Pumpkin

This has been an attempt to digitally carve a pumpkin. Enjoy.

Now it has guts. That's pretty nifty. 

Alphabet

Entire Alphabet

Music

Alfred Stieglitz

- Alfred Stieglitz was a photographer who was prominent around the turn of the century. He is credited with being one of the most influential people in photography on account of his work promoting the art as a legitimate form of art. He was not only an exceptional photographer himself, but he helped other people see the brilliance of photography. 

Alfred Stieglitz - Grapes

- This photograph is one of my favourites of his. I really dig the contrast of the hands and arms against the window; it's dramatic, and I love it. The lighting is wonderful here. The darkness of the hands against the brightness of the outside just give off a good vibe. Also, grapes. There is not often a time when you see someone holding a bunch of grapes up to a window, and the absurdity of it all pleases me a lot.

Georgia O'Keeffe - Music

- After a first marriage, Stieglitz became involved with a painter named Georgia O'Keeffe. Stieglitz first met her through her art; he was presented with a portfolio of her art and fell in love with her before he had ever met her. Eventually they were introduced, and Stieglitz went basically head over heels for her. He began having her over to photograph while his wife was away, and, after a while, he was asked to leave the house by his distressed wife. O'Keeffe became Stieglitz's photographical inspiration: he took hundreds of portraits of her. O'Keeffe, too, was inspired by Stieglitz: her paintings shifted from primarily water colour to to oil, and she was recognized as part of the American Modernist movement. They were very much in love. 

Macro Photography from my Camera's Past

Bee on a Thistle
Oregon Zoo Aug. 31, '11

Butterfly in Bend
Bend, OR Sept. 1, '11

I realize that the bee wears the macro in this relationship, but, you know, butterflies are always fun to see photos of.

It's About The Little Things - Macro Photography

Jazz hands of a coniferous tree outside the school

Little Purple Daisies that live in our front garden

Tiny Plant Fuzz People hanging out on the school's wall

Crispy fallen leaf feeling pretty in my hand

Mossy Brick Glue

Fingertips

The wonderfully green eyes of my little sister

A Dramatic Guitar Headshot

A deceased fish's escapades though file folders

Some sort of photoroom contraption

I like this project. It was interesting to see how my different lenses fared differently; I have a 50mm 1.8 prime lens, but - contrary to what I thought - it was usually less effective at capturing things up close than my 18-55 zoom lens. (Though most of the above pictures were shot with the prime.) It was an interesting discovery. My mum has a lens extension that doubles everything, so- I stole borrowed it - instead of putting that on the zoom lens, I held it flipped around. This gave me room to move in closer to things - this is something I'm planning on experimenting with in the future. All in all, this was an easy project for me, mostly because I already like zooming. Yes. Good things are good. 

Photogram

These images are of photograms. A photogram is the result of leaving different objects on top of a piece of photo paper and left under light for different intervals. Many people opted to use actual objects for this, but I chose to utilize torn pieces of towel roll. 

Honestly, I'm not really sure what I was going for here. In the positive version of this (the bottom one), I can sort of see the kind of map that you look at when you are trying to see how tall the mountain ranges are. I prefer the negative version of this, however, mostly because it looks more friendly. 

There is so much you can do with photograms, and I'm excited to do some more eventually. Once you get the idea, all you can think about is different ways to stack things on your paper. I'll take a whack at this again sometime. Yes. It's nifty. 

Outside Pinhole Attempt

Compared to the inside pinhole photo, the outside one was much less successful. It took three different attempts to even get this photo! The first time it was too dark, the second time it was too bright, and then this one happened. Alas, I just couldn't get the lighting right. However, I think this looks pleasantly interesting. It's like an ultrasound of the outside world. 

I'll take that. 

Myself as Seen Through a Pinhole

The idea that a photograph can be taken through a hole in a can is sort of mind boggling to me. But, here is the proof! This is a me as I was for two minutes and thirty six seconds, sitting in front of a little can in the photo room. 

That's just so rad.
The above photo is the print as it looked when it was first developed, and the photo below is the inverted version of it. There are little squigglies floating around. At first I was bothered by them, but now I sorta like it. It adds to the overall feel. 

Pinholes, man.
I dig. 

Tiny Cyclists - A Tilt shift Project

Taken at Alpenrose Velodrome

Using Photoshop to turn this photo into a tilt shifted one, these track cyclists have become little toy riders. How rad is that? 

OTHER TILT SHIFT PHOTOS

        

    

Las hojas

              

 

These are some snaps I took with my newly set black and white preset. I am very pleased with these on account of, I love leaves and I love black and white, and I love knowing that I have the ability to set presets. This is a happy thing. Yes. 

Brownie Camera

What is a brownie camera? 

I'm glad you asked! Well, a brownie camera is this nifty little contraption that made photography cheap and easy for the everyday person. It was a little box with a fixed lens inside that took photos on rollfilm. All one had to do was press a button, and voila! Photo. 

But seriously, look how adorable

  

Who invented this thing anyway? 

Well, it was originally invented by George Eastman - a Kodak guy - in 1888, but the camera itself was most popular from the early 1900s all the way into the sixties. New and improved models kept coming out and people of all ages were able to enjoy using them. 

Why on earth was this camera important? 
It was a fantastic little piece of photographic invention, I tell you. The fact that they were so inexpensive and easy to use made photography a really accessible hobby for people. Anyone could photograph their world, and that wasn't something that could really happen before the brownie camera.