Something old but new

Something Old But New

Recently I have obtained an old Kodak Brownie Six-20 film camera from a family member. With much curiosity I went out and bought some 620 TMAX film and decided to shoot with the camera and see if it still works. And much to my surprise after I had developed the film in the schools’ photo lab, that it worked. But not only did it just work, it worked better than any of us would have thought. After shooting and developing film again, I have resparked a love for film again and not only do I plan to shoot with the Brownie more, I recently obtained a Cannon SLR film camera as well. But what was most surprising about the Brownie photos, is when I took an identical photo with my Nikon D50 DSLR camera and put them side by side. Then you can see the benefits of the DSLR cameras vs the older film cameras 

Thinking Outside the Box

Thinking Outside the Box

This photo I took with the seascape works of Hiroshi Sugimoto in mind.  Like myself, influenced by the writings and works of Marcel Duchamp, as well as the Dadaist and Surrealist movements.  Hiroshi Sugimoto took photos of many different oceans and seas in black and white using a large format camera. With his works in mind, as well as one of our old assignments on abstract I decided to take my Nikon D50 and use a semi-long exposure on an angle during a sunset on the beach and take a photo with the water blurred. The end result was this vibrant blue ocean with an orange/pink sky with barely enough detail to tell it’s the ocean.

Graffiti (Series 2)

Graffiti (Series 2)

Once again my love for the art of graffiti makes an appearance.  A few weeks back during an unrelated assignment on “the decisive moment” I went to a few different places in New York City. As we have all seen the city is my most favorite place in the world.... so far. Upon my travels I decided to head towards little Italy and China Town. On my way while traveling down Canal St. I saw graffiti on many of the buildings and had to shoot a second series. Later on that day I decided to head to DUMBO, Brooklyn and shoot from the Manhattan Bridge since I never been up there and low and behold I had found a graffiti paradise. 

Something New

Something New:

Trying a New Style of Photography

While messing around with last weeks homework assignment shooting textures and abstract, I decided to try a little "Fine Art" meets Simple "Modernism." The end result was a slew of images that captures objects in a way that you may not usually see and even just show the different details you normally miss, while leaving a lot for the imagination to look at and wonder and make your own interpretations of the object or photo. The grittiness of the photos I kept as much as i could to just give homage to the old film days where the photos would have a natural grit as well as to complement my rough persona as well. (From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: My daughters cup of milk, a cap for my old cologne, a Peter Frampton vinyl record, a cassette tape, the bottom of my hockey) stick.)