Kelly Wrage

Okay, so I'm pretty sure this is the last prescribed sort of assignment I'll be getting from my Junior Workshop instructor, David.  We were to alter our subject in some way without using Photoshop.  I had the toughest time coming up with something.  I've been pretty out of my element and out of it in general for a couple of years now, so I didn't know how to handle this.  I had a couple of ideas, but they were weak at best and still not "me".  So, I talked with my instructor, he gave a few examples of what the concept means, and I said, "well, the last thing I was doing that really worked for me were these little set-ups".  He said, "Well, there you go."  I think I was able to visualize what I wanted to do within minutes of the end of that conversation.  That was a just a few days ago, and the assignment was due today.  I had two weeks to do this, and spring break was one of them, so if I'd known what I wanted to do, I could have gotten...

There is a longstanding project or  topic I've been considering and working on in bits and pieces for a while now.  A few months ago, I came across this little book in an antiques mall.  It's titled Addison's Sir Roger DeCoverley.   It was published in 1917, but I believe the story predates that.  As I started thumbing through the book, I found many parallels between this character's situation with a pretty, highly intelligent, and ultimately deceptive widow, and a situation of my own. This work is part of recent assignment I had at UArts.  It was titled. "The Altered Print".  It was designed to get students to consider all portions of their work, from start to finish: shooting, processing, and the final print.  The final print was to be altered in some way, and concept was to be considered when making the decision as to how to alter these prints.  I shot the images digitally, then made a print.  I altered that first print by applying a solvent (of sorts) to t...

It took me a couple of weeks to find the time to put this work up.  It's just been one assignment after another--busy busy busy.  This one was based on using "alternative cameras".  This was of course an experiment that forces the photographer to consider what he or she is photographing based on what the camera "sees" or how it functions, quirks and all.  God knows I have a plethora of what would be considered alternative cameras because I've been using them extensively for the past few years, but in the spirit of the assignment, I decided to get a new camera--a couple actually.  I loaded each one with films of differing speeds because there is no other way of adjusting for changing light.  One of the quirks that these cameras have concerns framing problems.  It's similar to that of most Diana cameras, where the viewfinder is a little off in relation to what the lens sees.  This camera is WAY off, and as a result, there is too much space to the right of ...

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.