Before and After...

 I am very VERY proud of this image. This is the first time since I've started this photography thing that I have succeeded in something important. I have successfully created an image that matched exactly what was in my head. I needed photoshop to do it, but I have since learned that with Conceptual Photography, this is often the case. You don't need photoshop, but it helps a lot. So here it is. The before and after. Like I said. I'm so incredibly proud of this image. It could suck, people could hate it. I don't care. It represents sooo much hard work and dedication. I can't wait to see where I'm at in a year and compare it to now. Because when I compare my images from last year to now, it's insane how much better I have become. Here's a toast to a great photographic year!!

Kari, Todd, and Cole

Go check out some family picture I took for my old roommate, Kari at my photo blog. I think they turned out great!

Help me with my assignment...

So our next assignment in Photo Vision is Abstract, Minimalism, and Conceptual photography. What do you, my loyal readers think. Are these abstract? I have no clue! Hahahahaha! I'm not a very abstract person. I'm all about absolutes. Is it okay that most of them are blurry? You can't tell what they are, I think that's the point. So do you love them? Which one? Hate them? Do they suck? Why? Let me know. I need some outside opinions.

Yo Gabba Gabba!!!

Friday, my mom, sister, brother, and I took Oliver trunk or treating at my mom's ward. It was the first time we got to see Oliver in his Yo Gabba Gabba costume. This kid loves Yo Gabba Gabba. When he was a baby, it was the only show he would show any interest in. He still loves it. I personally wanted to spray paint it blue because his new favorite word is cookie. He walks around saying, "cookie cookie cookie". I think it would have been more appropriate for him to go as Cookie Monster. Though, I have since found out that Cookie Monster only eats vegetables now. My childhood is slowly being killed, yo.

Oliver with Uncle Jake, who is his most favorite person. We still don't know why, exactly.

Little Monster!!

Don't mind the blur. This was taken when it was almost dark, so my shutter speed was very low.

 Oliver's pumpkin candy holder didn't make it through the night. The handle was busted.

Eating his loot while he could. His mother wouldn't let him take any of it home, and gave it to Uncle Jake instead. How rude...

More film...and photoshop

I'm learning photoshop in class today. This is a film image I scanned in, and I cloned and retouched. This is a big day for me! Now I can clone out the bugs in a recent family shot I did for my old roommate. If I had known it was this easy, I would have learned this a long time ago. Ps...I love Oliver and I love how the film looks.

I hate life...so I'm blogging

So real life right now is really stressful and I hate it. Addiction is evil, friends. Avoid addictive stuff at all costs, it only will ruin your life. There is my Public Service Announcement for the day. As a result of this, I'm blogging. I'm kind of living for my photography right now. That and Oliver are the only things that even bring a smile to my face right now. So thank goodness for school. I need the distraction.

Our assignment in Photo Vision is about breaking the rules. I don't really understand the "rules", so I hope I actually did the assignment and didn't just take a random picture. I like them anyways. The rules I tried to break are "Fill the frame with the subject", "Do not shoot against the light," "Follow the rule of thirds," Obey the light meter," "Photograph children/pets at their eye level," "Avoid lens flare," and "keep the camera level with the horizon." I tried to get three of these in every picture, but they aren't all in every picture. Funny story, I couldn't use some of them because my dad was flipping the camera off. He's special. This is the one I really like, the rest of them I am getting printed off just in case I like them better on paper.



I think I have to do a series, so maybe I'll do that too. I had a really great idea, but I just don't have the time or energy. I might still do it, who knows, but at least I have something to hand in, right?

Film is not dead....

Here are some of my film assignments that I promised. The first four our photograms. Just light, objects, and photo paper. They were a lot of fun. These aren't the ones I turned in. They were way cooler, but I forgot them at my house. (I don't have a scanner, my parents do.)



This one is crooked. I didn't feel like rescanning it.

This one of Wilbur the pig (recently deceased), is my favorite. I love the light, and I love that he's not looking at me. I don't know why...I just love it.

I also LOVE this one of Oliver. A girl in my class said it looks like a mugshot. I still love it, though.

Sorry this is light on content. I'm dealing with some major family issues right now, and don't have the energy or brain power to right anything else...

Egg Shot #2...

So for our next assignment in Photo Vision, we had to use a creative exercise and redo our egg shoot. I was seriously drawing a blank...this is what I came up with. Whatever.

Yes...those are my feet...

Action!!!

 I have a huge assignment due on Wednesday. It's the beginning of our digital block. So we'll be learning photoshop and stuff, I think. So the assignment is Action/shutter speeds. Fast, slow, ect. This was the fast part. I made Jaynie take me to her friend, Ande's house. She had a built in trampoline and it was perfect.

I really like these three...it looks like a series of stills that show her taking off and flying...

 I love this picture, too. The shadow completes the action...

 I was making Jaynie just move her hair and stand (jump) still. It's kind of awkward...exactly what I was going for.

Jaynie still has some of her mad tumbling skills from when she was little...awesome

 I told her she had to be apart of this shoot because she has the best hair for this kind of shot...

Air Ande! Awesome...

Again with the awesome hair...

This was a lot of fun! Too bad that this was only part of my assignment. I still have to shoot slow shutter speeds and panning...I had a lot more fun with this, lol...


ps...I've been a posting machine lately!