my story...

So my Grandma got me this old book on this one photographer named Edward S. Curtis, who's dead now. He took mostly western-ish photos, like cowboy and indian kind of stuff. So, expect a blog about him when i get time in my life :) Stay tuned.

What I learned from videos

Today Mr Slade showed us two videos of 2 photographers. The fist one, Slade's friend Travis, talked about his project photographing Utah Lake. He said that the way students reacted to these prints was suprising, because they found them beautiful, but when they learned that they had been shot at a location as ugly and smelly as Utah Lake, they were suprised. It's so true, that something ugly can produce a beautiful photograph, you just have to be creative and know what to photograph.

The second, Taryn Simon, did a 20 minute presentation on her photographic work. The fist set was all about things going on in the world now, like nuclear stuff, Iraq and weed. It was very interesting. I loved her second project called, innocence. She took photographs of people wrongly convicted of terrible crimes which they never did. All of them were convicted based on photographs of them that the victim selected. One story I found terrible in particular, that a young victim selected a photograph of a man, but then decided he looked too old to be his attacker. The police then got a picture of the same man from 4 years ago and sowed it to the victim, who said that was him. Turns out he was innocent and had to spend a part of his life in prison. Another man was just drafted to play professional baseball, but was wrongly convicted and had to not accept that opportunity. These were really cool photographs, she shot them at the place of the crime, or their alaby, or where they were arrested. These innocent people had to spend a fraction of their life in jail thanks to the misconception of a photograph.

Assignment #2- Numbers

I know I complained, and said that I did not enjoy this assignment, and I still stand by it, and I strongly suggest that you pardon the up-coming sofmores and just give them 1-50. But I did it, I finished it, I may not be happy with some, because honestly, by the end, I just wanted to finish the dang thing. But there are a select few that I am happy with, without even editing. I like how they turned out. Here are the 12 that I found the best.


I love all the color in this shot (it's 19). I like how I got close in... but the corners with the counter in it bug me...


I really like this one. I like the angle and how the 35 is focused on because it's the focus (ha! pun) of the image.


I love this one. the focus is really nice and i love the lighting and how it looks in the creases and folds of the flag


this was cute. i also like the detail of the foil


haha.... cool i think


not my favorite, but I like the angle


I like the composition of this one: the black and red on a red background

not the best angle, and a little off center, but good focus.


yeah, so I couldn't find a 28 so i wrote it on my starbucks cup!

liken the focus on this...

on this one too

i like how the 37 is the only thing that's in focus in this shot. other than that... it's ok

First Picture of the year with Lightroom!!!

Kiiiity!!!