My Final Photo Series/Cont. Project

i dont know much about art, but id like to commend you on your ideas and photos. The photos are sick and present a completely different side of photography that is quite interesting. I like the idea of them writing about themselves. Good luck dude, seems like you got your shit in gear!

Thanks. Every project I do for a class, we need to have an artist statement. Basically saying our thought/idea behind the whole project. I hate to post the images like this because on the internet, the pictures looks terrible compared to the prints.

yo man, i like these alot, im a huge fan of alot of your photography you been putting up lately. I think your ideas pretty cool with making them seem like they are from the 70's and thats how it really looks, the overall hazy ton yet a overly sunny look to alot of them is a very cool effect. also i think that its always interesting to do a very short focusing distance, when taking pictures of people up close, and overall just a profile shot with the faded background is a person favorite effect. these are sweet, i dont know about the umm paragraphs, id look for other stuff to use, such as powerful quotes by people from the 70's , if its from a public speaker or just a song lyric. that or i would try to arrange these pictures so seemingly if you set them up right you could have them all making eye contact with another picture, across the room or something, just something i thought was cool. my opinions, keep it up

thanks man. I like the idea of the quote or song lyric but i wanted this to be a personal thing. maybe if each person picked a quote?

yea man they're all good, seems like your in one of the best colleges for photography if i remember??? But yea this is dope, im hoping to take photography as my major minor, and these projects look super chill and all.

definately i think a person quote picked by the person in the picture would be awesome, but let them choose a quote that either describes you as a person, or that they feel is inspiring to them or about them. i just think a paragraph autobiographic style, would be almost to much, even tho these are large pictures, it seems the shortened is sweeter. But this is a dope idea, and you got the equiptment, ha i gotta get the canon 50mm 1.8 or 2.5macro as son as i pay of my camera body haha

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Adding quotes are a good way to ruin a photo project, unless the project was initially based on a quote or song lyric. In my opinion at least. I try to leave as much up for interpretation as possible.

ya man, i have about 3 pentax slr film lenses, from my first slr, that some ahole stole from me, so i might give it a try. (the worst part was it was my grandpa's slr and they stole the body and the zoom lens, so i have 3- 15 year lenses now, and had to buy a new film slr of craigslist for my black and white photo classes, in highschool btw) but thats a good idea. also im undecided on the lens to buy so thats not a issue yet till i pay off my camera. ^ but to this im not sure, i always think its true that photographs should have a mystique feel, but my suggestions to his paragraph idea was just something more simplistic. In some ways i think if they are in a art gallery then a quote would help people take in the picture, but also i think that just the general pictures are powerful as they are already

printing 20+ 20x30's is gonna be expensive.

kinda, at my school, I can print for free. I just need to supply paper. 100ft roll of 24" is $100. Alright, a few of the girlfriends want to buy some for a like $15-$20. There is my money.

damn. its so hard to actually shoot a nice portrait (we just did a portrait assignment and i only have one decent one out of a roll of 35mm film) and your shots are really nice. that would be sick if you got a gallery to let you hang up 20+ of them. Really sick work.

First off I just want to say you should be happy to know your doing something right. I saw this thread posted and saw your name and got excited for it. So be happy about that..

and I know you already agreed with him, but please don't add quotes, I like how in the pictures I dont really know how your friends are feeling right off hand, so I keep looking back and studying their expressions.

As far as the photos, I like all them but the fifth one, he seems like hes not really comfortable in front of the camera and its just not working for me.The 6th one also seems that way, its not really doing anything for me. The first four however I like, they have nice expressions and I feel like you captured their personality a bit more than the last two.

Also thats what f/2 looks like? Shit I dont think Ive shot anything under f/3.5 but thats unreal how their nose's are blurred, their eyes are in focus, and then the hair by the ears is back out of focus. I think it looks great but thats gotta leave a very small room for error.

Haha thanks man. I like your input. I'm going to do away with the quotes for sure. That would be taking it to an un-personal level. When I get a whole bunch of them, I will be able to pick good ones from bad ones. I do agree what you said about the last two. Its crazy how f/2 is, because there is no auto focus, I have to make sure I'm doing everything just right. The focus distance is seriously like, an inch, top.