THE RETURN OF DR. FRANK N FURTER

ON HALLOWEEN DAY, IN THE QUAINT CITY OF TULSA, OKLAHOMA, SOMETHING INCREDIBLY PECULIAR OCCURRED. AT THE PRIDE OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST, ALSO KNOWN AS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, A BEAUTIFUL GROUP OF STUDENTS LEARNING ABOUT THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY DECIDED TO VENTURE INTO THE INFAMOUS AREA UNDERNEATH THE VISITOR'S STANDS OFTEN CALLED "THE CRACK SHACK." ALWAYS HEARING THE LEGENDS ABOUT THIS NOTORIOUS SITE, THE COLLECTION OF YOUNG SCHOLARS WERE BOTH EXCITED AND HORRIFIED ABOUT THEIR UPCOMING EXPERIENCE. THINGS WERE COMPLETELY FINE, UP UNTIL THEY HIT THE FOOTBALL FIELD AND BEGAN TO HEAR SOME SORT OF MONSTROUS MOAN. THEY MOVED ABOUT SEVEN AND TWO THIRDS OF A METER CLOSER AND HEARD A GROAN. 

"OK NOT TO SOUND PARANOID, BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" NICK QUESTIONED SLIGHTLY ANXIOUSLY. 

"PROBABLY JUST YOUR OWN HEAD, I CANT HEAR A THING," EMMA SASSILY REPLIED. 
"WELL THEN," NICK MUTTERED UNDER HIS BREATH.
THE STUDENTS INCHED CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE ENTRANCE, HALF NOT BEING ABLE TO CONTAIN THEIR EXCITEMENT AND THE OTHERS TREMBLING WITH FEAR. FINALLY THEY ARRIVED AT THE DOORS.
WAKELEY, THEIR OH SO FEARLESS LEADER, OBNOXIOUSLY YELLED "AND NOW, WITH GREAT PLEASURE, I PRESENT TO YOU ALL THE INFAMOUS-" THERE WAS ANOTHER LOUD MOAN. IT BELLOWED TO MUCH THAT IT NEARLY MADE THE GROUND VIBRATE. WE ALL PAUSED AND LOOKED AT EACH OTHER, BUT WITH A CLEAR OF HIS THROAT, WAKELEY CONTINUED "THE INFAMOUS CRACKSHACK. SHALL WE?"
ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER NOISE, THIS TIME A SHRILL SHRIEK, CAME FROM WHAT APPEARED TO BE JUST BEHIND THE DOORS WE WERE STANDING IN FRONT OF. HOWEVER, BEING SO FEARLESS, WAKELEY BEGAN TO UNLOCK THESE FRIGHTFUL DOORS. ALL THE CHILDREN SHIVERED WITH ANTICI..............PATION. 
ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE DOORS SWUNG OPEN WITH A DEAFENING BANG. TWO FIGURES, FROZEN OTHER THAN A SLIGHT TREMBLE, COULD BE MADE OUT IN THE SHADOWS. 
"WOAH WOAH WOAH WHO THE FUCK IS FUCKING IN HERE?!??!" WAKELEY ROARED FROM JUST WITHIN THE WALLS. 
AS THE GROUP LOOKED CLOSER THEY SAW THAT THE PAIR, WAS INDEED, IN A HUMPING POSITION. THE "MAN" CALMLY MOVED AWAY, CLEANED HIMSELF UP, AND BEGAN TO APPROACH THE CENTER OF THE KIDS. THE ONLY THING THAT LET EVERYONE KNOW HE WAS A MAN WAS THAT THERE WAS A SMALL FLAT NIPPLE POPPING OUT OVER THE TOP OF HIS CORSET. OTHER THAN THAT, THE FIGURE STANDING IN FRONT OF THEM SCREAMED WOMAN. 
"HELLO BABIES, IM DR. FRANK N FURTER. ITS A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU ALL."

About Light

Now I don't know if these are necessarily my best pictures in my About Light series, however, they are easily my favorite. First off, they do display light through the extreme amount of contrast I put on the images. It makes what light there is to pop like crazy. The top image of the orange linear thing somehow reminds me of something you would see in Beetlejuice, which I'm absolutely obsessed with. Then I like the bottom photo because of the natural light and clouds in it with the touches of color around the edges.

Dynamic Range

In photography, dynamic range expresses the ratio between the maximum and minimum amount of measurable light intensities, which is essentially just white and black. A stop is something that is either doubled or cut in half. For example, one stop up is to double and one step down is to half. The best digital cameras out today can capture ten to eleven stops. Negative film is able to capture nine to ten stops, while when converted to positive it only has five to six. However, our eyes are able to perceive ten to fourteen stops of light.

             focus on background  focus on foreground

                         our mental image

Alexander Harding - About Light

This image titled "Particles" taken by Alexander Harding showcases light by simply the small bright particles that stand out against the dark background.

ANDY WARHOL BIOGRAPHY YAY

I chose Andy Warhol as my biographical photographer cause he's one of my favorite people on the face of this planet and luckily he happened to take a few photographs. He's quite the inspiration.

