• The Connective Cyanotype

    Alternative processes in photography have distinguished themselves in my mind as bold ways of letting out a message creatively while making the viewer's eyes intrigued and thirsty for more. However, I believe the purpose of art is for people to make their own connections whilst lost in the mystery...

  • Let's paint some light on this situation

    PAINTING WITH LIGHT is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. Light painting...

  • Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. -Henri Poincare

     I really like all the lines and shapes in this photo. When shooting this, I incorporated the flourescent lighting from above, the streetlights on the street (behind the window), moonlight and my own light source being a small light set up on subject's right. I used a Canon Rebel T2i with an...

  • Merry with Harry

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  • "I've got a life sentence for breaking the rules of composition............what are you in for?"

    Breaking the rules is not as easy as songs about teenage angst, delinquents and pro-peer pressure motivational speakers make it out to be. Well... at least not the rules of composition. Taking a photo successfully breaking the rules of composition AND looking beautiful at the same time have proved...

  • ‎"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." — Charles Bukowski

    For this assignment, we needed to produce something marketable. Basically, I needed to be inspired by something I wanted the world to hear through my artwork, and make people listen. I figured it had to be something simple yet endlessly deep... like a short sentence written by Shakespeare. I was...

  • The Connective Cyanotype

    Alternative processes in photography have distinguished themselves in my mind as bold ways of letting out a message creatively while making the viewer's eyes intrigued and thirsty for more. However, I believe the purpose of art is for people to make their own connections whilst lost in the mystery...

  • Let's paint some light on this situation

    PAINTING WITH LIGHT is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. Light painting...
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Friday, 6 January 2012

The Perfect Mentor: Dan Eldon

Posted by Allegra Markus at 23:08 • 0 comments
Being introduced to Dan Eldon's work has been one of the most inspirational experiences of my life. After a short seminar about Dan in photography class and a magnetic introduction to, The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, I was hooked. I noticed the way he poured his heart and soul onto the pages of his recovered journals and I was in a trance of infatuation,...
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