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Odiorne Park Visit

Here are some of the pictures I took during our field trip to Ordiorne Park. While I was there, I found all the trees to be very fascinating. They all looked to be very skeleton and vein like and I liked how they all appeared to be reaching up to the sky. To be very honest, I don't really like any of the photos I took on this trip. I wish I had gone into the fort along with my other classmates. I think I would of had more satisfying images if I had done so. Also, in the last picture I posted, I really wanted the upper right corner to be of the sky rather than the side of a tree. I wish I had walked up the slop a little bit to take another photo. I would have liked this image a lot more if I did.

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Final Project Idea

For my final project I was planning on depicting lucid dreams. I want the pictures to look very abnormal and dreamlike. I'm planning to use myself in all the images, showing that they are based off of my own dreams. I also planned on have a clock in all the images of different times to show that time is passing and that it is nighttime. Last weekend I took two photo ideas I had and tried to shoot them the best I could. So far, the two pictures I took are both made up of multiple images that I took separately. In the first image I wanted myself to appear as if I was flying in some way so I took several shots outside of myself jumping, trying to get a shot that I could work with in photoshop. I also took many shots of a book falling, so that in the final image the book would appear to be falling out of my hand. In the second photo idea, I wanted to somehow depict sleep paralysis (a part of lucid dreaming) where the sleeper wakes up from a lucid dream or a really deep sleep and is unable to move. Some people who have experienced this, including myself, say that they feel like a weight is pressing on their chest, holding them down. I wanted to depict this in some way, so I took multiple images of cinderblocks on a board, and then of myself lying on the ground. I wanted to combined these images to show the cinderblocks lying on my chest. Since some people have even said they have seen a women or person kneeling on their chest when they wake up for a lucid dream, I thought I might used images of myself kneeling on my sleeping body instead of the cinderblocks. I have almost finished editing both images, but it is taking me a very long time to composite these images in a way that doesn't look photoshopped. I don't know what I'm going to do for the other photos, but I have a couple ideas brewing in my head.

Here ar the two images I have been working on. There are a couple spots I still need to touch up, but I'm excited about them so I wanted to put them up!

Emulation Project: Final Prints (Robert Parkeharrison)

The Experiment 

Bedtime Story

Electricity

The Bird

The Tree

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Currier Museum Photo Exhibit

The two images that I chose to compare and contrast were "Rails in the Rain" by Imre Kinszki and "Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, 1932" by Lotte Jacobi, both seen below. Both of the images show tracks in the center, leading the viewers eyes to the back of the images. The subject matter in both these images is some type of man made thing, like the rail road or a church. There is also streaks of light in the foreground of both pictures, in the reflections of light on the road and on the rail road tracks. The major differences with these two images is that "Rails in the Rain" was shot in the daytime, while the other image was taken in the night, resulting in more overall light in the daytime picture. The compositions are similar since the tracks in both pictures are slightly off center, but is also different because they are off centered on opposite sides of each image. The image of the church also has a blurry foreground from the reflections in the puddles, while the other image is focused all around.

I honestly had a hard time finding an image that didn't belong in the photo collection. In the first room of the exhibit, I wrote down that the photo "Les Nus De Drtikol, XXVII (Nude)" didn't belong because it was the only photo of a nude women in the whole room, while all the other images were of buildings and landscapes. But once I discovered that there were more rooms to the collection and saw more nude photos, I changed my mind and thought that it did belong. Maybe if it was placed next to the other nude pictures it would have fitted in the collection better. The image that I thought was one of the weakest in the collection was called "Penzance" by John Gibson. It showed a field with a bunch of sheep sanding in it. I just found it very boring and not particularity special.

There were so many images that I really liked. I kept replacing my favorite photo with a new once, as I kept moving through the exhibit. By the time I was done looking through all the photos, I had about seven different photos written down. If I had to pick one photo that was my favorite, I think I would pick "Foster's Pond Millennium, 1/1/2000, 2000" by Arno Rafael Minkkinen. This photo literally made me gasp a little bit when I first saw it. I just loved how I couldn't tell which were hands and which were feet, until I looked at it longer. The reflections of the limbs in the water was also very beautiful. I really loved how thin, still, and shallow the water is. The image would not give me the same feeling if the water was any deeper because then the feet and hands would be under the water. Another image that I also really loved was "Untitled (Nude) 1997" by Carl A. Hyatt. This is another image that I would like to have on my wall. I just love the abstraction and how my eye travels around the shapes of her body. I also really like the ends of her toes peaking out of the side of her leg and her finger tips peaking at the top of the image.

I really liked the overall visual appearance of the exhibit. I felt that the order and subject matter of the images really flowed nicely. I noticed as I traveled around the room from photo to photo that each photo had something in common with the image before it, that created a nice flow. For instance I noticed the pictures in the second room went from portraits of peoples faces, to nudes, to tree trunks. They all tied together because the first couple images were about people, then their bodies, and then the tree trunks were shot in a way that mimiced the abstract shapes of the nude pictures before. I also noticed how pictures with similar themes, like lines, would be shown right after each other. I thought that the overall theme of the exhibit was industrialization in the beginning because of all the building and machinery pictures, but then it slowly started to be about people in cities and nature. In the end I wasn't sure if there was just one theme, but it didn't matter because the images flowed perfectly together by the order they were positioned around the room. Overall I really enjoyed this photo exhibit and wished that we could have stayed longer so I would have more time to look at all the images more closely.