Photographs!

Here are some photographs from the field trip! Sorry I don’t have more… I was ALL over the place excited that day. Besides, most of the places we went technically didn’t allow you to take photographs (so I can’t share the ones that I ended up sneaking… hehe…) This was definitely the most incredible field trip in my world. We did so many amazing things, visited so many amazing places, had so much amazing food to eat, and finished it all off with Stomp! live. It was basically miraculous. I feel like I learned SO many things that just cannot be taught in a classroom that day.

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Caravaggio, Chiaroscuro, Cameras, and … Craziness.

We talked about Caravaggio today in class and how he used a lighting technique called “Chiaroscuro” to make his painting more three dimensional. I think it relates to my theme and question of how art touches people, because it pulls you into the main focus of the image. You can’t help but feel what the “star” of the image is feeling. I fell in love with the idea, and I was immediately thinking about my camera and all of the buttons on it, with different lighting and poses. We had limited time, resources, and space but we ended up coming up with this last minute:

It is kinda funny, and we wouldn’t have been able to pull it off without the wonderful help of the “models” and the “lighting people” and the teacher, and all of the “willing assistants” who examined the painting in the book and arranged everyone. It was truly a class effort, and I swear I had the easiest job out of it all. All I had to do was frame the shot and push the button… I definitely used Photoshop because it didn’t end up being dramatic enough since we couldn’t make the room dark enough. I probably should have spent more time on it… hmm… I kinda like the little halo.

It’s kind of an “epic fail”, but at least we tried! And I also learned that if we really had the time, resources, and space available too us this group could make great painting reenactors. I think I am going to try using the Chiaroscuro effect in future photography/art endeavors because it really does have a way of pulling people in. I feel a photoshoot coming on. Don’t you just LOVE inspiration?