Birthday party...
date/time: Dec. 22, 7:30 pm
location: Under the Volcano
Please let me know if you can come....
Monday, December 15, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Pieces of Me
For this assignment I decided to show the different aspects and angles of my life. Just like every other article in this world, the human life is very complex and can be seen in several diverse lights. My mission, with my self portrait photographs, is to open my world to others so that I can be better understood.
In my photograph “Foster Women” I wanted to show the women that have made me the person who I am today. My family is almost incapable of producing male heirs, so the women of my family have the closest bonds. This photograph contains me holding my niece (Haley Marie), my mother (Patricia), my sister (Michelle), and my grandmother (Barbara Ann aka Nanny). This picture is important to me because it shows four generations of my family. Unfortunately my great grandmother died a few months after Haley Marie was born and we were unable to take a five generation photograph. When developing this photograph I used a 2 filter at an f11 and 21 second exposure time. I had to burn Haley Marie’s white dress and my grandmother’s grey hair.
In my photograph “Panda” I wanted to show my bare truth. I chose to cover myself with a blanket that I have had since the day I was born. I have literally slept with that blanket every night for my entire life. It is my security blanket and I don’t think I will ever give it up. My family has ridiculed me for this for years and I see it as one of my little secrets from the world. I wanted to expose my blanket in this photograph to show a true side of my self. I wanted to bare my back to show the audience myself uncovered; as if there was nothing blocking their view of who I am. When developing this photograph I used a 3 filter at f5.6 and an exposure time of 18 seconds. I had to dodge my face and I burned the trees in the background and my blanket.
In my photograph “Entrapment” I wanted to show the side of me that feels trapped. No matter how satisfying my life is, I always feel a bit trapped. I feel like there is so much more that I could be experiencing, but I am not willing to give up what I already have for the unknown. I chose to have my face and the bars very dark in this photograph because I feel that being trapped is a very depressing idea. When developing this photograph I used a 4 filter at f11 and an exposure time of 18 seconds. I had to burn in the background and my hair.
In my photograph “Gem in the Brush” I wanted to show what I can possibly become. I feel that it portrays more than I am today. I see passion in my eyes. Passion for the future and what I will become. I think that being hidden behind the leaves represents my future being unknown. This is my person favorite photograph because of the beautiful textures the leaves provide. When developing this photograph I used a 4 filter at f4 and an exposure time of 18 seconds. I had to burn in some of the leaves and my hair.
In my last photograph “Tony and Amanda” I wanted to expose my heart. Other than my family, Tony is the most important person on this Earth to me. He has owned my heart from the moment we met, and it will belong to him until the day I die. My goofy grin is very fitting because I can completely be my silly self around him without any restraints. This was the only photograph I took without a tripod. I actually just held out the camera and took the picture of us. Because of the angle that provided I think it gives the photograph a feeling of closeness, which is appropriate in this case. When developing this photograph I used a 3 filter at f11 and an exposure time of 21 seconds. I had to dodge out Tony’s face.
In my photograph “Foster Women” I wanted to show the women that have made me the person who I am today. My family is almost incapable of producing male heirs, so the women of my family have the closest bonds. This photograph contains me holding my niece (Haley Marie), my mother (Patricia), my sister (Michelle), and my grandmother (Barbara Ann aka Nanny). This picture is important to me because it shows four generations of my family. Unfortunately my great grandmother died a few months after Haley Marie was born and we were unable to take a five generation photograph. When developing this photograph I used a 2 filter at an f11 and 21 second exposure time. I had to burn Haley Marie’s white dress and my grandmother’s grey hair.
In my photograph “Panda” I wanted to show my bare truth. I chose to cover myself with a blanket that I have had since the day I was born. I have literally slept with that blanket every night for my entire life. It is my security blanket and I don’t think I will ever give it up. My family has ridiculed me for this for years and I see it as one of my little secrets from the world. I wanted to expose my blanket in this photograph to show a true side of my self. I wanted to bare my back to show the audience myself uncovered; as if there was nothing blocking their view of who I am. When developing this photograph I used a 3 filter at f5.6 and an exposure time of 18 seconds. I had to dodge my face and I burned the trees in the background and my blanket.
In my photograph “Entrapment” I wanted to show the side of me that feels trapped. No matter how satisfying my life is, I always feel a bit trapped. I feel like there is so much more that I could be experiencing, but I am not willing to give up what I already have for the unknown. I chose to have my face and the bars very dark in this photograph because I feel that being trapped is a very depressing idea. When developing this photograph I used a 4 filter at f11 and an exposure time of 18 seconds. I had to burn in the background and my hair.
In my photograph “Gem in the Brush” I wanted to show what I can possibly become. I feel that it portrays more than I am today. I see passion in my eyes. Passion for the future and what I will become. I think that being hidden behind the leaves represents my future being unknown. This is my person favorite photograph because of the beautiful textures the leaves provide. When developing this photograph I used a 4 filter at f4 and an exposure time of 18 seconds. I had to burn in some of the leaves and my hair.
