Work in Progress

My final project is going to be a commentary on the thought of someones "dream car" and the reality of how much time and money it involves. Everyone wants a dream car, built to their specs and with the colors and style they want. They all think that as long as they have enough money or the drive, they can built it with no issues. They are wrong though because there is hours, day, weeks, and months involved in building a car.
I will be posting my car, how it come off the lot, next to a series of other photos. The other photos will be objects that I would put onto my car to make it the way I dream it as. I will put the photos of the bodykit, rims, exhaust, paint, engine, and other mods next to my original car. I will post the prices of each item and the time involved in the setup of the parts.
I would love to know what you all think of my idea/ what needs improvement.

A Comentary on Video Game Warfare

Loading screen.. Basically the same as waiting to get deployed

How the game shows night vision

How the game show infrared goggles

Two people dead

Same person dead. Same person as previous photo, just different retry

Failure menu

Dropping into the hot zone from a chopper

Setting a breaching charge

A man surrendering, but still killed

 

 

 

 

Massacre 

 

 

This fictional project was especially close to my heart because it has to do with the military. I took pictures of game play and cinematic from two different  games. The first game is Rainbow Six 3 and the next is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I took these specific photos simply because i wanted to do a commentary on what REAL warfare is like, compared to what the game designers portray it as.
  To make this project, I took photos of myself playing the same level over and over. I used manual mode on my camera, and that was especially difficult due to the fact that the lighting on the video game was constantly changing. For the other game, i watched a cinematic from a level in Modern Warfare 2. I  this one, i wanted to try and get photos of things that a very close friend of mine has personally experienced in combat.
  I decided to take photos of a copyrighted game because i wanted to show people that no matter what a game may say or do, it is nothing close to real warfare. I have talked to a close friend of mine and i have talked to him about warfare itself. What it is, what it is like, and how it affects someone. He told me straight up that no video game will EVER be able to show what real warfare is like. He said that there are some missions and such that are portrayed the same as it may have really happened, but it can never do it justice. He told me that the dropping from a chopper (shown in a picture above) is very similar, but it is a very dangerous procedure. Also, an obvious difference is, there is no "retry". If you fail a mission in real life, you are either killed or you are fired. You also only have ONE life in real warfare. So, i want to get across that Call of Duty and Rainbow Six will never be able to show what REAL warfare is. Warfare is truly hell and it is no joke. Anyone can play a video game about warfare, but it takes a certain type of person to be able to live and fight warfare in real life. 

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?

Assignment #2 Pics

Frame

 

Vantage Point

Detail

Fast Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

Hand Held Night Photography

Night Photography with Tripod

Depth of Field aperture 8.0

Depth of Field aperture 2.8

The Thing Itself

Flash

Assignment 1 Photograph

My Boy Aidan Posing for a Photo Shoot

Aidan's Mini Waterfall