Kelly Wrage

This is not even a working title. I honestly don't have one yet. This series seems to morph a bit depending on what is going on in my life while I'm working on it. I started the project a few years ago but took a break from it for a while. I resumed shooting for it last November or thereabouts. I have written a couple of statements for it, but that changes as well. I'll dig up the most recent one and post it if anyone is interested. It's pretty close, I think, but still needs some updating because I've found some more correlations in regard to its connections to me personally. These images need further editing for actual showing, and I'm working on that now. I have several new ones which need to be scanned and edited, and I'll be adding those to the group soon.

As I start on my final project for my studies at UArts, I think it's a good idea to put these older toy camera images up. I've been using various "toy" cameras for years; always searching for one tool or another to get me the mood I'm looking for in a particular type of imagery. I keep coming back to my Holgas. I started using Holgas in early 2006 because of an emulation assignment I was given in school. I chose Keith Carter as my model, but needed a camera that would afford me some kind of out of the ordinary selective focus. I couldn't afford a camera with movements; I had just purchased a Hasselblad and there was simply no money for anything else. So I did some research and came up with the Holga. The look was different, but the mood was very similar to what I saw in Carter's images. I can't do a real emulation of anyone anyhow. My work has to be my own, so it was a relief to find something similar....but different for that assignment. Prob...

Just a few images from last year.  School starts in a week and a half.  This semester is going to be jam packed full of work, but it should be doable.  Soooo many major projects.  I just hope it isn't as tough as last semester.  I made it on the dean's list again, but pulling 3-4 back-to-back all-nighters every single week for three and a half months might just kill me if I try to do it again.  If I find it's too much, I can always get rid of one class because I'm taking more than I need.   The image of me and the washing machine was the impetus for my final.  The rest of the images are pretty formulaic and not done particularly well.  We crammed a lot into one semester, so there was really only one week's shot at each.  I know how to do them all properly now, so it should make each type of shooting easier in the future.  I'll be buying my set of strobes soon and have some ideas in mind for that, but it might have to wait for winter break.

Just some images from my last studio class at UArts.  They are about my feelings of being overwhelmed by the mess in our house when we were moving in.  We actually packed up and moved everything in the week before finals, so I had to do all of this in one week.  Not easy.  I was trying to merely use the studio strobes to get the feeling of real room lighting, but without the dim shadows, light fall-off, and tungsten yellow-orange color cast.  For some reason, I felt the need to get a window into every shot.  It's nice that by looking out the windows and seeing light outside, the room is expected to appear darker inside.  It is simply not expected and therefore a bit cinematic--not real. Perhaps it's the fact that I love the old metal windows in this house.  

A few more from my latest series.  I would say more about them, but I'm exhausted and keep falling asleep....