Updates

I have been pretty busy lately and my anxiety has been running rampant!  So here are some updates:

Photo Transfer project: I used water as the solution to transfer the image and it didn't work that great.  I am going to redo it for my final portfolio.  My teacher said that mineral spirits works best.  I plan on doing more with it too, like collage photos together.

Thesis Idea: For my final in 3A I have decided to do a documentary on my boyfriend, Pat.  Because this is a topic I am very familiar with and comfortable with and it is something I am constantly doing I have decided to elaborate on this idea and present it as a triple portrait of Pat, myself, and our relationship.  It will deal with privacy, sex, snapshot, and of course portraiture.  I have not informed my boyfriend yet because I want him to be unaware and as a result he will be more himself, although he was not thrilled about me wanting to photograph our sex life.  It is also a topic that I can talk about comfortably and easily.  I am pretty happy with this idea and it just seems to fit.

Vivian Maier

I posted this the other day but for some odd reason the pictures no longer show up, so this is my second attempt to make it work.  She was recently discovered in 2007.  She's easily my new favorite person. 

Photo 3A

The project I am working on for my Photo 3A class now has to do with fabrication.  I feel like this should be a fairly simple concept and I should be able to execute it quickly, however I am having no such luck!  I FINALLY came up with an idea for it tonight after freaking out about it for the past two weeks and I hope it falls into the fabrication boundaries.  It kind of kills two birds with one stone since it is something I wanted to experiment with anyways.  I am going to try out photo transferring with images from this past weekend.  I am excited but not at the same time since I don't really know if I should consider it fabrication or not.  I feel like if I fabricated the subject in the image it would come out too cheesey, or at least the ideas I have been coming up with so far have all be quite cheesey.  It is due on Wednesday so after I get the feedback I will scan some in and report back :)

Ideas and Photo 3A

In the next two weeks I am going to start working on my final for Photo 3A.  We had a little one-on-one meeting with Annie today and I think mine went pretty well.  I went in not really having an idea but walked out with one!  I am constantly taking pictures of my boyfriend without him knowing or of him sleeping and I've decided to combine this with my love of portraiture and my new interest in the snapshot for this final project.  I am pretty excited about this, my boyfriend is a fun subject and I really enjoy taking secret, voyeuristic pictures of him! 

Concerning my ideas for thesis I am thinking of using a square format instead of the traditional rectangle.  I also just purchased a Ciro-flex twin lens camera and I want to play around with that and its medium format to see what aesthetic I get from it.  I feel like I am finally heading in some sort of direction however not as quickly as I'd like.  Hopefully I will get some sort of inspiration on Friday when we go on the trip!