Stephanie Kovacs -- Final Project

For my final PHOTO 200 project I would like to focus on the patterns, textures, and intricate details of the natural world around me.  When I was photographing in Florence, Italy this past summer, I was fascinated by the textures and patterns of the cobblestones and the stones of the buildings.  These buildings were all historic and displayed watermarks from the floods over the years, creating many patterns, as well as the natural patterns in the textures in the rocks of the roads.  One of the hardest parts for this project will be finding textures and patterns that interest me; and that aren’t just in the manmade concrete.  To do so, I will have to adventure away from the town a bit, likely to some hiking trails, and take the time to truly explore without distractions.  I also like to find personal meaning in some of the patterns. When I was in Italy, I photographed the texture of a stone that I liked and, once I developed the film, I found a Q, and later, when I printed the image, I found an A in the photo.  The Q and A are for my best friend and his brother who passed away 7 years ago.

Jessica Mingle- Final Project Idea

For my final project I want to take pictures of food. I love bright and colorful pictures are there are so many food dishes that have these elements. I also can use it as an excuse to try new restaurants in State College and also try new foods that I may have not thought to try before. Through my travels, I have taken a lot of pictures of local foods and a lot of the time these have turned out to be some of my best pictures because I was really trying to capture the elements of the dishes that made them unique as well as highlighting as many different colors as I could. I think I will be able to dedicate a whole semester to this because I will always be trying new things so it won't get boring after awhile.

Yelin Park_Final Project Idea

For my final project I would like to continue taking lonely photos, but in different ways. I would like to take photograph of red ribbon tied on something, such as hand, bottle, tree. I would like to take both close up photos and landscape photos. I would mostly take photos outside and will Photoshop like film camera. Photos are mostly going to be color, but I also want to try black and white. The photograph will have blue, and calm feeling. The ideas will grow as I take photos

Khadijah Brown Final Project Idea

For my final project I would like to capture black magic. Essentially I want this set to be a self love kit for black people, especially for women. We live in a society that teaches us that our features or things specific to our black culture are not desirable, or more desirable when appropriated on other people. I seek to romanticize and elevate the features black people tend to be insecure about. I want the set to have a simplistic feel with plain backgrounds and less focus on their clothes styles. I also wanted to capture silhouettes to emphasize body shapes. I think the most challenging part will be getting consistent people and getting to a studio every week to capture these images. I may have to change and not do it in a studio but do it using natural sunlight.

Jingting Zhao-Final project idea

Since I have a lens of 16 to 35mm, with little wide angle I think I can use it to take beautiful landscape or street photos. However, I think just the view will be a bit boring. I will let my teacup poodle - Little Eleven - as my only model for this project and take him to several places. It's kind of like a collection of places but Little Eleven will always be the subject.
Because I am a senior and will soon graduate, I want to take this opportunity to make my memory of Penn State and my life at State College. Little Eleven will be a representation of me in the photos. I will definitely take several street photos of downtown State College. I will also take some indoor photos that show my usual activities with my friends. The photo will in color or black and white depends on specific scene or emotion. Also some places do not allow pets, so most of my photo will be outdoor sences.
I think the success of this project heavily rely upon whether I can control Little Eleven in those places or not. Some difficulties will be: How can I let Little Eleven to stay at one spot without me being by his side? How can I keep him safe on the busy street? How can I prevent my friends from petting Little Eleven (he is super cute and all my friends are crazy about him) and let them cooperate with me? But I do think I can overcome these difficulties and make this project the best I can.

Grant Greider- Final Project

      I recently heard the phrase "I'm so unique, just like everyone else" and I'm inspired by that juxtaposition of being different, and yet just the same as everyone else. When I was growing up, I was mocked and even bullied for being different and being myself. Who knew that years later, it would be trendy to be different and yourself? To be completely honest, I'm still quite unsure exactly what my photos will look like. I know that they will have people in them, and that they will be colorful, intimate, uncomfortable and maybe just a little weird. These will include pictures of myself, and others in both intimate and not-so-intimate settings. So I've decided my photo project will consist of just pure unique colorful expressionism of the human form.

Brittany Ricardo Final Project Idea

For my final project for Photo200, I would like to photograph details. I envision photographing up close details of living and nonliving things. I've always had an eye for smaller aspects. I love to look at a rock that is stopping the flow of a stream rather than the stream itself. I like to look at the small crevices of bark rather than the whole tree itself. I notice what buildings are made out of before I look at the whole building. I would like to apply this to my photography. The art of paying close attention to what is not typically seen and finding the beauty in small details. I am not sure if I want the photographs to have a common color palette or all black & white so I plan to play around with these ideas.

Garrett Mowers Final project

For my final project i would like to photograph animals i want to do this because i love animals and i think that it would be really cool if i got some cool images of some different animals in different places and i was thinking that i could use shavers creek birds of prey center and reptile center to get some pictures some challenges with this is i might have some trouble getting trouble getting animals to take picture of another challenge might be getting the approval of the people at shavers creek.

Charlie Fletcher - Final Project Idea

For my Photo 200 final project I would like to do what I guess could be called "eerie portraits." I would like to combine scenes with a portrait element. I like the idea of having a scene with the outline of the back of a head present in the frame. This lends itself to interpretation and mystery. I am not yet sure about how exactly I would like the works to feel, but I feel like the mystery aspect points towards tense and possibly scary. It could be fun to work again that assumption though -- funny works unsupported by composition. By combining cityscapes and portraits, I'm allowing myself to really dive into something that intrigues me thereby making for a good final product. I feel like the idea itself will evolve greatly which also really intrigues me.

