Reflection of project One

I am DONE...(i think) I hope. Well i have had a few printer problems with color. I have tried to color correct for that but when correcting for one color it brings out another problem in the color. I know its not surprising. But i dont know. We will see how it goes. Of course by the end of this project i have started to get a bunch of ideas, through the whole process i have been beating my head against a wall trying to come up with different ideas what to photograph when to photograph, should i use the pictures i already have so many thoughts make it a color study, a noise study a texture study. i dont know i have had a lot of thoughts in the past couple days but it seems pointless to change the project so close to the due date. So i have left them i have added a few things and taken a few things away. Its a Moments in time with a little texture. I have learned a lot about frustration through this process and i have learned about how hard it is to motivate yourself to work on a project without a teacher breathing down your neck to finish. I only wish i had a larger body of work to be working on to build my portfolio versus only working on a project to full fill my assignment. I have done a few different treatments to what i am turning in but i do wish i had more ideas to push it further. I started to look at a few different artist which helped to give me the ideas. The artist names are on my blog. Anyways i may have more reflections later but for now thats all i have.

Getting everything together

I am trying to get everything together to present tomorrow, however i dont know if i have enough things to turn in still confused about what the concept is. It has gone from moments in time to more of a textural theme on top of the moments in time. I dont know.

working things out

notes

Vic Muniz
akatre
andy Hixon
Jan Smaga
Kim Joon
Nick Cave
Nicole tran bavang


curves
-info
-shift click with the dropper to get the highlight midtones and shadows

10-20

Printing
prints darker
hard to adjust color
How much
limited # test
Shadows Midtones and Highlights adjustments
Money

adjustments for printing is called targeting. Nothing is said about our out put device. we target for the output device. Do another curves specifically for printing. Do test prints...

Raw Converters RPP
When working in Raw make the mega pixels larger here not in Photoshop. under work flow options. Never sharpen in RAW . only at the end in photoshop way for everything to be set.
Unsharp Mask
adding contrast at a very fine level. Radius between .4 and 1.4
Smart Sharpen

Soft proofing

Changes

So I am thinking that instead of having three pictures i feel that having two pictures will be better suited for my project. We will see.

day off

So it doesnt look like i am going to get around to getting any work done in this class today i have to go back to school after six so i can get some parking. I Have an assignment that is due on Saturday Morning sooo thats what is coming first then.. i will do work on digital and experimental.
thats it for now.

blur

I am thinking that maybe i can do a project about a weekend blur. What i do in a weekend... Any thoughts

confused

If anyone can help me, or at least help explain this to me. We are supposed to be taking pictures and then digitally enhancing them not really sure what we are supposed to be doing in photoshop. does it count to just take the picture put it into photoshop and then print it?

Change

So as remedial as this sounds i feel like this assignment is now becoming more about texture so i am thinking that its going to continue on as texture instead of being moments in time where put together pictures i already have i need to take some more pictures of different things that will when combined become textures.

work

To be posted. I need to make my file much smaller before i post it. However i applied the techniques we learned on tuesday to my work and i am thinking that it is working much better i am not as frustrated. However i still have some tweaking to do so i will post in a little bit.

Music

I have been introduced into the local music scene in the bay area. Some i have also become friends with several bands. I did find out on friday night that one of my favorite bands broke up but the guitar player has started to lay with another band that i was able to see when i got into town. YAAY They are called Bang Data and they are a little latin little rock and a little rap

Weddings

I went home over the weekend and worked on a wedding. It was a lot of fun. My only regret was that i was unable to stay for the reception. The hall that the reception was held in was beautiful. There was sort of a Fairy theme to the wedding so she had trees imported into the hall as well as some other exotic and very beautiful flowers. This wedding cost easily a million dollars.

My first love

My first love will always be San Francisco. I was born in this city and raised in this city. It never ceases to amaze me on what you will find or see while even in there for a day. I saw people dancing to what i can only imagine to be techno music with glow sticks in their mouths while i was sitting in my friends car looking into a window of an apartment near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Brian Bress

So i watched the artist lecture tonight and am impressed as to how far he pushed himself to open up and let the world see him in such a way. I dont think that i would ever be able to do a performance. Even if it was in front of a camera. I would not be able to get over the fact that there is a camera and i will then show these videos to people even if it was just for me i dont think i could do it. He does have a lot of interesting things to do he is able to answer all of the questions that people were asking him and thoroughly. It also very interesting that he doesnt plan any of his work he just makes it up on the spot.

gregory crewdson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywAfP4KFcY

This is a little tid bit about gregory crewdson

doing a presentation on Gregory Crewdson while going through these photos i am realizing that he has a restrictive color palette and is really good at doing staged scenes that look like they are real scenes that we are looking on to but the objects are placed awkwardly.

Just Sitting here

I am at school firing a Kiln bored. Working on my assignment trying to get something to happen that is interesting to me. I am not sure i am going to continue with this project because although i am attached to these photos i am not sure i am really attached to this project. I will post the progression after i am done working on it today.

art gallery

I went to a friends gallery opening in Santa Monica on Thursday night. It was awesome. I was able to talk to the artist and she was able to shed some light on the subject matter. She is a photographer but also works at the Getty. In the show she has an intire wall devoted to her work. Its all photo-grams- she was able to explain to me how she was able to develop the ideas and photos that are amazing. anyways that is my thoughts for the moment.