Andy Warhol's Photography Career

Andy Warhol, though primarily known for his amazing art career, did a small bit of photography on the side. The majority of these pictures were portrait polaroids he took for the purpose of painting them later on, which I find to be a super rad idea. This picture is a self portrait of himself as a drag queen. Why? Who knows, he's Andy Warhol he can do whatever he wants. This picture, just as most his, have no real technique to it, but they're all fantastic, legendary photographs. He does have some more professional black and white pictures, but this drag queen one just makes my heart happy. You know, the other night I was at Spoon and Britt, the lead singer, for some odd reason, just reminded me so much of Warhol. Also, their whole back set up was white and whenever the lights flashed it looked like Andy Warhol in his studio and it was honest to God the best thing I've ever seen. Oops got a little off subject, but anyways, I personally believe Andy Warhol to be one of the best artists to walk this Earth and he is a huge inspiration of mine. Maybe I'll even do a series like these considering I have a polaroid and all, ooh I could totally pull that off. Just a bunch of polaroids of people, and maybe I'll even try to paint them (which I'll inevitably fail at). Whatever, now I'm excited. Yay for Warhol!

"Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1. I think this poem is about the progression of life. I think the narrator is trying to tell the story of his life then convince the audience to take full advantage of their lives. I believe this because that's what the words mean to me.

2. "Death closes all: but something ere the end, 

Some work of noble note, may yet be done, " is the excerpt I chose. This stands out to me because it's saying that we all die eventually and that there's always going to still be things to do that will have to be left undone. And it's really sad, yet very accurate.

Hand Scan

I scanned both my hand and my face multiple times, but this one turned out to easily be my favorite. All I did was constantly wave my hand back and forth as it scanned to create the static look. Then I went super far up on vibrance and contrast so there was both a really bright white and a really dark black with simple colors in between. I personally really enjoy it.

Pinholes' Experimental Capabilities

Pinholes are extremely basic photos and yet are a skill that is incredibly hard to master. One of the coolest ways to take a pinhole picture is to shake the box or capture a moving subject to make it experimental.On the top image, the man likely just moved the box back and forth so multiple copies of him would appear. The bike picture was simply riding a bike through the picture which made it blurry considering the long exposure. The last one is sort of distorted so it was possibly an attempt at a panorama. Any experimental pinhole will likely look pretty sweet no matter what.

Charles Sheeler

 Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) was both an American painter and photographer widely known for helping found American modernism. He began making his works of art in the twenties and continued to do so all the was through the fifties, and still remains rather popular today. He was incredibly into showcasing architecture and very common scenes in a home. As you can see above, he loved taking pictures of big cities such as New York. His photos are all tied together through their two very different yet consistent styles. One of them is the many pictures of various buildings that show the similarities and differences in architecture. The other displays various shots in different rooms and houses. Sheeler helped create a new and exciting style of art that revolutionized art all throughout the rest of century and even into today.

Tree Bark

I took this photograph for the up close and wide open project in photo 1 to pick up on texture and greater detail. This was by far my favorite image from that particular project, and quite frankly, one of my favorite overall. As opposed to how dark some of my photos are, this one is so bright and vivid; it's almost enchanting. It totally makes me think of being in a magical forest somewhere and I just love it. 

Gabby's Silhouette

This is probably one of the photographs I'm proudest of because of the large amount of work I had to put into it in order to accomplish the look I desired. Luckily, my plan turned out awfully well. I shot this for a studio lighting project in photo 1. I really wanted to be able to make a silhouette just because I think they look super groovy. However, the process was actually much more difficult than I originally thought it to be. After I shot it, I realized there was a ton of light on her face and her outline was nowhere near bold enough. After much dodging and burning, as well as clone stamping, I finally achieved my goal of a decent silhouette.

Red Bulb

Ok, if you couldn't tell I really like to incorporate a lot of black and contrast into my pictures. This one was taken at the Hardesty Arts Center off Archer and Cincinnati downtown. I really liked the florescent glow of the light when I first saw it and imagined that it would make a cool photograph, and turns out I was right. Again, I just used the curves tool (probably my favorite) to achieve this look.

Open Sign

This is another one of my favorite images because of the extreme simplicity and contrast of it. This particular open sign belongs to Decopolis, located downtown at the corner of 6th and Boston. In editing it, I merely brightened the color in the sign and then once again dragged the curves line way down til the background turned pure black. Also, I made sure that the sign was located in the top-right of the the picture because I feel like whenever I see an open sign it's always somewhere in that region.

Dark Flowers

I took this photo at Philbrook Museum back in April in their beautiful flower garden. When I first took this image, it was just your average pretty flower picture and I found it to be awfully boring. I really didn't like it much at all. But then, one day I was just really bored and decided to play around with this picture on photoshop. I was messing around with the curves tool (just cause it's actually really fun) and somehow I ended up landing on just the perfect balance of darkness and brightness. And now I absolutely love it.