Project 3 paper

John Corney was a photographer that really caught my eye while I was out on the web looking at different photographers work and trying to decide what to do for my own project. I was having trouble trying to figure out what to do as I work a full time job and drive 70 miles one way there plus going to school full time takes most of my free time doing home work. Martin told us to pick someplace that was familiar to us to do this project on, so I decided to do my parents place and the world around it. I started with just going out and taking about 75 -100 pictures of their land and then spread out and started taking pictures from about a 3 mile radius around them. I found that there was quite a bit to work with once I got started. Using what I had seen from John Corney’s work of changing things to black and white, using vivid color, and taking many different landscapes I decided this would work. He has used a field or range surrounded by barbed wire to inspire him which inspired me with the corn fields around our home. I also used his ideas of black and white to inspire me to change my picture of the hanging birds nest into black and white to show the different textures and shapes in my picture as he did in his. While looking through his pictures I also saw vivid colors in his photos of flowers, leaves, and bugs. If you look at where he was or how he came upon these things you would see the places that he has been. I thought I could use all of these concepts in my own pictures to portrait my home where I spend most of my free time. I did that by taking pictures of our yard and the things in it, and then things that connect to that land or is in close proximity. I found a bug on one of our raspberries so I had the vivid color. I used a picture of the church that sits right next to my parents land out in the country and used a lighting effects filter to change the look of the picture and to make the church stand out, especially the steeple. I used the cornfields around them that were being harvested to show we are in the country, and put myself and water into the pictures as we have many different types or bodies of water around us. I also used the home place as inspiration to let you see what our place consists of and how we spend time with the burning of our wood in the burn pit you see in the picture of dad’s burn barrels. The picture of the river and its fallen trees, and how the vegetation is changing shows that the next season is on its way. I hope you have as much fun looking at my pictures and finding the different things that I did to change them as I did taking and playing with them in photoshop.