, Phillip Toledano

Readings: I need to look up more about them: psychology of color perception and emotions, cinematographic lighting/techniques, non-verbal communication.

Grade: quality of print and image, color, composition, cohesive series, connection with emotions, personal satisfaction (ha!)

Goal List: Find suitable locations, read up, avoid procrastination,

kazuhiro yamanaka

His stuff might be too cold (and too expensive) for a place I'd naturally call home, but there is still something very beautiful and delicate about those subtle curves. I want. 

i'm a real bike!

some snazzy product designs- 

arndt menke- zumbragel: woodway bicycle

jarvier mariscal

:)

Catalina Bartolome

I stumbled on her site. This was basically what I was thinking about doing for my project. We will see how this goes.

Peter Baker

andreas weinand. gero und olli 1989 , found.

Village of the Damned Meese!

Simen Johan

I found the intense moose photograph on ffffound.com and thought, 'How funny! Yet undeniably epic.' Anyways, I browsed his site and found some interesting work. I'm really drawn towards the demon-possessed children pieces; the mixture of contrasting light sources really grab me. Reminds me of that 90's remake of Village of the Damned with the demonic white haired children sporting red/green eyes and bad tempers, except Simen photographs an even newer generation of little evils.

VSA Partners - Design Agency

found here

I'm not sure of the photographers, but I was looking through graphic-exchange.com. This agency, VSA partners, usually does annual reports. If our textbooks had these kinds of layouts and designs I would definitely stay awake and actually retain. Great works, check it out.

Something tangible, I like.

Kat Macleod

Dainty figures, delicate lines, flirty textures and watercolor.

Nich Hance

Color Correct?

Finger Pick or Ponder?

The original, top, is too warm so I cooled it down. I adjusted through levels and brought her skin to it's normal self, a rosy pale color. The enlargement of the final picture is what I saw when I edited although I kind of like the fleshy desaturated version as well.

This was the life

Jan Von Holleben

His work varies in styles and color but here are a few images from the series Dreams of Flying. I love how imaginatively simple and playful this series is with the use of accessible props and locations. Really love the socks and bucket head Vader.

Looking at the info palette the first and third image are predominately yellow. The second image appears neutral but leans closer to cyan. He sticks with primary colors which brings out a youthful quality in the work.

His other works all vary in color depending on the project. Even within projects Jan mixes up the color palette. In his project Prayers, he plays with various neutrals and generally corrects to a colder finish.

Color Correct!

Robin Moyer, Watching the Ginza Chiming Clock

Before- Magenta. A lot of his color work tends to be magenta.

After- I went for earthier colors.

Work

I put it on my Flickr

During my summer internship in Macau I saw and met a million new faces. Aside from assisting I spent the majority of my time wandering through the streets, hopping on buses, staring at people (there are too many interesting faces not to stare), and making friends with whomever I encountered- camera glued to my side/hands/face.

One day, my coworker/friend Rene showed me her place before dinner. I was greeted by her niece who led me into the bedroom (above) where the most comfortable ambient light (if light can be comfortable) filled the room. Their helper was relaxing on a bed as the niece was wandering around in circles playing with her freshly baby tooth ridden gum space. With the humble light coming through and the strangely familiar family treating me as though I've been there all my life, I couldn't resist documenting.

Shape Shifting

Métamorphose by Frédéric Fontenoy

His recent work doesn't really interest me but I like a couple of his really early projects. I really like the early morning mood plus the fluidity of the human form. Definitely a set where I'm thinking, 'How exactly did he do that?' My guess is a long exposure but that can't be all of it, right?

i like his nose

and his eyebrows, and his eye baggies. but mostly your nose.

found somewhere here.

Starting off with grand simplicity--

Kaarel Nurk

I thought I'd start this blog with one of my favorite images that I stumbled across through Flickr. Ordinary people looking at other ordinary people. The little moments, the inbetween times, it's just what I'm all about. I'm just another person in this theater, staring at these two at a larger than life scale. There is something very humbly pure about this moment that really moves me...

what a doo dooo maynn