Final project- brainstorm

For this project, I want to shoot something I'm interested in. I want to shoot something I'll care about. I want to give a shit. I've been reluctant to do this in other projects for this class as I did not want to do an injustice to a subject matter I love so; I didn't want it to be ruined by crappy photos from some punk in a beginning photo class.
Now I want to take that risk. I want to challenge myself for this project and picking something I love as the subject matter will do just that.
Biking. I love it. I bike all the time. I ride a fixed gear. That means it doesn't coast and the partuicular one I own doesn't have brakes either. It's lack of bakes and gears makes it simple. It's simplicity makes it aesthetically pleasing. The aesthetic pleasure it gives makes it hip. My bike is a hipster-mobile. I don't care. It may be trendy, It may be a bandwagon thing, I may be a brainless sheep, but I love it.
When I go for a ride, I ride in the city. Where else to ride a hipster-mobile? The gang of friends I hang out with is a professional loiterering crew as much as it is a hipster clicque. We can hang around some spots for hours just doing tricks, resting, working on bikes, talking... it's pathetic, but I love it. I love the atmosphere down there. Don't get me wrong, the wilderness is great but the city is where it's at.
Since the places I hang out are such an integrel part of the activity I love, I would like to photograph those as well. I want my audience to understand just why I waste my life on this silly little machine.

Cliches

These are some common photographic cliches:


This is virtrually every ski resort ad ever.
I don't care how good your snow was in that one place at that one time;
your resort still sucks



Ummmmm, photoshop much?



I doubt he was really playing the drums.
I am not amused.



Babies sleep, I get it.
Stop showing me.



You look tough, you can pose with an unloaded gun.
Cool...



Awwwwww, cuute...
They make me sick



I know bees hang out on flowers, I learned that in ninth grade biology. I saw too many pictures on bees on flowers then, and I don't want to see any more.



Oooooooohhh, macro.
Nobody has ever even thought of that.
I mean the symbol for macro on cameras is a freaking flower!
surrounded by incompetence...



Classic.
This picture is teaching me so much!
I never knew that birds hung out on posts,
I've never even seen a picture of that before.

I do not want to walk into your travel agency or visit your vacation website, because I want to go somewhere interesting; I don't want to visit the same crap you're photographing for this ad.

Assignment 7- Redo

This is a redo of my "On 'Yer Belly" assignment. I was really happy with the images I took previously, but I felt that they were not quite taken within the spirit of the assignment. I tried to keep that in mind when I was shooting these:






The drivetrain of the bike.
In this specific bike it is not only what makes the bike move, but also what makes it stop. It is the go, it is the stop.
It is something I felt needed to be glorified.






These two are about the setup of the christmas;
something we don't always appreciate.

Assignment 6- Portraits

These are some images i took over the course of the last three weeks for my portraiture assignment.

I really like the expressions I was able to catch on camera.

I need more experience working with studio lights, however.

They became somewhat of a distraction from the basics I've learned over the last few months. The images are not as sharply focused as I would have liked.

I should have dialed up the exposure and the lights so I could more easily capture the subject without blur.

I like them, but I could do better.

This is me,

my uniform,

and I.

Katie took this one.

This is katie.

I made her uncomfortable.

I took probably fifty photos of her without giving a word of instruction.

I got what I wanted.

Then I told her to be herself.

I didn't get exactly what I wanted.

Instructions are a funny thing...

This is my brother Charlie.

Hardly and instruction was needed with him,

he likes to ham it up.

This is me presenting myself twelve years ago.

I like it very much.

Of course, the glare was on purpose.

*wink, wink*

This is my mother.

She made me.

I really like the second one of her.

I caught her right after she was posing and her guard was down.