How Art Works (Is it art yet?)

A Few Pictures from Butte

Your Friendly Neighborhood Clare Boland

Bahrain 2012

Hey Photo Peeps! Hope all you Seniors are doing well! Miss you guys a lot. Just dropping a line and sharing a couple images from my trip to Bahrain a couple weeks ago. These are just a couple from Hipstamatic for iPhone but I have more from my 5D and iPhone on my blog page too. If you click on the title of this post it'll take you to my blog. Thanks for checking out my images. :)

Heads Up, 2 Photo Deals!

My Pikensaver Tip of the Day:

Calumet just sent out an email this morning with a coupon to take $10 off any order of $20 or more. Yeah, you have to pay for shipping, so you really only get $5 off when buying some film... but it's $5 off and they have film in stock that B/H doesn't. Use the code "tenoff" at checkout.

Epson is running what seems to be an annual yearly event... buy three get one free on their signature papers. It's a rebate, so you have to pay for all three up front, but if you don't procrastinate and get that rebate in, you'll get some cash back. Right now at B/H pricing on Epson Exhibition Fiber is less than the fiber papers from other manufacturers and shipping is free. This deal ends 2/29. It's a great chance to buy those big sheets and avoid messing with a roll. (Bonus, you have a nice big box to put your prints in after you've used up the paper.)

Butte

These are pictures.

Parker and John

Here is another stitched image from Butte. If you look carefully in an enlarged view, you can see that John and Parker are repeated down the street.

Shad and Tomara in Butte

Personal Vision

Nash With Caddy

We made a couple of stitched images up in Butte yesterday. Here is one of Nash with Cailin's Caddy up on Nanny Goat Hill.

Richard Renaldi Tribute

"Donna" Butte, MT 2012

"Carlos and Nick" Butte, MT 2012

Ian challenged our Portraiture class to photograph a stranger while in Butte for a field trip today. Five extra credit points to capture a stranger, and ten points to capture a stranger touching another stranger just like Renaldi's project "Touching Strangers." I am excited to express that it was quite easy to accomplish, and here are my results. P.S. Take that Aiden!

This is a beast

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/02/06/nikon-unveils-the-d800-a-dslr-that-tips-the-scales-at-36-3-megapixels/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

The months of rumors and speculation are finally over: Nikon has announced its long-awaited D800 FX-format DSLR. As was revealed back in October 2011, the camera offers a staggering 36.3-megapixels — the world’s highest in a 35mm DSLR. Other specs include an ISO range of 100-6400 (expandable to 25,600), 91k RGB 3D color metering, a speedy 51-point AF system, a 3.2-inch LCD screen, 4fps continuous shooting (5fps for DX shots), 1080/30p HD video recording, and… in-camera two-shot HDR.

Collin Avery Solo Show @ The EXIT Gallery

Collin Avery, my roommate, is having his first solo show at the EXIT Gallery. The reception is Wednesday February 8th @ 5pm in the SUB. There will be wine, beer, and refreshments. Collin will be giving away 25 signed/numbered prints to the first 25 people who attend the reception. See ya there!

“Remain Calm” is an artistic venture into Collin Avery’s detailed observation of ordinary spaces and objects that serve an unsettling purpose. Avery’s photography focuses on self-reflection and his connection with particular physical details of spaces. With inspiration from his childhood, the photos demonstrate how he developed ways to escape difficult mental and physical situations. Avery used these “intimate moments of silence” along with self-introspection and a specific way of viewing the ordinary spaces to compose his photographs. Upon first viewing his work, the subjects of the photographs appear as common unnoticed items, but as Collin claims, his images “are not about finding the extraordinary in the everyday, but instead are about finding the everyday extraordinary.” Upon spending time with the photos, one finds himself connected whether by nostalgia, a fleeting glimpse of a memory, feelings of anxiety, confusion and even disgust at the comforting yet repulsive combinations of dreary paneling, quiet pastels, and floral patterns that we know only too well.

Pizza with the President

Bozeman Survey Meeting

I would like to try get the ball rolling on the Bozeman Survey again. We will be having a meeting at my (Ian) house next Friday at 4PM. All are welcome. Please bring prints for consideration to be added to the collection. Address is 1113 S. 5th Ave, BYOB

What is your website/feature/ability wishlist?

Hi folks, I have finally been able to get the ball rolling on a hosted service that will provide photographers and other creative professionals such as designers and videographers an easy way to maintain their own website. In a nutshell its a comprehensive content management system which already has a sizable list of features, but I thought I would ask you guys if there has been, or is anything that you wish you could do that you cant seem to be able to do with your current website or your current provider (if you use livebooks or some other service). One of the cool parts about the service im collaborating on will be the ability to toggle featuers on and off, because I know people will only want certain features, and not have to deal with or even look at admin pages for features they will never use - but it will be there for if and when you do want it. So, you can scale your web presence as your business or career grows. So...what is your wishlist for a website? I am just seeing if there is anything I missed - and what you guys want as photographers. Cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility is a given, as well as some of the big ones such as ecommerce, blog/photoblog, client proofing, etc...) Otherwise, what kind of feature list would you like to see???

Julia Hetta Inspired

Top picture is from Portraiture Class inspired by the portrait below by Julia Hetta.

Penn and Avedon

Some Irving Penn and Richard Avedon inspired portraits from Portraiture class

Sh*t Photographers Say- This is our lives

Planning on being bored Thursday night?

Don't be!