Final Photos

Alright, so here's a link to the final photos we chose.

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Memories

Here is a gallery of memories

Final Edit

Hey guys! Posting the final selects here per Toni's request.

Comment away!

nicholashillphoto.com/drag

American Freedom is the new project title and it is printed and on the im wall across from the check out cage. This was a fun project and I plan on creating a multimedia video out of it in the future.

It's A Wrap

I just arrived back into town after spending two full days shooting up in Seattle with James Harrison. I narrowed my best shots down and made a Web Gallery for you to view. Right now I'm in the process of talking with his P.R. manager and hopefully will be getting a few of my images published in some trade magazines. For now have a look at my results.

• Web Gallery: James Harrison
  

'A Hammock of pictures'

Here is a ton more pictures, mainly portraits to go with memories. Gallery

Strippin'....

forms that is. I followed my dad while he was finishing up a job. I want to get more of when he's actually pouring concrete, which should be sometime next week. I hope. I think it went well, got some in the house but I tried to not focus too much on the details of things and try to get more of my dad interacting with those around. There's still some of those shots in there. I could not help myself.
Here's a link.

gallery

On the move

http://mhccim.com/students/hill/090520drag/

I tried getting a few good environmental shots while I was there. They ended up going grocery shopping.

I had some blur problems. *cough cough*

Memory

Well I figured that I should post these before I go shooting today. It starts with Jen's memory of running away, then goes into a memory about green eggs and ham. Gallery

Anyone wanna buy me a new camera?

ha...ha...

Okay, so my OLD Rebel finally kicked the bucket. Not bad considering it's about 10 years old. :)
Anyway, I got these with the boyfriends camera. I mostly got us just hanging out outside after having ate dinner.
Some okay ones.  

Ryan 3

Oh so exciting when I figure it out

I shot this weekend at ditlers beach. It wasn't as much shooting as I wanted to get done since last class but with everything going on I was happy to get what I did. I think there are some good ones in the gallery for it. What's more exciting though is that my website is up and not only that but I figured out how to get galleries that aren't linked to the site on it also. This is how I can use the same site and customers will have to be given the link in order to see their stuff. So exciting.

Anyway my website is www.sbyrnephoto.com and the gallery for this weeks shoot is www.sbyrnephoto.com/galleries/Americana_beach

Even more drag

You can see the gallery here:

www.mhccim.com/students/hill/moredrag

Jerick, their "drag mama" was there for the day. Kale assured me there was usually more energy when he's around, but unfortunately they had all been out until four in the morning the night before and were pretty worn out.

I spent an hour or two shooting them lounging around, watching tv and talking before they started their drag routine. Quite a few people came over, but I wasn't sure whether to shoot them all or not, since the project so far has been focused only on Kenny and Kale.

Hope to hear from you guys in class.

No Greater Love

Really lovely photos & multimedia...

No Greater Love

Photography Contest - Oregon Humane Society

Oregon Humane Society Photo Contest

OHS is now accepting entries from pet lovers everywhere for the annual Fuzzy, Furry & Feathered Friends Photo Contest. 

Submission Deadline: May 29, 2009

Student Photography Contest - Columbia River

A Celebration of Columbia River Ecosystems
Student Photography Contest

Submission Deadline: May 8, 2009

Enter the Sturgeon Festival Student Photography Contest for amateur photographers from Grade 3 through college. Prizes for top finalists in each category.

Around The House

It was interesting doing another location shoot with James Harrison. This time I captured him inside his home in NE Portland. He was hard at work with some new concepts that he has thought up.

• Around The House Web Gallery

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Here's that great piece on storytelling by Ira Glass. I'd encourage you to watch it all the way through again....

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Also, if you're a fan of Ira Glass (or not), check out the archives of This American Life.  I've been listening to them recently while working images, and they're the perfect photography work companion.

Multimedia

One of favorite Portland fashion photographers Pete Springer is starting to branch out mixing audio with images. In this one he is documenting the "Flying Fortresses" B-17 Airplane. I love the ambient sounds, storyline and the wonderful images that Pete is know for.

• Liberty Belle Audio Slideshow

This story by Seth Butler tells a story about the American Flag in a way not normally seen. He does it without audio. I like that he explored a subject that some would think as controversial.

• Tattered

Also Ed Kashi has lots of interesting social issue works.

