4 Landscape Prints

Landscapes: Boston Roofs

A little furry, not as Fleshy

New Yorker: "Pixel Perfect" - Pascal Dangin

Pascal Dangin has a lot of control. Lauded by so many celebrities and media honchos, you can almost say that so many of the advertisements and media that you look at today, was in fact, done by him. Sure, he might not have created the idea behind the advertisements, but he sure did tweak and alter little things and present them to what us, commoners, see. That's a lot of power.

Lauren Collins' paints a very different picture of Pascal Dangin. There are airbrushers, and then there is Pascal Dangin. Of course, he bloops out the pimples on celebrities, but it seems that he does more than that. What I liked about what was written about him, was how he seemed to see through the superficial aspects of the picture (sort of ironic, I guess), and he could tell what needed to be changed so that it didn't seem -too- perfect. 

It's funny because we always rag on how celebrities look too fake, but at the same time, a photograph is something that you want to look at for some time, and I don't necessarily want to look at scraggly old blue veins. Dangin also knows when to stop, he seems to know when a woman looks too much of something. I never saw touch ups as a form of art, but when you think about it, photographs, advertisements, media is an art in itself and Dangin treats it like one.

Free Shoot - Kent Island in my bedroom

I took Meg's "I guess you can take landscape photographs in your house" a little seriously. These were taken from the different rooms in my apartment at different times of the day. Though, the day doesn't look that different when there's remnants of a hurricane coming your way.

Think Green

"Support local farmers"

Diptych Response

Without a doubt, I had a lot of difficulty with this project. I didn't exactly know where to start because I was very stuck on other people's examples and ideas. It also took me some time to get into the 'dialogue' between the two. I googled a bit and looked at flickr's diptych pool, which helped. The problem with me is, the project would have been easier/aesthetically pleasing if I were matching photographs together. The most difficult part for me was to create things, and not exactly know how it would turn out. I think my favourite one out of the pack is the one of the kayaks and colour pencils. This isn't because it matched up well, but because the colour pencils did not come out as expected. I moved them around and I really liked the outcome. It wasn't something that I had planned or thought extensively about, which was the case for the others.

I am very interested in making diptychs, or triptychs. I think it's fun to be able to find relationships with other photographs, it is definitely something that I would look into in the future. For this project, however, the problem as mentioned earlier, was the ability to create the picture from scratch. Not having it there for me to see, but having to picture it in my head. The examples I saw on flickr were also all of photographs, so although it gave me more of an idea of what I could do, the hard part still went back to the creation of the scanogram.