print study, fall 2005

I need to look at the contact sheet for this one. I think there's a better picture on that sheet. I really ought to have done sheets for all pictures. This sis apretty good example of why. The backgorund should be white for this. It should be sky. It's a case of seeing something interesting and not finding the human story.

I hate this shot. I have this problem, no problems a) this negative was shite and I worked pretty hard to get this image so that b) when my teacher said he liked it, that overrode my natural gag instinct on things like this and c) this is toy camera photograohy and I am trying to filter all of the toy out a my shots. I need to run contact sheets, get some persepctive and spend more time looking at Beck's work. Not the surrealist white hip hop rockstar but the Beck from TC.com. Here work is close to what I want. I need to trust my aesthetic sense. Maybe I am a painter taking pictures and not one of ANsel Adams nads.

No thoughts yet. It needs work. See the flag shot. I need to let the dark be were it's at andclean up the middle. I need filter #5.

Sleepy, so sleepy.

This scan bites and it's one of those my teacher liked it pictures. Maybe if I blow it up, dynamite or nitro...?

I like this. No one else does and there are more from differant angles. This one needs the contact sheet. Otherwise, more sky and a hard black.

This is the shot that I submitted to the Age Vs Beauty collaboration on TC. com. Not sure what to think.

I like it's dreamy quality and I actually had to dodge and burn quite a bit to get this. I think the fact that I know how differant the real thing was and how this was more a happy accident than a controlled event, bothers me.

I do like though. I'll try and get it into 8 x 10 and see what happens.