October

time keeps flying, and this month has been all types of crazy. i had my first panel review for seminar and it went pretty much how i thought it would go. they told me that my work was strong and that i needed to find out why the color blue is so dominant or present in all of my pictures. They also told me a bunch of photographers to check out and some movies from the 1950's. i have been going in to Boston a lot to shoot and just enjoy the city, it is really nice going there frequently and wandering the buildings. In my Advance traditions class i finally got my warm tone 11"x14" paper to start making some prints for my portfolio for that class. Im so excited to put together a portfolio together for that class because I'm having so much fun shooting and learning all these darkroom techniques that i haven't done before. i think I'm enjoying it so much is because its something that i have wanted to do for so long is just shoot film and print in the darkroom. I know its not practical to shoot film but that where i feel i have been flourishing and evolving as a photographer. Other things my internship is staring to pick up a lot i have hung up two shows so far and its an intense process of hanging pieces but its really fun and i could kind of see myself working for a gallery or something along the lines of that. Also i went to Portland, Maine with my girlfriend Candace (candacebonfiglio.com) and it was the first time that we have gone there and it was really beautiful and i could maybe see myself living there but we will see. My post on Japancamerahunter.com was posted in late September or early October i can't remember and it gave my pictures and everything great exposure and it was awesome. One of my teachers gave me some expired Polaroid Polacolor 669 film one pack from 1998 and 2004 and i just finish the pack from 1998 and the pictures actually came out and i was so happy and surprised (will be posted on my flicker later). and i took a polaroid back for the hasselblad the school has lent me for the year and there was two shots of film left in there and i shot those and they came out, So exciting! He also gave me a role of Polaroid Polachrome 135 color slide film which I'm excited to shoot sometime if we find the processing machine. And the last thing i can think of for October at this moment was today that i saw a post car my school made that gets sent out had one of my images on it and they didn't credit me for it which makes me upset and I'm looking to get to the bottom of it. but thats it!

 

 

September

September has been a crazy first month of my last year in college (man it feels weird to say that) but its been crazy for the best. With taking five classes and an internship i have my work load cut out for me. I have been evolving my  ascend project for seminar  by bringing it down to eye level so it could be a different project all together. I have been shooting medium format and shooting color film and i have been going all over finding different scenes with geometric shapes created by concealing and revealing. I'm also taking an advanced darkroom class which i have been waiting to take for three years now but they haven't run it until now. We are learning the zone system which is awesome because its giving me the idea to maybe take my other project to black and white. learning these processes and everything are amazing it really gets me thinking differently about how I'm shooting and what I'm shooting and its great learning these techniques that photographers use for over 50-60 years and its going to help my digital work, if i ever pick my digital camera up again. i have also been taking a mono printing class which has been great because I fell in love with printmaking last year in my intro class and its been helping with color and working with black and white and composition and also giving an idea to different printing methods. As far as personal work that isn't for class I've been shooting a lot of instant stuff but slower than normal since being at school I'm trying to reserve my stock pile and kind of wait for new films to come out. I have also purchased Magnum Contact Sheets by suggestion my Eric Kim (erickimphotography.com/blog) and its probably been the best book i have ever bought and its teaching my a lot about how this great photographers shot an picked their photos and its been helpful and its a massive book so i have a lot of reading to do. Thats pretty much has been my september in a nut shell to say the least i hope to up date this blog thing more often. thank you for reading or not reading.