Final Project Statement

8th grade girl 1: Oh that's Laura Lee's hers stuff is so beautiful, she gets perfect light

8th grade girl 2: I like hers, her project really means something, it has a point

8th grade girl 1 (passing my work): This is so stupid

8th grade girl 2: Her work is retarded 

Emma: You think so(f*%$ you)

8th grade girl 1: Ohhh hahaha(I am so screwed  for saying that)

8th grade girl 2: I have to go ( I have to go)

That was my judgement, my work to some girls is stupid and retarded. I sat in the lab, angry, really angry. Who did she think she was? How dare she? It wasn't stupid?, wait. That is when I realized it. My project is so stupid and makes no sense. And I like it that way. I pushed myself in a new way. I let go. How easy it would have been to do what I always did, landscaped, pictures of trees, ect. Something in me this time said no more. i first thought about doing famous pictures. Slade's response, been done. Then I thought about building Lego's doing funny things, "Slade: been done" Then for some reason the idea of taking famous paintings from history and building them out of Lego's came to me. That developed into recreating the entire picture. 

The paintings I chose to do where all paintings that I had studied and found beauty in. I took the most visually appeasing background that I could. Then I built the main subject out of Lego's. I learned and shot the Lego's in a mini studio that Slade and I created. Then came the really hard part, Photoshopping everything. I selected the studio shot image and copied the image onto the background with it. Then came making sure it looked natural, or sometimes unnatural. Then just a color correction and BAM we have a Lego Masterpiece.

What do I want from you, my viewer. I want nothing but to make you laugh. Don't for a second take these seriously, they and I don't want you to. They are stupid. They make no sense. They hold very little artistic value.  But they are funny, and different. And I don't think you will see another version of them or something like them ever again. I beg of you to find how stupid they really are, and laugh at it. Just enjoy the pointlessness. So often in life we are forced to see the hidden meaning, please ignore that instinct. Two 8th grade girl couldn't. Maybe you can.

Cannot Find Napoleon on horse, hopefully you know what it looks like

Final: Starry Night

The Starry Night: Painting by Vincent van Gogh

I built the Lego model

The shot above is a wide shot of Redstone at night

The bottom shot is of a parking lot at dusk

I think that out of all of them, this one it my weekest

Final: The Last Supper

The Painting is The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

I built and studio shot Lego's

The background is a school at night

This is my favorite of all of mine. I think that this one is my cleanest image. I also am happy with this image because Slade wasn't there to help me with this, so I did this image entirely by myself.

Final: Washington Crossing the Delaware River

The painting is Washington Crossing the Delaware River by Emanuel Leutze

I built the Legos and shot them

The background is a gravel pit

I think this is the funniest of them all. I love how Washington is looking at the viewer, it makes me laugh every time I see it

Final: The Birth of Venus

This painting is The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

I built the Lego's. I shot Venus with the shell separately, then shot the angels

I like this image I think that the Lego's look very plain though

Final: The Scream

This painting is The Scream by Edvard Munch

I shot the lego man

The background is complicated, I overlaped many different images with this. 

I like it, I like the complicatedness of the image, I wish I would have feathered the Screamer more when copying it

Final: The Creation Of Adam

The painting is The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo 

I shot both Legos together

The backgrounds were very difficult, they are two images combined 

I like this image, if I could change something, I would find a better background for Adam

Final Project

What Makes A Great Image

For me, there are many little elements that go into this, but one large one. I think the main part is originality. You need to have something different. I will use an example. How many fire hydrant have you seen. I can imagine a lot. I know I have seen many. But I remember one, it was a hydrant, but it was shot from the inside going out. It was completely unreal. I don't remember any other fire hydrants because they looked the same. But the originality of this one was unmistakable. It made a great image.
Then you have the technical aspects. Such as making sure you expose is just right, or making sure the focus is how you like it. Take the image. I believe that obsessing over a image usually doesn't work. Take the image, trust your ins tics. If it feel wrong take it again, but if not, leave it be.
Then you edit the image. I think that to make a great edit of an a image, you need patients. You need to also bring originality back into the picture. Put your own spin on what your doing. People make great images out of pushing the ordinary aspect out of the editing, and making it original.
A great image, comes along very seldom. I feel like it is almost fate sometimes. I think my best image I ever took, was completely fate. I was just walking home, and I happened to have my camera. I took the image that was literally just under my feet. It was great and different. I love that about photography. That sometimes the best image, is the random image, and by far the most original image.

