sweet news!

I ordered a lensbaby on Sunday! I got The Composer, with the optic swap system.. I am so excited to get it!! I can't wait to share photos with all of you once I take some with it!

2/24/11-2/27/11

Well, I messed up my weekend by forgetting a few essentials I needed for my portrait shots, so I just took photos around Zach's house..

Almost forgot!

Yesterday when I came back home from class to get my bags and go, my transfer paper was in the mail! I was so happy! now when I get back to Illinois on Sunday I can finally start doing my project the way I want to, hopefully I will have something to show you guys by sunday night!

Going away for the weekend

This weekend I am going to St. Louis to shoot more portraits for my specialization projects I am excited to see the results! I will try to update throughout the weekend.

2/23/11

Today I was doing some shooting for my specialization project, turned out pretty well for only having the studio for an hour. I took photos of Alex and Kelsey today, here are some of the shots:



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Thanks for the help guys!

Weekend

 Elise had planned a surprise for me for the last month or so, to take me to a concert. We all got ready to go downtown on Saturday afternoon, until we found out...the concert happened Friday. We took photos and watched Mars Attacks! instead.

Elise

My best friend came in from Michigan over the weekend, I was able to photograph her for my specialization portrait project, here is a glimpse of the hilarity that ensued:

There are so many more but, I thought this was a good selection... I miss her already!

Specialization

It took me a few weeks to figure out what I was actually doing for my specialization class, I knew I wanted to try photo illustration but I didn't know how I wanted to approach it. I finally decided I wanted to incorporate a few different techniques.

1. I will be taking the photos (obviously) I decided I wanted to take portraits of people and have them fill out a questionnaire to get a feel for their personality, and to be able to take some responses from that survey and be able to illustrate it some way onto the photo.

2. Instead of illustrating right onto the photograph I decided I want to do something called photo transferring. (Here is a video to show how it works)

I am going to take the photos and print it on this photo transfer paper and then transfer the image onto some other type of paper, at the moment I have tried bristol board and watercolor paper, but I also have not received this paper yet even though I ordered it a week ago. Right now I have been using just an image printed on photo copy paper and transferring it with a blending marker, this has resulted in the transfer being in black and white, which is really not what I want.




3. With the help of the Graphic Designer- Zach Fuhr, I will be screen printing images over the photo transfer. These images will be the illustrations that help portray the answers in the questionnaire. Here are some examples of what we have done so far (even though the transfers are black and white and hard to see) Also the image quality is low since it is only a photo from my phone, I will scan in the images at another time, maybe once I get the actual transfer paper and it looks how I want it to.

4. The last thing I want to possibly incorporate, are my hand drawn illustrations or "doodles" just to fill negative space. I haven't decided if I actually want to do it or not, I really wont be able to decide until the transfers look how I want. If I do decide to fill the negative space- an example of my doodles will look like this:

Let me know what you think! 

 

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I have switched over to blogspot! I had a wordpress before but when my teacher discussed the requirements for our individual blogs and how many followers we need, I decided I should make it easy for people since most of our class was already on here. I also liked this better since unlike wordpress you don't need to have a blogspot account in order to be a follower..
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