Natural Light

Natural light.. woops a little late! I took these photos without any artificial light using only the sun, a white board, and snow for these. These were taken to represent the person in them. These are of my girlfriend Alix. She plays way too many video games and is often very grumpy. These photos display these emotions very well!

Photo Final

I tried to get on Nick Wall’s website but his coding is all messed up and you can get to the first page but no other pages. All the work I can find of him is on his movie stills style. I’ve shown you his work before (The High School kids and all of his nature work).

I followed his style only in the method of “My View” Where he traveled the world I traveled Gloucester. I followed routes I would take in my car everyday or photograph things that would capture my eye while walking. He uses vibrant colors as well so I followed that method.
These photos were taken ranging in places from Gloucester's boulevard where I go to school everyday to lanesville where some of my friends live. Even the backshore where I took my first joyride in my car.

The whole idea of his My View is those photos that you take that you want to show the world. You're traveling and you have all this fancy equipment and even though you only get to take photos of celebrities because that's what you're known for. He took photos of his travels to remember them and to show people his path through life and that's what I followed.

The water photo is a combination of 7 photos of me holding my shutter down and taking 7 rapid photos, one after the other. I then combined them and turned the opacity down. 

Composition Photos

For a final project we had to find 5 aspects of composition. I think one of my major downfalls is I'm very bad with time constraints and being limited to only one block to do all this I was rushing. I went all over my school looking and there isn't much difference in the appearance of the different halls. I also wish I had some sort of tripod to help me throughout this.

My first photo was filling the frame, I tried my best to get this photo to be fully inside the frame but it seemed like the best way to do it would be to make the cabinet itself a frame around the fire extinguisher. This created a frame within a frame. My 2nd photo was "frame." I found this to be a frame because the boxiness of the photo draws the eyes right to the light through the windows. I wish I could have made it less warped or fisheye-y. My 3rd photo was leading lines, one of my favorite photos. Like Mrs. Underwood, my photo teacher, said it's got a really different perspective. When you're walking in a hall it all seems normal, but when you get down low it seems to stretch on forever. My 4th photo was "patterns." The periodic table in the photo creates a nice parallel grid with the one red element making a nice break in the pattern. My 5th photo was "rule of thirds." This was done so by having a nice pattern broken by the rail running right along the bottom 1/3rd of the photo and shooting right through the middle. I wish I had taken more time to "flatten out" the pictures instead of having a lot of curved lines.

Near and Far Assignment

I was a little behind on this assignment because I couldn't seem to find a 3rd photo I truly loved and on Friday it was terribly foggy and there was nothing to see in the distance. The first photo I did was near rocky neck, I wish I could have gotten more parallel lines with the fencing but the straight but diagonal lines with the parallel background was more important to me. In the 2nd photo this was again on rocky neck but I wish I could have gotten more definition on the inside portion of the wall. I really love the contrast the darkness created though. The third photo I did was on the backshore, using the small brush and long beach landscape it almost created a 4 section photo which I loved. The brush in front, then the rocks and sand, then water, then sky. The brush reached through all of these which is what made it one of my favorite photos.

20 Books of Photography

Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Author: Sean Callahan
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Title: Margaret Bourke-White
Photo: Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio; I loved the way this photo looked painted in a way.

Photographer: Robert Capa
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Robert Capa
Photo: U.S. Forces en route to Naples, September 1943; The complexity of everything in the photo mixed with the simple line of soldiers was really interesting to see.

Photographer: Weegee
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Weegee
Photo: Party 1947; It's hilarious because I have no clue what's going on in the photo.

 Photographer: Edward Weston
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Edward Weston
Photo: Succulent, 1930; I loved the intricacy of the light and shadow in this photo

Photographer: Ansel Adams
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Title: Ansel Adams in Color
Photo: Wainiha Bay, North Shore of the Island of Kauaii, Hawaii; I literally can't get enough of Ansel Adam's photography.

Photographer: Alfred Steiglitz
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Alfred Steiglitz
Photo: Charles Demuth, 1915; This photo made me feel almost uneasy.

Photographer: August Sader
Publisher: Aperture
Title: August Sader
Photo: Prizewinners Westerwald, 1927; It's an interesting photo bit his whole series of different job photos is what drew me in.

