Good RIDDANce MOfOs !!

ADVICE to future ap 2d students: It's gonna be impossible to pick a concentration you won't get bored with, so just pick one you won't kill yourself over. Art is visual. Don't get to caught up in an idea.

My favorite piece that I did this year was my miami cityscape photograph of night time and day time.

(about myself) I learned that I don't really like cheesy sunset portrait photography. It's extremely difficult to be creative anymore. HDR is actually kind of stupid. I need to learn film. I can't stand deadlines. I also learned that whenever I go out and intend to get a picture, I always make it happen. It's just that I don't do it enough.

http://keltonphoto.carbonmade.com/projects/2502335#6

My favorite thing we did this year was that awesome barbeque we had at the end!!! Grillin burgers and grillin burgers. I also liked the scholastic art awards I guess.

In Ten years I'm going to be doing an underwater shoot with professional surfers off the island of Crete, afterwhich return to the shore with my ravishing wife 'Irina' and two year old son 'kelly' and grill up some filet mignon in the backyard of my friend's summer home, skating a mini ramp and listening to live samba music.


Quote : I'm not sure when I'll be coming home or where I'll be coming from.

Here are the twelve that were not on display at the ap art showcase.

I would look forward to my grandma coming over. She always had funny things to say, and her Costa Rican accent made anything she said interesting. She talks about her younger days back in Central America and how living was when she was a teenager. “Everybody always has to be somewhere, all the time,” she says about modern northwest living. “No one takes time for themselves anymore. It’s always go, go, go, with no siesta. You know, in Costa Rica, people take naps in the middle of the workday”. It was her nostalgic talk of this lifestyle that got me thinking about how we live. It’s true. Nothing ever stops moving. Even nature convinces me of this. Rivers are always moving and pointing somewhere, the ocean is unceasingly crashing on the beach, even a tree planted firmly in the earth doesn’t get by without a little swaying. And all of this is happening on the surface of this planet, which, too, is forever spinning.

some shots i got this weekend

I tried taking some pictures like this in hawaii, but it didn't work. Every time I tried to use a 1,2, or 3 second exposure, the result was always too bright. Blown out. Because light is always traveling, so if the shutter is open for two seconds, that's two seconds worth of sunlight hitting the lens. Of course it's going to be blown out. So I wondered how people do it successfully. I thought about putting sunglasses in front of the lens. The aperture is also important in doing pictures like this. The aperture, or f/stop, acts the same way that your pupil does. When you walk out into harsh sunlight, your pupil shrinks in diameter to let in less light. When you walk into a dark room, your pupil gets larger to let in more light. So with a camera, you can control the f/stop to do the same thing. Smaller numbers, like 2.8, mean that you're letting in more light. Larger numbers, like 22, which is the largest on my camera, mean you're letting in less light. So, even when I set my f/stop to the darkest I could make it, my 3 second exposures were still too bright.

I was in a photo gallery in Maui and I saw some more pictures with the moving water effect. I asked the guy, "How does he do this without his shots becoming white and blown out?" his answer was simple: "Oh, he has a neutral density filter". I found out that a neutral density filter is, pretty much, sunglasses for your camera lens. You can get them in a degree of stops, 2, 4, and 6 i think. So I went out and splurged and spent like 20 bucks on a 4-stop neutral density filter. So now, I can go all the way to f 26 if i want to.

And it did the trick for my pictures.

so the other day

i was making a count of all the pieces i have done, because i thought i was way ahead and would have no problem being done by april 29. turns out i only had like sixteen done or so...which means i need eight more before the end. this is a wierd feeling to have in art class...being behind. well i've come up with some more photo ideas for my 'the world is always moving' theme:

1. Girl is pissed off at guy so she throws her drink in his face, capture the liquid in mid air and splashing over his face. (red plastic cup, light blue t shirt)

2. a girl's long hair is getting thrashed by heavy wind

3. long exposure of a waterfall or of a stream

4. a girl is sitting on the edge of a merry go round, facing inwards. the camera is in the center of the merry go round, facing outwards at the girl. Have like a 1 second exposure where the girl is pretty much in focus and the background is wooshing by.

Four Concentration Pieces

Just for fun