Explaining Robert ParkeHaririson

Alright so I found this guy about a month ago. I was talking to a friends roommate, who happened to a photographer for Skier Magazine. I asked the questions that one asks, what type of photography do you enjoy doing, who did you study with, yadada. Anywho, so while doing so she told me she studied with the guy. She showed me some of the prints that he had given her, and thus began my search for him.
I found that he and his wife work together on projects. He sets up the shots, and is in most of the shots, but she takes the pictures. The first thing that attracted me about the dude, was the originality of the prints, I had really never seen anything like this. His sets for his prints, as he said, sometimes take months. His images are mostly outside taken in his backyard. Then comes the printing, He prints a silver outlined print. Then he waits for it to be ready to be coated, like we would with sepia. But this is the best part. He coats them with beeswax. When that is dry, he outlines the print with black charkle.
I love this work. Its original, its kind of intense. I think it is beautiful. I love finding a new photographer, who does or is doing something completely different. I strive to do that. To make the viewer say wow, that different. And I really enjoyed how ParkeHarrison did and are doing this.

Pano

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Images From Architect's Brother

Images From Architect's Brother

Printing In Photoshop

Select a Printer (W. Eugene Smith)

Color Management=Proof
(How to select proof= Go to View , Custom And find your Printer + Paper NEVER WORK IN CMYK)

Proof Setup=Current Custom Setting


Uncheck Simulate Paper Color and Simulate Black Ink

Then Hit Print

Then it’s the same as printing in Light Room

Trent Parke

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I found Trent Parke on Magnum. I really liked his stuff, so I decided to investigate hi. I found that he is a Australian photographer, and he is the only Australian who is a member of Magnum. He shot a 6 year project driving around Australia and taking pictures of everything and everybody. That was his largest piece, and it is named Minutes to Midnight. He has two other books as well that are names Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave. So now we can look at his work.

All of these images are from Minutes after Midnight:

1. I like this image because I have never seen motion displayed this way. The expose he took makes the motion shown not as a cloudy but misty. I think that it is really amazing that he was able to do this

2. I like the motion as well in this, but I really love how the faces are over exposed. I usually hate this but with the motion and the over expose I love it

3. This image is my favorite of all of the images I have up here. I love it. I have never seen rain shot this way. It is so beautiful to be. I love every pixel of this shot. It is a beautiful image

4. This image is my second favorite. I again love how he shoots the rain. I also think that the clouds are beautiful with how the sun is behind them. The reason why I don't think that it is the best image because it looks a little staged

5. I love the multiple exposes on this image. I think that you have to really look at the image to see how visually appealing it it. I love the image again because of the misty feeling you get by it

6. As most of my fellow waterfordian friends know, I love tree's and moons. And this picture has it, oh boy does it have it. Love the image, and the clouds are the bomb

7. This is a very interesting picture because it is a weird look at a panorama of the ocean. The curve of the wave is a interesting look at the ocean.

8. I like this images, it reminds me a lot of Harry Callhann Weeds work. I like it, but with the rest of his work, I think it doesn't match up,

9. I love the light and the way he centered with the man in the image.

Panorama, probably spelled wrong

Explaining of over, under, and good

I liked my first post of this with the different images. I thought that the under exposed and the well exposed on where good. But since we couldn't have different images up there, I think the same images are fine. Whatev's to them. I don't love the one that I edited on because I really hadn't figured out how to use lightroom correctly at that point, so I kind of wish that I could re due that part. Alright done explaining that one

Explaining Of Hour Project

Ok so started to shoot at 12:00pm. I liked this assignment for no other reason than to figure out that as much as I love spontaneous photography, planning can and sometimes is just as important. I don't love any of my images, but I am proud of myself for waking up and just getting the shot that I planned. I like hour 6 shot. Trust me it looks much better printed, but I think its the best because no only is the image nice, but it has the time in it as well. I don't have much else to say, but if ur still readings this, what a true friend you must be to me.

Rhyme

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I rhymed to rhyme, punny i know

Alright GET EXCITED

36 Hour Project

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