Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Scholastics Gold Medal?

This picture received a gold medal last year at scholastics.  hmmm.......
Fog Triptych
Fog Triptych, Piera Bochner, Packer Collegiate Institute, New York, New York

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Eve Arnold





Don't know if you guys heard but photographer Eve Arnold died recently at the age of 99.  She's famous for her photojournalism and portraiture of people such as Marilyn Monroe and others.  Here's some of her work:

Eve Arnold dies: 1955 Marilyn Monroe resting on bedEve Arnold dies: 1976 Anthony Quinn and Anna KarinaEve Arnold dies: 1979 Horse training for the militia, Inner Mongolia, China

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Look what I found on my desktop:

Is this student work or from the internet?
It was on the desktop so I don't know.....


Friday, January 20, 2012

Submissions Complete!

Finally finished my submissions to scholastics! yayyy! Hopefully I win something!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

iSpy

got to take some pretty neat iSpy pictures on the light table today...this project really got me thinking about the shape of objects and not just their color or texture, and also about composition and positioning every element in the photo to produce the best effect.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012

iSpy 1st attempt

As I was shooting I realized that I need to put in a lot more items then I was originally planning. Also had some great ideas for other set ups and scenes to try.  We'll see how that goes. Here is the first attempt. Needs a lot more ornaments and other things to distract the viewer and have it be overwhelming.  Also I still have to write the riddles.  Here ya go: (and on the first picture the foreground is out of focus which is annoying and needs to change) :