Sad Marta, Distant Nick

this is florence, italy. we are waiting in line to see a sculpture of a naked man. i dont think thats why marta's sad.what were you thinking about, nick?

260 Final

For my final I am working exclusively with out-of-focus shots that are just to express the simple aspects of a photograph, which include color and form. So, I've gotten out to shoot for it once and I got a few images I like so I'm just curious for feedback. Blurry enough? Am I heading in a good direction with them?

ATTN: SENIORS (POSTCARD INFO)

Okay everyone, the box of postcards will be dropped off at Checkout today before noon! ONLY TAKE UP TO 30 CARDS PER PERSON. If you don't have a need for that many, either leave the rest in the box so we can hand them out for advertising, or take them to a local business and ask if you can leave a few on their counter. I was going to divide them all up but I think it will be easier for you all to grab what you need since we all practically live at the VCB. Thanks and have a nice day!

Stepan and Rocket in Butte

photo © Ian van Coller. All Rights Reserved

Calendar

Yo what up my ninjas. I just added a new feature to the trusty MSU Photo Blog. If you let your eye wander on over to the (almost) top right side panel, you will see a calendar. It is linked to the SFP Calendar. I have been trying to post on the regular (lately) about up and coming local events.

Keep and eye on this nifty new feature. Be a part of the community and support the people who will support you. It's important. You need this.

To view events, open the link in a new tab.

I want to post art openings, guest lectures, show deadlines. Anything about artists in Bozeman and MSU. And maybe even the surrounding area.

Also, if there are any events that you would like posted, email me at augustcary at gmail dot com. Or email Cam at cfosterphoto at gmail dot com.

love, Augie

SFP Network Meeting and Guest Lecture

School of Film and Photography meeting tonight in studio B at 6:00.

Followed by a guest lecture in the Procrastinator, given by alum and Bozeman native Brian Van't Hull at 7:00. Should be impressive. He has worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas, done visual effects on all the LOTR movies, Forrest Gump, I Robot, King Kong and last but not least, (Oscar winning effects on) Coraline.

If you are interested in film and visual effects, you should go and be enriched. And show support for the School of Film and Photography and Natural History Film Making. SFPNHFM. Whoa.

Sorry for being such short notice...I'm trying my hardest!

Alright folks which one?

These have not been color corrected, or dusted. Just let me know which composition you prefer and why. Thanks.

- Nicholas H. Weber

Upheaval

Hey, ya!

Applications for Upheaval are due Friday, Nov 20th. That, my fellow students, is this friday. You may submit up to 20 pieces, and it costs ten bucks plus ten percent of sales. Do it! Put some padding in your wallet, or maybe buy some art and put padding in someone else's wallet. Buy a gift.

Remember, we make money not art.

The Upheaval (a revolution of the arts) show/sale is open from Nov 30th until Dec 3rd. Booyah

love, Augie

An invite to Seniors to Pro Practices

I'd like to invite any seniors who may be interested in a career in sports photography to Pro Practices on Wednesday November 18th. Our guest speaker (via skype) is Sam Forencich, who is the team photographer for the NBA Portland Trailblazers. Class runs from 1:10p-3:00p in room 148.

The Postcards are Here!

Hey Seniors!  The senior photo show postcards are here.  There are 34 of us showing and so that gives us each about 30 postcards to send out to friends and family.  Some of us may have more people to send these to than others and if that's the case only take as many as you'll truly need. Should you guys think that we need more postcards then we can always order a few more from instiprints or something.  We should have enough money in the budget to account for that but I think that 1,000 cards is fine.

Wich one?

I'm stuck between these two images for my project for 260

or

or the first rotated (so three i guess)

thanks =]

Whoa.

This video is amazing. I want to be a photographer!! wait a second...

THIS IS 100% UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would someone like to share why I had to discover this today in the advanced lab????? Yes, if you can't tell that is mold and who knows what else is growing all over. It smells worse than it looks. It is one thing to not clean up your advanced lab and leave a mess for everyone else to deal with, but this is OVER THE LINE! It is absolutely inconsiderate but more importantly it is becoming a HEALTH HAZARD!