• Kashi

Starting over

From all the multimedia videos that I watched, I found this one to be the most interesting one out of them. Starting over by Tim Hussin.

Iconic

http://www.timothyarchibald.com/

Some cool images. His "echolalia" project was pretty cool. I think he found a really inventive way of showing the young boy. The letters/notes and the bloody band-aid were really interesting.

Personal articles really are just as important as the actual person and their interactions.

Fritz Liedtke

So i tried to find some photographers that i liked that used text/video/audio to tell a story and did not find one that really interested me. I'll be honest and say that I usually never look at a photographers videos. I just want to see the photos and depending on the subject I might read the text, but my attention always goes to the photos and I loose interest in audio and video.
One photographer: Fritz Liedtke, who I believe is local, did this series on eating disorders called 'Skeleton in the Closet'. The photos are strong and the interviews leave an impact. I heart about this series last year from Jen Brinkman, and was amazed. Its chilling. And surprisingly it's not all photos of young woman. They variey in age and reason for thier disorder.
check it out: Skeleton in the Closet

Photos...

So due to printing I won't be able to bring any prints to class tomorrow. There's no way I have enough time to print off the printer at school without cutting into class. Um... here's a web gallery i guess.
photos

Ryan 2

Here's another shoot that I did today.  These aren't as compelling as him getting ready to go out dancing, BUT!  It has to be done.  ;)

Ryan2

Remember Me

I found this today.  I enjoyed the layering that took place in these images.  Telling a story within the frame of the image.  

(Fantastic example would be the family embracing with the empty bed in the background.)

It's a little on the long side, but it tells a great story, visually as well as verbally.

Remember Me

Some queens

http://mhccim.com/students/hill/drag/

Check 'em out. Spent time with Kale and Kenny in the afternoon. Got images of Kenny dressing in drag and some environmental shots. Kale couldn't participate because of work, but we're already planning on when to shoot next.

First Shoot With Ryan

So here is my first shoot with Ryan.  I wasn't able to print any of these, but will take the opportunity to do that on Monday.

Ryan

Rwanda

I noticed a certain Foundation Rwanda was using familiar images in their advertising.

Who could it be?

Farming With The McCoys'

On this latest photo shoot I concertrated on getting more shots from a distance as well as making sure that I did not cut body parts out of the frame. You can now view my Client Web Gallery. As always it would be great to hear some feed back, positive, negative, ideas, or whatever moves ya. It's always welcome.

• Client Web Gallery: Urban Farming

Photo Journalism With Audio

I was doing some unrelated research this evening and found some interesting projects by Flordia photographer Daron Dean. Checkout how he blends audio with his images.

• Gallery
  

Inspiration

Watch this, it is really wonderful...

Common Ground

And another of my favorites from Media Storm...

Love in the First Person

Day In The Life Part 2

Okay, here is the second installment of the assignment.  I tried to get tighter in shots this time, i.e. hands, feet.  I didn't edit them, just left them as they were mostly.  

Dad Gallery Part 2

Can't wait to edit these down into a series!

Reordered and a new person.

Based on today's class here is the reordering of the photos of my son. There are 4 additional photos at the end of that gallery that were not brought in today. So it's just the ones chosen in the right order and the additional ones you didn't see.

Also I wanted to share another one that I worked on at the same time for myself. She is my great neice Mikaya and I love some of the images in this series. There really weren't that many of her but I went through the ones I do have and selected the best and ordered them based on some of the things I learned today. So here are 9 shots of her.

I don't know if we can change at this point but if you like the ones of Mikaya better then I can do more of her. By the way it was her foot from about a year and a half ago that was on that first website.

Mini-Project Part II

Alright, another gallery with Josh can be found here.

I swear, I've never seen so many blurry photos before in my life. Thankfully I was able to salvage a good few of 'em.

Hope these are more personal and less staged appearing than the last round.

Eat, read, play w/ dog, and eat some more

Jacklyn, in her down time. Web Gallery Sadly the lighting conditions in her house were not the best; forcing me to bump up my ISO, yet some of them are still really dark.

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I shot Wednesday and Thursday.
Dad wasn't doing much but remodeling the bathroom so I shot that.
Here's the link: Web Gallery
I think it went... alright.

