time of day

These shots were taken over the course of one day coming back from a trip to block island. One was shot in the morning looking at the foggy surf the next on a middays sun on the way home and the last lights of another surf session. Its pretty clear that the lighting in the last picture, taken during the "golden hour" before the sun goes down is the best lighting. Lighting can also be important for shadows as seen in the boat image the shadow is cast directly down.

New White Balance

A little bit clearer examples of different white balances

White Balance

Having a proper white balance set is one of the most important things to remember when shooting photos. It is not the end of the world if the balance is set wrong with tools in post production can normally fix the image but it is a time consuming habit to get in. The typical goal of white balance is to make an accurate color palate that matches your subject. This does not necessarily mean that this rule has to always be fallowed and in my one of the surfer paddling is an example of a very wrong use of balance but I dont really mind it. It makes him look like he is on another planet. The photo I took of the skateboarder I used a warmer balance for a film like feel. I really like the shot of the Sasquatch looking man in the wet suit set against the milky white storm surf.

Final Project

For my final project i decided to take a look at what happens around me as a skateboard Filmer. I focused on the troubles that come with the freedom of skateboarding. Some people fall victim to the party, others fall short of talent and everyone struggles to find an identity and function as a human being. Skateboarder are different and like photographers see the world differently then a typical person. They see potential in the ordinary. I tried to capture the spaces that are otherwise abandoned by people but sought out by skateboarders.

Artist talk

The other day I had the opportunity to visit a local artist in his home studio. Kevin Martin has been doing woodworking for his whole life and rarely left the state of new hampshire. When I called him up to ask if he was busy to visit his shop he said "well lets see its gonna be raining a little... Im gonna be having the wood stove going all day." He lives a simple life. Building a couple wooden canoes ever year off of the same 4 molds that were donated to him from some world famous canoe maker in Massachusetts in the early 1900's and restoring other things on the side. His art is not making the front pages or causing people to boycott an exhibit but it is making him enough money to have his grand kids come up and visit every once and a while for the weekend. Sometimes its just nice to see a well built canoe that isn't covered in Marilyn Minroe neon faces.

Julius Shulman Video

The way a building gets photographed can play an immense role on how the public view a space. Perhaps no other photographer has made as much of an impact on architecture as Julius Shulman. His work brought the works of many modern architects of the 20th century into the spotlight and presented them in a flattering and fascinating way. His eye would pull out the innovation in both design and engineering in the spaces and bring them to new extremes that would rarely be seen by the typical visitor. His photo of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study No. 22 would come to be a symbol of postwar domestic architecture. The women, furniture, glass and overhang over the city work together seamlessly to create an ideal living space. He presents the space not competing with the background of the city but rather rising above as the future.

Artist lecture

Although I forget the artists name I will not forget seeing, or was it listening to her work? It was refreshing to hear her speak of going through art school kind of wandering and trying to find some sort of means to express herself. Its good to hear that spending all your money and time on this can actually be worth while. Her work quickly formed around multi media and combining sound with the visual image, something I have not though of as a photographer but always am working with in video. Its amazing how rarely these two mediums are paired together and how both can effect how one reads them. It is something that I hope to work with in the future or at least continue to examine in film.