PS!

The class blog already discusses a little bit about Walter Crumb, and I seemingly did not put two and two together, that he was also the curator of the Poland exhibit in Boston!

Weekend Photos!

This weekend I worked on my first project using a real camera! Our two assignments were to show movement, or lack of, as well as depth of field. I went to my hometown in Marshfield, MA for some great pictures. I originally wanted to focus on the farm and my horses for my pictures of movement, but decided to drive around on Saturday afternoon and find different inspiration. I went to the ocean in Duxbury MA, my favorite spot on the South Shore: the Powder Point Bridge. Because it was such a fabulous day many people were out driving around, biking, fishing, jogging and swimming at the ocean side. I took a few great photographs of an old woman driving around her old blue convert able. A car that looked like it must be from the '60s. She had a wicker hat on, and I got some shots of her driving her car along the ocean side. I hope they come out because I was really excited about them. I took them for a few of my motion subjects. I also took a few of my horses running around the paddocks at my house.

I hope that my photos came out okay. It takes practice getting used to using the aperture and the shutter speeds. I got them confused sometimes, and also tried not to get really technical. I got a few great shots of a really old man working his cranberry bogs down the street from my ho use. I tried to use depth of field in these photographs, but I'm unsure if it worked. I can't wait to develop them and see what came out, although I am really nervous that they will be blurry and dark! Tonight I will finally find out!

Walter Crump

I love the colors in this photograph with the city skyline and the city lights. The blur makes it even more beautiful and unique.

Subway: I love this one because of the dipping in from side to side. When I look at it, my eye is drawn to the middle because of the way the sides curve . It is just such a cool angle.

I was at home for the day today and a woman who boards her horse at my farm was interested in what I have been working on in my photography class. She is an artist in the Boston area. She has a loft in the city where she paints, I believe mostly for a hobby, but she follows art very closely. When I told her I was working on pinhole cameras she told me about a man she knows, Walter Crump, who only takes pinhole photos! I couldn't believe that someone would have the patience for it, but I looked him up on google and I found some really great pictures. He makes pinholes of all different sizes, from all different objects. I am going to try to attach some of his links on here, as well as some fun pictures.

I went to the darkroom Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to develop my pinhole photographs. I had some trouble developing some of my photographs because the contrasts were coming out blurry. Originally, my pinhole camera was not working right because light was coming in through the top that I had not accounted for. I taped up the entire camera, of which I designed from a crystal light container, and found that I had more luck with my photographs. Originally when I was working with my camera that was allowing in too much light, I barely had to expose the hole in my camera for any time at all. I exposed it for only a minute and a half and it was pretty black. But after I taped up the top I had an easier time and I was able to expose my paper to light for 3-4 minutes. My photographs came out a little funny, with white completely around the edges and the image only in the center. I adjusted my pinhole and I was able to get an actual photograph that covered the entire paper. This one came out particularly light when I made my positive. My photograph that expressed motion came out really well. I sat in a chair for two minutes and stood for another three, and ghosting was completely visable. The outline of my oxford shirt showed up well, and a blur from my movement from the chair to the standing position. The lighting on this photgraph came out well too. In class we critiqued the different photographs that were taken from pinholes, and many of my classmates photographs came out beautifully.

This is a photograph of my horse Sabrina. It is not that fabulous, but I will find better ones of her, and the other horses at my farm. She is very fat in this picture because she had just had a few months off following an in injury.

I went to the show on Thursday. The photographs were beautiful but they were disturbing, with the bodies through out the photographs. I loved the photograph of the black lab with the man in the background. I liked the contrast of the black on the red. My other favorite was the photograph of the waterfall with the body to the left of it. I didn't even notice the body until I looked closer at the photograph. I thought it was very effective. I was disturbed by the photograph but I liked the statement. It expressed to me that in the beauty of quiet and tranquil places, such as the waterfall in a small Massachusetts town, there can be unrest. It brought back memories of the novel Lovely Bones, which I liked very much.