WHOEVER YOU ARE, GET IN THE LAB AND CLEAR OUT YOUR DISGUSTING CRAP!

Events this week

Whooooo! Art stuff!! Ian, Jace and Megan and Scott are in a show at Capelli's. This Thursday, 6 till 9. Cross the railroad tracks on Rouse, first right and take a right on Bond. I guess there's a bunch of photo stuff and something else going on, but I'm not sure...ask one of those kids or consult the flyers... * In other bozeman-art-world news, the Ceramics Guild Annual Chili Feed is the 17th and 18th (tuesday weds, 11-2) of this month. Buy a wonderful handmade bowl and it will be filled with tasty, zesty chili (vegetarians welcome!!). You can also purchase a handmade metal spoon! Oh, the wonders! Bowls $15, Spoons $5. * Yall better 'spec the poster around for the chili feed. Doodled by yours truly. * Ceramics Guild show at the Exit Gallery, Tuesday the 17th. 5 to 7 pm. Whoo! Come support your art. Refreshments &c. It'll be great! * love, Augie

Nadar Award for Students

Nadar Award for Students

Which Layout?

So I can't really decide which way to go with this cookie layout. Any thoughts? I'm aiming more towards the industrial look rather than the home setting with the tea cup and pot. Just let me know.

"did you have all these dreams?"

the answer is not really...some i did but mostly they're twisted and consciously manipulated interpretations of dreams i had...or my interpretation of others' dreams......maybe THIS is all a dream......anyway, the titles are in comments as usual.

Blueberry Pancakes

And these are my Blueberry Pancake pages. The text has been the hardest part and the layout of the recipe page. Also I was wondering what you guys thought of numbering the pages? I guess I would need to if I have a recipe index but I wasn't sure if I should just number every other page or all pages???

Home Baked Pizza

Here is one recipe layout for my book. This is the recipe that my Mom has baked for us since we were really little. It's delicious and has homemade crust. I highly recommend Pork Sausage and Fresh Mushrooms.

Senior switch?

Hi Seniors. Is anyone in group 2 or 3 able to show early? I have to switch with someone! Please help!

Portraits for my 260 book

Three images shot for my book. It's a book of portraits shot with very narrow depth of field with a strong focus on the eyes.

My Little Helper

Tuscan Sunrise

Luciano, one of the three photogs here in Siena took us to a cool hill about 35km out of Siena where we could watch the sunrise in Tuscany. Max, Chris, Whitney and I had a great time and the sunrise was really amazing. There were some random "modern art" structures just jetting out of the ground, hence the first three pictures. PS sorry for the jpg artifacts, blogger smashed the crap outta 'em.

New Goods Recently Arrived in Photo Checkout

Freshly delivered this morning, photo checkout has received a new 16x20 contact printing frame from Bostick & Sullivan. It's made of elm, and still has that new-contact-printing-frame smell (varnish). It's available to check out now, if you're interested.

Also, while I'm thinking of it, checkout acquired two Garmin GPS units during the summer. Those of you participating in the Bozeman Survey Project may find these to be particularly helpful accessories.

Another subtle and recent addition to checkout's camera fleet recently came in the form of a Lomo LC-A donated to the department by Professor Christina Z. Anderson. It's an itty-bitty 35mm film camera, with a fixed 32mm 2.8 lens, and its only automatic feature is exposure. It's a little fancier than a Holga, but quite a bit smaller, so if you like saturated colors and a bit of vignetting, you should give this little camera a try.

Nick

Taking a photo break on our way to SPENW

Can anyone help me?

I am in need of a photo of Montana Hall, but I can't get one myself from WA.   I am looking for someone to grab a good looking photo and email it to me.   I would be willing to trade for it.   Email me at karibolken@gmail.com if you can give me a hand.  By the way, great work guys, and thanks.

Western Bridgers

These are a few shots from my internship with the Northern Rockies Trust for Public Land. This cattle-ranching land is in the process of being preserved for public use. Harry Armstrong, the owner of the 400 acre ranch, is setting aside a portion of his property for conservation and public recreation.

