WEEK 16
1) & 2) re-formatted the vertical and horizontal pennies because the files got corrupted-actually like them better like this cause I spent more time on them & edited them a little more.
3) scanned in a ton of polaroids i’ve taken/hoarded. A little overcrowded maybe, but thinking in terms of presentation (which i haven’t done till now) it could be really nice to have some clean, simple grids around some more stimulating ones for variety.
4) found photos. scanned a ton ton ton more than this, but chose the square formatted ones-i think they’re interesting.
5) Plastic charms. used to buy them at yard sales and stuff when i was a kid. I probably have 30 or 40 of them, but again chose only a few of them that worked well together.
WEEK 15
this week i had a lot of fun-first i photographed stamps, on black paper. then sewed them together into a grid in photoshop. then, thought scanning them would be cool, so I scanned in a bunch of them and choose certain ones to be in a grid together. then worked with some orange buttons and yellow buttons. not sure why, but a few years ago i only saved orange and yellow buttons.
and as a side note-
I’m not going to be able to photograph them before the end of school, but I met somebody randomly and in casual conversation i found out they collect floaty pens-you know the kind they used to sell at gift shops and stuff with the little boats and stuff that would float from one end of the pen to the other. this person has like 900 of these pens!!! my hero!
WEEK 14 SCREW UP:
my worst week, academically and in health. My migraines were in remission for almost a month and a half (longest time without any in three years). that ended; Began sunday night, all day monday, on and off all day tuesday. came back friday night and part of saturday morning. Insurance dropped my medication so i can’t get relief right now. felt ok wed and thur and fri until about 10pm, when i think i triggered it from a glass of freaking wine. So, although i did feel good most of wednesday and thursday (and most of friday) I didn’t get a damn bit of shooting done when I was feeling fine. Don’t really know why either. I’m not excusing myself, but it’s just a mess up on my head’s part and on my part for not shooting the days when I did feel good. I know this looks super irresponsible right before finals, but please know that i didn’t just drop the ball and give up or party or anything.
I did take one pic this week: my cat. she kept me company while i wasn’t well.
I’m optimistic; much better things coming this week…I’m feeling good right now, a good sign.
week..12…i think
everybody is writing week 11 but i wrote “week 11” in the title line last week..so i really don’t know which week it is but i like the idea of it being week 12 better than 11.
that being said, this week was awesome. for those of you that were able to make it to my show-i’m glad you could make it and i hope you enjoyed yourselves! :) I had a lot of fun.
Monday i made the first attempts at grids of photos…which took a while to figure out but i really enjoyed doing it. you’ve already seen them in critique but since i made them this week, they’re going up on here along with a few new ones i made out of valentines i re-shot. i didn’t post all the valentines since there are over 200, but i will post at least a horizontal and vertical one.
ALSO, i didn’t forget about putting all the images on one plane and photographing them at the same time. I just didn’t have any backdrop to put them on that would be large enough for all of them and really couldnt get into the studio this week-had to shoot them individually on a piece of card stock.
AND I have a very exciting idea for next week…I think I’m going to shake things up a bit again and try another new approach to shooting…yay! this is fun!
btw
i’ve had loads of technical issues with this post. there are a couple images from each slideshow from this update (week 11) that aren’t showing up and i can’t figure out why. i emailed tumblr support and they said it was fixed but it clearly wasn’t so if it looks like it’s stuck on one image just skip to the next one because it’s trying to show the one that’s not showing up.
WEEK 11 UPDATE
WEEK 11 UPDATE
keeping up with the new approach, just trying to refine it a little from the initial attempts with the blurry marbles and the records with wood grain background. so i did singular shoots with souvenir pennies, bouncy balls, and bottle caps. right now I’m working on doing a couple grids of each collection for the critique on tuesday so everybody can see what it would look like when things are photographed separately, then put together, rather than all photographed together at the same time.
Also,
my show’s on friday. scarborough library 3-5pm. come on out. I was gonna have crackers and cheese and veggie tray but i’ve decided to ONLY serve dessert. lots and lots of dessert. there will be no healthy options, so be prepared for that. Huzzah!
