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Diptych series

For the most part I'm happy with how my pictures came out. There are a few things I wish I had noticed while taking these pictures.

These are pretty simple concepts. For the first Diptych series I got my model make it look like he was throwing a punch and in the second photo he is holding his face after getting punched.

For the second diptych series I had two models. One model was stealing a wallet from the other models purse while being unnoticed. The second picture shows the model who had her wallet taken looking around her purse confused.

And for the third diptych series I had my model look like he was working and studying for awhile. The second photo shows that he is tired.

Portrait series

Selective coloring photo

Digimon series

Digimon, the less mainstream-mon

Photography series

Drive by theatre series by Michael Calanan

Michael Calanan is a photographer who photographs people, places, and just about anything. He lives in Denver, Colorado. He works in transportation and is a railroad baron. But he is a freelance photographer too. For his clients he does event coverage, stock photo licensing, photo retouching and restoration, film and slide scanning and fine art landscape prints. He has done the cover shot of Wasatch Women magazine (His first cover shot) back in january of 2009.

Michael was inspired by NYC photographer David Bradford’s "drive by shootings" photos so he tried making a "drive by shootings" series as well. He took his drive by pictures in Buffalo, NY- Salt Lake City,UT- Denver, CO.

I like how he has the perfect amount of focus in his pictures. And I like the idea, also each picture never has a person centered in the middle thus making his pictures better looking. His pictures have good natural lighting and arent over exposed. Because of the quality and angle of each picture they are interesting.

Michael had this to say about his drive by theatre:
 "The series has evolved to become a mobile movie set where I document moments when pedestrian and cityscape combine to form interesting scenes.

As a pedestrian most of us never consider our place in relation to the rest of the city as we walk along towards our destination. From behind the wheel, however, pedestrians are seen as on a stage, surrounded by buildings as backdrops and interacting with strangers as fellow cast members and objects as props."

favorite picture

This was the first time I played around with manuel focus and was successful.

Partner project and where I'd rather be



I'd rather be in street fighter throwing fireballs..although I don't think I would like them being thrown at me...

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surrealist photo montage

Sarolta Bán is a 29 year old self-taught photographer/photo manipulator from Budapest, Hungary. Originally a jewelry designer, Sarolta usually works on an image from a few hours to a couple of days and uses up to 100 different layers for one picture.

Artist name: Sarolta Bán

Title: Untitled

Date: July 2, 2008

Description: In this picture there is a bald man standing in a crop field. The man is wearing a black suit. He is looking away from the camera and there is a crow on his head. In the sky there are hats (I think they are fedoras) flying. The crow is staring at the hats in the sky. In the sky there are some clouds. This picture looks like a slightly worn photo and you can see some line like texture on the borders of the picture.

Analysis: Horizontally this piece is broken up into 3 layers. The top layer is the sky and hats, the middle is the crow and the sky, and then the bottom layer is the field and man. This picture is asymmetrical for the most part. For me the focal point of the picture is the bald man’s head and the crow on his head. The light source is coming from the right side. The top right corner is darker. The middle of the picture of where the sky meets the field is brighter than the rest of the sky. I noticed that with the hats in the sky some hats are reused

Interpretation: I think that this artwork is a kind of what if art where it switches crows and hats. It looks at a different reality. Since this is in a field it also makes me think that maybe the man is a scarecrow (or in this case scarehat) and in this reality maybe living people are scarecrows. And perhaps scarecrows could be the equivalent of humans and the crow could be perching on that man’s head to ensure that the hats don’t attack its crops.

Judgment: I think this picture is a bit wacky and doesn’t have a very serious tone. And I feel like its purpose is to make the viewer imagine a different world and what if scenarios. I feel like Sarolta succeeded.

Giorgio De Chirico was born on the 10th of July 1888 in Volos, the capital of Thessaly (Greece). The importance of De Chirico's early paintings on the development of Surrealist art is immeasurable. Characterized by images of empty town squares, with dark, menacing corridors and mysterious shadows, his dream-like world captures a feeling of utter loneliness, suspended in time. Cluttered with puzzling objects, such as clocks, giant statues and distant trains, and often featuring deep, dramatic perspectives, De Chirico's paintings left an indelible mark on Breton and numerous other future Surrealists. Giorgio De Chirico dies in Rome on November 11, 1978.

Artist name: Giorgio De Chirico

Title: Piazza d'Italia

Date: 1913

Description: Two men are standing in what looks like an Italian town square aka piazza. In the center there is a lion statue. In the distance there is a circular orange and white tower like building with several columns. There is one building on each side of the picture, each building is white and has Italian architecture. The building on the right and the lion statue cast long shadows across the dark yellow ground. The sky is yellow and green. Mountains, the sun, and a train can be seen in the distance. A box is on the bottom right portion of the picture.

Analysis: This painting is a little bit symmetric but not fully symmetric. It is a bit symmetric because there is a building on both sides. The lion statue and the tower like building are in the center. But the two men, the shadows, the train, the different building sizes, and the box disrupt the symmetry. Vertically this painting is broken up into 3 somewhat symmetric layers. Horizontally this picture is very asymmetric

Interpretation: This town is empty and there are just these two men shaking hands which makes me think that they had a part in clearing out the town. Either they forced everyone out (which explains the train, it could have the towns' people in it escaping), or they scared everyone away, or they killed the people. I instantly think those two men are criminals.

Judgement: I think this picture provokes more questions than answers. Like who are the two men? Why are they shaking hands? What town is this? Why is there a plain box on the ground? Where are all the towns' people? And many more. The long shadows of the buildings and the statue give this picture an ominous and drab tone. Ultimately Giorgio succeeded with what he was going for.

So most of Sarolta's arts purpose is about trying to alter our current reality and make the viewer change their perspective on something. Sarolta likes to include crows in her art too. Most of Giorgio's art takes elements from Italian architecture and then applies them to made up settings which consists of mainly towns and cities. A majority of his paintings have at least one building in it, so I think he likes Italian architecture. I think he tries to make his paintings mysterious and vague so people try to think a up story with each of his paintings.

I feel as though Sarolta's art is more broader and open. Her art could be of anything while Giorgio's often have buildings, statues, horses, or humanoid figures. But I think that Giorgio's settings are more interesting than Sarolta's. Sarolta often has empty open planes be the settings of her art. I think Giorgio's art often has more colors in them. Sarolta also does many black and white or brownish picture to emulate an old timey feel which Giorgio does not do much.

Photo walk #3

Im liking these photowalks!

Hockney

Photowalk #2 favorite pics

It wasn't until about 10+ minutes into making this did I realize that all we needed to do was just post the pictures individually. But I think the collage came out good anyways.

Portrait series

Self portrait reflections

Self reflection

 My reflection off the top of my laptop.

Photo Walk

Artistic inspirations

M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands is so brilliant.

This piece of art was the first I've seen of M.C. Escher's work but after checking out his other artwork, he is definitely one of my favorites.

Focus, a documentary by Steve Hwang.

Steve Hwang is not a big time director, Steve is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has done various filming shorts (most of which can be found on his youtube channel),  directed several music videos, and he has directed one documentary.

Director Martin Scorsese

A legendary filmmaker known for such films as The Departed, Shutter Island, and Good Fellas.

Director, Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan has directed the critically acclaimed Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige, and many more.

Random art by Kamran Raza

Kamran Raza might be the most artistic person I know. I'm pretty sure he invented photo shop seeing as he knows all the ins and outs of it. He draws some awesome and unique art. He drew Eminem like 2 years ago (It is a shame how he lost that picture). I know if I ever had a technical question that had to do with photography, photo shop, or art I would go to him first.