Vanity Fair...Hitchcock Classics

Four photographers, Julian Broad, Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger and Art Streiber, and 21 of the finest actors working today, recreated stills from Alfred Hitchcocks movies. These photographs are great! I think the idea of recreating movie stills is neat and would love to try it! 

Enjoy the photos! 

Gallery 339

Ruth Thorne-Thomsen 

I really enjoyed viewing her work. It was defiantly different and very unique. The Three images I chose are 5x4 inches and remind me of postcards the way they are shaped with the black border.

I like how she played around with the scale of images and combined them into one. It has a soft touch to each photograph, I also like the high contrast and silhouette of the figures. 

My favorite part of the images is defiantly the scale though, I think it is what makes the photographs really interesting. 

The Decisive Moment assignment

Making a birthday wish...  

Finding the perfect piece of fruit...

 My favorite is the birthday photograph, It's right before my niece was about to make her birthday wish and blow out her candles, it makes you wonder what her wish was. I also love the lighting in the photograph. 

I used 400 tmx for this project, and for printing each photo I used a #3 filter, for higher contrast.

old family photos

 

My grandma and I went through her box of old photos awhile ago and I love them and I figured I would share them with everyone. My grandma grew up in Philadelphia(mayfair area), so its really neat to see how its changed. 

The first photograph is my grandpa when he was about 5 yrs old. The second image is of my great- nanny on the Atlantic City beach. The third image is my grandma,her dad and her sister in phildelphia. The last image is of my grandma in philadelphia during WWII and the can next to her was filled with sand and was on most street corners, and if a bomb was to hit, you would throw the sand onto it.

Enjoy =]

looking back...

(sorry for the quality of the photos, my scanner isn't the best)

The first image is from our final project last semester, which was to create a triptych almost, to tell a story through 3 images. I choose to photograph the church that I grew up in(it is in the process of being rebuilt).  This is my favorite from the 3, I love the lighting and the high contrast. I used 100 speed film for this project, and did not use any artificial lighting at all. 

It was really interesting exploring a space that I was really comfortable with, but also challenging because of that fact, it wasn't a new atmosphere and I wasn't looking at it with fresh eyes. But non the less, it was great to photograph the space!

The second image is from my series "Drunk Driving", almost a year ago one of my friends was killed by a drunk driver. Ever since then I felt that my friend was silenced. By doing this project I was hoping to bring awareness to others, and also bring the feeling of losing someone very important to them. This is an image from the accident scene, I really like the lighting in this photograph, and although it is a simple composition, I feel that it has a strong emotion to it. I would like to develop more into this project, hopefully this semester!