Final Project Artist Critique

Sam Taylor Wood

Sam Taylor Wood has done a lot with levitation photography, this photograph here is so amazing to me, when I first saw it, it blew my mind because the way that I have learned to do levitation photography there is no way that you could accomplish something like this. But while researching her work, I found that she uses a harness with wires attached to the ceiling to get her models to be in the positions they are in. I love that she was able to keep the shadow of the model in the picture because I have found it very hard in the work that I have been doing to keep the shadows looking right, so I usually end up just taking them out of the picture completely. It is funny that the models that she uses usually look like dancers, and my idea was to use a yoga instructor, which they both have very similar body types, long, lean, and muscular, but not too bulky. The one thing that confuses me about her work is how she takes the harness out of the picture, because she has the harness around the models waist, so I just don't really know how she erases that from the image, because I feel like if I tried to do that, I would just erase their whole mid section. 

If I ever have the opportunity to get ahold of some harneses I definitely want to play around with this idea a lot more, because I feel like there are so many things you can do with this kind of photography, I love the idea and I hope to learn more about it. Sam Taylor Wood is a great person to look at to see how to go about doing this. 

Progress Critique

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?