splash photography

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/05/06/splash-photography-capture-split-second-splashes-with-our-tutorial/

Tools needed:

• Small plain glasses -nothing on outside of the cup
• Glass container
• bubbles, anything small that I can find to pop the bubble
• anything glass that hold liquids
• fish tank???
• glass jar
• Milk, water, apple juice or tea for different color, water with food coloring??, coffee??
• Corn syrup with food coloring -drizzle onto an object
• Ice
• small fruits -strawberries, raspberries, grapes into water and/or milk
• fruit loops into milk??
• quarter into glass?
• oreo into milk
• water into hands?
• spoon with liquid on it
• cut up lemon
• water falling onto cut open orange and splashing off.
• sugar cubes into tea
• reflective background -paper laminated???
• coke in coke cup ice falling into it???
• hot chocolate and marshmallow

Difuse the light to make it softer
Frontal flash destroys depth -light from the side
Frame the shots loosely -crop tighter later (you don't know how far the splash will go)
Get liquid off lens as soon as possible
High shutter speed
Lots of lighting

http://www.photigy.com/slow-motion-splash-syrup-liquid/
http://expertphotography.com/shoot-my-shot-water-splash/

Liquids & solids

For my next project I want to go back to exploring liquid photography. This time I want to try to go in-depth with how solids affect the liquids. I want to try liquids going on top of solids and solids entering liquids. I want to try some shots like ice falling into a drink, a liquid being poured into different shaped containers, inversion of a background image in a drop of water and I want see if I can get a photos of bubbles right as they are being popped by different items (needle, finger, maybe try popping with water...). This time I want to try shooting in the studio to see if the lighting in there could help with some of my shots.

Words

let me be ME

My project is about how words affect people and how society can make people go crazy because of trying to fit in and be normal. I had first wanted to make it look like someone was breaking out of the prison of words that society creates around us. Once I started taking photos I found it was to hard to make it look realistic when pushing and bending bars away and breaking free. I changed my path that I was on with my project to the way that society traps us and drives us crazy. For my photos I shot against a white background to show that society wants everyone to be the same. I wanted it to be part of the cell and it shows how society traps us and keeps us from being who we really are. To finish my project I put the black behind all the words words to create more of a bar look making it feel like the person is really trapped in a prison created by society.

Creating Bars with words....

I tried creating the "bars" with different types of font because I wanted it to symbolize actual people thinking these things. If the text is closer to a actual hand writing it is easier to think of a person you know actually writing things like this.

1. I like this one because the letters are curly and help to take the eyes between the bars.

2. I like because more people have this style handwriting than the amount that have #1's style handwriting.

3. This one I like because of the multiple fonts. I used all of the fonts to show that everyone thinks things like this. Each person writing in a different style, so by showing more than one font it creates the feeling that more than one person is thinking this.

4. I like this one because of all the curls to the letter. It helps to bring the eyes to the center of the bars just like #1 but I feel like it does a better job of doing so...

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These are just a couple of my 150 ish photos that I ended up taking. I had tried many different poses but a bunch of them I didn't end up like either because she looked awkward if she happened to be moving at the time (I just had her keep doing all the poses in a loop) or she lost her face in a few of them. I ended up using a photo from her wearing the gray shirt because with having the bars be black it would have blended the black shirt and the bars together.

This was the type of photo that I had wanted to go for while I was shooting. However, Getting the model to look like they were really trying to pull bars apart while having a certain emotion on their face was a huge challenge and in the end I decided to change how I was doing my project by a little. I changed it so that the model is stuck behind the bars and they are posed to make it look like they are getting really frustrated and upset about all the words around them (What society wants us to be like). I actually didn't happen to find this photo till after I took my shots. I had tried finding one for a while before, but because of my bad luck it seems, I only found it afterwards.

The photo below is one of the few examples I could find to try to find a person who looks like they are tired of what is pressing in on the from the outside.

The reason for doing what I did for this project was because of how society molds us into who we are. Eventually though, we all break down because we can't live up to the image that society wants for us. The image is to be perfect, but no one is perfect, we just can't and shouldn't live up to that standard.

I used sites like TED and some other sites to get other peoples thoughts on breaking free of society and being your own person. It helped me to really figure out what I wanted for my project. http://www.ted.com/conversations/10541/is_modern_society_s_prescripti.htmlgg

http://www.choosing-life-my-way.com/go-on-your-own-way.html
"There are many rules and regulations set by the society that we live in. Some of these are good and necessary. However, what I do have a problem with is the pressure that is put on us to conform. There are countless spoken and unspoken regulations on how we ought to live our lives. From major life choices, such as whether or not to get married, through to daily habits like not eating dessert before dinner, we are overwhelmed with 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts'".
This was basically my thoughts put into words by someone else, they were on the exact same pathway as I was. I took this small paragraph and I used it to help create a stronger idea behind my project.


