My practice drastically changed once going into quarantine. I found it very difficult to have any motivation once being home all the time. This is especially because I was mainly photographing people. I was no longer able to photograph people in the same way, and ended up mainly photographing my brother in different metroparks in the Toledo area. This proved to be a challenge as I could no longer shoot on film either, and my dslr stopped working a week into quarantine. This led to most of my photos being phone pics. With these limitations I tried to play off of weird projects I already had been doing. My photos for mom series are literal phone pictures I have always taken for my mom of my brother and I doing weird things in parks. This also drew off of my idea to make eye-spy type pictures of my brother and I hiding in the trees. The last of my film photos are also stuck as edited TIFFs. I was unable to download photoshop as my laptop has no storage, and the files were too big for...
Sam, these images are really cool. I remember in one of our critiques a while ago, the class talked about a photographer who's images were just as much about the darkness of the image as they were about the light within the image, and this first photograph of yours makes me think of that due to the low light you captured. It might be cool if you keep exploring large environments like this at this time of day, where there's a balance between natural light and everything in shadow. It's really interesting to see the silhouettes of these structures clashing with the soft color of the sky. I especially like the second image. My eye is drawn from the storm drain all the way back to the repeated forms of the dumpsters. There's a lot of tight repetition balanced with breathing room in this photograph, I think it was really well spotted!
ReplyDeleteI would love to see more images like these! I know in class you said you mainly focus with cinematography-like images, and that this is a little bit different. Creating more images like the top two would be interesting to do, as it is nice to see the contrast and small details presented.
ReplyDeleteI love the first two shots at sunset! the lighting really makes the features like the smoke and the clock tower pop! I also really like how you don't see the features of the building but its just outlined.
ReplyDeleteSam, I like that you have the clock tower right tin the middle of the smoke stack. I remember you mentioning that earlier this semester. I also am enjoying the soft sunset behind the buildings. It gives a soft evening vibe to the whole photograph.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see you photograph Bowling Green Sam! We all seem to shy away from it because we see these sites day in and day out, but you found moments here worth capturing. I enjoy how you've placed structures that we can see when on the ground here in BG with others that can be seen from miles away, and they don't give away that they were taken in Bowling Green. Nice job!
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