journal 7

Field trip this week...I'm not doing much except trying to figure out what I'm going to do for Thesis. This question is pretty much much consuming me since I think I'm probably the only one left. I know I'm interested in space and objects and light. I saw some of Uta Barths works and they totally reminded me why I fell in love with photography...the light!!! I love how her work is like color fields too, the colors draw you in and the light takes you, it's amazing.

I'm starting to think I'm doing things kind of for the wrong reason. I want to do more portraits because I always wanted to do more portraits, but mainly because I want to work for a magazine company and want to do work in that vein. I love still lives, they're always fun because I have control over what I'm shooting, no fuss,  no fight. I could have 3 minute exposures with no worry about the light changing or the subject changing...awesome! :)

I still don't know what I'm going to do, but I think it's definitely going to have to be color film which means a lot more time color correcting and printing, but in the end I think it will be well worth it. Large c-prints is whats on my mind. The largest I can print in mason gross is about 3' by 2' around about. I'll go with that, I just gotta use the 4x5 view cameras. I think I'll practice some with my 35mm, take sample shots of a space with my digital as well as 35mm and come in for the final shots with the view camera. ...Just a thought, i might get lazy and bail out of that idea...or run out of time lol.

Anyway here's some of Uta Barth's work:

Tell me that's not absolutely gorgeous!!! I am in love with this woman's work...I am a serious fan!!!...i haven't been captured by a work like that in a long time. I remember being captured like that from Henri Cartier-Bresson's work. The light, contrast, texture, form, composition and content completely captivated me. Out of all his work, for some reason now, I love to look at him early surrealist work, enigmas, I like the questions, I find that I have the same ones. I don't think I'll ever get enough of the Japanese Funeral or the man with the cat in the alley though, too good! :)

Some of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work:

These past two are a part of his earlier work, they're more open ended.