Self Portraiture

I love taking self portraits. I love the ability to express different aspects of my personality through portraiture, but I also love taking images that don't reflect myself at all. Self portraiture enables a certain introspection that you don't get by taking pictures of someone else.

Orenda

Orenda- a supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for.

Globe Dye Works

Last Friday I visited Globe Dye Works in Philadelphia. Globe Dye Works used to be a textile and thread-dying factory, but after its abandonment, it is currently being renovated into a bunch of art studios and kitchens for up and coming artists and chefs. From the original boiler to the new artwork on the walls there was a lot to photograph. 

On this trip I brought my 3D printed heart to photograph because I knew that the juxtaposition of the heart with the old metal pieces laying around would make for good photographs. 

Sparkpromt #98
Take a photograph beneath your subject

Finding the Flag

American flags are everywhere, but we see so many that we often don't notice their presence. These images are of flags that I ran across in my everyday life. I often realized too late that I had missed a flag.

Camera Obscura Room

 The process:
1.Cover a window in black trashbags so that there are no light leaks
2. Cut a small hole in the bags. The smaller the hole thee more sharp the image, but the darker it will be
3. Hang a white sheet in the room for the image to be projected on
4. Turn the lights off and watch the magic

The Result:
The image is inverted because the light from the whole travels in a straight line. Set up the camera and take a long exposure of the room to get a clearer and brighter image.

...and then you see...

       It is dusk. A Stranger is driving around the countryside utterly lost. Eventually he comes to a tiny inlet. The place is deserted apart from a little man sitting on a rustic fence. The stranger winds his window down and asks for directions. The little man removes his peculiar battered hat, places it upside down between his knees, scratches his head, and without looking up begins.

       "It's like this," he says. "You take the first right, the third left, the second right, pass over the bridge...and then you see..." -Unknown author

Last week was the first week of school, and my first photography assignment was to take ten pictures at three different locations with three different f-stops. Our prompt was Hamster Wheel, I immediately thought I should do something that included running because the word exhaustion came to mind. The other ideas came slower to me though, I eventually thought that I should do something with burning off calories, and then I played with the shape of a wheel instead of an abstract idea. These are my nine best photos.

The Plains, VA
F-stop:14

The Plains, VA
f-stop: 14

The Plains, VA
f-stop: 14

f-stop: 5.2

f-stop: 5.2

f-stop: 5.2

f-stop: 22

f-stop: 22

f-stop: 22