DempseyJoan Photography: 2012

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Image & Text Proposal

1. I would like to put a canvas with a word or a saying on it in the midst of a normal picture. The background would then describe the word or saying on it.

2. I would like to use scrabble pieces on a textured background that spells out something I'm interested in. I would like to tie in the game board idea into a just relatively normal background.

3. I would like to find things in nature that look like letters and then photoshop them together so it would be one word.. therefore text. The things in nature would have to be very evident about what letter they were for this idea to make sense.

4. I would also like to write something on my friends pregnant belly. I would be trying to capture the love of a mother and a child.

Monday, April 9, 2012

April Exhibit

Abstract

Monday, March 26, 2012

Carly Playing With Light

1. Sasha, her cat back home (not some random cat she creeped on lol), is playing with light in this photo. The contrast of her black body against the white sky almost create a silhouette because she is so dark. The shadows of the lines on the ground from the fence continue with the converging lines that are on the fence. The basket that Sasha is in have some curvilinear lines that are a nice contrast between the straight lines of the shadows.
2. Carly thought of a fairy tale when she saw this path way. She thought of a prince coming to save a princess from darkness and bring her up into the light. Compositionally, that aspect of dark to light helps balance the photo. The tree limbs up near the light add converging lines to the otherwise plain corner.
3. Carly is comparing her legitimate train from Canada in the motion and sequence assignment to the lame trains we have here in San Antonio. Despite the "lameness" of this train, you can see the shadow that it makes of the ground. The shadow even reflects all the frames within a frame that are present in the trains windows. You can also see how bright it was outside because of the converging lines that the sun creates throughout the right side of the picture.
4. In this picture, Carly saw the tranquility of the lake and captured it. She wanted to convey that everything is much more beautiful when we stay calm and remind ourselves of the beauty around us. The reflections are so defined in the lake, you could crop it and it could be a picture on it's own. I like the continuous converging lines from the ground on into the water with the reflections. On the right side of the photo, the shadows create a dark feel but as your eye travels to the left it gets lighter. In my opinion, Carly is representing her transition from the darkness of Canada into the lightness of America.
5. Carly wanted to capture the saying "light at the end of the tunnel" with this last photo. Compositionally, she uses lots of converging lines from the ones on the deck of the bridge to the ones on the side of the bridge to the ones in the trees behind. The shadows of the side of the bridge onto the deck add another layer of converging lines to this photo. It is also very well balanced with the sides of the bridge on the dividends for rule of thirds.

Carly Motion and Sequence Critique

The first picture of the train captures the essence of how fast things move and how easily our life can get out of control because of the blurred motion. Carly wanted to bring the idea of trains in the city back to America because she feels that we don't have any. The blurred motion creates converging lines all throughout the photo. In the sequence the lighting changes because as the train moves, it passes the building that creates darkness in the first photo to make the second photo lighter. In San Antonio, we obviously don't have gondola's because we live in a relatively flat county so Carly wanted to capture the sequence of a moving gondola. She used stop motion to convey this image and three planes vertically that all have a different shade of darkness for composition. The first plane is darkest with the trees and with each plane gets lighter up into the nearly white sky. The last picture is of Carly's best friend back home dancing. The idea behind this picture was to represent all the things Carly left behind, with her friends and the city of Calgary defined in the background of the picture. The cracks in the sidewalk add a lot compositionally because the help balance out the darkness of the pine tree.

Playing With Light

Motion and Sequence

Monday, February 27, 2012

Color

Monday, February 6, 2012

Writing Assignment #1

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung

In this picture, I see the glasses as our heart and the outside is the rest of the world. Without our heart (our passions, our desires, our past, our hopes), our vision of the world is skewed. We are not able to process anything in the world until we process what is going on inside of us. As a freshman in college, I have learned the importance of this concept. First semester, my vision of the world got a little blurry at some points because I failed to hold onto who I really was. As life goes on, we will go through seasons where we can only see clearly what is happening right in front of us and seasons where we can see our future planned out picture perfectly. No matter the season, we must hold onto what is in our hearts and treasure every moment for what it is.