Wednesday's Night Sky

I don't know if you guys saw the sky last Wednesday night, but it was crazy cool. Here's a couple of images for those of you that missed it.

WHCC BOOK QUESTION

Does anyone know if you are supposed to put in your own book spine on the cover template from WHCC??? The template has those safe guides on it and the spine looks tiny so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to add in my text or if WH does it? Anyone, Anyone? Jackson you would know yeah? FYI for those of you considering books as well....WHCC books are amazing. the color, the paper, the cover, and I guess they to you in 2 days like prints. Blurb is fine if you have time but a lot of us are going to need that extra time to work on our books so if you're doing a book I highly suggest using WH, especially since the holidays are coming and it's Blurb's busiest time of year.

Shake Shake Shake

Yeah I know, pictures of puppies, sheesh! haha, I just thought this was kind of interesting.

Hear from a Suicide Survivor about Opening Up

If anyone is interested in the audio clips I've been talking about that will accompany my portrait project about suicide survivors, I have posted one of the edited clips on my blog. It's just 2:20 and I think she had some really insightful things to say. You can click the title of this post to check it out.

more for senior

so here's a couple horizontal shots...ive been sort of addicted to vertical lately...titles are posted in comments

Congrats to Alexis-Critical Mass top 50

Congrats to Alexis who has made the top 50 of Critical Mass this year. Alas, no luck for me this time around. Check out the list of finalists here.

Practice for Final

So I am finally figuring out what I want to do exactly for my final project over here in Italy. I have really been wanting to use my flashes (I lugged stands and umbrellas and other crap over here). I am going to do commercial/semi theatrical scenes incorporating the person and their environment (I want Siena to permeate through somehow). Since it is a book I have been playing with the idea to have separate images, but at the same time have two images, or multiple images interact with each other in the sense that one person in one image is looking at another person in another image, across the page, or on the page next to it, or have someone looking around a corner which is the edge of the page - some sort of interaction or interplay between the individual images. At the same time, they could each be stand alone. I'll see.

I was able to practice with a friend of mine Frank, who is from north Jersey. He is living with me and my host family while we are studying abroad. Turns out he was pretty photogenic and I was able to get some good practice using my flashes. I am looking forward to taking more pictures of some other people here in Siena, and will upload those when I get them done. I am going to do some planning ahead so I can setup the shot and plan some of the pages ahead of time. I felt that commercial/fashion/semi-theatrical with speedlights suits because Italy is of course a country of fashion, and so in that sense this project would pertain to Italy.

Here are some examples with the flash. These are just with one flash, but I plan to use two for my final in order to incorporate environment and person. These are solely practice shots. OH and the reason we put sunglasses on Frank is because he blinks EVERY time haha.

(Click for bigger previews)

Which one do you like better (of the two below)? I am trying to figure out a general style I can start creating among the images to come. The first one is pretty close to original image and the second one has undergone some more editing.

Comments and Criticism are welcome

Thanks!! - Tyler

Medical Flyer for MSU Bookstore Apparel

This was a shoot I did to promote the new scrubs we ordered for clothing and various apparel at the MSU Bookstore. Really fun shoot.

Book Project Fun

Working on some stuff for the book project, any comments?

Just For Fun

I needed a break from school stuff so I worked a little on some personal work from this summer. I think this is helping me keep my sanity :)

Lemmings

260 Montage assignment. Who want's a balloon?

i want your body

hey are there any of you out there who would be willing to be nude or at least partially nude for a photo shoot for my senior? FYI i am much more inclined to have a female as opposed to a guy...let me know when you see me around...body type is not important either!

seniors!

ok guys I'm going to send out an email also but i have only got money from 28 of you!!! which means more space for the rest of us. if some of you forgot or if you have decided not to be apart of the show have some common courtesy and let me and amanda know whats up asap!!! everyone has had plenty of time to get the money to us but if you need a little more time we will be understanding but you need to get in touch with us to let us know otherwise you will not be in the show!! this will be my last warning if i don't hear from the 8 that have not paid you will be booted this week! for the rest of you thanks for paying on time!! chels