Shortly after Independence Day Willy came over and we made an image for Page 100 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
To get this image, I took in excess of 400 images.
Here are some of the rejects:
If you are curious, these images were recorded at a shutter speed of 1/8000 of a second.
I’ve been recently commissioned to photograph the flower garden of a relative. While I was over there, I decided to tackle Page 8 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT:
Next time we look at THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, we will take a look at sound.
On the last day of my vacation I took a quick sprint up to Dolliver Memorial State Park. On my way there I passed through Dayton. I stopped in Dayton to look for something to fulfill Page 9 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
I found this picture just waiting to be harvested:
I found a lot of ugly in Dayton and I think I managed to turn some of it into beauty. Here are a few the other contenders that didn’t get printed and taped into the photo journal:
Next time we visit the THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, we will hit up Page 8.
On the last day of my vacation, I headed to Dolliver Memorial State Park. My mission was to complete Page 80 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. Good news is that it worked out!
I stopped and took this picture somewhere along P70.
The next time we delve into the THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT will be about beautiful-ugly or ugly-beautiful.
On the way back to Minnesota from Kansas, Bethany, Dae Hee, and Nora stopped by my place for some respite. While they were there, I was able to take this picture of Nora sleeping while Dae Hee and I watched DUEL.
I considered it a perfect fit Page 12 of the THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
The next time we catch up with THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT, it might involve a stop I might not normally make.
Since I have a very large backlog currently, I’m going to post an entry to AN ARTIST’S NOTEBOOK on Sundays until that backlog gets cleaned up quite a bit.
This picture is the latest entry into the THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
This time there was no photo assistant. Just me and one of my cameras and Honey Creek.
This underwater photo reminds me that I need to find a volunteer, somebody with long hair, to pose for another underwater photo. Interested parties may volunteer in the comments section of this here post.
Next time we take a look at THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT we will be looking at expressing feelings through light. Sounds like a hoot!
Last Saturday while I was leaving the Cultural Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, I came across what I considered a perfect example of Page 15 for THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT.
This time there was no photo assistant, just a rocking soundtrack coming from a speaker somewhere on the Iowa State Fairgrounds. “We built this city. We built this city on rock’n’roll!!!”
Only one photo can go in the Photo Journal, but I also liked these:
I’m not sure what page in the THE PHOTO JOURNAL is next for me. The one that seems to be calling me next is Page 10.
On Sunday, I redid Page 24 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT. While I already did this page with Shannon, I decided to redo it because of the lighting conditions for that photo shoot weren’t ideal and it made those pictures very noisy.
This time I used Naima as the model and Jesse was a photo assistant.
Page 24 is “Throw something at your subject and capture their reaction with a fast shutter speed.”
That picture is the one that will go in the book, but I thought you might also enjoy some of the rejects:
I took some photos with Nader on Wednesday, but I haven’t quite decided on them yet.
My new Wednesday Photo Project is to work my way through the book “Use This If You Want to Take Great Photographs. A photo journal” by Henry Carroll. I’m not sure how much I’ll do on each night, but I made my first foray into the book with Shannon’s assistance last Wednesday.
The way the book works is that is mostly a collection of pages to paste pictures into with photo directives like:
Take an ugly picture of something beautiful.
Create drama around the edge of your frame.
Use aperture to capture melancholy.
Make light the subject of your photography.
And so on and so forth.
Here are four images I started with:
Show us that photography is a form of magic.
Photograph your earliest memory.
Throw something at your subject and capture their reaction with a fast shutter speed.
Since I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to attack this project, I might redo a couple of these photos because I think I’m going to add on a rule that nobody can be in more than one picture
