Heather Swift, 4/28/13, Images for Critique

 

Staying with emulating Justin James Reed, I wanted to continue more in depths of the hidden meanings behind his images because his work seems so real to me, it's things people see everyday but never take the time to just understand its purpose, meaning and beauty behind it. Such as the power lines, they are the structure of our world with out them half of the world probably would know what light or power is; it's a very important part of how we live too. He puts a lot of life in his images things people rarely understand. So that's what I tried to do with my images, like the wrecked car, the tree of life, the way trees fold when they are dying, and the power lines. All things millions of people have see sometime in their life but never notice what its really about. I truly hope you all can see what I see when I took these images and seeing things I see everyday but now I see things differently.

Cameron Gowen, 4/29/13, Images for Critique

 "My first paintball"

 "Weekend Getaway" This is skate-a-way. It was where I basically lived every weekend growing up with friends and just hanging out all night.

 "My earliest memory" This is a picture of the bowling alley where I bowled at for 16 years of my life, it contains countless memories, with family, friends, and even some with strangers.

 "Recess" This is the playground I walked across the street to from my old house with my big brother everyday after school and played on for hours. 

Finally, This is my old house, the first house I ever lived in, in fact. It was also the only house I ever lived in with my entire family as a whole before things went in all wrong directions and down hill. I hadn't been here since I moved out and it was awesome seeing everything was still there.

For this weeks assignment I came across Collin Gray's work, which I had never payed much attention to before. Before i knew it I was surprisingly hooked to his work, especially his "Abandoned space"... I knew instantly I wanted to do this for my emulation this week. Each of these pictures also like Collin, feel like empty space to me now, they are old childhood memories. I haven't been to any of these places in such a long time, it was actually really enjoyable re visiting all of them, it brought back a lot of memories for me. These pictures were very emotional to take and that's what I focused more on this week, an emotional type of connection, rather than just looking for an amazing cliche photo.

Jeanette Wright, 04/29/13, Images for Critique

I took some more pictures this week, attempting to emulate some of the style of Terri Weifenbach. Right now I am fascinated with close-ups of flowers, as is obvious by my pictures. It isn't the flower so much as the detail that fascinates me. I want to be able to see every tendril and detail of the stem and the petals. When I took the picture of the dandelion, I was on the ground on my hands and knees, with my camera sitting on a box top and set with a timer so I could avoid camera shake as much as possible. The picture of the red headed woodpecker needs color correction and I hope to do that with PS. The bird wouldn't cooperate and come totally around the tree. Dealing with field of vision is also something I like to think about and consider.

Alex Clark, 4/28/13, Images For Critique

Taking 250 pictures this week was simple.  I primarily took pictures from both the back yard and the front yard of my home.  Furthermore, I continued to emulate Terri Weifenbach's photographs.  Her photos have continuously caused me to be even more interested in nature photography as well as close-up photography.  After reviewing her photos, the five pictures posted below are ones I believe closely represent Weifenbach's photography.  Two of them have a certain focus on grass, one possesses a bird perched on an item, and the rest emulate Weifenbach's images with flowers.

Amy McVaugh, 4.28.13, Images for Critique

      Continuing with Brian Ulrich as my artist to emulate (http://notifbutwhen.com/) proved  challenging this week for several reasons.
      I've posted the best images that fit within his themes but am not exactly thrilled with all of them. I'm having a hard time overcoming the challenges of aperture vs. shutter speed vs. low light.
     The first image spawned from his series 'Wright'.
I was overall happy with this image and liked the focus and light cascading from the overhead lamps on the set.
     The second, third and fourth images were inspired by  his 'Dark Stores' series. My favorite of the three is the third picture. I like the shadows and highlight contrast in the empty building and the feeling of abandonment of the store. I also like the visual effect of the lights and lines on the floor, almost as if I was moving.
     The final image is of my grandson in a store that you pay to 'make' a stuffed animal.   After the child selects the toy, the attendant takes it over to a 'fluffing' machine, fills it with stuffing and then proceeds to put the animal in a little beauty salon type chair where you then cut the animals hair, brush it, put cologne on it and can even dress it if you choose to. I selected this picture as it represents 'Retail' in the sense that he really didn't give a hoot if he made an animal or not, it was really his Mom who was excited. He did, however, fall in love with his $24 giraffe that he didn't need when the whole production was over and I'm sure it's crammed in his toy box with all the other junk I've bought him.

Leslie Prigge 4/28/2013 Image for Critique

Leslie Prigge 4/28/2013 Image for Critique
Leslie Prigge- Artist

 

 

      I chose Neil De Costa because I take a lot of images of motorcycles and this weekend we went to the rodeo. I like the way he takes his images. Some of them are full images then some of them are just part of a horses head or something like that. I would like to take images of this kind in the wide open spaces like he does I just don't have that opportunity.   

Emma Prigge Image For Critique 4-28-13

Emma Prigge Image For Critique 4-28-13


I did Neil DeCosta again for and with his horse photos. I love horses and I like the way he takes the picture. Also for the lighting and close ups. Mine are different for that they are in the rodeo and not in the fields being free. My photos are in the breaks of dark and were a little farther away. I also added a picture of my mom and dad walking in front of me holding hands and i just like the way this picture durned out.

Jill Treat, 4-28-13, Images for Critique

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I am continuing with my work inspired by Raymond Meeks. This week I was able to go
out to an area where there are many people from all over the country enjoying the beach
and the beauty of the ocean.  I continue to feel inspired by Raymond Meeks.  Every week
since taking on this project I make it a point to go back and look at all of his work and I
discover something new in his photos.  I especially enjoy how he captures the expressions
in his portraits.  It seems everyone that is being photographed is oblivious to the camera.  I
am continuing to work on my portraits by showing the person in thought or doing a daily
task not knowing that they are being photographed.  To me this shows their real personality
and how they are feeling at that moment.  I value photos more when the person being
photographed appears to be sincere with their thought.  I want to take pictures that show
happiness when happy or sadness when sad.  Getting someones real thought is what's important
to me.  My landscapes above I hope appear to be sharp and clear.  I want to capture the beauty
of the world that we sometimes take for granted.

4/28/2013 Images for critique Brittany Shaw

Trying to identify with my artist's work, I used all natural environmental settings this week. In Trail's work "I found you in the dark" She uses a lot of shadowy effects in her work that I hadn't been using often before this week. Although, my pictures are not at dusk or at night I used natural shade from the forest around me to depict what I felt from Trail's work.
The feelings I collected from Trail's work were a novelty to me. The auras of her pictures were somewhat quiet and tranquil but, very powerful. She makes me think of new beginnings, the sadness of losing a love, and an older stage of life. Her pictures take me back to when I was a kid growing up in the sticks, exploring in the woods. Her work makes me think of magic and young minded kind of hope that I tried to capture in my own pictures.

Justin Piaoan 04.28.13 Images For Critique

Here is my Round 2 take on Gary Schnieders work of heads