Project 1 experimentations

I finally got some vaseline and it really ended up looking pretty cool overtop of some of the prints. I went out on a road trip and just took some shots along the way to finally try out the filter. My theme wasn't decided at this point but i eventually wanted to do works that incorporated Sally Mann's idea of a human presence in historic southern areas. Thanks Billy for coming up with the amazing idea to shoot at Point Lookout!

More Experimental shooting...

Trying different things out in front of the camera lens...

Experimental Shoot Photos

I shot these photos with a basic point and shoot camera, but manipulated the photos in abstract ways.


This is a photo of a car window with rain, I slightly moved the camera while shooting.

Same with this photo of a yellow flower bush, again I moved the camera to manipulate the photograph.


These two photos are of passing car lights. I kept my shutter open for longer than usual, capturing all the moving lights.






This is a photo of a forest trail at sunset. I turned the sepia setting on and increased the exposure settings.

Artist Inspiration # 1-Sally Mann

Sally Mann’s 8x10 wet plate collodian glass prints (a process that involves glass plates being coated in collodian and then dipped in silver nitrate, and then exposed while still wet) seem timeless and still. Her photographs in her Deep South series range from various landscapes and scenery in Louisiana and Mississippi.




This image is of a huge scar that is cut across the tree. The trees are as old as the plantation ruins that surround them and Mann’s photographs capture the vintage aura that remains there. “These pictures are about the rivers of blood, of tears, of sweat that Africans poured into the dark soil of their thankless new home,” writes Mann, remarking on the difference in tone between the “Deep South.”




One of the most interesting parts of the series is the absence of any human beings, even though the memory of them still seems to sit there. Mann seems to capture the sincere history of the south, but with an eerie essence.