"Fine(er) Art"

     Well one of the things I need to do is work on my photography in a "Fine Art" sense. Most of the work I do is related to events and a documentary sense. Some of these images are from my photography class at Glendale Community College. Hopefully I can do some more images that are considered "Fine Art" or "Artsy". I personally just like making things look visually cool, but there is more to photography than that. So here are some images that I feel fit into this category.



     These photos are all prints, two of them are on RC paper and two on fiber paper. The fiber prints are on the top and the RC prints are on the bottom. The top print is Noise Print #2. Then there is the Joel Peter Witkin Stylistic Influence, then Self Portrait, and them Image 7 from my Photography I final.


     The Noise Print # 2 was a fun shoot, that is also the most recent print in this series. I had a ringing in my ear for about 4 months which is what inspired this print and the others that went with it. This particular image was the strongest out of all of them and happened to be my favorite.

     Joel Peter Witkin Stylistic Influence, this was an interesting shoot. I had to build the floor and get a couple of models. It was shot on my Yashica-D and this print unfortunately was squashed at the top so you can see a little bit of the wrinkle lines. It has multiple layers the image was shot through so it was cool seeing how the final print turned out.



     This self portrait was taken after a trip to the Burning Man Decompression it pretty much sums up how I felt in that moment of time with everything I was dealing with at the moment. I am more impressed by how the print came out in comparison to the negative.  The print came a long way when you see where it was originally.









     This is the oldest print out of all the images in this post, it was in my Photography I final.  Image 7 was taken on my holga but the nice part about this was it was shot through about 8 layers of mirror and reflective material. The full frame effect. I have a fondness to this image because it is what my camera captured and it feels very abstracted to me.