The end of the year

It feels weird to say I am done with my first year of college today. Seeing my side of the dorm room completely empty was very strange. After having everything I could ever need in a space and to have packed it up in 4 hours was crazy. I kind of don't want to leave. I will miss my roommate but it is time to have a new adventure which will be filled with road trips and picture taking along the way. I may even do another stop action of the places I go. Until next year RIT.

Photographer powerpoint

At the beginning of the quarter we had to make a powerpoint on a photographer that we discovered and was new to us. I really liked the other photographers that my classmates discovered.I went back to my room and looked up other bodies of work they had done.

You look just like her

I went on a first friday bus to a lot of local galleries. One in particular housed the you look just like her exhibit. I was so anxious to see this show and when I got there I was very disappointed. There was only one wall of images that looked more like photos out of a family album than anything I would expect as a thesis exhibit for graduate studies.

Ahndraya Parlato

Also for our visual journal we had to include a lecture or guest speaker. I went to see Ahndraya Parlato who was the guest speaker brought to RIT by Photo House. I was disappointed by her. She spoke a lot about what inspired her to make her work but didn't spend much time actually demonstrating her work.

collage

One of the activities we were supposed to include in our visual journal was a collage. Here is mine. I think it describes me perfectly.

Stop Action

This project we had to create a video using still images. There was a lot of shooting involved. After all the shooting was done we were encouraged to add sound and text to the final version.

Dirty and Clean

For this assignment we had to come up with ways to interpret the words dirty and clean. We had to use two models while doing this shoot. I used my friends Sydney and Tony.

Environmental Portraits

For our 4th assignment we had to do an environmental portrait of a guy and a girl. We then had to create or find articles relevant to our photograph. Here is what I came up with.

Still Life

Our assignment was to create a studio still life using six different types of lighting.

I chose to do silhouette, accent, chiaroscuro and direct shadow. Here are the final images.