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!

Using imovie

After going through the things you can use Imovie for, I think I want to try and show the whole movement involved with my works. The reason why is because with my work its suspended in a frozen time frame. You see only what I show you and I think it would be great to see the whole process of the movement some of my subjects do. The problem I see myself running into is that I would have to get permission from my subjects to video tape them. I have a feeling that it will be easier for the track athletes to say yes than the gymnastics. I would need to find more about Imovie because I will need to slow down the video since the athlete moves pretty fast. Slowing down the movement you would be able to see the different phases.

Finals

This week has been crazy so far hoping to get everything done in time. The paper is going to be the biggest changeling besides switching some of the images out of the work to use different ones. I went to the home track and got some more profile pictures since I was not able to return to the gym to take other gymnastics pictures because both jobs became overwhelming with also school work.

More Work

Yesterday I went to a gymnastics practice to get some more shots and I have five or six really great shots to work with. With getting those shots I also went out and took more concrete pictures so that I would have enough backgrounds to go with the new shots from the gymnastics practice. I will upload all these starting works so that I can get some comments on them. I should have them started by the end of the weekend or the beginning of next week. Also with that I'm going to be printing two of the projects I finished and stretch them out onto stretchers so that I can have them ready for my junior review.