Photographs

I decided to take a drive yesterday and ended up running across some more abandoned buildings that might work for my project. I also included a couple images that I edited. I realized that I had cropped the top image at a different aspect from all of the other images. The next image down, I spot adjusted the building so that it would appear brighter. The third image, I spot adjusted the top of the house where I thought it was a bit under exposed and lacking detail. The rest of the images were shot yesterday.  Let me know what you think!

Portfolio

I have been working on getting together everything needed for the portfolio. I have finished writing the grade statement. I started writing the artist statement, but I plan on continually going over the statement until I feel that it has been refined enough. I have also started getting the image list together, starting with the images I plan on including for sure. I can hardly believe its already the end of the quarter!

Finishing

Today, I went through and gathered all of the work prints that I have submitted since the beginning of the course. After gathering the photographs, I have been going through them in order to select the strongest images. I have selected 20 images that I think will work the best, I'm even considering narrowing them down more to just 15. I am looking forward to next Tuesday when we have our last critique before the final.

Kittitas

Today, I decided to spend some time photographing just a bit more for Tuesday's critique. I rephotographed the large white house to better incorporate the foreground and sky. I ended up driving to Kittitas and the Olmstead State Park for additional locations.

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Processing thoughts

I feel that today's critique was really helpful. I think the most successful part was just narrowing down some of the photographs, it gave me a better idea of which ones were working and which ones weren't. I have been spending a bit of time looking up and figuring out the gps coordinates for the titles of the photos and it is surprisingly easier then I initially thought it would be. While doing that I have been considering at least one or two more locations for the final few photographs needed for next week's critique.

Second Critique II

I decided to adventure around Ellensburg to some locations I thought could work well for my project. I have number these the same as the post from before, just for reference. Let me know which images you think are working. Thanks!

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Second Crit

After adventuring more in Roslyn, Cle Elum and the Coal Miner's trail I have gathered a bunch more photographs that could work well with my project. I have decided to photograph everything vertically, to give myself more of a visual challenge when composing images. I found it really interesting that with some of these buildings you could capture the building from different side and it would almost entirely look like an other building. I have the pictures below numbered for better referencing. Any pictures chosen for the final will be retitled with their coordinates. I think that it would be really cool if people ended up traveling to the locations and making a documentation of the decay over the years, heck I might even just do it myself! Let me know which ones you like.

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