My friend showed me this a while ago. The first woman is a total nut job, haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viyj_ewUbsY
Hope you find her as ridiculous as I do.
-Caitlin :0)
Alright I need a little more help please! Do you like the first or the second set better?
Here's my final of the other one!
last minute- help?
Hey guys, would any of you be willing/able to go down to the MAG sometime tomorrow and photograph Patti's friend Andrea who's having a show there? I told Patti I would, but my work schedule unexpectedly changed and I'm busy all day tomorrow. Thanks!
last project
I just wanted to post some of the photos I've been taking recently, why not right? Self promotion can't hurt. I was assigned the project of displaying RIT spas students in a more natural or telling way than what is currently on the RIT photography website. I find the first one the most successful, the other two met what I wanted to do, but I want to redo them.
I like seeing people's work, so I'd love to see people doing more of this again. I was inspired by the post earlier to do the same.
also, shamelessly, my website is up and live BrettCarlsen.com , Very excited that it happened finally, waited way too long to do this. I really need feedback to see what works/doesn't works for everyone, want to find out before I pay the web designer.
also, (last thing I swear) brettcarlsen.com/daily is my daily photo blog for my fine art elements class.
Help! I need some constructive criticism on this. So I shot these in the studio with a spoon and corn syrup...our teacher refrained to tell us that a shutter speed over 1/250 makes the picture totally not work, I figured that out the hard way.
HDR Help
So Nanette went over the HDR assignment today in M&P and even though the assignment isn't up on mycourses yet, I'm willing to help out anyone who wants/needs help.
Delicious Food and Good Company
Took a few pics tonight with my point and shoot...dinner was amazing thank you Patti!!
Pathetic.
When I got home from work today, I impulsively bought a rabbit. Not totally impulsively, I've been wanting one for a long time. The guy at the shop told me it was a boy, but I think it's a girl since I can't find its wee wee. Anyone wanna help me name it?Note: anyone suggesting names like Angel, Fluffy, Chocolate, Mr. Snuffles, etc., will be shot.
And yesterday I went to Home Depot with Christian because he still hasn't finished his damn bathroom, and I bought some plants. Why am I such a damn woman? Gah.
More musings and questions....
4 x5 and 8 x 10 provide great control over perspective - (long list of elements that are related to the camera controls)
The larger film size, image area, provides greater flexibility for high quality enlargements.
I have also heard it said that large format shooting
"I miss film"
What doe this mean?
What do you miss?
Do you miss dropping it off and picking it up from the lab? Hours in the darkroom?
Is it the fact that you can't see the image and your results until you drop off and pick up?
Is it the suspense and having to wait?
Or is it the look?
If it is the look, what about the "look" makes it different from digital, other than the grain structure?
I have adapted the notion, that the tool should be chosen based on what will give you the best result for your message. The tool should not matter and should be transparent.
Personally, I do not miss film.
I do want to work with analog processes like Lumen prints and go back to doing more historic process like Platinum, Cyanotype, vanDyke Browns etc... Why? nostalgia and some of the effects you can't quite achieve in digital output, although, today you can achieve MANY. its cool, I like the way working with these materials makes me feel.....
Are we really referring to the method of working and how that makes us feel?
What are your personal thoughts on how you see the difference between film and digital?
The larger film size, image area, provides greater flexibility for high quality enlargements.
I have also heard it said that large format shooting
- Makes you slow down and really think about the image, composition, lighting etc ...(yet I have seen some really badly composed images, poorly lit etc ...)
- Forces one to use a light meter, consequently get better exposures (yet I have seen some very bad exposures on large format...)
- Why can't you do that if you shoot any format and are mindful?
- Do we require the physicality of large format to force us to do what we should be doing anyways?
- ....
"I miss film"
What doe this mean?
What do you miss?
Do you miss dropping it off and picking it up from the lab? Hours in the darkroom?
Is it the fact that you can't see the image and your results until you drop off and pick up?
Is it the suspense and having to wait?
Or is it the look?
If it is the look, what about the "look" makes it different from digital, other than the grain structure?
I have adapted the notion, that the tool should be chosen based on what will give you the best result for your message. The tool should not matter and should be transparent.
Personally, I do not miss film.
I do want to work with analog processes like Lumen prints and go back to doing more historic process like Platinum, Cyanotype, vanDyke Browns etc... Why? nostalgia and some of the effects you can't quite achieve in digital output, although, today you can achieve MANY. its cool, I like the way working with these materials makes me feel.....
Are we really referring to the method of working and how that makes us feel?
