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dark forrest- 14

Bus

Dark Tree- 15

This image is the first one i took that captured my imagination and inspired my theme for the rest of my images. The darkness in this image made me start looking at other trees in a different way.

Old Car

I wanted this piece to look a lot darker and a lot more depressing but for now it just looks like an old black and white photo. I want the sky to be a lot darker for sure but i don't know about the rest. 

i dont think this picture really works for the theme i have for my photos because all my others are a lot darker and i just dont like this one. I most likely wont be using this one unless i can change it up to do what i want.

Suburban House

The main point of this picture was to show a suburban house but in a gloomy, depressing light so that the overall picture looked sort of ominous. The lighting around the house is mostly dark to show this but to bring the house into focus i decided to light it up so that your eyes would go straight to the house.

This picture really helps the development of my theme because i wanted to make the house depressing while the drawings would be more uplifting and happy to have a contrast effect the symbolize how people see the world differently and while some look at the world as a happy place others look at the world as a place of despair. From here the next step is to redraw the picture in brighter colors and then again in another media with a slightly different perspective

Marty Knapp Biography

Marty Knapp Biography

Marty Knapp has been a fine art photographer in California for over thirty years. The artist first became passionate about photography when his grandfather gave him a 35mm rangefinder at the age of eleven. Knapp recalls the experience fondly. “That a small tin can could hold the world in it.” With the inspirational work of Ansel Adams as a guide, Knapp focused his lens on landscapes that capture the beauty and wonder of our world.

Marty Knapp was born 1947 in Connecticut. He received his education at Tufts University, Massachusetts. In 1968 he moved to California and in 1973 he settled in the village of Point Reyes Station. In 1986 he began a series of black & white photographs featuring dramatic moments of light in and around Point Reyes wilderness. More recently he photographed the Oregon Coast, the California desert and the Southwest plateau. Marty’s primary camera is a Horseman 985 that previously belonged to the great American photographer, Peter Stackpole.

Dark Living

The central idea of this piece is the scary, ominous feeling of the world when at times it seems so dark and like a dangerous place waiting to kick you when you're down. I really tried to get  lighting effect that would leave lots of shadows so that not everything could be seen and it would create that sense of the unknowing. I wanted the sky to be dark so that it felt more like night time but with no stars.

This picture i believe is the best i have so far to help with my theme because i really like the way the lighting came out and the effect it has when i look at it. The picture really emphasizes the dark look I've been trying to achieve with all of my photos and helps to capture the viewers imagination. The next step is to achieve a completely contrasting effect with either water colors or acrylics to really make the image pop. 

Test Shot

Art Proposal

Proposed By: Benjamin Makowsky

Project Title: The World Through Many Eyes

Class: Senior Art Studio

Instructor: Ms. Miles
Project Due Date: 01/31/2011

Project Description:

There will be a series of 15 pieces of art, 5 of which will be photographs and 10 of which will be  hand drawn. Each of the 5 photo will be of different things but beneath each of the pictures will be two hand drawn variation of the same image in a different media. The entire piece will be hanging from a piece of wood or plastic.

Type of Work:

Architecture, Landscape

Concept:

I will be taking black and white images of buildings and scenery that I see interesting and then drawing duplicates of them. The duplicates will be full of color to contrast the black and white. The black and white images will have a high contrast to create a darker look to the image that the viewer will notice.

Vision:

I would like my viewer to see that everyone sees the world differently. That while they may view the world one way the person right next to them may see it entirely different.

Inspiration:

I was inspired to a series based on how people view the world because I am color blind and I have always wondered how other people the world. I have been inspired by such photographers as Marty Knapp and his black and white pictures that really seem to stand out to me for their contrast. I was also inspired by the work of my grandmother, Sonya Rood.

Equipment to be Used:

Lengths of wood, 3 mega pixel camera, acrylic paint, color pencil

Presentation

Images will be hung from a piece of wood using a thin wire of some sort. The pictures will an be hung from five points and below them the wire will continue to two hand done images, spaced a few inches apart. Each of the five strands will be hung at different levels for a variation.