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Frame Trial 1, 2010

This photo keeps haunting me. Photographing this in an art gallery, it makes me question whether the art is the idea....or if we are the subject ourselves. To switch the frames is an interesting thing. Art is stagnant, the viewer gives it meaning......and can a photographer give the viewer meaning.

I guess that is with everything, switch views, see something new.

I took this last week...haven't posted it anywhere, because I'm not sure if I love it or hate it. It gives me an uneasy feeling, something incomplete, something I may have been able to frame better. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

Chess

                           

Rooks, 2010

Anticipating the outcome is key in anything you do....but, do you always get the expected. Knowing someones next movement can really make or break a photo. I love this theory because I think it really relates the photograph to life. It will always hold an underlying story.....but you attempt to to detect the factors and figure out its compliments.

What do we look for in a photograph to give it meaning to us. An emotion, action, clarity? Does a photograph really tell us the truth, or do you need to zoom out a bit to see the bigger picture.

Attached are some photos that I actually enjoy. I think that these everyday shots can tell us more than the glorified ones. I was trying to anticipate the persons next move, and ....instead of the fat man sitting, you'll see that everything changed....and, maybe for the better.

Kings, 2010

Bishop, 2010

Tactics, 2010

Play, 2010

Pawns, 2010

Queen, 2010

Zoe Keating

My photo of the day, last night @ SFMOMA. She was really great to photograph.

Zoe Keating, 2010

Consider this....

Ed Kashi has a great blog, and I think that it is great for everyone to read. This recent one made me think, about my ideas of the photo, etc. I recommend you look at these writings, and work.

http://www.edkashi.com/blog/2010/01/lexicon-of-photograph-pt-i.html

Capsule

Time is an interesting thing, and how do you document it. These are 3 shots in 10 seconds of today... our accepted outcome, the normality.  Maybe we should start to see things in black and white, and if not.....do we really stop to see the colors.

Yellow,2010

Maroon, 2010

Blue, 2010

The Good in the Bad

Toys, 2009

Cameras .....like everything else, we have so much to choose from. I just got a beautiful Nikon SLR, but....I still seem to continuously reach for my point and shoot at night....I guess it's more fun than anything else. You really get some nice disappointing images. Taken with no flash, you get an impressionistic quality....which can play both good and bad. As I take a second look, and question its blankness.... it makes me think, is it nothing? These are randoms...... and for me, they turned out to be my little something.

Family, 2009

Game Day, 2009

Dance, 2010

Mug Shots

Waves, 2009

I was looking through photos tonight and came across these....to be honest, Im not sure whether I love them or hate them. I could see them on coffee mugs, or in a Kinkade Gallery.

What they do teach me is about composition and lighting..... Looking for the values that surround us. ..... they are moments, a dream scape, something not tangible unless you are present. I titled them to make you think....what is it you are looking at. Is it a feeling, an emotion, an object or just a space. Landscapes have that effect, without the suggestion of a person, it lets you create your own world and place your own meaning on the surface.

Ice Cream,  2009

Rollercoaster, 2009

Features

The definition of a silhouette is the view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black.

I find the usage of silhouettes interesting as subject matter. Does it really suggest a featureless interior, or does the outline determine the whole. It emphasises the action, the movement, and makes the viewer change focus to the mass instead of its parts. I question whether it dehumanizes the subject, or creates a weight more than once was.