What are your personal thoughts on how you see the difference between film and digital?
What do you think?
Is Photography an ends to a mean?
or
A particular way of doing it?
Is it process driven or practice driven?
Process being - how - format, analog, digital, color, b/w ....
Practice being making images.
How do you see it?
Do you see yourself as a visual artist with a practice in photography?
Does the process dictate the discipline and the practice?
Does the process result from the known practice of photography?
or
A particular way of doing it?
Is it process driven or practice driven?
Process being - how - format, analog, digital, color, b/w ....
Practice being making images.
How do you see it?
Do you see yourself as a visual artist with a practice in photography?
Does the process dictate the discipline and the practice?
Does the process result from the known practice of photography?
Musings - Nostalgia and humans
Being vintage, I grew up on film and "real" photo paper, you know the kind that was around before resin coated paper, took hours to wash and then dry. Getting a true glossy surface meant ferrotyping (sp?) a print = having a big, shiny, hot, metal drum that you attached the print to by having a big cotton blanket tightly adhered to it and "baking" the shine onto the emulsion.
4 x 5 and 8 x 10 were commonplace, 2 1/4 and 35 mm were not really serious photography... especially if it was in color!
Personally, photographs on paper were of little interest to me when I was in college.
I hated color photography since it never felt like I saw color.
Consequently, I was in love with original photographic processes and spent most of my time making emulsions from hard to find and decipher formulas.
This WAS - REAL photography!
I could then coat all kinds of materials and substrates...
I then spent many years painting and drawing on all my b/w photographs to create color the way I felt, saw it.
In grad school, one of my professors was a proponent of 35 mm photography.
He believed that if you used a point light source (very focused beam of light) in the enlarger, you could make large prints that were equivalent to a similar print made from a 4 x 5 negative. The focused light wrapped itself around the fine grain film in a way that allowed one to make big prints from a small negative. In many ways, the Point Source method was akin to Clarity, and correct sharpening in digital workflows. Warren Stevens was a VERY smart man.
His hypothesis and procedures were correct of course.
We all did it (Point Source Photography) - mostly to please him.
The results were evident, especially if you followed his workflow (one needed to be meticulous and precise and there was the issue of dust and the subsequent hours of spotting - each print - sigh...)
BUT - we all coveted our Hasselblad negative, and (the becoming vintage) large format films.
After all, 35mm could not be serious enough! We missed the struggles of "real photography" even though this then new fangled thing required more intense "realness and seriousness".
This Professor was a veteran war photographer. He had photographed WWII carrying an 8 x 10 and
4 x 5 camera around. He knew the joys of large format, but knew its limitations and how it held photographic explorations hostage in many ways. Needless to say what it did to his body parts.
Warren (my professor) understood the need to romanticize, love of nostalgia, the exuberance of youth.
He understood that the grass is always greener.
And he truly understood that what goes around comes around. But things only come full circle when we are ready for it.
Using a 4 x5 is valid and important - but the same skill sets can be developed and honed with current technology.
This I believe!
And yes - we will do exercises in 4 x 5 when it is time later in the qtr:)
Is all instant a Polaroid? Is every copy a Xerox?
I always find it curious:
how we are seduced by nostalgia
anything that seems "better" is remembered fondly
coin things based on most prevalent tag lines
that the "grass is always greener" ...
Yes - a couple PA teachers are using 4x5 as a tool. Some do it early on, others wait until later.
Yes - they are using Fuji instant film.
Goes with the instantaneous nature that digital gives.
Polaroid has gone out of business. A company did buy up many of its assets and I really don't know if it is back in business or not.
Kodak spent many years making instant film as did other companies.
Haloid made the first copy machine (there are still a few in use in the Rochester area by local artists) and then it morphed into Xerox/Haloid and then simply Xerox. A xerox is a company, not a copy of something.
our culture tends to adapt language as we see fit.
Coin a phrase to suit our needs.
Hence
all copies can become a "Xerox" when it is really a copy - photo, electrostatic, laser ...
All instant analogue images can become a "Polaroid" when they are an instant, analogue, image...
here is the link for the Fuji instant film or "FujiPolaroid" datasheet
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/pdf/fp_100c_datasheet.pdf
how we are seduced by nostalgia
anything that seems "better" is remembered fondly
coin things based on most prevalent tag lines
that the "grass is always greener" ...
Yes - a couple PA teachers are using 4x5 as a tool. Some do it early on, others wait until later.
Yes - they are using Fuji instant film.
Goes with the instantaneous nature that digital gives.
