final post!

So this semester has been long and full of a billion ideas.
Something many people don't know about me is that it's extremely hard for me to stick with a project for more than two weeks. (i'm sure that this class has picked up on it) I know that that sounds horrible for an artist, but something i've always like about being a photographer is that most of my projects are usally pretty short term, or i can come up with different ideas by the week or day. So this semester was really a huge challenge for me. Sticking with one thing the whole semester. which, of course, i couldn't really do. At first i decided i wanted to do images incorporating QR images, but after only a few weeks, i got bored. And then i decided that i wanted to do polaroid transfers. Which i did NOT get bored with, my camera just broke, and the supplies were very hard to get. but this made me really think about what i love about photography. The spontaneity of a film image vs a digital image. I feel very passionate about this issue even as the semester comes to a close. Lately i've only been shooting film. so i figured it would be only right for me to make pinhole images. Something i've never done before. They ended up looking more like paper negatives, but i really enjoyed doing this. I liked the disciplin of having to sit still for sometimes 5 minutes long for an exposure and then going and developing the image just as i would with any other image in the darkroom.
So here is my final product. These were my favorite, and the ones that came out the best.
I displayed them side by side against a wood material because i thought that it brought it back in years. These tiny photos are kind of like daguerreotypes,which were some of the first images to be produced. they had a very long exposure time, and they were very very tiny. This made them very intimate.
For me, this series was more intimate and for me than anything else. I was becoming one with my images, as lame as that sounds. I had to focus on every single detail of the frame and the exposure, and every single movement i made would effect the image that was produced.
I am very happy with the outcome of these tiny images, and im glad i stuck with it for more than a few weeks. This is a big step for me!!!

sleep is for the dead

it's only tuesday, and i've already spent 24 entire hours on CCAD's campus( i do not live here) wide awake. ahhhh finals week, can you smell the body odor and stress?

here are some of my pinholes from the last week and their inverse counterparts.
:)

Can't wait for this year to be over! it's a bittersweet feeling though I guess. One more semester in my entire college career? talk about scary
I think this one is my favorite, because it was shot at night and it looks completely like day except for the light streaks from a car. my exposure was 5ish minutes.

everythings going as planned.
been shooting a whole lot of everything lately.
ready to finish up and move on to bigger and better things this summer photography wise
film all summer.
:)
this class has definitely made me become more aware of my need to go back to film photography.
with polaroids and pinholes and everything else ive experienced this semester, ive definitely grown as a photographer and a student. im excited to see what's to come.

Pinholes are going good/bad. I shot more this weekend, but apparently my dark bag isn't as dark as i suspected. and so i have little grey pieces of paper. WHOOPS. more to do more to do!!!
Not much of an update, but I'll post more over the week.
on another note, i've been shooting lots of film lately too I'm really excited about it. :)
here's one of them

So I realized that i'm dumb and I saved my last blog post as a draft but it's up now.:) I LOVE Technology!!!

Ive been shooting my little pinholes. They are sort of difficult to gage, but i think i've decided around 2-3 minutes is a good exposure time. Luckily, i can change my aperture on my pinhole.

here are some of the images that I captured.
They look a bit wonky, but I think that's the fun of it. It kind of takes you a second to figure out what they are because they're tiny paper negatives.
I will bring them into class so you can see them in person. I was having major scanning issues so I couldn't scan them at school. Again, YAY TECHNOLOGY <3

Garage sales and 5$ bills

So, going home to new jersey was not as bad as I expected. I got a few great things out of it, including a new twin lens reflex. Mind you, this little guy was built in the 1940's in Chicago. It is a Spartus SPARTAFLEX. Sounds epic right?
I found this to be an awesome opportunity to not only shoot more with medium format films, but also I think it'd be fun to turn this baby into a pinhole camera! which is exactly what I did!
It didn't take much, really just some light tight tape. But it's a whole lot of fun.
This camera will produce 2.5x2.5 sized pinhole images. I know that they sound tiny, but the end product will be much bigger. I intend on making several of these small paper negatives, and then turning them into positives, and then posting them all together, so it's a huge mass of tiny little images that you won't know what they are until you get up close. :)

here are some images of the camera

paint cans popcorn cans, what's the difference?

So I am making a pinhole camera, and i've been trying to figure out what to use that wasn't a paint can because i want to make this project more difficult than need be, and also, i want bigger images than a small paint can, so i'm using a three different kind of popcorn christmas tin. i have to paint it black still, but i'll do them this week and have the images up by this weekend before spring break :)

here is my can

i just need to get the wooden part!

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=11865&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=23082

this is the website im using!