Final Project Rough Draft (Levitation Yoga)

This is what the final would look like, and all the ones below would eventually look like this. 

Final Project Proposal

                Since the beginning of this semester I have wanted to do something with levitation photography for my final project, and I have had several different ideas for ways to do this. First I just wanted to find someone to go out into the Bosque and do a “fairy like” shoot where my model was dressed in mythical clothing and was just floating through the air like a fairy would. But then I decided that would be too stereotypical, so next I thought it would be funny to try and mix levitation with everyday situations, for example, someone sleeping in their bed, and then waking up and realizing they are levitating. But I’m not really sure I could come up with very many ideas like that for them to come across how I want them to. So as of right now, I think it would be cool to take pictures of someone in different yoga poses, but levitating while in the poses, because yoga is supposed to make you feel lighter than air. The studio where I do yoga has some cool mirrors that if I do it right; I think these photos could come out being really cool.

                I just like this idea because I love the idea of trick photography and having people not knowing how the picture visually makes sense. This is my idea as of right now, but as you know that can and probably will change several more times before I come to a final decision. 

The Many Faces of Haley (Stop Motion)

Photo Distruction

Matthew Brandt

This is a photograph by Matthew Brandt. Just by looking at this photograph is it very hard to tell what his technique was to getting his pictures to look like this, it really makes you think of all the possibilities there are to what you can do to a photograph. If I researched it right, and understood correctly, he actually developed this series of pictures in the water instead of in a dark room, and that is how he got his pictures to look like this. After seeing his work, it makes me want to start trying anything and everything to my pictures and see what I can come up with, who knows, maybe I could even come up with something that no one ever would have thought of! How cool would that be? 

Stop Motion

Here is a stop motion project I did in my Senior film class. Super cheesy, don't make fun. :)

And here is something I found on youtube, it is kind of along the lines of something I was wanting to try. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRsr6JE3To

Bernd and Hilla Becher

The reason I chose this photo is because I thought it related closer to the project we are doing more than any of the other artists photos did. This is a photograph of a barn (or that is what it looks like at least) but it is photographed from every side of the farm. This would have been an interesting take on the photograph we had to do of what the building was like in the present day. I almost wish I would have looked at this before I shot my final piece.