This was my starting place for my project. It was just the basic idea of maybe what I wanted to do and some information that I looked up. My project really changed as I went on as continued exploring the idea.

In the end I can't really decide if I liked my project. I really wish I could have gotten it so that the bars were being pulled apart but I just couldn't make it look good, making me change my idea a little. The part I like the most with my final piece is probably the bars with the words over top of them and how each sentence is written with a different font to show the idea that anyone could be the person behind the bar and how everyone, even if they don't realize it, help to create the bars around everyone they know.

Critique 

Peer:

    Like...

         The bars represent being trapped

         Vignette unifies project -brings eyes to center

         Emotion -powerful

         Many texts- different peoples opinions

         Picture -symmetric

    Try...

            One text unify

            Fade bars -create even softer edge on both sides

            Fade colors on model

            Try black and white -more powerful emotion

            See through text

Teacher: 

     Like...

           How it tells a story

           Different fonts show different people saying each thing

            

    Try...

            See through text

            Black and white

            Having text smaller so none of the letters go off of the bar

            Have all of the sentence on the bar 

               -don't have it run off the screen

Magazine cut out w/ words

Meaning...

When you are in a hard time in life, never give up hope.

 Always find ways to keep pushing forward.

expressive words

REPETITION: 

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

The reoccurrence of an action or event

A thing repeated

power: words -blog work

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/jenny-holzer

Define:

Appropriation -using someone else's work without permission

Propaganda -promoting an idea or point of view

Censorship -hiding unacceptable information

Redacted -editing text for publication

What is the term “truism” and create a definition for the word independent of Holzer’s work and in relation to Holzer’s work. How does the use of the first-person voice in Truisms affect the meaning of text as well as the interpretation of the work?
statement that is true and not something new. Her reusing work of others and using it in her own work. Her using it changes the way the other art was shown and changes the meaning of a lot of the work.

How does the meaning of her truism change based on what objects they appear upon?  How do words/text change based on certain factors (audience, time, location, culture, etc.)
She tries to make others work fit the subject that she is going for. She tries to make it so that others understand what she is trying to get at.

Study an example of Holzer’s redacted work, such as WISH LIST BLACK.  What is being censored in the original texts and why? How does Holzer merge visual imagery and text to call attention to what has been eliminated in these works?
Information about abuse and it brings attention to the fact that the government is hiding things from the public.

Holzer says, “I like to be absolutely out of view and out of earshot. I don’t sign my work because I think that would diminish its effectiveness.” Discuss Holzer’s statement. How does Holzer’s appropriation of text and collaboration with writers serve this objective?
She lets each person figure out its meaning on their own. She doesn't want to get in the way of them coming up with what it means and if they feel really strongly on the subject they might try to do something to change it.

liquid photography

Favorite...

For my project I did drop liquid photography. I like how a few of my shots came out but because drop photography is based on the chance of getting a drop frozen. Because of needing my shutter speed to be really fast I had to work on adjusting other settings which made a good amount of my shots grainy. The two above are my favorite out of all of them. Sadly the blue one above has some grain to it. Between having the shutter speed to slow and the amount of grain in my shots not many came out really good. If I could do this again I would need to find ways to keep my shutter speed high enough and keeping the grain out of my photos. Another challenge I faced was focusing on the drop zone. To take my photos I attached a dropper to a yard stick that I set on top of the photo box but that didn't keep it truly in one place. It helped but, for me to be able to refill the dropper and be able to squeeze the dropper it had enough room to move around a little and exit my focused area.

Not the best, but I'm working on it...

This one I started to get the crown effect from the splash but my shutter speed wasn't high enough. Another thing was that this photo has a small amount of grain to it. I like the coloring to it but the flash from the camera was reflected into the liquid. Next time I take shots I need to find a way of lighting my shots better than what I did that way I don't need to use the flash on my camera.

The splash was cool and was what I was trying to get at in many of my shots... but it was too grainy. The angle that I took this photo from allowed the container to be shown -next time I need to take from a higher angle. 

For this shot I would have wanted to focus on the drop a little more than what it is. Again, because of how I had to have the dropper set up, the drops weren't always in the exact same spot. I really like the reflection in the photo because it allows us to see that the water that is flying forward is longer than what you think you see above the water. I like the color in this shot, but just like almost all my other shots this photo is grainy.

To get ready to take my shot I decided to get in contact with a few water drop artist. I got in contact with Corrie White and Martin Waugh. Corrie White ended up sending me her guide to water drop photograpy (cover below) and Martin Waugh was able to answer a few of my questions I had about how to take some good photos of liquids.

http://www.liquiddropart.com/

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/index.htm