It's been a while!

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Free Time

Mustache

Items on my Christmas list:

Currently Obsessed:

With these three songs:

Up, Up, and Away- Kid Cudi

We Used To Wait- Arcade Fire

Stay Over- The Rescues

Listen to them, soon you will be addicted. Especially Up Up and Away. SO GOOD! So anyway, photography. I just have some random edits at the moment, merely for fun:

  

Kite

Halloween

Me and my friends on Halloween!

"Portraits"

This weeks assignment: Portraits of someone close to you, however, they can not be in the photo. Basically, I took photos of things that are meaningful to my friend Mary, remind me of her, or define her. There's only a few photos but you can really sense her personality through them.

The Guiltiest One

A while ago, you may have read my post about Cindy Sherman, a female photographer known for her self portraits as different characters. Our assignment was to choose one of her photos, describe it, and then create a series of photos reflecting the adjectives we used to describe the original photos. The words we used were:
-Shadows
-Dark
-Hint of color
-Depressing
-Guilt

Beneath each photo is the name of who took the photo, however we all edited them together. Here is our series, named: The Guiltiest One

Taken by Kaitlin Abrams

Taken by Kaitlin Abrams

Taken by Tiffany

Taken by Emily Kalish

Taken by Emily Kalish

Taken by Kaitlin Abrams

Apples

I'm sorry I haven't posted in  a while! I've been busy....

So, I went apple picking. It was fun. Here are the pictures.

I have to admit, I more enjoyed taking pictures of my little cousin!

Lifeline

Child's Play

Long Exposure

Fading

Hiding From Myself

Surnaturel.

Garry Winogrand was a photographer who lived from 1928-1984. He took pictures of the "oddity" and "unusual" post war America. Something interesting you can notice in his photography is his use of the horizon line. It seems to be tilting in many of his photos, and that gives the veiwer the sense that something is off. In most of his photos, the setting is normal, in fact mostly everything about the picture is normal, EXCEPT for one small thing. Here are some examples:

 

Another important aspect of his photography is the presence of motion. He seems to always capture the picture as someone is moving, or at least not posing. You get the sense, when you look at his photos that no one even noticed he had a camera. That the weird just happened and no one thought anything of it. He once said:

“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.”

He didn't plan what he was going to photograph, he just let it happen. And so I was inspired to try his method. My pictures show some slight oddity in the midst of Washington Square as I tried to imitate the works of Garry Winogrand.

To see the full album go to kadoodles.myphotoalbum.com