Experimental: Intervention

This project my class could pick from fabrication, sculpture, or intervention in photography.  Mine crosses the borders on each of them.  I was interested in lenticular printing, what image might be caught in the middle when flashing between the two.  When I shot the underwater shoot, I also shot quite a few pictures of my sister falling into the water, and felt that these sort of splashes created a kind of sculpture for me.  I wanted to place them in a landscape, so I overlapped the splash photo with one of a landscape that I took.

Experimental Photo: Billboard Project

My class was to create a billboard that was an artwork, and perhaps fit into the landscape in an interesting way.  I went out to shoot pictures of billboards, but I wasn't able to find any that I liked.  So instead I used a picture I took when going through New Mexico earlier this summer, cut out the billboard from another picture I took, then put my photo of LA in the landscape.  My boyfriend helped me find a little park off 1st Street in LA, and it was nice and secluded while having some fantastic views of the cities and skyscrapers, exactly what I wanted.  I was driving around with the phone next to my ear while he was at home on Google maps directing me, haha, it was really quite fun.

Underwater Photos for the First Time

For my Digital Imagery class midterm, I wanted to try something ambitious...shooting underwater.  My idea originally was to play around with this idea of suspension and the way the body moves underwater, how it seemingly defies gravity.

I was going to rent a camera, but ended up not because it was very expensive.  Instead I went and created my own very inexpensive contraption, which I don't recommend anyone to repeat.  I was taking a risk with it, but you gotta do what you gotta do.  After the third  test of my underwater camera housing (involving transparency, lots of duct tape, and ziploc) it proved to be waterproof.  It worked, and created some interesting effects underwater.  It was difficult to use however, especially since I didn't get all of the air out.  I couldn't stay underwater very long because I kept floating back up to the top!

 This project was a lot of fun for me and my model, one of my best friends; and my sister who I persuaded into helping too.  When I get some extra money, I'll be sure to invest in some real underwater housing.  Anyways, enjoy some of the pictures I took, and the "behind the scenes" ones my sister decided to take.