This is another image that is just so new that I can’t decide if I should include it in the show or not. Maybe this one instead of the one in the previous post . . . or in addition to . . . or not at all; I’m having an indecisive day.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
I can’t decide if I am going to put this piece in the Starkville version of “Ides of the South” or not. I feel like it works with the rest of the show, but it is so new to me, and I haven’t had months to look at it and think about it . . . any opinions?
I created this image for a show entitled Hyphenated-American that is going to be up for a few days around September 4, in the atrium at Rainbow. The show is being put on by The Institute of Southern Jewish Life.
There is a good bit going on in the image, so I uploaded a slightly larger digital file, so if you check out the full-size version you should be able to read/see everything.
I just shot some new products for the guild’s new website, mscraftsmensguild.org (which isn’t up yet as I write this, but the new version should be live next week). I tried something a little different for the shots, you see a good many product shots on glass, but it is normally on black or white, for these I tried it with gray. Groundbreaking stuff huh? Sure it sounds easy and boring, but a lot of the product on glass shots you see are actually on acrylic stands, and lighting a product well without getting bad reflections on a glass surface is no walk in the park. While setting up for these shots I struggled to get rid of an edge reflection on the glass, but I couldn’t determine what was actually reflecting in the room until I finally realized it was the white shirt I was wearing. So I shot most of these with a cable release while I hid.
A little over a week ago I went down to Hattiesburg to create some ad shots for the school system. It was a fun little shoot, but despite starting at 7 am it was hot. Which worked out for the shot of the power-lifter . . . otherwise it just made it feel more like work.
This post isn’t about a dog, or photographing dogs . . . really. This dog is actually the constant companion of who the post is about, Stephanie. I recently photographed a few pieces of her artwork for her, more of which can be found on her site Stephanie Dwyer Designs.
And, I know the title I referenced is actually The Treachery of Images ( or “La trahison des images”).
I just finished laying out an 11″x17″ poster for the show . . . there are clearly different skills involved in good graphic design versus good photography, but I can afford my own labor.
Jerri and I have been together for about 10 years, married for the last 7. I guess I have had so long to get used to how she is, that sometimes I don’t properly appreciate how great she is. For example, when I told Jerri that I wanted to get up at 2am to drive to Starkvegas and take some night photos and sunrise photos then immediately turn around and drive home, she didn’t even act surprised. When I asked her to go with me and help, she didn’t hesitate. When I actually woke her up at 1:30 am this morning . . . ok so she is never happy when she wakes up, but she got up and helped me load the car anyway. She then helped me lug equipment all over State’s campus, and chase color in the clouds.
A few days ago, while I am sure I could have been productive . . . I instead made digital dupes of some old negatives. I think most of them are from 1997 or before, but I wasn’t very good about dating my work until we moved to Savannah (1999?). One day I will go through and digitize all of my old work, but that goes at the bottom of a very long list of “one day” items. In case you are wondering about the “breaking my own rules” thing, I haven’t done anything to most of these images and I wouldn’t call them print-ready . . . and I normally have a rule that I don’t show people anything I wouldn’t print and display, but these have a certain nostalgic value to me without them being quality work. Hopefully no one will judge my current photographic skill by the quality of things I shot ten years ago. Continue reading ‘Old Work, really old OR breaking my own rules’