In my last photograph “Tony and Amanda” I wanted to expose my heart. Other than my family, Tony is the most important person on this Earth to me. He has owned my heart from the moment we met, and it will belong to him until the day I die. My goofy grin is very fitting because I can completely be my silly self around him without any restraints. This was the only photograph I took without a tripod. I actually just held out the camera and took the picture of us. Because of the angle that provided I think it gives the photograph a feeling of closeness, which is appropriate in this case. When developing this photograph I used a 3 filter at f11 and an exposure time of 21 seconds. I had to dodge out Tony’s face.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Self Portrait_Evan Vargas
The Plunge, Self Portrait:
Lately, an imbued hermetic quality appeared from abstract associations with the surrounding environment and my contingencies such as friends and family; such caused the self to be eclipsed from former notions of self. These notions merged into associations that personified objects by allowing the contradiction of self as object to ridicule the surrounding environ which is object, ultimately allowing the objectification of self. A poem done by the late Ezra Pound entitled “The Plunge” embodies the ethic and modal process of capturing the lack of self in regards to society, and the displacement of associations associated with the self by objectifying ones emotions and feelings into something without physiognomic qualities. Thus when Ezra states
“1. I would bathe myself in strangeness:
2. These comforts heaped upon me, smother me!
3. I burn, I scald so for the new,
4. New friends, new faces,
5. Places!
6. Oh to be out of this,
7. This that is all I wanted
8. Save the new.
9. And you,
10 Love, you the much, the more desired!
11. Do I not loathe all walls, streets, stones,
12. All mire, mist, all fog,
13. All ways of traffic?
14. You, I would have flow over me like water,
15. Oh, but far out of this!
16. Grass, and low fields, and hills,
17. And sun,
18. Oh, sun enough!
19. Out, and alone, among some
20. Alien people!”
{The Plunge, be Ezra Pound}
This poem as in my self portraits narrate a metaphysical environ of anomalies becoming normative with in my judgment,
what was strange was something eclipsing normality, that which was perceived being fluid to society, therefore when Pound Placates line 1, “I would bathe myself in strangeness" he merely states his familiarity of what was established , to bathe takes on a new meaning, for bathing finds its principle in cleansing, in this sentence to bathe now means i will clean myself with strangeness. For me the physical takes on the psychological, where one cleanses usually with water and soap, for Ezra and myself it is the metaphysical makeup of the self within the mind or cogito which allows the action of cleansing to take place. The idea of strange prompts two possibilities; the first is what is strange to another and what is strange to self. But to presume that the self will cleanse itself with itself that which is strangeness creates an absurd contradiction that suggest the metaphysical appropriates the verb of cleanse and refers itself as an action and noun ; however this absurdity seems to be sensible, that which is strange as a cleansing agent, something ridding away of what is not clean, I am strang(ing) my self with strangeness, these comforts (such which is natural in pleasure) smother me which i refer to embody me into who “I” am. There for “I” am strange by society, but myself am normal without it.
Log 1-35mm/125Delta/Portrait
1. GreenFilter 125/5.6
2. G 125/2.8
3.g 125/2.8\1.8
4.g 125/2
5. g 125/2.8
6. g 125/2.8
7. g 125/2.8
8. g 125/2.8
9. g 125/2.8
10. g 125/2.8
11. g 125/2.8
12. Yellowfilter 125/16
13. Y 125/8
14 Y 125/5.6 Wide Angle lens
15. Y 125/5.6 WA
16. Y 125/8 WA
Final Portrait 220-Tri X Portrait Object
1. 30/F5.6
2.30/8
3.30/4
4.60/8
5.60/11
6/60/5.6
7.60/5.6\8
8.60/8\11
9.60/4\2.8
10.60/5.6
11.60/8
12.60/4
13. Quarter Second 4
14. Quarter Second 5.6
15. Quarter Second 2.8
16. One Second 4
17. One Second 5.6
18. One Second 2.8
19. 60/4
20. 60/4
21. 250/8
22.250/11
21. 250/ 5,6
22. 250/11
23.250/22
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
By Marina Tejada
My self portrait was meant more to expose the silly side of me. Perhaps the expressions I chose for my poses were not exactly what would be normally expected of me. I tend to feel that I am always trying to look a certain way or behave a certain way because it is the correct thing or responsible thing to do, but having this opportunity to express and portray myself as I feel when I am not worried about what anybody else thinks made it fun. It was a little tricky to accomplish getting the right exposures, but I feel that I still accomplished getting the results I wanted.
