Final Blog

Above are my last & final concentration pieces . After all i think i did pretty well on my concentration by keeping the connection through out every photograph.

I really liked the theme because I actually love old buildings. I love the look & the history & how it makes you wonder what went on in that old building or that old house so many years ago.

I tried to explore that through my photos . I wanted it to be in black and white to show mystery and make people wonder about the building itself then see the beauty in the color that was high-lighted.

I tried to use all different types of buildings so i had to drive around a bit to find interesting ones & other times i would just be out and spot one that i would love which made it better for my concentration.

Over all, i am happy with how it turned out.

7-10

How I've grown ?
Since it's getting warmer out, i've been able to actually walk around outside and get better photos.
I think this has definitely shown in my past four concentrations.
My concentration has become stronger because I'm searching for older, more run down buildings to show more of a story and have more emphasis on the meaning of all of this.

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(#8)

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5-6

Concentrtion #5

 Concentration #6

My perspective of this project has changed slightly. I really like how my works are turning out but i wanted to make the color of whatever was highlighted stand out more.

Instead of just choosing to color the thing I thought was beautiful I want to have something in color that can get the viewers attention.

For instance; in concentration # 6 the doors are brown and I was trying to get the effect of thinking "what's behind those doors?" I think I succeeded in capturing that effect in this picture . All thought I want to get a different viewers' effect I want to have the same meaning in my photography . In concentration #4 I just had the color of what I felt was beautiful about that building stand out . 

Blog Entry #3

• My work shows growth and development by exploring the aspects of the new idea. It portrays a new beauty to the buildings.
• The original idea was just old buildings but then I realized that many people don't like old buildings and that I need to show the beauty in them. Recently I decided that I should not just show the buildings but use the color as a way to tell a story about the history of the building. - I still like this idea because I have such a broad range of buildings to choose from to use in my photos.
• My idea for my next piece : It is supposed to snow a lot soon so I am hoping to get the snow on the buildings to get an older look to add to the buildings.

VISUAL :

 

This is my visual resource. I love the cracked windows and the dark clouds in the back .

Concentration #4- post tonight.

a new approach

So, I'm not changing my theme but for some pictures I want to approach them in a different way. I want to get more historical buildings as well and use color to show the history/story of the building.

I want the story to be shown through color. I want the viewer to imagine the story within the building & to imagine something that happened in that area.

Number 3

I don't think this one is as good but it has been very cold out lately so that makes it harder to get pictures.

Second concentration piece

This is a small building near my home.

It isn't that run down but you can

see it's getting there by the rust and

old look of the building .

beauty in urban decay

The central idea of my concentration is to show the beauty of urban decay. Something about old run down buildings stands out to me. I want to show how urban decay can be beautiful in the simplest form, just by adding one color.
My work shows one color of the building. It makes you focus on the beautiful color of the building instead of how it is run-down.

Fixed up a bit ..

Okay, My idea for my concentration was kind of vague. It wouldn't really be the same subject in the photos & that's not what I want. I'm going to keep the same concept of the simple things are the big and beautiful things. In the first blog entry I posted one of my photographs of the old building with the orange windows. I want to get pictures of old buildings that have something beauiful on them. To show how something old and useless, like an abaondoned building, can be beatuful.
My first picture will be the one I already did, the buliding with orange windows. The second is going to be of another old buliding with art or graffiti on it. I plan on going down town and looking for old buildings that are rundown, abandoned, or just look old.

CONCENTRATION IDEA ;;

^ My inspiration. (Earlier photography works)

I love taking black & white pictures and highlighting something in them. I want to take this idea and make it into my concentration by taking black and white pictures of ordinary things and highlighting something that makes it great and that makes it stand out. I'm not quite sure if I'm going to make any of the pictures above apart of my concentration but this is what kind of photographs I am going for.

I want to show how life isn't always just black and white. I want to have some of the simplist things be in color because the simple things can matter the most.

"enjoy the little things in life , for one day you'll look back and realize they are the big things"

I think this quote relates to my theme also. I want to show the little things in a black and white scene.