Dive Away

I'm very pleased with how the photo shoot went on Monday night. I'm so glad that I looked more into Aaron Siskind's work. I would have never thought of using a diver for my pictures, I guess it just shows how much someone can just zone in on what they know and not really branch out. A few examples I will post with this blog. So far I have about five or six great shoots from that photo shoot. With that it will be hard I think when I get a chance to take pictures during track when they start practicing.

Busy weekend

This weekend has been crazy. I was not able to make it to post a blog until now. I worked all day until 11 at night on friday. Sat and sunday were busy with different things. Sadly on thursday I wasnt able to make it to the gymnastics before they were already done finishing up. I have word back from a swimmer so I will be able to get some shots that way. Luckly its near oct. So track is starting soon. Since my subjects are on a very weird sch. I have been working on two backgrounds and working on my research project. The main artist I am studying now is siskind. I believe this will help me when I will go shoot a diver because I got the idea from him. It was a series he did called pleasures and terrors of levitation.

Upcoming

So i talked to some track athletes and they do not start until oct. Which thankfully that is not to far away. However gymastics has started and I will be hopefully going to their practice this thursday to shoot. I just recieved books on Aaron Siskind this weekend. Which his photography gave me an idea of doing divers. He did a small series on divers and I never looked into that type of body movement. I believe that it would be intersting trying to connect that with my two other subjects.

I think my  this photo is going to be my t shirt to print out today during class

The wait is over

So I wanted just a day to decide to really buy a new camera. A lot of money put on the credit card later I now have a really nice camera and also has a video recorder on it. The camera is a Nikon D3100. I'm going to test it out tomorrow and see how much of a difference it is. I took a few pictures today with it and I'm already impressed with just the results of a simple car shot. I think that after working with it a bit I will not want to wait until I can take some pictures for my art work.

Project this semester

I'm continuing to do my same process as last semester stated in the earlier blog post. A few artist that I'm looking into right now are Robert Smithson, Walker Evans, and Eadweard Muybridge. All these artists are photographers. I'm hoping this weekend to try and find other artists in a different medium that can inspire me or have me look at art in a different way. Right now I am currently working on getting my backgrounds together and made. While using time to take my subjects out of their background. Mrs. Wascak brought up a good idea that I should try a green screen. This way it would take the long process of taking my subjects out and it would be an easy click and delete. Amazon has some alright priced green screens however I think I may look into making my own green screen someway. Time and money seem to be my enemy with my art process. Like most artists that can usually be the biggest battle.
Hope everyone has a good labor day break!