finalll

I sold my soul to the darkroom today. i spent approx 233904823498 hours in there. i feel like i didnt get much accomplished but i am proud of my work.

i took my time and made an absurd amount of test strips which is why i think my prints came out pretty dece.

i thought i was going in one direction with this project... turns out im a metaphoric blind person without one of those seeing eye dogs. i keep on printing all these photos and im trying to decipher what im doing slash where im going w. this

i think i may already have ten prints but they are not THEEE ten prints, ya know?

im gonna go regain my sanity now haha.
cyaaa ;)

so i assisted kathy in a photo shoot on wed. it was some dinner in donahue in honor of this older gentleman who provides all these stonehill students with scholarships.

i didnt realize so much work is put into stuff like this. the students arrived a half an hour early so we could take a picture of them .

me and kathy got there two hours early. initially i was like "ummmm is this necessary??" [obviously only in my head] so we get there and she has all this equipment we lug into donahue. the set up wasn't too tedious. i actually learned a lot about lighting and much more. she was really great to work with.

it was the funniest thing. we just expected it to be the guy who provides the scholarship but then his wife decided she wanted to be in the photo. so how could we say no, right? so the woman is wearing sneakers and a fur coat... aaaand she totally rocked it, but kathy had to crop out the sneaks obvi

we had a few obstacles with lighting and the way they wanted the picture to be taken and the fact that we had to fit 25 people in a very tight space buuut where there is a will there is a way [mom says this a lot (haha apple doesnt fall far from the tree)]

anyways it was an awesome experience. it was hardly exciting but i enjoyed myself anyway. maybe that'll be me in the future

oh and i found out that kathy is originally from the dirty jerz...jersey girls aka soulmates haha

cya.

i was randomly browsing the internet, and i stumbled upon this photograph. i dont know the photographer or any information on it buuuut i thought it was awesome.

just the irony of having five men alive and then five dead and decomposed [i dont know if its irony really but pretty damn compelling id say]

for some reason even with all those skeletons chillen out in the photo, my eye wanders over to the man sitting next to them.

theres great depth of field, but honestly the content is what grabs my attention

i want to know who these people are and what the hell those skeletons are doing there... were they just dug from the ground? were they actually retrieved for the photo?

what are the men doing in the background?

...just thinking aloud

major

this past week i finalized my major, finallyyy. its such a relief.

i was thinking about just settling with an English major and a journalism minor. instead i decided to pursue a multidisciplinary major which was a lot of work but totally worth it. i combined fine arts [photography], journalism, and English in hopes of becoming a photojournalist

i met with Dean Favazza, and MJ decided to be my advisor, which is awesome!
so everything fell into place perfectly. looove it ;)

first photo shoot!

I met with Professor Crowe to strategize my life so to speak. She is really great.
Right off the bat, she set me up with a photographer friend of hers.

I will be assisting a photo shoot for some dinner. Sounds bland, but I'm pretty enthusiastic about it.

So this photographer I will be working with, she had this assignment to photograph an entire CVS [like every little detail of it]... yawn much???

Anyways, so I guess when Professor Crowe told me this story I realized that it all can't be fun and games.

prints

I developed my portrait and self portrait prints... they all came out just as I wanted them to. The pictures of Sam... I looooved how they turned out.

...Even my self portrait. I decided to print the ones of me talking with my hands. I think it says a lot about me, and I like that it tells a story in a sense.

the one frustrating thing: dust on my negatives --> PAIN

I think that the last class critique went the best so far out of all the ones we have had. The feedback was great. I love hearing other people's perceptions of my own work. It's so interesting to see how differently one photograph can be interpreted.

It is also fun creating your own story for someone else work.

Surprisingly I am actually looking forward to the final critique [nerd, i know].

anyways cyaaaa

portrait vs. self

so this was probably my favorite assignment everrr. while i was shooting, for the first time i actually felt like i was a photographer. i was in total control of what was being captured. i played director and model [which in some way was indescribably humbling...idk]

i wasnt really focused on the mechanics of the camera which made the assignment more enjoyable. i was outside. the weather was bomb. the sun worked magically alongside my artistic genius [haha just kidding].it was perfect.

the pictures came out phenomenal and i say this in the most humble way possible. seriously i give all the credit to the sun...and a great subject matter :)

i wanted to capture sam, not like 'say cheese' pictures but like actually capture who she is. i wanted people who see these pictures to think oh i feel like i know this girl. some of the pictures legit look heavenly. she is outlined by the sun in several pictures...glorious!!

then in others you have no idea what the hell she is doing which creates a really lame sense of mystery, but fun nonetheless. there is this one photo where she is staring out of the frame, and her facial expression is indefinable... like what is she thinking? what is she looking at? it seems really thought provoking.

then my self portrait... initially i was thinking oh what props can i use since my biggest one [my face] is off limits. then i thought no keep it simple, what makes up you without your ravishingly stunning face [again totally jokinggg]? so i threw on a black tee, my oh so skinny jeans, and my usual array of rings.

i like reading people, whether it is their body language or hand gestures/facial expressions. so i thought id let everyone do the same. basically my photos are of my hands. when i saw how they turned out i feel like im telling a story with no plot, but i like it. so wonderful, right?

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