Assignment

Alright! If you haven't read my blog before and you're doing so now because your my classmate, I just want to let you know that this is my preexisting blog that I've had for a few months. I just didn't want anybody to get confused. Anyway, people who do normally read this, I know I already posted these pictures last time but, as I said, it's a part of our assignment is to write something to go with them. And also to name them which is something I never do but I will for a grade. This one above here is to be called, "Man with Satchel"! I think it holds the tone quite nicely. I took it because I needed more motion photos for class and I loved his satchel. It seemed like it was from the 1930's, really cool. If I were a business man I'd be too awesome for a brief case too. Because it's in black and white, now it's not just the brief case that seems old. The whole thing could be from the 30's now. I think that's why people like it.

This one shall be known as "Flower Boxes"! I love tilting when I take pictures. I really enjoy the look of things receding into the vanishing point diagonally. I feel it's really interesting and causes a great depth of field. I also liked it because this was a parking garage, which to me does not scream 'floral'. Nothing about a city really makes me think of any kind of nature at all so whenever I see misplaced plants that is exactly what I think; misplaced and the contrast is interesting to me.

This one is just called "Ian". That's right, you guys now get to see what he looks like after I talked about him so much. This is the first picture I developed and printed and I was so happy when it turned out. I was pretty much squealing so this photo and I have a unique relationship. I took it for the depth of field, with the blurred traffic behind him and the foreground only existing in the right corner. I knew how to do the rule of thirds before I knew it was called that. I just figured everything is more fascinating if it's not head on. If you put it somewhere less expected, it will obviously be more worthy of attention, depending on the subject matter.

"Metal". These were in a tea store Ian was applying to work at and they seemed neat to me. The whole tea room had a cool vibe but I didn't know if it was too dark to take a picture with  out a shutter speed that would require a tri-pod so I only took the one. All the same, I'm pretty pleased with it.

"Grate". I have a tendency for taking pictures of feet. These are mine, for the record. I don't know if I just really like shoes (quite likely) or if I just have a high respect for the things feet allow us to do. When I was in the Palace Temples in Bangkok I always put the gold leaf of Buddha's feet to bring me safe travels.

I'm not the biggest fan of having to describe my work because I like when something has an air of mystery to it. I like when people have to ask me questions about something. That's also why I don't often name my photos unless it's something like "IMG452". Everybody's different.

Wonderfully Flustered

Alright, so excellent news!!!! Firstly, I had a waffle for breakfast. Secondly, I was way behind the rest of my photography class because my film kept being the wrong kind, impossible to find and buy or it kept going threw the camera wrong, not to mention that week I was sick. Everyone already had a ton of prints and I hadn't even developed any film yet. I was so flustered and scared even though Chris said he wouldn't fail me because I'm trying so hard. All the same, it's not cool to turn in nothing time and time again. So, I used some of the film my parents sent me (which turns out to be the only time I used the right film and they just happened to get it in a store that doesn't exist where I live) and I had Chris watch me put it in the camera. Then I went and took a million pictures and I thought Chris could help me develop them but it was a critic day. That means that all the kids that have prints (everyone but me) gets to have their pictures complimented by the rest of the class all day. I thought he could help me after class develop my pictures but he went straight home so I developed them all by myself! I did have a few break downs (I cried in the dark room like 3 times because I couldn't open the film canister, than I couldn't roll the film on the reel [it took me 20 minutes to do]) and I thought that there wouldn't be any pictures on the film because I couldn't get the dark room door to close all the way. HOWEVER!!! THERE WERE MANY A PICTURES TO BEHOLD! I also met a very nice woman who pressured me into also learning how to print today. I wasn't even planning on getting that far! But I became almost fully proficient in printing! I printed 8 pictures and I did more than half of that all by myself because she had to go somewhere. And they all turned out! One of them was a smidge blurry but none of them were under or over exposed! I went to photo class at 1 and left the photo lab at 7. That's 6 hours! That's a shift at my old job! And it flew by! I still can't believe it was that long, it didn't feel like it. Do you know what this means!? It means I chose the right career! It means I can do this and my job will fly by like I'm not even working! I can be a glorious photographer! And love it! And never regret it! The world is my oyster! Also, it was a photography class assignment to create a blog but I clearly already have one so as long as I figure out how to upload pictures here, my home work is done!