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Proposal for Final Project

I met Stephan Dirado last fall here at UNH when his some of his photographs were in the museum. He gave a talk in the big lecture hall, and it was probably the most well attended artist talk that I’ve been to here. I was struck right away his easy manner, he seemed utterly comfortable in his skin, and when he talked to the room about his life as a photographer, it was like he was talking to a room full of old friends. This easy and comfortable way of being made an impression on me, and when I saw Dirado in Philbrook dining hall after his talk I approached him to thank him for the talk and express my enthusiasm for his photographs. When I introduced myself he made me feel as if it was an honor for him to meet me , as if I was the accomplished artist and he the doting college art student. It was quite remarkable, and I went away from the conversation feeling uplifted. Dirado must have this effect on many people, for most of his photographs are very intimate portraits which would ...

Stephan Dirado

Parameters Use 50mm lens Use artificial lighting  Pose subject in in space intentionally 

Rocks typology contact sheet number one

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I took a trip to Pawtuckaway State park this past Monday to wrestle some rocks and take photos. I became interested in the compositional possibilities of rock as "figure" and sky/trees as "ground." I also took some pictures where the rock fills the entire frame, and the focus of the image is the texture and features of the rock. I like the flatness of these photos in particular. I'm thinking that my typology project will be comprised of a set of four photos, now i just have to choose, edit, and print! 

The Un-Made Photograph

        My un-made photo graph is of my friend Joe and I running to catch our flight from Tasmania back to Melbourne. We are both in high toped hiking boots smeared with mud and we are carrying large back-packs with sleeping roles tied to the bottom and flip-flops hanging off the sides. We had spent the last many hours in the Museum of Modern and New Art in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. We had become so engrossed in our experience there that we had only remembered to leave for our flight with a half hour to spare. This museum remains the most engaging modern art museum I have ever set foot it. When we finally got out of the museum and got a taxi to the airport, we could see our plane on the runway, and we made a futile attempt to catch.        I would like to have this photo because it was a deeply funny situation once we had gotten over the shock of our very expensive mistake. We had become so enthralled by the art in the museum that we lost ...

Learning the basics of Photo-Shop

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 Last week we took some time to explore the mysteries of photo-shop. The first image I manipulated was a painting by Malevich which, in it's original state, was the composed of a black square and a red triangle. When I was done with it it wasn't anymore. Moving shapes around in photoshop is much easier than daubing paint on a canvas, and I would think that Malevich would have taken full advantage of it if he had lived to see it.  I had some fun with Matisse. The first is real subtle, but it's intriguing to see how showing two breasts instead of one changes the implied perspective of the viewer. The next edit is an expression of how I felt using photoshop for the first time.