Follow up

Looking at them now, both of the photographs I used for my imitations could be a little more constrasty. I am frustrated with the Bourdin shot, and how I wasn't able to get that pure white since I shot the image in color and later desaturated it. I guess we'll see how the b&W 4x5" negatives turned out, once I develop them. Anyhow, these are the original images.

This is only the beginning of my final portfolio for my advanced studio class, but I am really happy with the results from today! These are only the digital shots which I was testing the lighting with, I shot large format as well but need to process my film and pray that they turn out. Both of these shots are imitations of famous photographs, which is the whole point of the assignment. The photograph with the leg and woman's face, is a Guy Bourdin shot and the other was originally a shot of Edie Sedgwick by Jerry Schatzberg.

I don't get it

The pictures on the last post are being posted funny so you can't see the entire image. Just click on them and it will take you to my flickr.

-Lain

In the works...

I have yet to really understand this whole large format, view camera aesthetic. The mechanics are so finicky and I have immense difficulty with the framing. The fact that the 4x5" negative is an inch short of being a square, totally throws me off and I get claustrophobic looking at my pictures! I work well with squares, the box makes me feel even and safe, if that makes any sense..But I honestly prefer the 35mm shape, the width of the frame allows the freedom to place things in the composition that I see as being more drastic or dramatic. ANYHOW, these are my most recent attempts with this camera. My models, Carianne and Katrina were perfect, as usual. I constructed the shoots primarily around the form and this tool skirt I had. The oven shots with Katrina are my particular favorites from that day. The lighting was perfect and her mood appeared effortless. I will probably shoot a few of these again and work out the issues I had with the camera and lighting, but for now...

Halloween

A few photographs from the evening of Halloween...I suppose these are prior to any of the real festivities, but who can remember those anyway.

Pink

The black backdrop had gone missing in the G2 studio, this past Sunday afternoon...Luckily I had brought a plastic flamingo to use as my lit object in my studio assignment, so the horrendous pink backdrop worked phenomenally well. The only real guidelines for the assignment were to light an handheld object with strobes. These photos are silly in my opinion and I like the ones where I messed with the output levels better, but of course I can't turn in a photo with color cast....I know better than that. I've included both images in the post, so take your pick.

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE AN ARTIST

Recently I can't seem to figure out what it is that I am trying to accomplish with my work in terms of it's artistic content. I haven't had much time to do "fun" projects with my photography since the majority of my work this year is primarily technical. I've been learning how to use a large format, view camera so a few of these images are from my attempts with that. The collage is something that I composed of images found in magazines as well ones of mine, which I then used in a fan book about legs and lace for my narrative forms/bookmaking class. The rest are a combination of things...The "pregnant" ladies, are a couple of images from a series that Carianne, Katrina and I were working on last Spring, but I just recently found and developed the film.