Polaroid has gone out of business. A company did buy up many of its assets and I really don't know if it is back in business or not.
Kodak spent many years making instant film as did other companies.
Haloid made the first copy machine (there are still a few in use in the Rochester area by local artists) and then it morphed into Xerox/Haloid and then simply Xerox. A xerox is a company, not a copy of something.
our culture tends to adapt language as we see fit.
Coin a phrase to suit our needs.
Hence
all copies can become a "Xerox" when it is really a copy - photo, electrostatic, laser ...
All instant analogue images can become a "Polaroid" when they are an instant, analogue, image...
here is the link for the Fuji instant film or "FujiPolaroid" datasheet
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/instant_photo/pdf/fp_100c_datasheet.pdf
4x5
So, it's been a little while since I've posted on here, but I've been doing 4x5 like every day and I'm super excited about it. I spent yesterday afternoon working with it in the studio doing self portraits with fuji polaroids, just still trying to get a feel for it. It would've been easier had I remembered the cable release, but I got some pretty neat motion in them.Anyway, I've never been that big on self portraits, but I think I want to try to continue them using a 4x5, mainly because it's so cumbersome. It slows me down and keeps me from taking stupid random pictures of myself.
So that's where I am right now...
burning bush
I was walking around one night over break with a couple of my friends from home and shooting. My friend George told me to set up my tripod in a dark place because he has a "surprise" then he proceeded to pull a giant firework sparkler hybrid out of his pocket and swing it around.
I had no idea what he was going to do so i had my camera set at an 8 second exposure. It wasnt till about 5 seconds in that we realized he had set someone's bush on fire. He had to hit it with our coats and throw snow on it and then run away with my camera still on my fully extended tripod.
Thinking about how l started taking photos...
Hi guys,I'm feeling nostalgic so I decided to post this. I've just been thinking back to the things that originally got me into taking photographs. It sort of started as a way for me to create reference pictures for paintings; I could never just put an idea from my mind onto the surface without the middle man. But it seemed so cheap to look at images that weren't my own. Like for this painting, I cooked up the idea and then just shot reference photos of myself, the guitar, and the hand. When I think about it now, painting in that manner is almost like manual photoshop. I had all of the separate images that I wanted to make a unified piece and I layered them together. And an oil painting, like a photograph, can never seem to be quite finished, optimized enough. I just really am fascinated with the way different genres and art can link up. It's great to flirt with them all.
Cheers,
Chloe
4 Eyes Photo Contest
I found this photo contest online. The categories are People & Portraits, Architecture, Nature, Animals & Pets, and Conceptual. There is a $5 entry fee per image you sumbit. The contest is going from March 10th to June 9th.
Grand Prize is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II or a Nikon D700
strobist shopping kit
bhphoto shopping list
This is a quick list of what I think a good 2 light setup would be, I put this together for stephen but anyone could apply this.
I would buy those flashes used if you were to get them, craigslist or ebay (roughly $60 on ebay)
I personally own those stands (impact 2 stand kit) and have used them for years with no problems.
mpex.com also has strobist kits. these are very similar and include a lp120 flash that has an optical slave built in.
feel free to ask any questions if you have them
So, here's a couple-a images ive taken this vay-cay. I need another week. Patti . Do you think i could just pay RIT straight up cash money for a Masters degree?
A bit of shameless self-promotion
I know it's been a while since I've posted anything, but I thought this would be pretty intersting.
My roommate Josh (he's kinda a photographer... biomed) and I decided to take six days of our spring break and drive a loop from Rochester, to Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and back to Rochester. Along the way, we're staying with friends, eating delicious local foods, trying to find random and bizarre sights, and shooting as much as we can.
Of course, we have a blog for the trip:
http://sixdayswithmybff.tumblr.com/
Sorry to self-promote, but I thought you guys might be interested in what I'm up to over spring break. See everyone in a week or so.
My roommate Josh (he's kinda a photographer... biomed) and I decided to take six days of our spring break and drive a loop from Rochester, to Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and back to Rochester. Along the way, we're staying with friends, eating delicious local foods, trying to find random and bizarre sights, and shooting as much as we can.
Of course, we have a blog for the trip:
http://sixdayswithmybff.tumblr.com/
Sorry to self-promote, but I thought you guys might be interested in what I'm up to over spring break. See everyone in a week or so.
Goodbye Little Buddy
You guys will be happy to know, that I am getting a new phone.
I gave in. And, yes it does have a camera.
That is all.
OW
Skin Flappers
Aftermath
