Photo Challenge Day 5

This challenge is designed to boost my creativity. The goal of the challenge is to take a photograph very day for the next 30 days.  Part of this challenge is to post the photograph of that day.

With this particular image I was trying make all about the focus. I feel this image would not be as powerful it did not have this type of selected focus. What make this a powerful image is how keeps your eye in to the center of the photograph.  That is what I was trying to accomplish. 

Hope you enjoy the 5th images

Photo Challenge Day 4

This challenge is designed to boost my creativity. The goal of the challenge is to take a photograph very day for the next 30 days.  Part of this challenge is to post the photograph of that day.


What I love about this particular image is it give reminds me of my Reconstruction of a Third Dimension Project. This was a building that was be remodeled and that what I fell in love with.  I began to look at the sharp angle of the stair and began to think about how it would look like as a 3-D print. The thought began to shift to the ideas of where do the stairs go too.  Is there anything up there or does it go nowhere.  That is what I like about this image.

I hope you like this Image for my fourth in a row. 

Photo Challenge Day 3

This challenge is designed to boost my creativity. The goal of the challenge is to take a photograph very day for the next 30 days.  Part of this challenge is to post the photograph of that day.

When it comes to this particular image I used a  Holga camera to create this effect.  It was interplay of colors and texture. That drew me the process of using a Holga.

I hope you enjoy this image for my third day of this challenge. 

Photo Challenge Day2

Standing Alone

This challenge is designed to boost my creativity. The goal of the challenge is to take a photograph very day for the next 30 days.  Part of this challenge is to post the photograph of that day.

This particular image I was trying to focus on the  depth of field. By using a 50 mm lens I was trying to create a contrast between the foreground and the background. By using a selective focus on the lamp I wanted to bring the lamp forward by boring the background and creating a sharpness on the object.  By doing this type of focus it pulls the lamp into foreground, and creating an image where the lamp it the selective focus for the view.

I hope you enjoy the second image in this challenge.

Photo Challenge

The calm

Lately I've been feeling very unmotivated in taking photographs. So I have decided to challenge myself. This challenge is designed to boost my creativity. The goal of the challenge is to take a photograph very day for the next 30 days.  Part of this challenge is to post the photograph of that day.

With is image I was trying to create a dynamic angle to the photograph. By moving the camera at a 45 degree I feel this creates visual line the flows through the images. This visual line helps to create a of wonder for the viewer.  Apart of this visual aspect of this image is the darkness of the thunderstorm that is rolling into town.  The storm creates a mood to the image give the view a sense of apprehension. That is what I love about this image.

I hope you enjoy this first of many Image if the next 30 days . 

pic of the week

This pic of the week comes from a truck stop outside Junction city, KS. What drew me to this image was the sharp angle in the image itself. This creates a dramatic view to the image which creates a feeling of overwhelming wonder.

The Osterman's

The Mark and Scully Osterman's are a husband and wife team who has given up lectures in stuff class rooms to pursue their love in the art. By using their knowledge and expertise of old film processing to crate there master pieces. These pieces create a sense of wonder and amazement. Of a time that we all have forgotten, where experimentation and discoveries was an everyday thing.
 

 They led the first collodion workshops in the US in 1995, and in Europe beginning in 1998. Together they published the quarterly publication, The Collodion Journal from 1995 to 2002

 Mark Osterman is Photographic Process Historian at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. He teaches the technical evolution of photography from Niepce heliographs to making gelatin emulsions. 

 France Scully Osterman is an artist-educator, and lecturer at Scully & Osterman Studio and guest scholar at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, both in Rochester, NY.  Scully is recognized for her extensive knowledge of early photographic processes including photogenic drawings, wet-plate and dry-plate collodion, albumen and salt print methods. 

 They mostly use a processes called calotype. Calotype is a photographic that uses a negative to produce onto a piece of uncoated paper, and creating a paper negative. A positive print can be made by pressing the negative under piece of glass against another piece of sensitive paper and exposing it to sunlight. The texture that is produce on to the can be seen by holding a piece of copier paper up to to light. This technique was in use principally from 1840 into the 1850s, when it was di Jones.

The amazing part of these images is the way they create an open mind to the viewer. A glance into what the viewer can image this is what they where doing in the late 1800's.