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Digital Imagery: 5 a week

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Digital Imagery: 5 a week

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Digital Imagery: Photo Do’s and Dont’s

Image #1 Photo Do - Do something old in a new way: I took a digital image and photoshopped it onto a digital wanted poster.

Image #2 Photo Don’t: Put tape on an image

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Digital Imagery: Project #2

Photo composite 20”x30”

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Digital Imagery: 5 a week

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Digital Imagery: 5 a Week

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Digital Imagery Semester Plan

This semester, I aim to refine and expand on my Western aesthetic by exploring new creative directions. I plan to experiment with documentary-style photography, as well as creating composite images inspired by the Dada art movement. In addition to trying out these new approaches, I will focus on further developing my editorial portraiture. After receiving feedback from my professor, Neil, I’m excited to incorporate his insights to elevate and enhance my editorial work.

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Digital Imagery Project #1: Face Morph

3 people's facial features combine into one

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B&W Photo Project 3: Final

For my final I chose to focus on trying to shoot two different skin colors with film and see how manipulation of exposure while shooting and while printing would affect the outcome. Learning how to dodge and burn while printing was a fun process that I quite enjoyed experimenting with. I stuck to my roots of my western style theme. Something that I will be working on in the future is my cropping style.

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B&W Photo Project 2: Choose a theme

For the theme of this semester I chose to stick with my roots of doing western style portraits. During the semester I will hone in on my skills to capture the essence of western style portraiture as well as focus on understanding the fundamentals of film photography.

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B&W Photo Project 1: Weekend Shoot

For my first project I chose to test out my film camera with my friend, we walked around my neighborhood and tested lighting in two different outfits. I chose to do one dark outfit and one light outfit so that I could test my ability to expose the images properly.

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Alternative Photo Processing Project 3: Gum Bichromate 

For this project, I wanted to stick to my southern/midwest vibe that I did for my last project but I wanted to try and make it a little more diverse so I could test out different tones of color and composition. I found this project very addicting and would like to further my knowledge about this process of printing. I found that the Western vibe matched very well with the yellow tone my pictures were coming out with, although they weren’t spot on in regards to colors I was pleased with the results. 

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Inspirational Artist #8

For my eighth inspirational artists I chose someone more outside of my normal tastes. Carlo Mollino, was an architect, designer, photographer, and an educator. The reason I chose Mollino was because of his polaroids, he is a lewd photographer, but doesn’t over sexualize the woman. Once I saw his photography and did more research on him I notice his vast diversity in his creative spaces, I feel myself going in the same direction leading me into choosing him as my final artist inspiration for the semester. Mollino was one of the most iconic artists in Italy during the 1950’s Not only is his photography amazing but so is his architecture. Something about Mollinos photography that really drew me in was the rawness of his polariods, some of them are damaged, some are exposed incorrectly and discolored but I that’s what makes it unique.

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Inspirational Artist #7 

For my seventh artist, I chose William Klein. Klein is an American-born French photographer and filmmaker. His art is unique, it distills uneasy emotion sometimes but also some of his work feels almost hypnotic. I chose Klein because of the way he uses lines and edges. Something I noticed in my work is pretty symmetrical and has a tendency to use lines. The way he pushes the boundaries with it has really inspired me to try and force myself out of my comfort zone. Klein is known in the art world for the way he influenced other generations of photographers to push past their normal conventions and step away from the regular way you approach photography.

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Inspirational Artist #6

Janette Beckman is a British photographer who caught my eye with her street documentary photography. Beckman’s main medium is film, but she also does some digital work. Beckman focuses a lot around the hip-hop and punk youth scene. Her ability to capture the youth’s essence and emotion is something that makes her work stand out amongst others. She is known for documenting iconic musical and cultural movements. Some people that she’s worked with is Run-DMC and LL Cool J. Beckman’s use of artificial light is outstanding and really brings her photography to the next level. 

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Inspirational Artist #5

Jamel Shabazz is a Black street photographer from New York who was born in 1960. One thing that stuck out to me about Shabazz was his ability to capture history in the city of New York. Shabazz’s goal as a photographer was to capture as much history as possible of African Americans in New York. His use of the city and its surroundings made for very appealing pictures of people in their daily lives. Jamel has published many different popular photo books like “Seconds of My Life’ and “Back in the Days.”

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Inspirational Artist #4

Richard Avedon was born in 1923, growing up in New York his interest in photography peaked at a young age. Richard started off his photo career as a freelance portrait photographer working for Harper’s Bazaar. The reason I chose Richard as one of my inspirational artists is because he revolutionized the fashion and portrait photography world, his use of movement emotion and personality in his pictures is breathtaking. After finding his work I instantly recognized some of his iconic photos, I hope one day I can capture emotion and movement the way he is able to through photography.