Sundrop

Today I photographed for a band of Lakeridge kids, Sundrop. It was awesome to get to know some people I've never talked to before. Great group, lots of fun!
Here's a link to their music http://www.myspace.com/555883068

Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

Results from my photo shoot at 7 a.m. are officially posted!

I really enjoyed watching the day begin in such a picturesque location. I'd like to do this more often!

A Dress... made out of TOWELS

So I made towel dress. I've been working on it for a few weeks and was very close to lighting it on fire or something. I was inspiration-less. But after powering through it, I completed it! And I created these little tortolini things that look like flower buds cascading across the front, which I'm glad I added. It makes the dress pop a little more. I'd really like to photograph it on a human, but that's more complicated. I'll get that done by the end of break.

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I like this

Sunlight in the Winter?

For my next two photo projects, I think I'm going to focus on sunlight and light. My first concept is to use my friend Maddie as the model, and the focal props being a oil burning lamp and an old-fashioned quilt. The setting will be a soft sandy scene, so I'm considering using the George Roger's Park beach. I really want to experiment with photographing at different times of the day, so I'm going to shoot at around 6 or 7 a.m.
My second project is more of a commission-based assignment that I think I can use for one of my pieces. Johnny Morford & Kyle Winkler's band needs photographs, so I'm going to shoot for them! It should be fun. I want to highlight the mix-and-match flannel patterns in their wardrobes.
I look forward to my upcoming photo shoots!

New Shoot Results!

Input would be much appreciated!

Concentration shoot #1

Last weekend, I held photo shoot with my pal Devon. We had a loads of fun playing in the leaves in and around the Sellwood area.. it was the perfect fall day, very sunny and crisp, which I was thankful of. The lighting was perfect. I created two series with the results, and I'm very happy with them! I really wanted to play off of primary colors.
Next weekend, I'm doing a more extreme, dismal shoot with Morgan and Jenna Hawkes and Ephraim. I'm looking forward to it. I have lots of ideas floating around in my head. I'm worried about the weather, so I'm going to talk to my bosses at Portland Garment Factory and see if they will let me shoot inside their white-washed warehouse. It will be interesting to see how these images turn out without any natural light..hmm.
Anyways, here are the series from the color shoot:

A Concept for My Concentration

Soo, for my concentration, I'm going to do photography. Because I'm interested in Fashion, Photography, and Journalism alike, I thought an interesting concept for my concentration could be displaying fashion and style in a sort of raw, non-glamourous, stripped, honest way to tell a story about the person. My photos would reflect the garments exactly as how they are, without adding effects and whatnot to make them look more appealing. But at the same time, doing this would somehow attract the eye. My concentration would comment on how fashion is so very deceiving.
Here are some images I particularly like from one of my favorite fashion websites, The Sartorialist. The photographer for this website is absolutely fantastic, and he only shoots people from the streets in which he travels. There's something very truthful about that in my mind.

Fieldtripping

I feel as though I got some nice shots from our field trip on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the digital camera pooped out on me early into the day, so I used my Pentax for almost the entirety of the trip. Regardless, I like the images I got and was especially happy to be able to take a few shots of people.

Fotoz

I'm becoming more and more interested in photography. I know I could never do it professionally but I really enjoy taking photos of people and things I find interesting. I'm looking forward to our fieldtrip this Wednesday. I'll bring the digital one from the art room and my old Pentax too and use them both. I like my Pentax much more than the digital one because of the way the photos develop, but I hate the fact that all photos I take after about 6pm at night turn out so grainy that you can't tell what's going on. This is especially hard because I love working with interesting lighting. It's really frustrating. I'm experimenting with the digital camera, and I want to figure out how to capture subjects in the dark. Using flash ruins all interesting lighting when it's dark, but when I don't use the flash, the camera won't capture anything at all. Ugh. Regardless, I'm still excited for our fieldtrip, though I wish I could bring people since I enjoy taking photos of people much more than landscapes.

A photo I took this weekend of my pal Devon:

Why I like my Pentax (the coloring):

Self Portrait-ing

Our first project of the year is a self portrait. I've been reflecting a lot lately, and have decided that something critically important about me as a person is that my cheeks/face get rosy far too often. It's not that I'm embarrassed, angry, or hot. My face has simply been pink most of my life.

Like this! :

So I'm definitely going to use this factoid about me in my portrait.

Bleedy Fingers

This summer, I took a Fashion Merchandising course in San Francisco. Our final project was to design and market a product. I chose to create a leather camera bag made entirely from an old leather bomber jacket I got at the Goodwill Bins for $2.40. The jacket had a satin-y lining with a map print on it, and the bag was designed for the saavy traveler who found the black nylon bags that many carry their nice cameras in ugly. Anyways, my mommy mailed me the coat then I went to Walgreens to buy a sewing kit for $5 because I left all of my sewing things at home. It was a sunny afternoon, so I sat on the pavement at Union Square for 4 hours. I cut up the coat, measured out pattern pieces so they'd all fit together, then sewed it! It was quite fun, except for the fact that I was hand-sewing through two layers of leather. Hence, the title of this post. I was happy with the result though!

BOOOOOOM

Booooooom.com is probably my favorite website. I like the fact that it features the artist rather than a singular piece or work with the artist's name in fine print below. It makes it all more personal. The photography, film, and art are all superb. With every artist featured, their website is listed, which is nice.
One of the artists that really struck my attention was Jose Rivas. The way he uses color is more than spectacular.I feel that these images inspire me to dust off the ol' box of colored chalk and be a little more experimental with color where it might not naturally be found.

Here We Go...

Well, they year has begun! I'm looking forward to making this blog fat and juicy with the art that I will be working on as well as with other art that I like. Hooray.