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.

album cover?

Playing around with the subject being a shadow with a shadow and a rippling effect on flat screen

Graphic design

Graphic design is something I would really like to get better at. Here is my first piece I made a while back when Obama was running for president there were stickers everywhere saying Obama'08 I just simplified it to how I saw it. Coincidence?

Columbus was wrong

shadow

Four Heads

Class photos

flash photos

7 deadly blogs

I wanted to used a verity of techniques in each image. I switched from natural light, fill flash and incandescent light which may take away from using them in a series but helped me gain practical experience. Each technique I would try and have play its part in portraying the particular sin like vengeance has a vibrant harsh contrast and portrays the angles of looking down on the victim.

WHy photograph

People photograph because its the easiest way to capture a moment in time. It can also be used as a tool to manipulate that same moment in time and how the photographer sees it. I would like to shoot some fashion photography for practical skill and surrealist.

Influences

One of my major influences is David Byrne. His ability to create music and photos makes him the best double threat sense Puff Daddy. Its really inspirational to see how a creative mind can work in all sorts of fields. I personally do not want to restrict myself to photography but go with what ever medium comes to thought.

Creative process

I never seem to have problems with coming up with ideas. It just so happens that this is my down fall. The photos I want to take, the pieces of woodwork I want to create and projects I want to do flow from one to the other drowning my motivation to accomplish nearly nothing. I constantly think of something out of reach but turn to something with more instant gratification and a more practical route.

Best of Kingsbury

In class contact sheet

Through some glass

This term I'm taking a film theory class and one of the films we studied was Mean Streets. In the film he views what he cannot have because of moral and religious restraints through windows. Most often we view these temptations through the back seat of a cab or maybe someone walking by the office. For the taxi photographs I used a slow shutter speed to give the effect of the surroundings being a blur of lights and attractions amidst the capsule of the cab.

woodcutter out of wood

Andy Matisse

I was attempting to add the 3d dimension to an image that could not be more 1 demential. A project that I would love to do would be taking this idea towards more cubist and other classics.

tidying up art

Scavenge photos

Scavenger Contactsheet