photo-a-day 2 3/20

Depth through simple framing of the subject and near parallel lines.  A nice bright sunny day helped darken the fence top in the foreground as not to distract too much from the other two figures.  The balance is still leaning towards the fence in depth of shadow, but the parallel lines help the eye follow the crane to the building.  There are also a couple of axis approached in the overal composition, lending to a more subtle rhythm.

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photo-a-day 2 2/20

Here my intentions were to capture rhythm, form and texture, all the while trying to make something small and insignificant look bigger.  This is brick work surrounding a window in Portland, with the bricks an average size.  The angle was particularly difficult and there was a series of shots taken until I felt I had the right one which is a rare occurrence for me.  I particularly like the pock marks and water stains these bricks have, as well as their drab color.  They remind me of some totalitarian eastern European modern sculpture.

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photo-a-day 2 1/20

This is construction of a downtown Portland building.  I beleive they are trying to remodel on an old building frame, which seems to be the thing to do around here.  As to what purpose these metal additions are to serve is beyond me at the moment, as the site is far from done.  What piqued my interest was the rhythm that they created.  They become a confusing mess and play an optical illusion on the eye as to which ones are attached horizontally, and which are attached vertically.  The lack of balance moves the focus from one side to the oher, with the white negative space (the sky was bright and cloudless) offering a reprieve from the chaotic rhythm of the structures new additions.  The building itself has considerate amount of natural rhtyhm one would expect from a downtown high rise, but this nearly lost underneath the main focus of the piece.  I've noticed this can happen when layering drums (or other instruments) in a song.  Certain frequencies of bass and mid range tones can cancel the other out if there is too much sustain/not enough decay on the guilty party.

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photo-a-day 2 prints

This next photo-a-day challenge will allow you to purchase limited to 5 per photo prints from me.  Each print will 11x14 inches (or the other way around depending on orientation), hand numbered and ship to your location in the US for only $45.00.  (The rest of the world will be charged a little more for shipping cost.) 

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Skool Werk: Concept Development

Our final project for concept development was to take out first assignment, a hero/villain calling card and turn it into a movie poster.  I came up with this series of posters:

The color choices were made from the original calling card piece, except for the red, which was added as a story element for the movie.  The spiral text was inspired by a bird's eye view of a spiral staircase and I chose to present it this way to illustrate the decent of madness that the story is about.  The gear elements are also from the original calling card piece, and go with the automated part of the title.

Underscoring feelings through imagery...

For concept development last week we were to take a photo that underscores a feeling.  I took this of two people holding hands and  left it abstract so the viewer could easily identify with the scene.  I made sure this was done in a dim lit room partially under the table, as to add warmth.  I was attempting to provoke friendship and feel that I was quite successful in this regard.

Next we had to take it down to a pure black and white image or graphic reduction without any gray scale and re-crop or reshoot if necessary, to see if it was easier to read as the original intention.  I didn't feel that either reshooting or changing the cropping I had originally done was necessary as when I presented the first image to class everyone got it.  As for the reduction losing its color and retaining the value, I do feel it has lost a little of the warmth, but the over all feeling prevails.  It reminds me of an 80's single cover, and if I were to do a duet with the other model this might be a good choice for a graphic cover.

Skool Finals

So I jumped the gun on the promotional piece I did earlier in image manipulation, or it was just practice for the final project that the teacher is requiring us to complete for this week, a CD cover:

I wanted to reflect my style within 30 seconds, so I chose high graphic, illustrated looking pieces.  I topped it off with dirty graphics and street style typography, and a color pallet that I use very often in my personal work.  The graphic sunburst on top of the images adds a bit of movement with nice angularity, pushing in and out, and a circular motion subconsciously invoking forward thinking in the viewer.

The current final I am working on now, for concept development, involves a logo design and an ad campaign.  The add will be finished by tomorrow, and posted as soon as possible, but the logo that was due a couple of weeks back (sorry I haven't posted this til now, but I traveling and taking 300 plus photos in Detroit got in the way) is finished:

This is for a small time record store that caters to the non-corporate working class American.  I chose the iconic record symbol of a 45 adapter, used a dirty broken type to give a that working class feel as well as a wax sensation, and a bright construction work yellow to further emphasize the working class subtext that I am pushing and doubling as the color that most 45 adapters are molded in.