Kelly Wrage

Homework due this week was fun and creative, not to mention, fairly easy.  Just one image and it could be created however you chose.  This was my take on a photo of my brother-in-law and his family.  I thought it would be funny to use one person to portray all of the members of the family.  I only had myself, so that's who I used.  It's a creepy image, but it makes me laugh.  

These are the last few which I have digital files for in this series.

I tried posting these the other night, but they were originally files from digital captures of the actual photographs.  Can't remember now why I documented them that way rather than scanning and adjusting the negs.  Probably part of an assignment.  Photographers are often hired to professionally photograph the work of other artists, and I know I've had assignments where we had to do this so..... The scanned negs would have been much better--lost a lot of detail and the blacks were more gray than black.  That meant having to adjust the levels and a tad more detail may have been lost trying to bring up the blacks.  Hopefully, the burning in of the reflected light around the edges won't look so spotty this time.  Fingers crossed.

I feel the middle image here shows the true bond between these two he-men and exemplifies their intense fondness for one another.  It scares me.

The last one cracks me up.  Mike "lecturing Scott" and what's on the board above Scott's head.

It's been a while, so bear with me Cohn.  I really don't know what I'm doing here.  And in my defense, this project was called "Intuitive Camera" where we were not allowed to look through the lenses of our cameras.  We could only point at something we saw and wanted to capture, then fired the shutter.  The focus is often not right because of shooting in low light conditions--meant I had to use a wider aperture which blurs objects in the foreground and background.   The camera was sometimes set to autofocus, so getting it to focus on what I wanted it to wasn't always easy.  I also shot city scenes, restaurants, and stuff out the car window as I was passing.

Since certain people seem to be all Gibralter happy these days, I thought I'd put this up for them. I'm afraid that since the print I scanned is 9"x9", it suffered a bit of cropping. I'm kind of in the midst of a shooting blitz right now, so it's still old stuff that's going up here. I started out way ahead of the game with the summer's photo assignment, and then just sort of shut down for a bit. I've been in a funk for a while now, but hopefully with a new semester there will come some new inspiration. These two photos were taken with a Holga in one of the classrooms at DCAD. I have to try shooting with my Holgas again--I seem have had a little more success with them than some of my other cameras--though I did just buy that 4x5 on ebay.....and a lot of pencils and drawing pads from AC Moore and Dick Blick if memory serves me correctly. Hmmm But then, I've been wanting to break out the gouache lately, but that leads to guilt over not shooti...

Just trying some more test images for size and pixelization... This was an assignment from the 2DII class I took at DCAD. It was one of the toughest and one of the best classes I've ever taken. For this, we had to take objects of different colors and set them up under two different colored lights with different temps. For this next assignment, we had to paint the same set-up twice---once under a slightly warm light (incandescent), and again under a slightly cool light (daylight). The object of this class wasn't creativity. It was all about color--what happens to it when a color is laid upon it or reflected off of it, etc. Also, what colors do to one another when placed adjacent to one another. The instructor was Teresa Vadala and the class was great. Granted, I'm having some formatting problems here. Why is my "preview post" format so different from what I actually get?

Just a test image....

This is just a test to see if blogger is teasing me or not. For some reason, my blog is finally showing up, whereas I used to get a "URL not found on this server" message. Be nice if it is working. If anyone sees this, please let me know.....