This album is kind of a catch all, you see not all of my sets are worth posting. Some only had a few worth posting in their source sets. Some had none at all. These are the best of the worst.
Well that wraps up Photography 101. I wonder what old stuff I can dig up next.
High Dynamic Range photography is the result of combining multiple exposures of the same scene. The results can sometimes be hyper real to the point of seeming like a 3D rendering. They can sometimes seem more like how the human eye sees things. They can also make things look absolutely crazy. I wanted to do the first example but ended up just making things look too crazy. Most of these were taken in Jennings County, IN. I’m glad I’ve got these to remind me of home.
In order of when I took these, this is the last set I did. My teacher was disappointed because this was so much less dramatic than my self portrait series. That said, I really wanted to take pictures of the camera collection I was starting to accrue. I have a lot more now, but they’re all stuck in Indiana. Someday I’ll be able to have them all with me again. Don’t worry, even though this is the last set chronologically, this isn’t the last set I’m posting here. Join me here for even more of my photos tomorrow.
The self portrait assignment is easily my most successful. Each photo is designed to put me in a different role. No I had some help getting these, but for the most part it’s all me. Usually in self portraits you are the core of each photo. I tried to distance myself from these, so that I wasn’t recognizable as myself. This is especially true in the horror movie picture, with the muddy baseball bat. I’m there in the picture, but it could be anybody.
I absolutely adore getting close up with my subject and playing with focus. I try to do it in all of my pictures. This set let me go all out and let the focus tell be the focus. I’m especially proud of the spider that I fit in the thinnest line where everything else is blurred. Thankfully my time working in video has taught me to snap to and get the shot quickly, cause that little guy skittered away.
This assignment was my most controversial. That isn’t saying much, because none of my other projects were controversial at all. The assignment was to do a set dedicated to Women’s History Month. Most people took pictures of women in their family or their girlfriends. I decided to do something a little more political and photograph action figures. The concept was that this would expose to people how, ostensibly strong, women are presented to young boys. Some people who didn’t understand the concept thought my work was inappropriate. By the way, yes, the toys were all mine, leftover from my childhood. They’ve since been sold in a yard sale.
This was actually the first photoset I did for class. It was originally processed as B&W but I shot in color. The original color versions are much better. The assignment was to take pictures of a single object that would somehow transform the image. I used a toy of Megaman’s nemesis, Protoman, I wanted him to seem real. Too bad I had no idea how to use a camera yet, because I took 300+ pictures and these are the best ones. At least I didn’t take pictures of a broken glass and say it was “transformed.” I’m looking at you, rest of the class.
Back again cataloguing my time as a photography student. This assignment was about using non-standard light sources. We had to control the light in each photo, not just use the room light as we usually did. In my life I’m surrounded by LED lights from all of my electronics so I decided to used them as my source of choice. I also pulled some tricks with long exposure. Yes that’s a Mexican wrestling mask.
The assignment here was to take photos so close to the target that it abstracts them. In a fit of futility I took pictures of everything in my dorm room. The reason was probably laziness above all else, but the result was finding a new view of texture in the banality of dorm life. I got to play with focus in this series which is well noted as my favorite thing to do with a camera..
Panoramic photos are normally done outside when you want to capture an image of something too big to fill the frame. The process involves taking many pictures and stitching them together to make one coherent image. There is a natural distortion created when using this technique that is increased with proximity to the target. I used this distortion to my advantage in this set.
It’s so hard to show these on a computer screen. Some are really tall so we’re going with a taller format today. Follow the following link and be sure to use the magnify button liberally.
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The assignment was to mix photography with printing. Mixed media and all that. I dedicated my project to sci-fi author Philip K Dick. It tells a short story as my world falls apart in a series of errors before it crashes altogether. Strangely a classmate did the assignment in a similar fashion, using error messages in the real world as well.
Today’s assignment was to use Color Theory to set up interesting photos. The first one is a total White Stripes job. I have a print of the Gameboy Camera photo. I sure miss that plant in the blue/green photo. Here name was Emilia. She was an Airplane Plane named for Emilia Earhart. I grew her for my botony class in high school. She stayed alive for four years before a harsh winter took her from me. One of her children survives under my mom’s care.
The assignment was to take photos of something moving quickly while using a high shutter speed. There was a football game going on in the Butler Bowl that day against the Panthers from Madison Indiana. If I remember correctly that was the first game we won that year. (possibly the last) It was so much fun getting shots of the players in motion. I decided to hedge my bets and get some shots of my friends playing Ultimate Frisbee. I’m incredibly proud oh how I followed the ball through the air. Look for it in the shots.
I made this video out of the raw images I took while I was in a photography class at Butler University. When you shoot like I do and take a hundred pictures for a single shot they line up pretty well.
I’d also like to announce I’ll be starting a review of my days in Photography 101. I’ll be posting a new gallery every day so stay tuned for more photographic fun.
I was scrolling through my old photos, performing upkeep on my collection. Alas some of my old JPG’s had become corrupted. It only effected the largest right off the camera images and they are largely inconsequential but now they’ve been given a new life as error art.
These pictures weren’t worth much when I took them, but they look pretty neat now that they’ve fallen apart.
That's it. I graduated from Butler University today. Here's some pictures from the night. I'm calling it a night. Thanks for everyone for helping me get this far.
I'm breaking the rules again: Chester French & Gym Class Heroes performed at Butler's Exam Jam. CF made a fantastic first impression and GCH put on an insane live show. After it got dark things really picked up.
My pictures don't do it justice, but my friend Pat took some truly fantastic shots. His camera is like magic. Check them out here. Seriously, go there now. I'm gonna go ahead and embed a video of his pics just to drive the point home.
When I was a freshman the first video I ever collaborated with Tom on was a music video for Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. It's been on YouTube for three years now but recently a message appeared below the video. "This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled. More about copyright" Other serviced would have just taken down the video, but YouTube gave me the opportunity to fix it. They have an amazing "Audio Swap" feature that lets you pick from hundreds of songs to replace your audio. I chose Sleep Station's "A Soldiers Dream" to fix the video. Now the song just had titles that said Goo Goo Dolls on them. I used YouTube's annotations feature to cover them up with the correct information. You can see the result right here:
Thanks Google for letting me fix my copyright violations. Nice moves guys.
I was lucky enough to help lead my friend Katie's class through the studios at butler. We took a group picture at the news desk. I'm the tall kid in the back.
