Cierra Fitzgerald's Archive

Suran Manvelyan

2 Commentsby   |  11.22.14  |  Student Posts

Suran Manvelyan is a professional photographer who has been taking photographs since he was 16 years old. He photographs a wide range of subjects from portraits and creative compositions to landscape and more. I like that he has such a wide range of work. He does not just photograph one subject area, and he has a large collection of strong and amazing photographs. I think it is good to have a wide range of experience when it comes to photography, and Manvelyan is a good example. Here is his portfolio on Behance.

These are some of the photos I really liked from his portfolio:

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Joanna Kustra

4 Commentsby   |  11.22.14  |  Student Posts

Joanna Kustra is a polish born photographer who photographs portraits of people and fashion. Photography started out as a hobby and became her passion. She has an awesome portfolio of amazing work. She is a great inspiration for taking portraits. Her portfolio is on Behance, and one of my favorite projects of hers is “Children Salon“. Check out her portfolio on Behance.

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Bernard Pras

0 Commentsby   |  11.22.14  |  Student Posts

Bernard Pras is a french artist who uses found objects to create portraits of people and well-known artwork and photographs. He purchases the items at flea markets that match the shade of the picture he is trying to create, then arranges them to form the picture and photographs the result. Similar to the OK Go music video we saw in class, you have to be at an exact angle to see the image. It takes a long time to create the images using only recycled objects, especially at a large scale. What Pras does seems like interesting and time consuming work! Here is a super cool video about him and one of the pieces he’s working on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k790ZKhV0Oo

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Heather Dewey-Hagborg: Using DNA to Render 3D Biological Portraiture

1 Commentby   |  11.22.14  |  Student Posts

Heather Dewey-Hagborg uses the samples of DNA left behind by random people she encounters. This includes chewed gum, hair, and other objects that leave behind a DNA trail. She then puts this information in a computer program that decodes the genetic traits such as hair color, eye color, ethnicity, etc. She then uses this information to render 3D portraits of the people who’s DNA she decoded and puts the results in art shows. As a scientist and an artist, this is an astonishing feat. Here is here website: http://deweyhagborg.com/

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For more info on here work, check out this article!

Shining Light on Cancer

1 Commentby   |  11.10.14  |  Announcements, Student Posts

While exploring some awesome light-painting photographers, I stumbled upon this flickr page called “Shining Light on Cancer“. It’s a group page where anyone can donate some light painting photos that they’ve taken, along with light painting tips and tutorials. The Shining Light on Cancer Group donates light painting photographs to create a book for cancer charity. They are dedicated to helping a great cause and use their projects to help those with cancer. Not only are the images on this page interesting, creative, and beautiful, but I also thought this could be a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in taking creative photographs to make a difference.

 

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Tim Tadder

4 Commentsby   |  10.18.14  |  Student Posts

While I was on behance, I came across a photographer named Tim Tadder who has very unique work. Most of his photos are very dramatic, intense, and some of them very humorous. One of my favorite photography projects of his was called “Water Wigs”. You should take a look at it! (You’ll like it, I promise.)

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Here’s the link to his behance:

https://www.behance.net/timtadder

Morell’s Photograms

3 Commentsby   |  09.13.14  |  Announcements, Student Posts

I know that we have since moved on from Photograms, but as I was traversing the internet, I found some interesting photograms on Abelardo Morell’s website. In some of his photograms, he uses water and liquids like ink to create very interesting compositions. I for one had never thought of putting droplets of liquid directly onto the surface of the photographic paper, which has proven to create  a very appealing image. Looking at Morell’s photograms makes me want to experiment more with composing interesting photograms using different objects and angles of light.

 

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Cierra Fitzgerald's Comment Archive

  1. Cierra Fitzgerald on Floating Graffiti
    10:59 pm, 11.18.14

    I really like and appreciate this series of images. I like the color and the typeface as well. I appreciate the amount of effort it to took for the artist to render these so accurately. It might have taken more than one person to arrange this image while someone stands in the position of the camera while directing another person or group of people. If the artist was able to accomplish this all by themselves, it makes me appreciate the artist that much more because I know it was that much more difficult to execute this single-handedly.

