Holter Art Museum

If you're headed up to the Holter to see Marta's show, make sure you also take the time to look at the work by Marie Watt on display.  She is a great person who makes striking work.

some picture takins

i experimented with shooting a roll of 35 mm in my holga last week. I really love how the sprocket holes are incorporated in the image. unfortunately the piece of black tape i thought was light tight actually allowed light through the window on the back of the holga and thus came to be the red streaks... but i dont mind them too much..

Finally!

After a year of gathering materials and actual construction, I finally finished my light box capable of printing 16x20 prints. Instead of writing the 3 papers i have due tomorrow and the one i had due yesterday i decided to finally finish the wiring on this bastard. Thank you procrastination(the art of keeping up with yesterday) and hello progress. We should totally have some printing parties this summer! Just for your information, this cost me $400 for materials and lots of troubleshooting and headaches. If i can appease anyone else who is interested in building one I would be happy to divulge some info to make it easier on them.

Large Format Project For ADV. Color

4x5 distressed negatives. So what do you guys think.

Awkward Stock Photos

This is probably the greatest photography related blog I have ever stumbled upon. I just laughed my head off for ten minutes. If anyone tells you your photo doesn't make sense, just sell it for stock... www.awkwardstockphotos.com

Personal Vision

One last reminder guys! Images for the juried undergraduate personal vision show are due wednesday, thursday, and friday this week up in dans office, along with you money - 5$ a piece, as many as you want. EVERYONE should enter this.

Scanning Issues

Has anyone ever distressed color negatives? I am doing so for the first time and whenever I try to scan I get a cyanotype-like color cast that I can't get rid of. Assignment is due tomorrow and if I can't scan...I can't print. Help! Any suggestions?

Congrats to Stephanie

At SPE this weekend Stephanie sold her first gum print to Colorado University at Boulder for their collection.

4x5 question

after you expose your film wear do you store it after till you can develop it? i only have 2 film holders and checked out a tent for reloading my film but im kinda at a loss as to what i do with my exposed film. 

MISSING EXPERIMENTAL BOOK!

Hey everybody. I seem to have misplace my experimental book, which is tragic cause it is pretty much my bible. If i have loaned it out or anyone has found it please let me know. It says "Shortbus" on the cover in black marker. THANX!

ATTACK OF THE CHECKOUT MONSTER!

A couple more

Done with lye and black calligrapher's ink. You might have to click on the first one, somehow using toxic chemicals gave me my most subtle manipulation yet.

combat witness

the most recent diptychs . next time Ill have an example of text with an image...Im not sure how I want to do that yet though...Ive been having thoughts about separating the images and having the text between them or something...or should I not stray from the diptych theme at all?

Speaking of Expired Film...

I saw that Jace mentioned using expired film in an earlier post, and it reminded me that Winslow Studios has donated a big box of expired medium format film to the photo program. Most of it is color negative film, though there is a bit of Ektachrome, and most of it is 120, though there is a bit of 220 in the mix. Casually surveying some of the expiration dates, almost all of it is over ten years old. I was told it was refrigerated for much of its life, though it has spent most of the last several years out of cold storage, and simply in a basement. If you're interested, stop by checkout, and pick up a roll or two!

Learning experiance inside another

Hey guys, thought I'd share this little lesson with you guys. Ive got an assignment with MSU News Services right now where I'm photographing grad. students for a brochure that they are putting together. This is one of Amin Nehrir a grad student in the one of the engineering departments. He's working with and building lasers that are fired up into the sky and measure particles and moisture in the atmosphere. The laser that he's using in the background as I was photographing was messing with the sync of my strobes. It caught me off guard at first because everything was set right and I had done a few test shots that were fine. Blocking the laser light from the command unit on my camera solved the problem and I ended up with some good images. Something to do with frequency that the laser was firing at messes with the infared signal the strobes use to communicate. Fun eh?

Grants

Summer USP Grants Due March 12th Folks!

Expired Film Rules

just an unedited/ unprocessed image for senior that i took on some expired film. that yellow band of staining is kinda cool.

What I've been up to...

A few from the 264 final I am working on, then an unrelated portrait of happy Bennie in Cheever. For the final I am suggesting possible manifestations of what lies dormant in the subconscious or metaphysical realm. I'll have some more in the coming weeks, but these are a few that show where I am right now.

Corey Arnold

This fellow seems to work on a fishing boat and takes great pictures. You think you take pictures in burly situations? His website has an annoying drop down menu, but his photos are really great.

Photo Checkout Spring Break Reservations

As of this morning (March 1st, 2010), students may now make reservations to check out equipment for use over spring break. Equipment may be checked out on Friday, March 12th, and will be due back by 10 am on Monday, March 22nd.