charlottesville grid project

Mr. David Dupont plays his harmonica for loose change outside the Jefferson Theater. He later tells me, "Many people have taken pictures of me, but nobody has asked me for a release form before."

Micayle Marie (on the left) and Adele Sams (on the right) sit on the mall and play their instruments merrily.

Mr. James Rippetoe and his two dogs walk along the downtown mall in Charlottesville on April 15, 2012.

advertisements

For photography class, we had to advertise something. So I advertised apples, because they are the most delicious food in the entire world.

the arboretum

I went to an arboretum several weeks ago. During the golden hour, the trees looked truly majestic. As evening fell, the silhouettes of the many trees looked eerily beautiful.

portraiture

Several weeks ago, I went on a field trip for my photography class.

 Here is a self-portrait of myself.

 And here is a picture of a small infant I met on the mall, along with his mother.

 Here is a portrait of an older man, who was kind enough to let all of the photography students take pictures of him.

 Here is a posed portrait of one of the girls in my photography group. She is an excellent model!

 

 And here is a semi-candid portrait of a girl in my photography group taking a picture of another girl in my photography group.

 

Finally, an "artistic" masterpiece.

sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorski

Here is a picture by this illustrious pioneer in color photography:

Notice the combination of three different pictures taken through three different colored photographic filters to achieve the color. Each small movement in either the camera or the subjects would create a "ghost" image in a bright color around the true image. In addition, the slight tilts of the camera allowed the overlay to have some slight irregularities, and create even further "ghost" images. The movement of the children, and the ghost images produced by such movement, show the passage of time in these photographs.

I attempted to imitate this photographic technique by taking three successive photographs of the same subject, then combining their different channels into one picture. This is basically the digital counterpart of G-n. Prokudin-Gorski's analog technique from a century ago.

My attempt is here:

Once again, the different "ghosted" images provide a sense of the passage of time. In addition, the grass continues to retain a semblance of its original coloration. Although I had cropped this image, if the picture had remained uncropped, it would have shown the characteristic colorful borders created by the different overlaps of overlay.