I didn't know there were so many pieces...

Photographer Todd McLellan did something super spiffy, where he took apart mundane objects and turned them into something magically abstract. I was surprised at how many small pieces there were. His work boarders on OCD, but amazing nonetheless. I suggest looking at the larger image, it makes a bit more sense that way.

Example: Infrared Photography

I decided to go exploring on Flickr for some infrared photography examples, since I recall hearing someone mention it in passing during a photo class a few days ago.

The premise of infrared photography is that the sensor in a digital camera is sensitive to and records light in part of the spectrum that we can't see- the infrared spectrum, which is located at a slightly lower frequency than the visible light we are used to dealing with.

Infrared frequencies often include the frequency of thermal radiation given off by objects around room temperature, thus showing differences in infrared appearance based on temperature differences.

Below are some examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dexxus/2679867638/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dexxus/2633073227/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dexxus/3671705004/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annamir/4154279801/

Grant Gunderson

These were some cool skiing photos I found by a photographer named Grant Gunderson. he is very good at using high contrast photos with bright colors, and sharp resolution. I think in some of his pictures he photoshops two different photos together for a contrasting idea. His snapshots of airborne skiers are awesome. Enjoy.

READING: A Photographic Passion for Ants

You never know when you might fall in love with someone or something... Here's an interesting story about Mark Moffet, a nature photographer who loves to shoot ants. It is a short entertaining read and is a good example of following your passion.

NYC Street Photographers

Here are some excellent video clips profiling well known street photographers working in New York City. Be sure to check out Ricky Powell and Bruce "No Ethics" Gilden. They have quite the 'tude... On the other hand, here's a nicely produced video about a street based fashion photographer, called The Sartorialist.

Bruce Gilden

Darkroom experiments

Last rotation, I worked with a large format camera. I encountered some difficulties during my time working with the camera such as double exposures, premature exposure during the development process, a faulty shutter, and of course lugging the camera around from place to place. After development, I only used 2 out of the 8 pieces of film I shot over the two weeks of shooting. Starting was simple, I made a couple resin coated prints with the regular image.

But after about three days of making regular prints with the two negatives I had, I began to explore different processes to experiment with my two negatives. I crumpled up a piece of paper and used one of my classmates negatives ( a portrait of her brother) and then unfolded it while in the developer chemical. I also folded up a piece of paper in the shape of a paper airplane, and on my first try I came out with what I think to be a very interesting result:






I also experimented with the method of solarization (exposing a piece of photo paper to an image on a projector, throwing the paper in the developing chemicals and once the image begins to appear on the paper, take the paper out and expose it to light for a brief second, and then put it back in the developer.)

BokehBoke (Bow-Kuh)

Boke-aji is a Japanese word that as come to mean intentional blurring of photos. Though, not always, it's usually associated with the dot-effect of lights that are in the distance and unfocused. Gizmodo recently had a shooting challenge for this and received 306 submissions. Here are a couple of my favorites....

Working With Large Format

For this past rotation I got to work with a Large Format camera. The experience was an interesting one with its up and downs largely due to how big the camera was. However, overall I really enjoyed the experience because I was able to learn how to work with this camera and because I really enjoyed the final end products. The images captured with this large format camera were so sharp which I found really nice. While working with the large format camera I didn't just limit my self to simply taking landscape pictures but tried experimented a lot with the angles of the camera. Many of my takes with this experiment did not work out but I had fun in the process. An example of this fail is the an image taken in the gym where I attempted angle the camera to the side to get a side shot of the trophy case, which would be all in focus however it did not work out.