Laura Bolich - Final Project Idea

Over the past several years I have found a theme in my photography, which is nature. Within my nature theme I focus on florals, landscapes, and wildlife. I want people to be able to experience the different array of hues that florals and plants have through my photography.  Capturing wildlife in photos is challenging because it requires patience and a little luck of being in the right spot at the right time, especially here in a college community. I love the challenge of finding new and different ways to beautifully capture photos in ways that people have never seen before. My dream job would be to work for NatGeo, which is probably every photographers dream. Hopefully this assignment will help me to further understand what my style of photography is so I can continue to better myself for my future.

Gloria Chang_Final Project Idea

Since I am interested in street photography, I will continue to focus on it for the final project in Photo 200. People, buildings, and roads can all be my subjects. I will make these images both in color and B&W. Street photography is about capturing strangers as they go about their daily lives. So the hardest part would be capture their least guarded condition without their permission and notice. Also, the best street photos are about moments. As you go out and photograph, you don’t see those moments coming. Then another challenge would be do it fast. I will wear dark clothes when I photograph to draw less attention. And always set my camera to a shutter speed about 1/250 or faster.

Jillian Cordisco -- Final Project Idea

I would like to focus the rest of my semester in Photo 200 doing product photography. As a graphic design student, product photography is something I will need to get used to and I think focusing on it now will help me in the long run. I also enjoy being able to stage a product in a way to get people to want to purchase it but I do not plan on using people in any of my photos. I think one of the biggest problems I am going to have is getting enough interesting products to photograph. I also think I will have to make a decision if I want my photos to have a common theme or not. I think I’ll be able to do this because I am willing to go out and but product to take photos of it is just a matter of finding ones that I like. Rob Grimm is a photographer that does what I am looking to do. He showcases the product with additional elements that aren’t people.  

Amelia Bishop Project Idea

For my project idea, I want to do a series of photos that feature shadows and high contrast of light and darkness. These will include a mix of self portraits and everyday spaces and objects. I want to explore the way that directional light plays with the way we see life, and to capture the feeling that a mixture of intensity can help make an ordinary and plain scene interesting. The concept of shadows and light is something I have thought about extensively in the past year as far as understanding that the different highs and lows of life are necessary for life itself to be interesting. A quote I have thought about a lot during this period of reflection has been Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "There is strong shadow where there is much light." which I have interpreted to mean that there is a balance to many of the things that happen in the world, and with every good thing that happens it is usually outweighed by a darker event that challenges us to grow. The photos will be monochrome and will generally be very simply as far as the objects and backgrounds themselves, but the complexity of the photos will be in the way the shadows are cast around/on the objects or myself.

Zoe Roane-Hopkns-Project idea

the concept for my photography project is photographing from the perspective of a shoe. All photographs will be of things at ground level outside like plants growing in the cracks of walls and sidewalks and different textures in the road and in the grass. I think it would be cool because it's a fun and different perspective than we have been photographing. From testing out my idea earlier today, I think one of the hardest parts of the concept is getting a low enough angle where I can tell what's in focus. It's also difficult to capture the idea that it's the foot looking at everything without having a foot actually in the pictures. I will definitely be able to do this for the rest of the semester because I look down a lot anyway. I enjoy finding the little corners cracks that don't seem particularly interesting from above, but can become their own world when you bend down and look them from the ground.

GRANT GREIDER STYLE PROJECT

Garrett Mowers Style photos

The first photographer that I picked was Sarah Malakoff. Sarah photographs the architecture that contains the lives of people she says her “imagery is a window onto our needs to build a nest to create an illusion of safety and warmth or a way to recall that really were that way”. Sarah tries to capture everything that might be in somebody’s livening space there décor, pets what is outside the windows of the rooms. As Malakoff tries to get all forces that go into a room the unrest, refugee, anxiety, curiosity, fear and the calm. Malakoff takes images that relate to our world and the relation of people as she sets the images for the calm that are in our homes when people are not around. Sarah Malakoff just does not take pictures of dark rooms she take picture with the room lighted up and full of lights and shadows. Malakoff also takes pictures of not just people rooms she takes pictures of common areas Malakoff tries to show the quietness of our homes as she is trying to show if we domesticate our surrounding or if our surroundings domesticate us and she tries to let people find themselves in the quiet

            The next photographer that I choose is Brian Harrison he is a photographer that works for several major interior magazines. Brian works with a Fuji GX-680 Mk III as he says it gives him flexibility of his photographs he also uses different lighting equipment that he owns a broncolor power pack system with two normal heads and one high output head that generates 8000 J discharge and he also carries a tungsten light that he use to try and create sunlight on cloudy days. The main thing that he tries to do is making it look like sunshine is coming through the windows rather if that is from real sun or artificial light. He tries not to use the tungsten light when possible as  he wants the natural  light to be the real light source When he is photographing  he tries not to take pictures with an aperture wider than eleven and a shutter speed between one and eight seconds. One thing that makes his pictures unique is his use of the light as he makes the picture his own and he whether there is natural or artificial light.

            My final photographer is Candida Hofer who is also an architecture photographer. Candida has focused on the interiors of places that are seen as cultural life.  Hofer use color imagines with a 6mm and 35mm cameras to take her imagines. Hofer only uses natural light when she is taking her imagines when she  is photographing she tries to take pictures of empty libraries, restaurants, lecture halls, theater and other places where people often visit and spend time in. Hofer also tries to print her images in 15x22.5. What makes her pictures unique is that when she is photographing she use natural light and there are also no people in the images that she takes which makes her similar to the other artist that I have picked.