Inspiration: Tokihiro Sato

http://www.photoarts.com/gallery/SATO/satoexh.html

Sato's work takes the cliche light idea and does beautiful, almost natural looking work with it.  The way he places his lights looks like they were just htere and he found them, or that you've walked into a room with a glowing, breathing live thing like an animal. They're awesome, and good inspiration for using lights in the time project.

some slow shutter speed play in the botanic gardens

DSDN101 Project 1 Copy.Transform

Individual (Art Nouveau version of Section)

Touch

 (Shower - represented by geometries of water droplets, burned edges and red represent heat, shading represents the metal of the shower structure, transparency of shapes represents glass, steam represented by white cloudy shapes)

Section collage - Lemon

Section study - Lemon

Draw - Camera

Hatch

Identity

Shoot 4 contact sheet

http://issuu.com/nataliavasquezdsdn/docs/contact_sheet_shoot_4

shoot 3 contact sheet

http://issuu.com/nataliavasquezdsdn/docs/contact_sheet_shoot_3

Inspiration: Neil Pardington

I find Neil Pardington's work interesting right now because a lot of my photos for Project 1 are based on perspective + texture + color sort of like these photos (especially the ones of mine which are underneath the bridge).  I really like the color palettes he uses and the simplicity of the composition.

http://www.neilpardington.com/information/biography

Concert Contact Sheet

While doing my photo space project, stumbled upon this concert in the Botanic Gardens:
http://issuu.com/nataliavasquezdsdn/docs/concert_contact_sheet

Mini World

Contact Sheet + images for shoot 2

This week I wanted to go back to dock and photograph slightly later in the day when the light was more golden. But it was overcast and rainy, so instead of taking more shots of the dock as a whole, I focused on trying out the HDRI suggestion I received last week, focusing mostly on the underside of the dock. I took each shot at several exposures and then used photoshop to mask/remove.  I really only like one shot from this week (the dock where my head is almost touching the underside).  I definitely want to go back this week once the rain stops.

http://issuu.com/nataliavasquezdsdn/docs/space_shoot_2_contact_sheet

Panorama

I checked out a tripod in the morning full of ideas and then the weather changed. It was windy and rainy all day. It made photographing rather challening - panoramas sort of require the photographer to stand in an unsheltered open space with 360 views which do not provide much shelter from rain. I ended up draping a towel over myself and the tripod. It was my first time using a tripod and I encountered a problem: to place the camera on it in portrait format I had to slightly unscrew it from the base, so it wasn't completely fixed in place. This, combined with the wind and my chilly, shaky hands resulted in an uneven panorama despite using a tripod. You can see this in the first image. In the second image, I have used photoshop to remedy it.

 Another challenge was that the color of the sky seems to change in each image.  I tried to address this by using automatic setting but in the blurry rain the camera was having trouble focusing and was unable to take some of the shots. I set the exposure  and focused manually, but the color discrepencies remained.

I took several rounds of panoramas, stopping to step inside and wipe my camera off.  Several of my shots were completely blurred by rain on the lens.  The rain was a challenge, but I also really loved the effect it provided on the photos. Some of the really wet ones seem to almost sparkle, and the light refracting off of the mist created the lovely pastel colors in the pictures.

raw:

corrected:

Compilation of my favorite of each section from all of the panorama sequences:

Edited final:

Contact Sheet for Panorama:

http://issuu.com/nataliavasquezdsdn/docs/panorama_contact_sheet

Inspiration: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh is the most famous Art Nouveau artist from the UK and a designer in the Arts and Crafts Movement.  He was an architect, furniture designer, and artist.
His style, largely influenced by the opening of Japan and subsequent release of orderly/organic Japanese art forms, was formal and rectiliniar, but also had the curvy elements of the art nouveau movement.  Since he was also a technical artist, you can see that in his work as well.

Japanese influence in the "Harvest Moon":

Tea Room:

Art Nouveau

The Lecture 2 slideshow for dsdn 101 said to look up several artists/styles listed in the powerpoint. After having looked them all up, I was most grabbed by "Art Nouveau."  My dad introduced the style to me a few years ago (an avid surfer, he was initially drawn to it for its similarity to 70s surf posters, and he now makes a point of seeing art nouveau buildings everywhere he travels).  I fell in love with it. It reflects my artistic style (http://nataliavasquez.daportfolio.com/) with its curvy lines and organic/earthy theme.  I appreciate that art nouveau artists were inspired by nature.  Art Nouveau ended the neoclassic movement arond 1890 and continued to be popular for another 20 years. It was a holistic style, encompassing architecture, industrial design, print art, jewelry, etc. It differed in style from region to region.

Last semester when I was studying in Paris, I had the opportunity to go to Prague and visit the Mucha Museum and see his work in a cathedral (Mucha was one of the most famous art nouveau artists and was raised in the Czech Republic).

Here is a picture I took of one of his stained-glass works:

Here is another image I took at the Mucha Museum. This is my favorite of all his work:

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nouveau

DSDN Project One : Ex 1 : Identity

My process began by arranging the objects on the table. When I found a few compositions I liked, I sketched them out.

 Then I selected a final and sketched it on a full size page.

Helvetica Soundbit

This is the quote I chose:

Inspiration Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright is a famous and prolific american architect and designer.  His work here inspire my work because it plays with the same tree house theme, by incorporating the architecture into nature at a vantage point that places the viewer in the canopy. The lighting of the image here conveys that sort of magical feel im going for in my photos.

Inspiration HDRI Photographer Trey Ratcliff

After viewing my first shoot in tutorial today, it was suggested that I look up HDRI photography.  In this photo from my shoot, I caught the green reflection but the background was lost. HDRI photography would allow me to take a picture with an exposure to capture the green and then another one to capture the background and then layer them on photoshop.














I researched a bit, and found that Trey Ratcliff is one of the leading photographers for HDRI. Heres one of his:

Contact Sheet 1

http://issuu.com/nataliavasquezdsdn/docs/contact_sheet_1_dsdn_144_natalia

Panorama

The Panorama is coming! I joined the course late and am catching up. It will be on here soon.

woods romp

After shooting the canopy dock, I went for a walk:

1st shoot proposal

I have decided to shoot the canopy dock in the Botanical Gardens. It is an interesting space for a number of reasons: It plays with the idea of a ship dock in its form, yet is out of place and taken out of context in the forest canopy.  It is a space that connects people to nature by placing and isolating them in a usually unattainable vantage point.  It plays with the idea of the tree house, yet it is for adults. It is visually interesting for its height, the way the light plays on the railings, and the perspective.

To highlight its relationship with its natural surroundings I will try to highlight some of the nature around it (such as by placing plants in focus in the foreground). To emphasize its height I will shoot at angles underneath it.  To convey the playful, childhood reminiscent part of it, I'll shoot during the "golden hour" to make it seem more magical and special.

DSDN 144 Project 1 "1st" Images