Telling The Story

I have started to pair down my images. Right now I'm sitting at forty-eight that have made the initial cut. I'm now seeing what ones best fit into a visual storyline. I have uploaded a new web gallery with all my first choice images.

• Updated Web Gallery

If you have any suggestions on what images work or don't work please post your thoughts, thanks.

Random Documentary Inspiration

I thought it would be interesting to start a thread on Random Documentary Inspiration that you have found. Feel free to post links to photographers, blogs, writings, message boards or what every you have found helpful. Share ideas.

I will start it off.....

Aubrey Hays is a Portland photographer that has a documentary style to her work, I very much enjoy her images.

• Aubrey Hays

Here is a blog that is packed with all sorts of stuff Doc related.

• Verve Photo

 The photographer that goes by the name of B+ has some great urban life documentary work.

• IT'S NOT ABOUT A SALARY

Something a little different, these two photographers do weddings in a documentary style not usually seen in this field of photography.

• HeldClose Photography
  

I found this to be an interesting read.

• Documentary Photography
  

Uncomfortable

As should be quite clear by now, this assignment, and from what I can tell, the next 9 weeks of assignments will be lying quite far outside my comfort and relevance zone and I need some help.

My first question is: If we decide to discontinue this mini-project after it's finished, what will our options be? Is our term project going to be the same idea, but potentially a different person? I'm worried about being stuck in a conceptual prison. What are my choices?

My second question has to do with actually capturing the images. Personally, I'm quite used to being in-studio and using artificial lighting, and when I do decide to opt for ambient lighting or snapshots, I'm typically outside where I can rely on the sun.

Do you have any tips for shooting in low-light scenarios, such as inside dimly lit buildings? Do you have any tricks or tips for avoiding camera shake with slower shutter speeds without a tripod? On my last outing I was shooting inside a school I technically didn't have access to. This was overlooked because of my age, but I didn't want to be discourteous by busting out a tripod in a hallway full of walking and working students.

Even an infodump of links would be greatly appreciated. I want to learn, not be orchestrated.

New feedback + homework for next week

Feedback has been posted for each of you for this week. Below is the homework for next week.

- toni


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HOMEWORK: Please your Round 2 gallery link to the blog by Monday April 13th, 9:30am
ALSO... Please bring to class Monday morning, 4x6(ish) prints (you can just print 4-up on an 8.5 x 11 page) of all of your selects so far. We will go through an exercise of editing the work and thinking about your stories.

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Day in the life...

For this assignment I decided to photography my dad, who's a concrete contractor. He's been self employed for Dougherty Concrete Construction for (i believe) 20 years. 

I have no pictures yet.

Business is slow so I plan to photograph him doing some things around the house or bone yard. 

Plan to shoot Thursday.

My Son's Day

It was a wonderful weekend and I shot over 500 images. My plan for the project was to shoot a day in the life of a firefighter however I only got about 10 images for that and only about 2 were any good. The problem is that there has to be some paperwork to do that project and approval from some higher ups. So this turned out to be about my son Timmy's day.

We started out on Saturday going to opening day ceremonies for baseball then team pictures and the first scrimmage game which they won. Then back home where he played outside for a little while. In the evening we went to the circus. He really wanted one of the light up swords but of course Mom didn't get him one since the last one he got at Rose festival last year was not taken care of. His favorite part of the circus was the 5 motorcycles in the round cage. On the way home I had to listen to the motorcycle revving sounds for a little while.

All in all it was a fun weekend. Here is the link to the web gallery. Enjoy.

Day In Life

For having never  done anything like this, I guess I'm still somewhat dissatisfied with the outcome.  My decision to follow my father around was last minute, because I made a mistake in interpreting this project.  The problem with my father is he mostly sits in front of the television I was lucky enough to get him making some dinner and doing some dishes.  But that obviously was about the extent of it.  

http://www.mhccim.com/students/smith/Day_In_Life/index.htm

For my term project I'd like to be able to have more time to focus on being able to tell a full story about someone else completely...

Day in the Life

So I was originally going to do someone else, but then she got sick. So I decided that I would do a day in the life of myself. I thought it would be a good challenge to look at myself from another point of view. I do not think many people are aware of all the things that I do. Just to name a few I sketch, etch copper plates, and bake. By documenting myself others might better understand me as a person. Well here is my gallery, I know they are not the best, having to rely on a timer is not the best. What I need to do is sketch out how I want my composition, while having someone direct me how to move. Next time they will be better.

