Announcement! Photography and Art Exhibitions Coming Up!

Hello Group! There are three upcoming events that I would like to share with you:

1: CGCC Student Art Show Reception
Date: Monday May 4th
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: Library

Come out and see artwork made in CGCC classes!

2: The Good Hurt - MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography by Clarita Lulic
Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
Location: Night Gallery, Tempe Marketplace

Link to Event

3: unBecoming - MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography by Ashley Czajkowski
Date: Friday May 1st
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
Location: Step Gallery, ASU Grant Street Studios 

Link to Event

Vision and Reality project ideas

All of the vision and reality subjects I am contemplating have to do with photographing humans and using layering or long exposure. Here are some inspirational photos and ideas. I am not sure how to successfully execute the last one. : /

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thisdotcomtaken/4383226059/

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/8478

 

https://bobcatcountry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/itsaboutme.jpg

 

Vision and Reality Project

I'm not sure what I want to do with this project. I have several ideas running through my mind and I'm sure I could make the majority of them work, but which one do I want to do?


I have my daughter and of course she has many toys and we play with them all and have huge imaginations. It keeps me a kid at heart and creative. My daughter actual inspires a lot of my photography and she helps me with projects and ideas. With asking her opinion and looking at few websites and pictures, these are a few ideas I have come up with, but with small twists.

Minions Traveling... my twist is I have small toys at my disposal (including Minion toys) and I could take their pictures in different locations around the valley.

Having several of one person in a picture. This one is a picture of the photographer and her internal struggles with herself. My twist is my daughter dislikes being an only child, so could have her be twins or triplets with different personalities.

I like the idea of a picture within a picture. I happen to have an antique looking frame that I could use to take a picture of someone in different locations and outfits and place them within each other.

Then lastly was my mothers idea. I happen to have a celebrity crush and she thought it would be funny to photo shop wedding pictures of me and Chris Pine. The picture below gave me an idea of photo shopping a little more, but it might just end up a little bit creepy. This photographer took pictures of herself with a mannequin family.

All pictures were found on http://www.boredpanda.com/category/photography/

Vision/Reality

http://petapixel.com/2015/03/18/how-i-created-a-shot-of-myself-falling-in-the-kitchen-with-food-flying-everywhere/

While I have a couple other ideas in the back of my head in case this one doesn't quite work, I hope I'm able to achieve something close to my inspiration.  This is a perfect example of 'enhancing reality', without being totally implausible.  

Anytime I choose to edit a photograph, it's normally because the image does not quite convey the scene as I saw it.  The color could be muted due to poor white balance, or the frame wasn't quite lined up properly, or any other amount of things that can go awry when attempting to capture that perfect image the first time.  

This example takes a similar approach in attempting to depict not a person, place or thing, but an event.  I imagine it to be the equivalent of being able to have photographic evidence of your most outrageous story that you've told all of your friends, and yet they still don't believe you.  

Reality

I thought that something of this nature would be kinda cool but instead of drawings real people.and what not i'm not really sure what I wanna do for this one.

Reality Project Research

Reality Project Research 

Links: http://quillaquiver.com/2013/02/09/beauty/,
http://nonsensesociety.com/2012/09/shelby-tsuji/








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For the reality project I had a few ideas and I did not know which one I wanted to pick. I have three sisters and hearing them talk made me decide on which project I wanted to try. I chose to do something with our society's perception of beauty for my reality project. While listening to my sisters talk about themselves, they had a lot more negative things than positive things to say about how they look. I want to something with how my sisters comments effect how we perceive ourselves and with how Photoshop has changed how we perceive beauty. We also tend to judge how we should look off of what we see in magazines and in the media. I want to try and show how these ideas do not match up to show what beauty really is. If this doesn't work I am going to try and solidify a new idea.

Article linkhttp://barneygrant.tripod.com/p-erceptions.htm

Project Inspiration - Vision and Reality

I have been toying with 2 different ideas for my project. The first is an idea I got from here:  http://www.boredpanda.com/recreated-historical-photographs-davorin-dinic-serbia/  They go back to a city and try to capture images from the same locations as older photographs.

My family has lived in the Valley for several generations and I am lucky to have some photos from my great-grandparents era. I was thinking of trying to get similar photos as it is seen now and merge the two. Similar to what was done in the photo above.

The other idea I am toying with was something inspired by this photo

https://500px.com/photo/59960744/masquerade-by-m%C3%B3nica-poncelas

Based on the idea that social media makes everyone feel lonely (source: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/01/the_antisocial_network.html )

The primary thought was that looking at someone else's news feed you can be led to feel they live a perfect life. An excerpt from this article helps sums up this theory.

"Any parent who has posted photos and videos of her child on Facebook is keenly aware of the resulting disconnect from reality, the way chronicling parenthood this way creates a story line of delightfully misspoken words, adorably worn hats, dancing, blown kisses. Tearful falls and tantrums are rarely recorded, nor are the stretches of pure, mind-blowing tedium. We protect ourselves, and our kids, this way; happiness is impersonal in a way that pain is not. But in the process, we wind up contributing to the illusion that kids are all joy, no effort."

I was thinking of taking pictures of examples of things someone might share on social media, and then another that shows what might also be happening that is not shared. Two-sides to every story type of photo.