Is it just me, or is it blurry in here?

Lights! Camera! Shoot!

   

I really found this project fun. 

For a long time now, I've been waiting for my opportunity to utilize my dad's work light in our garage. He accidentally left it on once, and when I went into the garage to get something, I was absolutely entranced by it. It makes a for a perfect light setting. My other two younger siblings (Andrew and Hannah - not Niamh, who has been previously photographed) and I had a blast taking photos around the work light. We played with levels, as there was a coffee table we could utilize for height, and they both took turns placing themselves on different levels. I played with this concept as well, adjusting myself to catch different pieces of their silhouettes with the backlight. Light is fun. 

The outside photos are from the morning time. As I was getting ready for school, I saw that the branches of the trees catch the lamppost light in quite a lovely way. Of course I jumped at the chance to capture that. It was difficult there, sometimes, on account of the fact that sometimes the lamplight would be too obviously there; I had to find a balance between being a background and being obvious. One of my favourite types of photographs are ones with a twiny subject backlit by, essentially, sparkles. I love them. 

So, this project was a lot of fun. I will definitely continue to photograph light.
Light is nifty. 

Wingardium Leviosa

Flying is quite a difficult thing. Very potentially unsafe. 

Proceed with caution. 

Oh no! Erica is falling off a roof. Quite dangerous! 

Egad! Caleb and Joelle enjoy jumping over trucks. How hazardous! 

Super Smash Brothers

These little Planets look like something straight out of a video game.
They're quite entertaining. 

I didn't actually take this photoset. However, I assembled it and turned it into a planet, so that should count for something. The reasoning behind this foreign photo set being used - as opposed to my own - is really just because I am lame and haven't been home recently before dark (which comes very early in the winter), therefore have been lacking with time in which to take panoramas, so I had to improvise. In any case, this little planet looks really quite nifty, and the sky looks absolutely delightful. 

So, I tried to be artful with this and make a little Band Room Planet inside a cloudy blended world, but it really didn't end up as nice as I expected. In fact, it really didn't turn out nice at all. But, it's all about the experimenting with this photoshop thing, I suppose. Let's pretend this looks fantastic.

It was a cloudy day. Indeed. This set of photos is of the upper football fields at school. I'm a fan of this. 

Panorama Clones

I find my own jokes very amusing

Dinner arguments with the self are quite taxing 

All the parts. I sing them. 

Face Scan

I gone done been scanned by a photoscanner! 

Self Portrait Project

   

      

I was not particularly excited to do this project. 

I am very comfortable being behind the camera. I am alright at being in front of the camera. But, I have trouble with the idea of doing both. Over the period of time I had to do this project, my family was away for the break, and so I didn't have the familiar comforts of my own home to place myself in for these photos. However, I think they turned out alright. 

One of the ideas I toyed with here was the blur. I've come to a point in my life where everything is sort of whizzing too rapidly for me to sometimes keep track of, so the blur is sort of my visual attempt to convey what my brain feels like. Another pattern in these photos is the 'looking down' shot; apart from the fact that I find these photos extremely powerful, I suppose this can be linked to the fact that I'm not particularly extroverted. I'm introspective and I over analyze quite a bit, so it sort of makes sense to use that type of photo as a representation of that. Yes. My guitar is another thing that makes an appearance. I can't really say any more about that than that music is such a huge key factor in my life, and to not use the guitar in this project would be silly. 

In the end, this project wasn't as taxing as I thought. It sort of gave me a tremendous sense of self satisfaction to have captured a successful image of myself. (Especially the blur photos - those were tricky.) But, yes. Self photos, man. What are they? I don't even know. But this project was interesting. I'm glad we were assigned it.