AT 6.2- Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Arno Rafael Minkkinen was born in Helsinki Finland in 1945 and emigrated to the United States in 1957. He is currently a Professor of Arts at the University of Massachusetts. Minkkinen thinks of himself as a documentary photographer. He mainly shoot self portraits of himself posed in the most impossible positions. The way Minkkinen uses his own body in landscapes can really fool your eye to look impossible. But not only is his pictures what you see is what you get he only uses single exposures and does not do any manipulating to his images. One of the main elements that make his photos so remarkable is lighting. As I was trying to research more about his technical procedures of his process, I found that he does not like to reveal how his images are made. “I’ve learned not to give away the magic if that’s what’s there. But occasionally, it’s important to at least describe what’s going on so the viewer can say, ‘OK, that’s plausible.’”

To use my own body as a means of expressing our reationship to nature"

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

In this photograph I really like the lonely feeling you get from the water infront of her. You really don't think anything different of it until you notice that there are four sets of hands wrapped around her body. I also love the way the cliffs natural frame her body, the fact that she is nude in this picture really give you a feeling of freedom and openness as well.

I think that this photograph really draws your eye up from the bottoem of the picture to the top of the cliff. The angle that is used from photographing from the bottom and the way the arm moves up towards the top and the sun burst right at his hand give a great DOF. I really like the way his arm moves with the cliff as well. Even though the tree on the side I think in some ways can be distracting it also give you a sense that the pictures is taken from the ground.

In this Photograph I feel like he is scared by the way he is holding his head and I love that he captured this feeling with such a simple subject. Even without his face showing you really can feel a lot of emotion. But it's not only the emotion that I like about this picture is the curiosity around how his body is coming out of the wall. I also feel like the the square photo really made it that much better.

Arno Minkkinens work to me is more then just a picture. He captures what the eye doesn't think is possible and makes it possible through a single photograph.

My information was gather from
http://www.bu.edu/today/arts-entertainment/2008/02/27/arno-minkkinen-naked-cold-and-camera
http://www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org/

This is my little cousin Kiana she is 1 year old and behind her is my little man Paxton. He was following her around all night !

Film for life <3

So one of my shoot week assignments was light! In this picture it was really cloudy so there was a really nice soft light coming through. I am really enjoying working with film and I can see myself really growing attached to it.

I LOVE FILM <3

Clouds!

So here is one of my assignments from shoot week! it was clouds! yay I think they look beautiful =D

The beauty of my home!!!

So This Shoot was also very challenging for me again because my house is not all that interesting, but I guess that was another part of the challenge. One I had found subjects that had matched the design elements I had a lot of fun trying to capture what each element described. I also had the challenge of photographing indoor with no flash which was also very hard! slow shutter speeds equal blurry pictures YIKES!!! so I attempted to use my tripod on some shots which was hard because there was just some angles my tripod wouldn't let me do! good ol'tripod! other then that I enjoyed this shoot and the challenge of finding the beauty in my house which is not something I normally look for!

More School!!! Love it!

So here I am on a Wednesday night just finishing up some assignments for the rest of the week and thought I would leave a blog post since I haven't been on here much. As most of you know my life has been a little crazy and wakey lately but I'm ready to start focusing on school since I no longer have a job YAY lol i know I'm way to excited to be not working! School has been amazing I love everyone here and I love coming to class! I'm learning so much and this experience has been really changing my life. I got off to a rocky start but I have definitely found my groove! And thanks to all the people in my class for the support and encouragement it has been much needed and has kept me going!!!
Here is a few pictures from my photo shoot with my good friend Tamara for my DT class assignment!!!!

More soon
Sheldean

Unit 1 Practical - Portraits with Roman!!

We had our first quiz today and lucky me was away for the morning learning part of it, But I did the best I could, here is the portraits that I did with my good friend Roman, he is my lab partner next to me!! I really enjoy doing portraits and I am looking forward to doing more!!!!!1