Mini-project .5

The gallery of my first twenty images can be seen here.

I decided to follow Josh around. I figured I could try to capture both his professional life as an ambitious advertising and design student, as well as reveal what he does at home.

The entirety of this first shoot was done downtown and at his school. I had some serious trouble taking photographs inside the school because it was darker than a cave in there.

More interesting, personal images will come in the next round. I hope.

My Day Up North

On Friday I left early in the morning (7:30am) and headed up to Burien, WA a city just 10 miles south of Seattle. I spent the day photographing James Harrison and his latest sculpture structure, the Helios Pavilion (see image above). I recorded many things throughout the day and I'm still in the process of sifting though all my notes. Be sure to check the web gallery below.

• Web Gallery Of My Day Up North

At The Studio

This evening I spent a few hours with scuplture artist James Harrison while he worked in his studio. Tomorrow I will be spending some more time with him up in Seattle as he begins to piece together his latest instulation. Below I have included a web gallery link to my first twenty images, I have also included a link to my blog entry and photo from today.

• Web Gallery: James Harrison
• Blog Entry With Image

A Day In The Life

I have been doing some ground work for this first project. I have my subject and my shooting all scheduled. I will be documenting Portland sculpture artist James Harrison. He currently is working on a project just outside of Seattle. Later today I will be spending a few hours with him at his working studio here in Portland and then on Friday I will be going with him to Seattle to get some shots of him on the site of his latest installation.

Make sure to check out his website, you can click on his name and it will take you to his site, he does some amazing work. I'm quite excited to be documenting him.

My gallery

It was a lot of fun going through all my old stuff!

I'm both excited and terrified for this term.  

I'll get to the point and post my link

Jen's Gallery

Gallery

So I just added the blog to my rss feeds, so I am good. Well here is a link to my deviantart gallery.

Here's a link to some photos:
Jens Flickr

thanks

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cyberfation

There are so many forms of electronic communication. It's hard to keep it all straight. We sign up for one site and use it for one thing and then another site for something else.... and it just keeps getting bigger. When we bore of one of them or outgrow it or find something that works better then we don't delete the older one. So there is all this "stuff" or more correctly information out there in cyberspace about us. It is cyber information, or cyberfation.

So here we go again with another one. But the good thing is that at least this isn't a different site for each of us. One site where we all post to makes so much more sense than following 7 different sites. It is a central location where we can collaborate, communicate and share. Much better in my opinion.

One of my cyberfation sites that has some of my work on it from my beginnings in digital photography is here. Once you're there scroll down and click on view this photographers portfolio and there you will see more images.

Some images

Hey guys.

Let's make this last term worth it, eh? For all who are interested, I decided to start posting my favorite pieces on deviantart. You can see them here: Nick's DeviantArt.

See you guys in class. :)

Begining of the End

And so, the two year journey is coming to an end. We began with many, weak and vulnerable. There have been seven individuals who endured the elements (Jen's lighting rants) and proved we are worthy of holding cameras and calling ourselves photographers. Not just photographers, professional photographers. Geeze, that makes it sound like we are going to have to run a business, take GOOD photos, and actually know what we are doing. Looking forward to getting the most I can out of the last term and this class with Toni. I have been thinking about my project for this class and think I am on to something. The image above is just a taste of what I will be producing throughout the term. Also, see some more of my stuff (as if we haven't all seen it before) on my Flickr photostream.

Welcome DP252!

Hello & welcome to your class Blog!

We will use this blog as a "meeting place" for posting links to work, reviewing work, and generally sharing inspiration.

Most weeks you will have homework that will require you to post a link to a web gallery of your work. This is the place to post it, along with whatever comments you might have about the work you're sharing with the class.

If you have specific questions of me, however, please email me...
info (at) tonigreaves (dot) com

Looking forward to a fun semester and seeing you each produce great work!

- toni

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HOMEWORK: Please post to this Blog a link to a portfolio of your photography work, that might be a Flickr gallery, or a gallery on MySpace or Facebook, or you can upload a gallery to the mhccim.com server. Just post whatever you have. It doesn't have to be fancy, we just want to see a selection of what you consider to be your best pictures.

DEADLINE: Wednesday April 1st, 9:30am
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