Still Life: Project #3

For this project we had to create a still life or diorama and photograph it using different light sources or different angles. I'm not really into creating my own still life and photographing it, so this was out of my comfort zone. I'm not totally thrilled with the outcome, but for what how it came out, it's not horrible. I have these mini American girl dolls and these tiny tea sets and I decided to create scenes with them. This was my end result.

Shift of View: Project #2

For this project we were working with the different camera movements on the monorail camera. I enjoyed this project partly because I found out that the camera I bought does all the movements which increases it's value, not only in this course but in my future work with photography.

My subject for this project was to photograph old buildings and luckily I live in a historic town which features two forts that were used in wartime. The first three photographs are the ones I used for this project and the location is Fort Stark in New Castle, NH. The remaining two photographs are of the old Naval Prison on the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard located in Kittery, ME. Technically, you are not allowed to photograph this building but I got permission to do so which was very exciting. They're not my favorite pictures but I hope to be able to go back again and reshoot.

Poetics of Space: Project #1

This was my first experience using my 4x5 Calumet Monorail camera. Over the course of this semester, I have fallen in love with this camera.

Bill Paarlberg

I saw a little segment on Chronical on News 9 tonight featuring this artist. I thought his drawings were pretty cool. He went to school for math and now does these drawings.

Here is his blog about Portsmouth, NH:

http://illustratingportsmouth.blogspot.com/

Preliminary Digital Shots for Poetics of Space

these are just a few pictures that i took this morning in hopes to see what some of my shots with the view camera will look like. hopefully the shots with the view camera will come out better than these.

Final Project

Blogger wouldn't let me upload one of my other pictures and I'm sure why... but perhaps I'll try again later. However, I was very happy with the way these panoramic pictures came out and I was pleased with the response they received on Tuesday.

Art Break Lecture #2

I went to the Art Break lecture featuring the BFA candidates: Katharine W. Austin, Shayna Bicknell, and Joshua Torbick. I really enjoyed listening to these students talk about their work and their process for producing the amazing pieces that were showcased in the museum. I enjoyed listening to Shayna describe how she stumbled upon her abstracted painting style and how Katharine utilized the art buildings as her main subject. Josh's pieces particularly impressed me. I had a hard time preventing myself from going to test out the pieces of furniture. I enjoyed listening to the reasons why he combined steel and wood together to create a natural form. I think that Josh's pieces stood out the most to me because I was just in awe that he was able to bend wood into a smooth curve to imitate the flow of nature.

Overall, I enjoyed all three of these BFA students' talks about their work in the past year and I definitely could see growth and change within all the pieces they chose to show us.