Photography Studio 1

Final Project Reflection  My final project was aimed to analyze the similarities and differences between my Father and I's mental health. I wanted to represent this project in an obtainable way to an gallery audience that would enable the content to relatable and fairly easy to interpret but also to be personal enough for me that it has deeper meaning. The style of photos I chose and created relied on heavy contrast which was achieved by using the red filters to get the perfect amount of black but maintain the highlights. In class we spoke about how happy accidents are real part of this project specifically looking at  how the photos of me have a lot more white and the photos of my dad are have a lot more black. I find this unique and could portray a deeper meaning not obtainable by the audience member but open to interpretation.  For this project I did a lot of testing in the dark room and fell in love with the enlargement process. This is the first time I have actually ...

Exhibition Reflection Kort Woycheshin This was my first ever exhibition here at my time at the University. It was an incredible experience and opened my eyes to a lot of the intricate parts of setting up an exhibition. Generally I had never considered the layout of the exhibition other than gallery standard height and spacing. The formation we used for this lent itself to the wackiness of pinhole photography and the trial and error methodologies that imply themselves onto pinhole photography. We tried many different formations and near the end of it we started getting to the point where we would look at a print and decide where it fits based on natural intuition; I love this style of art when you make objective choices based on a gut feeling and doing things just because they look 'nice.' Overall the feedback I heard from the whole gallery was very positive and it was tons of fun to here peoples comments. I had lots of people texting me and snap chatting me pictures of my portr...