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.
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.
Also Ed Kashi has lots of interesting social issue works.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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.
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
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
Monday, April 27, 2009
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. ;)
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Rwanda
I noticed a certain Foundation Rwanda was using familiar images in their advertising.
Who could it be?
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.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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.
Can't wait to edit these down into a series!
Monday, April 13, 2009
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.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, April 10, 2009
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.
Dad wasn't doing much but remodeling the bathroom so I shot that.
Here's the link: Web Gallery
I think it went... alright.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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.If you have any suggestions on what images work or don't work please post your thoughts, thanks.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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.
Here is a blog that is packed with all sorts of stuff Doc related.
The photographer that goes by the name of B+ has some great urban life documentary work.
Something a little different, these two photographers do weddings in a documentary style not usually seen in this field of photography.
I found this to be an interesting read.
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.
Here is a blog that is packed with all sorts of stuff Doc related.
The photographer that goes by the name of B+ has some great urban life documentary work.
Something a little different, these two photographers do weddings in a documentary style not usually seen in this field of photography.
I found this to be an interesting read.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, April 6, 2009
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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- 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.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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.
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.
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.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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