works in progress assignment 6

1. Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside? A negative thought I have is having blurry photos. I'm going to make an effort to use a tripod. Or use a zooming technique to create an interesting blurry photograph.
2. What is the “opposite” of your final project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”? The opposite of my project would be unfashionable or everyday fashions. It's also about a collection. So the opposite of a collection would be things that don't make sense together.
3. What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project? The theme is a simple classic back ground, a beauty fantasy, and fashionable clothing. A complicated background, un-madeup model, and clothing with out a model or unfashinoable clothing is the opposite of this idea.
4. Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project. 1)fantasy (2) white (3) neutrals (4) outside (5) makeup (6) tall (7)angles (8) natural (9) outside (10) man-made (11) day dream (12) narrative (13) elements (14) cute (15) simple (16) quiet (17) whimsical (18)vintage (19) plain (20) damp
5. At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep! It's something I'm passionate about. I could take photos of things like this all day everyday. It's something I've been interested in since a young age.
6. Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project? I would buy all new clothing items for the shoot , use different lenses, and have multiple models.
7. Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form? The simplest project would be simple clothes, hair, make up, and background.
8. Look at one of your images. Redesign it entirely. The image above... I would have my model laying on the grass. I would be on top of the building shooting from a birds eye view. Clear.
9. Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind. Three components: fantasy, beauty & fashion.
10. List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these. Assumptions I have is shooting will go smoothly. I will be inspired by the environment and the model and clothes. To reverse these I will have ideal images in my head before.
11. What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future? 100 years ago, a lot less skin would be shown. Photos would be in black and white. Clothes would contain lots of layers, simple hats. 100 years from now fashion would be edgier. Metalic makeup.
12. Remove something from your project. How does it change? I would remove the fashion from my project. It could be nude shots.
13. Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed. This project is a combination of all my talents: fashion design and construction, styling, and photography.
    
14. Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks. This is the worst project ever. The photos are blurry, the backgrounds are boring and it's something you see in every fashion magazine.
    
15. Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dreams to your project? One of my most memorable dreams is designing clothes in my head. I would photograph the design process as part of a self portarit series.
    
16. How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project? One way to turn this project into a narrative would to be to capture the design process from the start. Photograph all of the behind the scenes hair and makeup that went into making this photo.
17. How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually?To connect my images physically I could create a collage on a large scale. Conceptually I could print the photos on fabric or project the images on the clothing.
18. What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually? If I were to the projection idea I would project my images onto a white outfit on a dress form. I would tip over the dress form and tear rips in the clothing/ Burn holes in the clothes.
19. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why? Annie Leibovitz would appreciate my project. She does a lot of fantasy fashion photography incorporated with natural light and outdoors. She would also appreciate I made the clothing. Maybe make some of the photos sepia and have the clothing dirty.
20. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why?Juergen Teller would dislike my project. He dosen't like typical fashion photography.
21. How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected? Nudity would make my project more edgy and bold or over the top concept clothing or crazier makeup or projection presentation.

Assignment 5

Octopus

Octopus II

Petals

Elements

Illusions

Commercial

projection

works in progress

Prompt 24

1) Molly Salzbrunn 's lighting is natural and her subjects are simple.

2)Anna Bogusz 's work is cultural, has a strong use of color and incorporates repetition.

3) Marc Olivier Le Blanc 's work is imaginative, has a strong use of color, and you can tell where his inspiration originally came from.

4) Ric Kokotovich's work is interesting to me because he combines two ideas over top of each other. There's also a sense of movement to his work.

5)Chris Spurrell 's use of color and texture really make you want to study his photos.

6)Kelli Pennington's are everyday encounters we face in soft, almost imaginative lighting.

7) John Kane plays with human form and structure.

Blog Prompt #24

A.

This image is from Sandy Skoglund.To recreate this image on a smaller scale, I have an origami book. It would be interesting to create the same origami figure several times with brightly colored paper, and place them in a mono-toned environment.

 This image is from Nic Nicosia. To recreate this image I would use dolls and a twig on fire photographed outside so there would be grass in the background.

B. I really enjoy the repetition on objects and the colors of the Sandy Skoglund image. For my final project I may do something with the photograph I've written about above.