I didn’t have a wide angle lens so I stitched together a bunch of photos in Photoshop to try and emulate how incredibly beautiful this scene was from my window after a big thunderstorm on Friday early evening in the city. My friend took some great photos of the sky at the same time from his hood in Long Island City.
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The high schoolers that learned to develop and print black and white film at The International Center of Photography, where I was a volunteer teaching assistant at for the last 10 weeks, had their final show today. Their images were great, and I don’t know why but it continually shocks me to see youth be as smart or smarter than so many adults I’ve come across. I feel like our future is in good hands (*tear).
On another note: my Saturdays are free again!!!
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Can you tell which is a real diamond and which is the cubic zirconian?
Can you tell which ring(s) are junk box jewelry from where I work and which is from a (thankfully) failed engagement I had with someone from a long time ago?
Can you tell which photo was taken with a samsung point and shoot digital and the other photo with a canon rebel x dslr (although both were photoshoped in post-production)?
Can you tell which one is sold at Zales and which one is sold at Forever 21?
Can you tell which one costs $5000 and which one costs $5.99?
Can you tell which one people die for in Africa and which one people in China make for 5 cents a day?
*UPDATE*
As requested, here are the non-retouched images:
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Here are some photos from my trip to New Mexico. It was actually a lot colder than I thought it would be! Besides that, the landscape is beautiful and I felt like I was floating through large expanses of light, shadow and textures (duh, I think I mean surreal). We drove around a lot, which was nice, listened to music, visited the Gila Cliff Dwellings, walked through El Paso, hiked, tracked footprints, napped and played Scrabble. I photographed with the Lomo plastic TLR camera and the small point and shoot digital. The square pictures are plain scans of the film, so the images have been really downgraded and have lots of actual dust on them, but I kind of like the look.
Steps towards Gila Caves.
In front of a cave opening.
First time at a shooting range! It was actually kind of fun, but took getting used to
firing the gun without feeling like I was about to die.
I don’t think my aim wasn’t that bad.
During a road trip.
Walking through El Paso.
Mileage board during road trip.
Gila Cliff Dwellings.
In the shadows.
Visiting an abandoned house.
Again through El Paso.
During the road trip back and where we stopped for some chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches.
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I photographed this in the connecting hallway between the A and B buildings at the Fashion Institute of Technology. It kind of reminded me of a Philip-Lorca diCorcia image where he shot random people walking down the city street by using a secret flash that went off without the subject knowing. He did the same thing the city does when they photograph people who run a red light on some city streets, except they get their little picture and $120 traffic ticket a few weeks later.
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