Oregon/Washington trip

So I went to Oregon and Washington over New Years. I took a ton of photos and picked out some of the best. Then I picked some of the best out of those to shear. The only sad thing is that we came home on Jan. 4 and I still haven't downloaded the photos from the final day, when we drove home.

Here are some of the best photos.

The 1st photo is through the window during an ice storm. Yeah we drove through an ice storm on the was to seaside, OR.

The next three are doggie prints I found in three different locations. 1. in the dirt on a path to a water fall, 2. in the mud on a lighthouse trail, 3. in the snow when we looked at a columb.

Other include sunsets, water fall, trees, snow and much more.

This is also the 1st time I've tried playing with photoshop to place back drops and outlines.

Alternative processes

Here's is my final project of my alternative processes class.

After looking at some photographers in my photo history class last spring it got me thinking what I was going to do for my theme is this class. I have a ton (A TON) of Tiggers stuff animals (along with some other stuff like mugs and such.) and I wanted to "archive" my Tigger collection, but as I feared the teacher HATED the idea. Which I kinda didn't care. As you can see I still did what I wanted to do.

He told me to try to shoot the Tiggers like I was shooting a portrait and not just a shot of the stuff animal with it's entire body in the shot (like a toy product shot). I showed this projects in a 20 by 25 mat bored with 16 window matted holes with the four of the same shot (but different processes) sat in the middles and the blues stays with the blues, the browns in the brown section and so on.

He liked my final product along with my classmates. I also loved the final showing and plan to frame the project and keep in my home. Someone even told me I should have it in a room where it's put up on the wall and all the Tiggers are sitting under the photos. lol.

Hope y'all like -- let me know what you think.

More photos for senior port.

Now I'm having trouble getting the baseball and the "balls" photos loaded online. Both myspace and photobucket didn't upload and I don't know why -- I was going to post the entire project tonight, but without those two it's not final on here. So I have three to shear right now. Two softball (and the one with the grips is close to what the baseball one is) and a parachute one.

Enjoy.

Joleen

I took photos of my friend Joleen the other day for her website. I tried putting them on myspace and some wouldn't post so I wanted to post them here so they can all be seen.

I used a flash attachment to fill in the shadows.

Envelope: UPDATE.

Here is my final project.

Stopping the Action

This is how I'm doing with my senior portfolio, which will include 10 images in the final portfolio.

I am going to post my artist statement first, then include some of the stuff I have been working on.

Artist Statement:

Stopping the action

Sports have always been a big part of my life. I have played softball, soccer, and been on gymnastics and track and field teams. It seems only fitting that my childhood was filled with sports, that my future be surrounded by sports.

Sporting events are so fast-pace one might not see every bit of action during one event. Little bits of action aren't seen by the viewer, nor part of the action, but merely the pre or post action rituals. I will show some aspects of a given game which a viewer will not likely see or may past by too fast one may miss it with the blink of an eye. I will stop actions, such as a soccer player head-butting a ball during a game and go behind the scenes to show what may not be visible. In some cases it won't be part of the actual action, but without it the outcome wouldn't be the same. For example when a gymnasts chalks up before attempting a bar performance or tapping wrists or ankles to avoid future injuries or already ailing wounds during a meet. These are not part of the action of the sporting event, but essential to a gymnasts safely during the meet.
I intend to stop the action during the intense moments of fast-paced sporting events so the viewer can see details, which cannot be seen while watching a game or meet. Facial expressions and emotions will be shown, but not always prominent in each photo, since not every photo will include a face, but just a piece of the action.

In some cases multiple photos will be placed together to give the viewer different aspects of the sporting event will out having to move to another position. Placing two or more photos together will help the viewer to see which sports are being displayed since some photos will only be a part of the action.

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