EXAMPLE: Superhero Grandma

I found this on Gizmodo about an elderly grandmother who was depressed and lonely. As a result her grandson/photographer took her on a photoshoot. She was actually a hero. During WWII she helped save 10 Jews and as a result had to illegally leave Hungary to avoid persecution. Anyway, enjoy!

PROJECT 1: Speech Balloons!

I'm super happy with the way these turned out! My only qualm is the one with Meredie where it's a bit fuzzy, but I think I might just add a blur overlay and the same to Stephanie's picture so it looks a bit more intentional. :D I think I might end up using these in the exihibit later this month.

EXAMPLE: Fire Breathing and Shakespeare

I saw this really cool pic up on http://www.deviantart.com/ by one of my favorite photographers. It's kind of amusing because this photographer usually does high fashion, model type stuff. It's fun to see something exciting and kind of dangerous like breathing fire combined with his usual dainty model.

Currently, I'm in the process of editing some of the images from my Ashland trip. I didn't get that many because they were super prissy about copyrights (You can't even have pix of the outside of the theater because apparently that's copyrighted too). But I got some of my friends and a bit of the workshop and actor discussion. I'll post them up here when they're done.

EXAMPLE: Timelapse Video and Slow Shutter

Timelapse Montage from Mike Flores on Vimeo.

Check out the above link. I thought it was pretty epic and amazing. Kind of makes me want to do some more light painting, or long exposure stuff in general. Maybe try out moth trails?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xenmate/galleries/72157623258942237/
(moth trails)

DARKROOM PROJECT

Here are some photograms I did with Kevin Ji and Laura Alvarez. This first week back in the darkroom, we worked on making large photograms, printing with both RC and fiber paper, as well as printing large prints. 

First off, I really enjoyed making large photograms this week. It was sort of interesting trying to figure out how to actually process them, especially the one with Laura because it wouldn't fit into the trays. I feel like with larger prints it's harder to control every detail of the development process, unlike with smaller prints that you can easily move around. Because of this I noticed a lot of "man handling" marks on the paper. :D Overall though, I really enjoyed making photograms. 

Along with photograms, I also worked on printing super large prints with Kevin Laura. It was easier to burn and dodge the image because it was larger, and there was also a lot more detail in the image compared to smaller 8x10 prints. 

Lastly, I tried out the fiber paper instead of the RC paper. I feel like the fiber paper is a lot warmer in tone compared to the RC paper, however it does take longer to develop. And also instead of drying flat like the RC paper, the fiber paper curls up like a wet piece of paper when the whole development process is done. In my opinion it gives the paper a more "vintage" look. :)