Saturday, March 13, 2010

THE WELL LOVED ONES
I found these old dolls at a flea market. I thought they'd make good photo models. I also used these girls in Project 2 for photography class.




Portraits
Portraits for Project 2 in my photography class.



Sunday, March 07, 2010

THE TORN SKY
Here's a photo for Project 2 in my Photography class. Project 2 requirements are for blurred action shots, stop action shots, shallow and greater depth of field shots. This is one of my blurred action shots. It is the most technical of the requirements.

Yay me! Because I overcame some obstacles for this photo. I actually got some light and shadow in this photo, and I shot it outdoors, which I'd resigned myself to having to likely shoot indoors, which we are not supposed to per class requirements. My teacher had told me I'd probably have to though, and gave me permission to do so. BUT I took advantage of a cloudy day, and put a luminous object in there to catch some light.

I like this photo a lot due to the technical aspects involved; the most technical actually being figuring out the darned tripod required in order to use the optimal low shutter speed needed to shoot the blurred action...heeheehee ;-)

Saturday, March 06, 2010

THE WAY OF WU WEI IS A WINNER
This four page magazine spread that I did for my Porfolio class was chosen by the Art department faculty at my college for entry into the State Community College Competitive Art Exhibition this year. I am so pleased that it took first place in the Graphic Art category at the competition! I am even more pleased with this win because the competition was judged this year by a graphic arts person, which lets me know that my graphics work is really strong. Pieces of my fine art work have been sent to this competition for three semesters, and it's hard to win something. There is a lot of talent in our state community and junior colleges. None of my art has ever taken even a ribbon. Finally I took a major prize, which has a small monetary award, but the prestige is really a huge deal. Yippee!!