Antelope Canyon

So in my recent vacation I had the pleasure of going to Page, Arizona and hitting up Antelope Canyon. This was a trip that was originally planned by Miles and I last year but we ended up not having the funds for it. Unfortunately Miles wasn't able to make it this year since he now resides near the northern parts of the United States. So I took this trip with my lovely girlfriend and my mother. The only complaint I really have about the whole canyon is that there is only one area I am aware of that you can go into, and it is only with tourist groups. This is kind of expected since it is on Navajo land so I can't complain too much but I feel like there is more unseen parts of this place. It is hard to get unique imagery in a place like that because of the saturation of similar images because of the one singular place.

PH115 Final

So the main idea behind this shoot is to add abstraction between texture and architexture. The

project will be loosely based on Colburns early work with vortographs because of the opics used to make the initial images. Other than that there will be little influence of his work in this project. The strongest images to the viewer will be the most abstracted from reality, so my concept is removal from reality. Since all the images will be of architexture there will be key shapes to focus on to help bring the project from reality to a more dreamlike, lucid, state. It would be hard to discribe what a viewer would see since it isn't a concrete item I will be photographing. So a lot of the viewer's ideas of what it could be would be projection. These images will be geometric and breakdown into the basic elements of design, while trying to keep the dream like concept in shape. Keeping a smaller square format will also keep it to being a quite and more elegant in design. The small size would also make it so to truly see the images one would have to go up closer to them, and the closeness makes it more personal for the dreamlike state the images appear to be in. The images even since they don't have a spoonfed story, because honestly if something was spoon fed that is like this project it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. The images should have a painterly feel and not feel like they are an actual photograph. For me, the images come off as a bit of a motion dream, where one has to go somewhere but they aren't sure where the destionation might be. The images hopefully will envoke a bit of serenity into the viewer with the mostly deep blues for a color connection for the viewer, also the blue is a symbol of sleep. The main techniques used will be to use a fast mid length telephoto lens to compress and give a tack sharp focus point that can drop other details out of focus. The speed of the lens will also allow me to use an ultra fast shutter at a very low “Iso” to make sure there isn't any motion blur most of the shutter speeds used will be roughly over 1/1,000^th of a second or faster in broad daylight. On more cloudy days it will be a bit different but the thought process is the same since the effect won't work as well beyond 1/500^th of a second.

Visulization Final Project

 So my final project in my Visualization class is going to be more graphic versions of my Vortographs. Utilizing the similar ideas of what I have done in the past but instead of making these more of an explosion of imagery I want them to be a bit more graphic. I feel like some of these have accomplished that. This body of work does need more work to it but I feel like it is on the right track to being completed.

A quick little Stop Motion

This is coffee time.

I do wish I could have gotten a better sound for the stirring of the coffee but this is my first real attempt at a stop motion video. Which to be honest I did enjoy making. I might do some more of these in the near future and finally get good use of of Final Cut. Who said me taking media classes in highschool was a waste of time?