Photo Style

I have been browsing flickr while I have been in class... It really depresses me. I feel like at this age I should be so much better at photography than I am. I am still searching for my style, and I still feel like a stupid photo student who is just doing sub par work. My stuff is getting better, but it has yet to go past the level of amateur student. I need to find my voice, and stop comparing myself to others. Everytime I look at others work, I just feel discouraged, especially some of my peers work. Not so much in my classes, but Melissa and Kassia, they are so talented and don't really have any formal training. I need to start seeing better... I just don't know how...

Work In Progress

These are my tentative final shots for my interpretive portraits.

Richard Avedon

Irving Penn

I GOT IN TO THE NATION GEOGRAPHIC DAILY DOZEN!!!!!!! ONE OF THE ACTUAL PHOTO EDITORS AT NATGEO LOOKED AT MY WORK AND OUT OF ALL THE PHOTOS THTA SHE SAW YESTERDAY MINE WAS IN THE TOP 12!!!!1
LINK

heres a screen shot of it on the home page!

Printing Notes

.Calibrate in this lab, not print lab
.Test Print: small strips same size and resolution

File Size Copying
. duplicate: Apple F4
.keep last four digits of your copy the same as the original print name to make it easier to find
.Resolution should stay the same

.8 chain the width and height together so they increase or decrease in proportion
.Dicubic to smooth when colors


Printing
.clean nozzles before you print
.Epson Printer Utility--> Nozzle Check
.do not use auto and no power clean heads!
.use regular white printer paper to clean heads
.gamma 2.2, native white point to test printing

When Printing your Images
.copy on to desktop to allow printing to go faster
.double check printing orientation




.Let printer manage color
.Render Intent: Perceptual
. X black point compensation
.Check the printer is correct
. 1 copy
.X center image
.X Show bounding box (if not seen, size or orientation is not correct)


Page Setup



.Manage Custom Sizes---> click + than title your custom size.
. Make sure all printer margins are the same





Click out of Printer Menu

Go to VIEW at the top of the screen
View---> proof set up---> custom---> select paper (400 premium luster)
.X simulate paper color, gives you an idea what your print will look like

Print Settings:
.advanced: 720dpi


Tips!
.do not save as JPeG
.save as tiff no compression
.for web sending Apple F4 to make copy, set resolution at 72 and go back to 8 bit color
.if the print has too much of one color in it, dial up the opposite color to counteract that.

Printing Tips
.print emulsion side down



HW: 1 print for Thursday, write out all the printings steps that you did.

Paper

My first image I is blurred representation. It suppose to feel fantasy like and mysterious. He is a representation of the inner spirit, a Puck almost. I want to show the physical representation of the inner voice and spirit. I do this by not making my subject in focus, and showing him in motion, giving a feeling of not being real.
In this photograph, I wanted to show him in a modern setting being more concrete, but still looking like he is out of place in this setting. Here he peers over the house as if a gargoyle looking down. He is a fantasy character, but now in a realistic setting. The scenery is eery, to emphasize his sort of wild nature and make him seem more mysterious.
This is another close, but much more intense. He look on guard and wary, showing that intensity in his eyes. The flora in his hair stand up like porcupine spikes and he seems on the defensive. The dark lighting does not let the eye see everything on purpose to leave interpretation to the imagination. The lighting also allows the photograph more intensity to enhance his expression.
This photograph is more relaxed, but still showing this character in a fantastical way. He is sleeping on the branch in front of a house. He is in a real setting but he still seems a combination of unnatural and concrete. The spot light is on him, as if he has been caught by an onlooker, but not awakened.
The last photo displays his in a smokey haze. This is the most unclear out of all the photos. It is intentionally so, and it boosts the level mystery. This photo is a close up so his emotion and face feel very real but the setting feels very unrealistic. I picture him or her as a wild child, sort of Puck like, from a Midsummer Nights Dream, mischievous and not refined as a contrast to our very refined actual appearance and actions.