More Construction Photographs

I got one of the rolls of film developed of all the construction photographs I have been making at the jobs/houses I'm framing, and have been gradually getting them scanned and corrected in photoshop. The goal/plan is to have a good number of prints to bring to the regional SPE conference at the end of October to share with some friends. Here are a few more that I have finished (well, sorta, I still need to work out some color balance issues, but you get the idea):


And, on another note, I've ultimately decided to forego the grad classes at USU, and instead, begin pursuing another degree in Landscape Architecture. It took a LOT of thinking and debating to arrive at the decision, but it's what I think to be best right now. I still may apply to a couple grad schools this winter, but I'm not sure yet. I think I may have my parks project to blame for the decision. I began to notice a lot of things about the layout and placement of plants and paths and such in the landscape, and I have begun reading Frederick Law Olmsteds biography again (I got half way through during the second semester at school last year, and then kind of put it aside at the end of the semester), and it started making me think about a second degree. So I submitted my application to USU for the winter semester, and now I'm just waiting to hear back from them, which may take a little over a month or so, minimum.

Website Update

I finally got a web gallery of my photograms up on my website. So far I only have the images posted, and I'm in the middle of writing a process statement, and maybe an artist statement; I'm not sure if I have anything to come up with for an artist statement yet though.
Also, here's another photograph I made at the last house we just finished building

Photograms

The past little while, I have been slowly getting all of my photograms corrected and fixed to put them up in a gallery on my website (which I hope to get done this weekend). While I was trying to fix one that was, and still is, nearly impossible to match to the original print, I started playing around with levels and curves and hue and saturation, and other tools in photoshop, and I came up with these:

I played around with the curves on this one
On this one I just applied auto color
This one is the original scan, which doesn't at all match the original print (I've finally decided I'm going to have to rescan this to get it to match the original print)
After playing around like this, I think this could be a way to take Burchfield's idea one more step. But I almost feel like it's a cheap way to be different. And, there are some that I just can't bring myself to alter so dramatically; the original colors are too beautiful to not try to preserve.

Actual Construction Photographs

Well, I finally have some photographs from the construction site to show. I actually remembered to borrow my brother's digital camera today, after lots of times of forgetting, and made quite a few photographs. Here are some of them:






Once I get all my film developed I should have enough for a whole portfolio.

Just an Old Image I Dug Up

Well, it's been over a week since I last posted anything up here. I've meant all week to take my brothers digital camera with me to work to get quick results with the construction photographs I've been taking, but I always forget to either ask permission, or bring it along. So I'll just have to wait another day or two to get any of those photographs posted (I still have to take my slides in to get them processed, and I'm only half way through my current roll). I have been shooting almost every day this week for that project. It seems like every time I turn around I see a little grouping of shapes and angles or curves that catches my eye.
I the meantime, here's a photograph I made in Island Park earlier this summer:

Construction Photographs

Today I started on a new project. The other day, while I was at work, I thought I needed to start making a few photographs of the houses I am framing. The past few days I have been starting to see neat little geometric patterns in the walls and floors and scraps and hoses that lay all over the work area. So today, during my lunch break I got out my camera and started shooting away. I ended up making about thirteen or fourteen images, all on slide film, so it'll be a while before I get the slides back and posted, but I really had fun this afternoon letting loose and making images of something that I don't normally photograph. I can't wait to get the slides back