ICE #5

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Reading Response #2 (Ritchin Ch.3)

The first thing I found very compelling about this reading was the idea of the tourist. In many instances, on vacation, or even just in your everyday surroundings, you will see a tourist taking photographs of just about everything that they see. As an artist, I know that I am very quick to judge that these tourists are not artists but are just using photography as a tool to quickly document an experience that can't be repeated in any other way besides maybe a home movie. This made me think about how our experiences change when a camera is around, people start acting differently. I know that in my home albums, the photographs always tell different stories than how the trip actually went, and so it points to the idea of the posed photograph, and how much truth that actually speaks to real experience.

This also relates into the end of the reading where it was said that "We are entering an era when no one will be able to say whether a picture is true or false"(Richin 67). So often nowadays photographs don't always tell the truth, but rather stretch the truth, lie, or are created not in the camera. It's so easy now with the technological age we are living in to create a photograph without actually taking it, and it makes me wonder where the art context of photography is going to come in play in the years to come. Because the industry is so ever changing and the technology is constantly growing, I would have to agree with Richin. Our generation is so used to photographs being edited and tampered with that it's a thing of the norm, and the phrase, "oh I'll just Photoshop it later", is becoming more and more prevalent among the public, and even the art world. Photographs are becoming so manipulated nowadays that it's going to be hard to trust any photograph that you see; because true documentary is just becoming a myth, in my opinion.

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ICE #4: Color Checker

Studio Light (No profile edit):



Studio Light (With natural light profile edit)




Natural Light (No profile edit):





Natural Light (With natural light profile edit):

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ICE #3-Black & White Conversions

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Project 1: Part 1

Naturalistic




Hyped



Low Key

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ICE #2: Color Ring Around

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Reading Response #1 (Ritchin Preface, Ch.1, Ch.2)

The thing that captivated me the most about this reading was the view Ritchin has on our relationships with the screens. How the world was first seen to be flat, then to be round, but now with the entering of the digital, flat once again. Our relationships with computer screens, digital camera screens, tv screens, etc, is toxic, completely toxic. This made me think a lot about how the photographs we take digitally can be so, so easily lost and aren't always a depiction of what's even real. With the digital, we are able to manipulate white balance, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and many other things to create this 'perfect photograph', when sometimes, it just doesn't even depict the true subject at hand in a way that's accurate to the eye. In photography, there's often depth of field that comes from the camera lens that produced onto the photograph, and that's something we don't actually see with our eyes, it's a mechanical consequence. With that, so are long exposures, for example. With all the manipulation that digital photography can give us, one could question it's worth in context to what photographs are supposed to do in its most technical definition; to depict through film a copy of reality. With people so absorbed in manipulating the photograph and creating this relationship with the computer through Photoshop, the photograph is starting to have shifts in its meaning that are so much different than they were originally. The digital has made it so any amateur can make a great photograph, strictly through having skill in the digital field. The taking of an amazing photograph is starting to matter less in this day and age, but rather changing of a mediocre photograph to an amazing one is starting to matter more, and have more prestige. The way the medium is changing is incredible in good ways and bad ways, certainly, but Ritchin's take on how it's been changing is very interesting in reference to his views of the screen and our relationship with it in creating a generational shift.

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ICE #1: Past Work/Future Aspirations

(^my old work that best represents where my work is right now, who I am as an artist)


The Work of Alec Soth really inspires me because of the beautiful harmony he brings to his portraits through the atmospheric landscape, specifically in his body of work called Sleeping by the Mississippi. He pays a lot of attention to the environments his models are set into, and the photographs them in a way that is so authentic. He inspires me to think a lot about where to place models for portraits and I would like to do what he does; to photograph people in their natural environments. In context to the photograph I brought in that represents who I am as an artist right now; that body of work that photograph was included in had to do with how the relationships we have with others reflect who we are as people and our lives. And the other photograph I brought in had to do with how color relationships influence how people appear in the photograph, and which colors best match them as people, personality wise. I want to keep branching off of these ideas in this upcoming term. I have a lot of ideas that have to do with portraits and ways to portray people through the use of colors and the people that are close to them/influence or reflect them, as people, the most.

Example of Alec Soth's work:





Link to Alec Soth's work: http://alecsoth.com/photography/

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