Current works

At the moment I am not doing any B&W photography, but I am doing editing in Photoshop of pictures I took over the summer. They are for the breadth section. So far I have three photos on the computer for the color/monotone. The first is of a red car with a black and white background. The second is of a flower up close. It has been slightly over saturated, but that I think that helps emphasize the flower. The final is of the sunset on July 4th. There were so many shades of colors it is hard to make them blend together while still keeping the photo sharp.

Other work that I am doing is for my portfolio for college. Ms. Johnston is helping me a great a deal with the work that is going in to it. I have a couple of figure drawings in it and one landscape. The only other piece of work that I am currently working on outside of classes is a still life. IT is coming along, but not at the pace I would have hoped for. So tonight I am going to do a ton of work on it and make huge progress.

Eggleston

The article was interesting. I learned that I should look at my photos upside-down could help me with my printing. I think that his paintings do leave something to be desired. They seem slightly juvenile, but his photos are intriguing. I can definitely see the influences of Kandinsky and Pollack in his paintings. The paintings are completely abstract, which makes them seem as though they have some deeper meaning.

In his photos there are great line definitions. Also I think that he has more to offer people then he lets on. He seems to want people to take away what they want from his art.

National Portfolio Day

Last saturday I went to National Portfolio Day at the Hynes Convention Center. I put together a possible portfolio to show the colleges their. The first college I saw was Monserrat. The guy who looked at my portfolio said that my photos were on the surface of whatever my focus for the pictures was. He told me to investigate my photos more and spend more time with my subject and figure out all the possible ways i could explore taking photos of a single subject whether it be architecture, interior architecture, lights, or landscapes.

The next college that I visited while I was there was Mass Art. Unfortunately for me I was not able to understand everything that the reviewer was saying, however he said that it was a good thing that I was doing dark room photographs, because there were so many digital photo submissions. He said that I just needed to add more to my portfolio and it would be good. He also asked if I had seen the Edward Weston exhibit at the MFA. I told him that i had and he seemed to think that Weston would be a good photographer for me to look at. I asked him if I should submit anything different than what I had there, he just said that I also had to submit five drawing from observation and that I could get in. (Ask my mom for greater details).

Then I went to go see if Drexel would look at mine, however there was only one representative there and she was taking an extremely long time. I waited half an hour before giving up on her because there were still ten people in front of me and only three had gone by in the half hour.

The last college I visited was SMFA. Erica H. Adams looked at my portfolio and asked me many questions about when I started photographing, what art I liked, if i had ever visited the school. She made many comments on my photos. Then she looked at my sketch books and said that I had completed one of the assignment that a teacher had given to his students. She said that I had a good portfolio, but it needed more and that i should take more time in what I do. She laughed when she saw the photogram of the billow pad because she didn't know what it was at first, and when she asked; she laughed because she was amazed that she hadn't seen someone do this type of photogram before.