Showing posts with label abstract photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract photography. Show all posts

Jun 25, 2011

Phot70 at MPC

This summer I decided to take a photography class at the local community college.  Though it's more for fun and for a little more structure this summer, it's an informative class.  I figured that I'd add another blog every couple of days to chronicle my adventures in my digital photography class.  Maybe you can even learn a thing or two!

To start jogging your brain, here's a cool arrangement of cubes outside of class...


To start, here's a little introduction (my name tag)...


The class is a cool mixture of people from all different backgrounds, of all different ages and ethnicities, and all different types of people.  Here's some of the class figuring out how to adjust white balance on their cameras...


Some of my notes and my workspace.



A candid shot in class, and an advertisement for Canon EOS (Canon, if you're reading this I'll give you my address to send the check on over)...


And, during one of my assignments, a random encounter with the infamous model Noah Freedman...



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May 3, 2011

Abstraction

I've been focusing a lot on finding beauty in the mundane.  I was talking with Jeff King, and the subject of photography came up.  Great photographers, we agreed, see the world differently than most people.  A nod of the head– a tilt of the eye– they see and capture brief glimpses of magic that would pass by the unobservant without detection.

Now, I don't claim to be great, but I was inspired.  Why not try to make plain, ordinary objects and situations beautiful?  I went out to shoot a few photos...






To see beauty in the mundane is no easy feat.  It takes persistence and patience.  Find the best in what you've got– and if what you've got isn't enough– know that nothing is set in stone.