Photography Studio 1

  For this post I want to reflect on my process when posing Leah and the process behind my work. In my technical post I will include my lighting setup and how I achieved my look once I have the film scanned from that day.  Leah and I checked out a few books to reference and here are some of the photos that I liked the most and wanted to reference. Avedon's way of allowing the subject's personality to bleed through into the portraits is what I wanted to replicate. (Also taking a page of Karsh's book in subject) My goal was to reveal Leah's attributes and how I few her everyday in the studio. I wanted to demonstrate how she is always listening to music and is the hardest working painter I have ever met. I liked how her painting smock contained fractions of all of her paintings and each stain tells a story of progression. She always comes to my studio with one head phone off specially that ear as well to the point where the headphone has damage from pulling it off so consi...

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 ...

The Photo Genius That Is Weegee Weegee (Usher Fellig) was born one day before me on June 12, 1899 102 years before me. His work is absolutely incredible and I can't believe how he took so many incredible photos with such unique style that is so dominate in mainstream photography today using photoshop but he did it all with the camera. His experimental distortion photos are some of my favourites I have discovered as they have such a unique beauty to them and I would absolutely love to learn how to do that all in camera or in the darkroom potentially. HIs street work is also facisnating with his approach on capturing events right as they happen by having a police radio in his car for his work .  Here are some of my favourite photos of Weegee's.  All photos and information from:  https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/weegee?all/all/all/all/17  

  Bathtime Photographed: By Cody Robinson  This is the digital picture that we took prior to taking a picture with my film camera. The idea was to try and use the water as a barrier for sound, to show how men can scream and say everything about how they feel but it never gets passed that barrier. I think it's really impactful and vulnerable, and gives good insight onto how I feel about the topic.  This photo was very difficult to get as a hate being underwater and the feeling of water going into my nose is awful. 

Exposures f11 2000 f8 2000 f5.6 2000 f5.6 1000 f5.6 500 5.6 250s (Perfectly exposed)  f5.6 125 f5.6 60 f3.5 60 f3.5 30 f3.5 15 This assignment was really interesting to me as it have me a new outlook on the exposure triangle. Last summer a photographer friend of mine gave me shit for not knowing the exposure triangle and how to use it. I then devoted quite a bit of my time understanding how it worked and the principles behind it. Once we did this assignment I had developed a huge new understanding of the exposure triangle and its effects to the point where I barely even need to think about it anymore. It's so useful to actually do this test showing how you can achieve plus and minus 5 exposures by tweaking things and how there are different ways to achieve this dependant on your needs. As a sports photographer outside of school knowing this by heart is unbelievably useful as I am so often using 4000/s shutter speed and often the lighting in places I am shooting is terrible and need...

Why Are Walker Evans Polaroid So Impactful? Personal Reflection  Sources: https://www.anatomyfilms.com/walker-evans-polaroids/ https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Selected-Images/42CE97E9136E86DC https://www.moma.org/artists/1777 Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975) was known primarily for his work during the Great Depression documenting the severity that the Great Depression had on the working class. He was hired by the government to document the moments of the Great Depression and he approached this very unintentionally with the shots he took but just to capture the moments. In 1973 he bought a Polaroid SX-70 and described it as how 'New Toy' which opened a new light into photography striping it back to the basics of capturing what you see. I love this philosophy of photography and so often I am bogged down by choice fatigue when it comes to settings, composition, and gear. Styles like this make me want to be the new Fuji x100v that uses film presets that are highly...