New and Old Friends

My idea on this project was to take photos of some of my best friends, but take the majority of the pictures when they weren't looking. This worked for some photos but most of the time they realized that i was taking a photo, so they posed.
My original idea was to surprise people with a photo, but that did not work very well. I did not really organize these photos to create a message because i feel that photographs are whatever someone takes them as. To me, i can represent a photo as one thing and someone else could see it as completely different. That being said, i would much rather leave them alone and let people view it for what it is worth to them.
I created these images by using the Auto mode on my camera. I did not want to use manual mode because i felt that if i had to take the time to get a proper exposure, then they would catch on a lot faster and my project would not have come out as good.

Assignment 3

Me and my dad's workspace

True Story

Corner O' Tools

My Paint Gun

My Baby

The theme of this project was my garage. I chose this place because i spend a lot of time in here, either working on my car and bike, or just when I'm mad and just want to get away. A garage, to me, is the only place in the house where a man can make it look however he wants and not have listen to his wife/ girlfriend about cleaning and what not. The garage is a man's getaway and it's not suppose to be clean or presentable. The garage is where a man can get dirty and greasy and not have to worry about staining something.
My pictures for this assignment have digital noise in them. I made them like that on purpose because they look dirty and imperfect. Just like a garage, my pictures do not have any depth or other meaning, there are exactly what they look like.
I chose these five specific pictures simple because they define my garage. Ever single picture that you see here showcases me and my dad's garage. All of the pictures do not necessarily tie together or correlate with each other, they are just the main things that make up the garage, except for the paint gun. I put the paint gun in here because I've always loved cars and my dream is to one day build a car. The paint gun was my dad's but he recently gave it to me and soon he is going to teach me how to paint a car.
I did not do barely any editing except for histogram and i cropped one picture. My reasoning behind that is that a garage is whatever it looks like. There are no bells and whistles, there is nothing special, whatever you see is what it is.

Old News Interpretation

My favorite piece of this whole show was the piece titled "Puget Sticks". This piece was a picture of two Marine recruits at Parris Island learning how to fight with the Puget Sticks. This piece was made on a silver gelatin and was displayed in a frame. The picture was not very big but it was the perfect size for this piece. The subject matter of the Marines was presented in a good way. The Marines are known as hard and strong, and this picture showed strength and hardness.

During my interpretation i began to see myself in the picture. I began to see myself at basic. This picture is about how tough the Marine Corps really is and it represents a brotherhood and a bonding moment. This interpretation and choice of photo was very easy for me because the US Marine Corps is my dream. I loved the whole concept of the picture. With the DI and the recruits and just the whole photograph made me happy. I would really like to give Jeff Sprang some props!

Questions for Jeff
How close did you actually get to the match to take that picture?
What made you want to go to Parris Island and take that picture?
What were you trying to express with that picture?