On Photography

What I found most intriguing about this writing was its discussion on photography as an object. It spole about how film disappears, theres a beginning and end to it. But with photos, there is no end, there is just a moment that the photographer decided was worth capturing. It has become an essential part of travel, and the way we go about doing so. Travel has been more about capturing a moment than remembering a moment!

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Body Exclusive

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Lightroom vs Bridge

Adobe Bridge seems to  be a more diverse tool for a wider crowd. As they refer to it in the article, it’s the “bridge” within programs in the creative suite. It’s meant to improve effieciency between these programs. Lightroom, on the other hand, is meant to deal with photos for the use of professional photographers and their work. Another key difference is how they store files. Lightroom has a storage base within it’s program, while bridge does not. 

The Politics of Looking

Representation is important to humans in that we are able to reconstruct a simple scene into something that is beautiful. It may also be used to provoke thought in how we might look at a certain object and how that relates to it’s name, which is nothing more than a word to some people. It’s intriguing to think about what is truly considered artistic photography and what’s not based on if someone set it up or not. Whether or not a photo tells a true story was also and interesting thought, with the idea of truthfulness and trust in the creator of the image. The idea of entrusting photographs to display history is a somewhat interesting idea because any photograph could be staged to recreate a historic event, but we as viewers assume that they aren’t. 

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Project 3 Proposal

For this project, as a self portrait I want to capture the essence of my thoughts on egocentrism. I think many people (including myself) forget how small we are and need some time in a big open space looking at the stars. I plan to make an extended shutter speed and play with glow sticks, light painting under the stars. For the image that doesn't include a part of my body, I want to take a picture of a mirror, my shadow and a gold and purple painted portrait of myself. I want to put my own shadow onto this portrait as it was painted in 10th grade, and I want to emphasize how our shadow, good or bad, is always reflecting on us.

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Cotton Ch. 1

I think the most essential part of this reading is the discussion of the popularization of conceptualization within photography. It discusses how photography was not only primarily an art form but a way of speaking to a purpose. The idea of making a statement by setting up a photograph such as Melanie Manchots "Gestures of Demarcation" in order to move the viewer not only aesthetically but emotionally or politically. Many of these messages are subliminal and take a moment or two to pick up on.  This reminds me of the movements in painting and other mediums at similar times.

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Choice

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New Ideas

I chose this image because of my love for hockey. I find beauty in not only the fluidity of the motions of skaters moving at 30+ MPH but in the shapes created when a hit occurs, or a puck is shot, or a goal is scored etc.. It's amazing to me when such a fast game can be slowed down to a fraction of a second and when it is, often times out comes a beautiful shape. Though I do not know who did this particular work I admire the anticipation it must take in order to get good pictures of such a fast paced, constantly changing game. I draw inspiration for my future from this in several ways. If I could do anything, I would photograph hockey for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, I still draw inspiration from the shapes and colors that occur within hockey photography, and would love to do graphic design or some sort of advertising for an NHL team.

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Something Old

I chose this image that I took of a family friend's dog at our property in Port Colborne, ON for a number of reasons. For one, dogs are pretty much my favorite thing in the world, but on a non-affectionate level I chose this photograph for its representation of my current photographic interests. I love slowing things down. I am diagnosed with ADHD and the majority of my time is spent jumping around ten different things inside my mind. It is so wonderful to be able to take what's going on around me at any given moment and freeze it to a point of 1/4000 of a second. It enables me to see just one thing, even if its just for thirty seconds or a minute while I look at the photo and ponder how much I missed that was right in front of me in that half a second or less of overthinking things jumping around my head. What makes it most interesting to me is that when movement we might see every day is slowed down so much, it brings an almost abstract sense of shape, color, design and composition to the photo. I find design fascinating, and though it may be a unique inspiration for design, to me, when you slow down the world around you there is more inspiration that one could ask for. I plan to major in both studio art and computer science, and plan to continue to draw inspiration from high speed  photos in order to jump into the asthetic side of computer programming/design.,