the Finalists...

Here are my final triptych images. Enjoy!

Chow

the Perfectionist in Me...

After editing all of my images for my triptych project, I learned something very important. In my editing process I discovered that when I shot my photographs, I overlapped the photos just a little too much, which caused them to not line up how I originally envisioned. *sigh* Everything went as planned except for this little snafu. It resulted in a lot of extra work, but I was eventually able to line up the images how I wanted. I will definitely approach this differently next time. I am, however, elated to know that this was the only problem I encountered. Overall, this project was a tons of fun and I plan on creating more triptychs in the future!

And the Winner is...

I love me some Kanye West, but what an ass!!!
Kanye ruined sweet little Taylor Swift's big moment during her VMA acceptance speech when he obnoxiously went on stage and took the microphone from her stating that "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time." At least the crowd booed him.
Check out this article for the full details...
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hiphopmediatraining/171413/kanye-west-has-truly-lost-it-this-time/http://

Photographers of the Week

I came across a couple photographers that I found very interesting and wanted to share them. They both have totally different styles all of their own. The first photographer is Loretta Lux. She was originally a painter and you can see this in her images. Her images are very clean, simple, and have this aura about them. The post-processing techniques she engages in makes for very soft, dreamlike, very painterly final photographs. I'm curious to know if she superimposes any of her subjects with the backgrounds they accompany because some look way more processed than others and give that appearance.

http://www.lorettalux.de/

"The Drummer"

"The Book"

"Tobias"

"Hopper"

The second photographer is John Mann. He is an American fine-art photographer who also teaches at FSU. I am drawn to his map series and the intricate detail that I can see went into these works. The subdued color really makes the images what they are.

http://www.rockpapercloud.com/

"Untitled (arc)"

"Untitled (ocean)"

"Untitled (Moskva)"

"Untitled (divide)"