Free Pic

When I look through all the pictures I've taken over the course of this class, even the ones I didn't use in particular projects, even the ones I took simply for the "free pic" assignment, I don't think I've taken a better picture than this one. This was one of my artist emulation photos that I worked really hard on to get everything just right and i think it turned out amazing! The person over the house was me. I wanted to be in the picture myself to be more apart of it and get more of the real emotion out of it and really understand it myself and I think that's why this is my favorite.

~Nikki

Macro pictures

These are my Macro pictures!

Multi-people

Laurie Simmons Emu.

What vision or ideas did the photographer want to convey in their photographs?

Laurie loved making a factional reality. She liked making the unreal abstract world of dolls look like the possible and the real.

What photographic techniques did your photographer use when photographing, developing, and/or presentation?

She had moderately dim lighting or it was so that the lighting was focused just on the scene she was creating. When looking at her work, she makes you think a few different things such as 1. Is that real? and 2. Why did she choose to do this?

Who or what motivated your photographer to be interested in photography?

Laurie clams that life itself (and a little childhood imagination) is her inspiration to making the real world play out on the miniature scale.

Many of Laurie's photographs were played out in scenes. For example she had a series called "Cowboys" and it was a sequence of cowboy-like-dolls played out to make up almost a scene without actually spelling it out to people that it was a scene.

Like Laurie, I made a sequence as well that I have titled "Forgotten"

Laurie also has many photographs like the one I have here titled "Pink House." She symbolized many things in pictures like this such as women sterotypes, feminism and reality meeting the make believe.

~Nikki