Photographer: Eikoh Hosoe
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Eikoh Hosoe
Photo: Kamaitachi #8, 1965; The lines in this photo are beautiful and it also draws you to the guy wondering what he's doing.

Photographer: Paul Strand
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Paul Strand
Photo: Tir a'Mburain, South Vis, The Brides, 1954; I love the contrast in this photo.

Photographer: Harry Callahan
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Harry Callahan
Photo: Chicago, 1953; I love the symmetry in this photo.

Photographer: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Photo: Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934; Honestly made me do a double take when scrolling through the photos. Extremely poignant and uncensored to the brutality of the real world.

Photographer: Robert Frank
Author: Jack Krovac
Publisher: Steidl
Title: The Americans
Photo: Crosses at Scene of Highway Accident, U.S. 91, Idaho; Just incredibly sad and almost a dreamy, depressing, nostalgic feeling. You get the feeling that a lot of pain and sadness happened here and now it sits there waiting for people to notice it.

Photographer: Man Ray
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Man Ray
Photo: Flowers, 1931; It almost looks fake or painted and give off a very drawn/painted art feel with a photograph.

Photographer: Lewis Hine
Author: Dover Publications
Title: Men at Work
Photo: The Mooring Mast, Men at Work; It shows America in a simpler time. It showed how there werent safety nets or anything, you just got up and did your job.

Photographer: Imogen Cunningham
Author: Richard Lorenz
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Title: Ideas Without End
Photo: On Mount Rainier, 1912; The flowery lines are nearly mesmerizing.

Photographer: Andre Kertesz
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Andre Kertesz
Photo: Rainy Day, Tokyo, 1968; It's nearly a metaphor for conformism.

Photographer: Josiah Johnson Hanes
Author: Rachel Hanes
Publisher: Barre Publishers
Title: Josiah Johnson Hanes
Photo: Philips Street School, ~1860; I liked this photo because that's where the Boston Public Library is now and I've been there.

Photographer: Tina Modotti
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Tina Modotti
Photo: German Youth Group; To think they started out so young, it was a powerful statement to Germany's power and how young people started to see nationalism.

Photographer: Jerry Uelsmann
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Title: Other Realities
Photo: Memories of Max Ernst; Just.. what?

Photographer: Jacob Riis
Author: Richard Locayo & George Russell
Publisher: TIME
Title: Eyewitness
Photo: Street Arabs at Night, 1889; This photo was so emotionally striking at first and then you get drawn into the details on their faces and it's nearly heartbreaking.

Hand Held

I thought the movie Hand Held showed an important view into another world's problems. There are a lot of other movies that do this but it's not common to find one that is strictly a person's view and story as they experience it. Too commonly is the information strictly factual. Through the story you get his home life, his emotions, and his confusion as to being a person in charge of reporting a whole nations depression. It's really moving when you hear his emotional telling of the story.

 Michael is now heading up his own team and working with companies in photography and digital retouching. He just went to the Virgin Islands to take photographs as he reported on his blog here: http://mikecarrollphoto.blogspot.com/

Edit*
The above comment was not actually true. That link was posted off the real Mike Carroll's blog but it's not actually him. It's a different Mike Carroll. His ACTUAL website is here:
http://carrollmj.com/

He's still living in Massachusetts and he's still taking photos and visits Romania annually for his charity. As well as visiting them because that's where he loves to be. He has no planned next photo shoot.






Orphans in Romania

The condition for the children has gotten slightly better since the change in government but it's not anything that makes a true difference. The children are still suffering, people remain helping and donating their time and money and it has become a bigger noticed issue.

Angelo Merendino

American photographer Angelo Merendino took photos of his wife, Jennifer, through every stage she fought with Cancer. It shows a struggle that people don't think about until it happens to them. This was found using Reddit/Imgur and all credit goes to him as these are his photos. The photo album listed below is the photos set in order without any extra photos he added later. His website shows all of their photos, including ones not involved in this 'set' so to speak. The website also talks about their relationship in full, telling their whole story.

The photo album:
http://imgur.com/a/Po7i1/layout/horizontal#0

The link to his website:
http://mywifesfightwithbreastcancer.com/