I chose to expose myself in my portraits to show what I feel is my creative side. I created a frame within a frame. My aperture was set on 1.7 and I used a shutter speed of 30. It was a bit difficult to provide the right lighting since I was typically taking my pictures in the evening without any natural lighting. I also chose to shrink my pictures so that I could create a thick black frame around the exposure by exposing the paper to light. With this project I figured why not use the typical props that one would have for their portraits, but instead use them unconventionally. I set up an empty picture frame at the end posts of my bed with some fishing line. Then I began to pose within it. I thought of exposing only what was captured within the frame itself and blur out the rest of the surrounding areas around the frame so that I would not show the rest of my body, but then was convinced that this would exclude the creativity of the subject matter.
Portraits freeze time and perhaps manipulate a person to pose with a stare directly into the camera. My portraits allowed me to not only come out of the “frame”, but also out of my shell. I like to have fun and I could show this side with my portrait project. This is me!
Film #1 (Chair Poses) Film #2 (Frame Portraits)
1F1.7@60 F1.7@30
2F1.7@60 F1.7@30
3F1.7@60 F1.7@30
4F1.7@60 F1.7@30
5F1.7@60 F1.7@30
6F1.7@60 F1.7@30
7F1.7@60 F1.7@30
8F1.7@60 F1.7@30
9F1.7@60 F1.7@30
10F1.7@60 F1.7@30
11F1.7@60 F1.7@30
12F1.7@60 F1.7@30
13F1.7@60 F1.7@30
14F1.7@60 F1.7@30
15F1.7@60 F1.7@30
16F1.7@60 F1.7@30
17F1.7@60 F1.7@30
18F1.7@60 F1.7@30
19F1.7@60 F1.7@30
20F1.7@60 F1.7@30
21F1.7@30 F1.7@30
22F1.7@30 F1.7@30
23F1.7@30 F1.7@30
24F1.7@30 F1.7@30
25 F1.7@30
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By Marina Tejada
My self portrait was meant more to expose the silly side of me. Perhaps the expressions I chose for my poses were not exactly what would be normally expected of me. I tend to feel that I am always trying to look a certain way or behave a certain way because it is the correct thing or responsible thing to do, but having this opportunity to express and portray myself as I feel when I am not worried about what anybody else thinks made it fun. It was a little tricky to accomplish getting the right exposures, but I feel that I still accomplished getting the results I wanted.
I chose to expose myself in my portraits to show what I feel is my creative side. I created a frame within a frame. My aperture was set on 1.7 and I used a shutter speed of 30. It was a bit difficult to provide the right lighting since I was typically taking my pictures in the evening without any natural lighting. I also chose to shrink my pictures so that I could create a thick black frame around the exposure by exposing the paper to light. With this project I figured why not use the typical props that one would have for their portraits, but instead use them unconventionally. I set up an empty picture frame at the end posts of my bed with some fishing line. Then I began to pose within it. I thought of exposing only what was captured within the frame itself and blur out the rest of the surrounding areas around the frame so that I would not show the rest of my body, but then was convinced that this would exclude the creativity of the subject matter.
Portraits freeze time and perhaps manipulate a person to pose with a stare directly into the camera. My portraits allowed me to not only come out of the “frame”, but also out of my shell. I like to have fun and I could show this side with my portrait project. This is me!
Film #1 (Chair Poses) Film #2 (Frame Portraits)
1F1.7@60 F1.7@30
2F1.7@60 F1.7@30
3F1.7@60 F1.7@30
4F1.7@60 F1.7@30
5F1.7@60 F1.7@30
6F1.7@60 F1.7@30
7F1.7@60 F1.7@30
8F1.7@60 F1.7@30
9F1.7@60 F1.7@30
10F1.7@60 F1.7@30
11F1.7@60 F1.7@30
12F1.7@60 F1.7@30
13F1.7@60 F1.7@30
14F1.7@60 F1.7@30
15F1.7@60 F1.7@30
16F1.7@60 F1.7@30
17F1.7@60 F1.7@30
18F1.7@60 F1.7@30
19F1.7@60 F1.7@30
20F1.7@60 F1.7@30
21F1.7@30 F1.7@30
22F1.7@30 F1.7@30
23F1.7@30 F1.7@30
24F1.7@30 F1.7@30
25 F1.7@30
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
No more chemistry....
There is no more printing in the darkroom - today was the last official darkroom day.
As I promised, I will stay after class tomorrow for you to matt and mount your prints. If no one is here by 5:30, I will be leaving. Good luck, and see you in critique!
As I promised, I will stay after class tomorrow for you to matt and mount your prints. If no one is here by 5:30, I will be leaving. Good luck, and see you in critique!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Keith Carter at HCP Saturday!
Artist Talk and Book Signing with Keith Carter
Saturday December 6, 2008, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
http://hcponline.org/calendar.asp?show=640&calid=602
http://www.keithcarterphotographs.com/images.html
Saturday December 6, 2008, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
http://hcponline.org/calendar.asp?show=640&calid=602
http://www.keithcarterphotographs.com/images.html
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