old portfolio concept

So my old portfolio concept came partly from Bianca's non stop graffiti attack. I took the idea and went similiar by photographing blank walls and then putting my own graffiti on it. But because of my school and work schedule, and the horrible weather, it has been impossible to be able to get the shots i want, and the time was shortening. After I finished my post photo editing project I realized that I could not settle on what i wanted to do, and the graffiti project would be even more time consuming. So, I have decided to drop this project, at the worst possible time, and move on and try and blow out a completely different and unrelated project.








here we go.

hit the wall

Im so tired of school. My scheduling for my last year is not working out, and i really dont want to do anymore painting or photos or any other project. I dont care about that anymore. I dont want to paint paintings or go searching for that shot, or picking up a pencil and trying to come up with an idea. I go to school and work and cant get anything done, nor do i want to. This semester is ending soon and its going to be hard since I dont care about anything I have to do.

Alessandro Bavari

Bavari is a surrealistic, horror/fantasy photographer who uses heavy editing and various techniques to create images that are just beyond the scope of my understanding of photography. As soon as I saw one of his images I had to check to see if it actually was a photograph and not a painting. His pictures are dark, disturbing and welcoming. He uses various components like tar glue, bones etc to collage his items to create his images. Then he uses photoshop to pull everything together. I didnt even know anything he does could ever be achieved using photoshop. His work blows me away. I wish I could paint like him, and even conceptually be like him.

Seeing his approach to photography just blows all the preconceptions and definitions I had of photography. I can only think in a linear thought, trying to see what photography will let me do, while Bavari seems to do what he thinks up, and makes the methods he uses work for him. His approach and style is something I could only hope to emulate.

the barbie girls of alex kliszynski

Alex Sandwell Kliszynski is a wedding photographer with an interesting side project.

He takes nude photos and edits them to appear like plastic jointed desexed dolls. This whole series creeps me out. By adding the joints and that awkward way dolls legs join to their pelvis, these images are surreal and bizzare. Why theyre so bizzare to me I dont know. However, this seems to be the artists only gallery of images on the website. I dont know if he is an artist starting down this path, or if this was just something he wanted to do, but I love it. Especially one image, in which the model has he legs seperated slightly from her "pelvis" allowing to see inside the hollow leg joints.

This series is just so surprising and intriguing, I really enjoy it.

Irving Klaw - Pinup photographer

Irving Klaw was one of the pioneer pinup photographers. Im not so interested in his work as I am modern pinup style artists, but since he was the beginning I decided to talk about him. His work is raw, and racey, often pornographic, but he created a concept that many followed in his footsteps. One of his biggest subjects was the famous Betty Page, whom got her stardom from her modeling with Klaw. His images are often gritty looking, and even seedy, as if no one should even be aware of the images. however, He used his style to launch his own mail order photo business selling these pinup shots.

This style is what is the most interesting. Its erotic, yet nostalgic, and has been seen everywhere from the nose of airplanes, to that old wrinkly veteran's arm, inked into his tanned skin. Pin up photography exploded during the time of the war, and many of these images were the posters that every soldier had in their locker. Not only that, it also was used to sell everything from cigarettes to automotives. Klaw started it all. I can only image the opposition that would be around to these images in the late 1930s. This style is still here today. the models change and so does their appearance, but the style lasts.

current work

For my final project and my portfolio i decided to use two ideas i had for the third project. one idea involves taking images of everyday situations and people, and then physically drawing on top of the people or setting characters like monsters or cartoony people. So if i take a picture of a guy pushing a shopping cart, ill draw over the guy to make it look like a creature is doing that. Hopefully that wont prove to be a unneccesarily tough task.

Second idea is taking photos of blank trucks vans walls etc, and then adding graffiti to the objects in a believable way. I took this idea because i saw bianca doing all types of graffiti stuff. So since i like to do graffiti, and am lazy, i can now make miniatures and do them up.

I dont know if im going to leave the photos in color or draw on black and white ones to really put emphasis. that will come later on.

fresh progress

SOOO, posting has not been one of my priorities. First up, we have progress. The second project for impossible imagery went by with moderate difficulty and success. Difficulties included the fact that i needed time and space to set up a tripod in order to keep everything perfect, while running into the shots. So because of that, two problems arose. Bad lighting, because the LCD display on my camera made the images seem brighter than they were, and poor focusing. Due to the fact that the camera has no ground glass lens, focusing became difficult, especially since i couldnt focus on myself at the same time. The auto focus provided blurry images, as well as the manual focused ones. however, once in photoshop, all the images were similar enough to make splicing a breeze, with the handy clone stamp.

as for the next project and portfolio, my ideas keep changing. I originally intended to continue the impossible image series for the portfolio but with the difficulties ive had before I decided against it. As for the third project, I planned on taking portraits and then drawing on them day of the dead style faces, but getting people and suitable lighting is not going to make things work well so I decided against that project as well.