Anti-digital

Hey gang,

Look what you can do with me next year! Well, technically it'll be in 2011, because you'll get to play with these cool blue photos during spring of your junior year. This is shot with a 4x10 film camera and printed as a Cyanotype.

Final Blog Entry - Self Evaluation

Hey guys,

First of all I want to say again, a big thank-you for all of the hard work you have done for me this year. I really appreciate it. I have seen you all grow in ways beyond photography and the scope of this class, and I am happy and proud to have been around to see it.

I want you all to do a little looking back over the course of this year and pause for some self-evaluation. I want you to all write a few paragraphs about what you learned this year with me. I want you to NOT write about technology or cameras or Lightroom or blogging or printing. I want you to write about how your vision changed. How are you a different photographer today than you were at the beginning of the year. It might help to scroll back through your own blogs and look back at your early work.

I look forward to reading and sharing your responses with my colleagues.

Thanks again!

Thank-You!

Hey guys,

I have been going through ALL of your blogs, from last year and this year preparing a presentation about student work here at Waterford.

One thing I have realized over and over is that you guys have kicked some serious ass over the past two years. Your work is very strong, the concepts are brilliant at times and the execution is consistently excellent.

So, I just wanted to say 'thank you' for being receptive to the concepts and techniques I have shared with you. Also a big THANK YOU for being willing to push yourselves and try things that are hard. Yeah, the rest of the world thinks that this is 'just photo', but you guys know better. Your photos aren't just 'pictures'...they are something better. Much better.

I look forward to seeing you on Monday. Let's finish the time we have together off strongly. I know you have it in you to do some amazing work. I know it because I have just seen it.

Another Multi-Row Panorama

This is one shot with 13 images. I played a bit of a trick on the software putting this one together, but it worked pretty well.



Nada's Creche, 2009

Multi-Row Panoramas

So I have shot a few multi-row panoramas, two were shot yesterday. The one of my mom is kind of fun b/c it's an angle that I haven't seen done of her before. The one of the creche in Brigham City worked really well, it's 15 shots and about 3 rows of images.



Mom Singing Christmas Carols At The Steinway, 2009



Detail Of Creche At Brigham City Tabernacle, 2009

Final Project

Your Final Project will consist of a portfolio of 10 (ten) related images. They have to relate to each other in a consistent theme. They don't always have to tell a story, but could be related by angle, subject matter, tonality (high-key/low-key), light, texture, etc... The individual images should tell me a story, but if the final ten images don't tell a continuous story, they should relate to each other in a different way.

I want you to post all ten of the images to your blog, do some writing about your portfolio and things that you feel you succeeded at, things you think you could have done better and write about the imagery itself. Tell me why you shot what you did, and how you went about it.

I want you to print all ten of your images as well. The prints are DUE at the beginning of the second-to-last class period that we will meet. We will spend two full class periods discussing everyone's work. I want to have EVERYONE turn in ALL of their prints at the same time. The lab will be closed for printing and image manipulation at that time. You can continue to blog, but I will shut down the server and no further work on prints or images may be done.

You also will need to turn in your camera at that time and any other materials that belong to the school. The memory card and your box of paper is your property. Keep track of it, you will use them next year.

If you still don't have a final project idea you should be thinking very hard what you want to do it on. Feel free to e-mail me about some ideas you may be having.

Good luck, I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Winter Formal - Gallery

Ok kids, so I know that many of you are dying to see the pics from the dance...

HERE THEY ARE.