  2. Cierra Fitzgerald on Fujiya & Miyagi: Ankle Injuries
    10:52 pm, 11.18.14

    It amazes me how much work was probably put into this project. Normally, it would take a series of pictures to create a video such as this, so I am guessing it took thousands of pictures to animate all of the picture elements. The camera probably had to be set up on a contraption to where it would not move at all, or else the series of pictures might not align. Not only that, but it probably took a lot of work just to arrange the individual ‘pixels’ represented by objects. This was probably an extremely time-consuming and difficult project.

  3. Cierra Fitzgerald on OK GO: The Writing's On the Wall
    10:48 pm, 11.18.14

    This video is so cool! I can only imagine the countless hours of hard work and dedication it took to put all of this together! It must have taken an extremely long time to arrange all of the materials in that room so that they align perfectly when looking at a particular angle. It amazes me that they were able to execute the camera angles and everything so perfectly and make the video still flow well. It amazes me even more that they were able to shoot this entire video in one take (which is how it appears to be). I must have taken hundreds of takes to get everything perfect or close to it in order to make this video. I can only imagine how many times someone was not in the right spot at the right moment, had bad lip syncing, possibly tripped when trying to get around the room, or even dropped the camera. This seems like it might have been a very fun, frustrating, and mind-boggling project.

  4. Cierra Fitzgerald on Seth Casteel
    10:34 pm, 11.18.14

    I find these photos to be so intriguing because like you said, they portray something that is not normally visible to the human eye. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch images of the amazing things that happen underwater, but these pictures capture it so well. I find the last two pictures in this post hilarious because of the expressions on the dogs’ face. These facial expressions make them seem like they have human like emotions. Who knew that trying to recover a tennis ball could be so fierce and intense?!

  5. Cierra Fitzgerald on Games that are pixelated
    10:28 pm, 11.18.14

    I like this post for two reasons. The first is because it relates to this project, and second because I love video games! I especially like old school video games like mario. Pixels can create the most simplistic rendering of an image, and when completely reduced can create very interesting forms of art like the portraits we see, created from small objects. Even the smallest, simplest things can create something extraordinary.

  6. Cierra Fitzgerald on Painting with light
    7:52 pm, 10.26.14

    I would have never thought of using the painting with light technique through christmas lights, and this is really creative! I really love christmas lights and they are beautiful when they adorn certain spaces. So taking advantage of this could make some really amazing photos. I might have to experiment with these!

  7. Cierra Fitzgerald on Painting with light
    7:51 pm, 10.26.14

    These are really neat! Thanks for sharing this link! I would have never thought of using the painting with light technique through christmas lights. This is really creative! I really love christmas lights and they are beautiful when they adorn certain spaces, and taking advantage of this could make some really amazing photos. I might have to experiment with these!

  8. Cierra Fitzgerald on Elena Kalis
    5:51 pm, 10.22.14

    Caroline, I’m glad you posted this! I love her work! I saw this on Facebook a couple weeks ago and I was thinking about putting a link to her work on the blog, but you beat me to it! Her photos have a very emotional appeal. They make me want to know what it is like to live underwater. Every since I was younger, I have always loved the water. I have loved pools and beaches, possibly because of the beautiful color and the feeling of excitement they used to give me when I went there with family or friends. Because of this, every time I see photographs of pools and beaches, I am overcome with a sense of excitement and awe. I love that her photos portray a sense of elegance, especially the ones she took of her daughter as a mermaid. My favorite photos from her collection were the depictions of her daughter as Alice from Alice in Wonderland. It was clever of her to use water as an illusion that she is falling and the objects around her are floating in space.

  9. Cierra Fitzgerald on Storyteller Michael Wolf
    1:20 am, 10.18.14

    What I like about Michael Wolf’s work is that through capturing these objects, the frozen moments in time seem to tell a story. I always find it interesting that something so simple could be so captivating. One of my favorite albums on his site was ‘back door’ because some of the random objects have a sense of being out of place. Others are positioned as if they have humanistic qualities and evoke a sense of longing. I find it quite impressive for objects so ordinary to evoke such an intense feeling.

  10. Cierra Fitzgerald on Photographer of the Week 08: Leibovitz
    1:10 am, 10.18.14

    Annie Leibovitz’s work is awesome! I mostly love her sense of being daring as a photographer. She has a lot of photos that are quite edgy and risqué. Others are quite humorous. She does well in evoking overall feeling and emotion through her photographs. I especially like her depictions of celebrities as realistic fairytale characters (which could possibly be my inner kid speaking). Her photos give me pause and a genuine curiosity.