Intro to Photo

Just the view walking across the Genessee.

Just relaxing

A classic picture of Rush Rhees

For this project, I decided to entitle each work separately with the name of the subject. I wanted this work to be somewhat intimate, allowing the pictures to speak for themselves. For this project, I simply asked each subject how they would like to be photographed. These are the results. Tate Nate Erik    Sean Rachel Tarek      

http://willrobsonscott.co.uk/portfolio/people/ I found this work by Will Robson-Scott fascinating as it makes me feel a real connection with the subjects of the photos. I especially like the photos where the subject is locking eyes with the camera, they make me feel like I am intruding on their life in a way that I find fascinating.

During my visit to the George Eastman House Museum, an exhibit on animation caught my eye. Thus, I decided to focus on the history of animation for my presentation. Since ancient times, humans have been fascinated with the idea of animating stationary images. While primitive, the methods have evolved from drawing multiple sets of legs on an animal on the wall of a cave, to the sophisticated techniques of today. In between, there have been multiple major breakthroughs that I will summarize here. In the 17th century, Magic Lanterns projected series of images onto walls as a form of entertainment. These were some of the first examples of rudimentary projectors. In 1824, Sir John Herschel created the Thaumatrope. This used persistence of vision to make 2 images seemingly combine when a disk was spun. In 1831, the Phenakistoscope was invented which uses images drawn on the same radius between slits. When spun before a mirror, the images seemingly moved. The next big leap came in 1834 wi...

         A selection of photos from my spring break trip to New Orleans, LA, and Pigeon Forge, TN.