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Final Project, The Sequal

After thinking this through, Jamey Combs had a brilliant idea. He decided to take pictures at a place where his parents spend a lot of time. The Airport. He would be able to get into some planes, big and small, and take photographs like the class has never seen before. His parents could show him the cockpit, and he could see what the pilots do while the rest of the plane sleeps. A sequence of a take off of a plane from people sitting at the gate to the plane getting up in the air would make a great project, along with some close-up's of some of the lesser known things about the airport. With his camara in hand, he would make a final project of epic proportions. Final Project, The Sequal, coming to a photo lab near you by the end of the term.

Iain Macmillan

Iain was born on Oct. 20 1938 in Dundee, Scotland. He attended the High School of Dundee and graduated in 1954. He worked as an assistant manager at a jute mill for some time to pay for it. He moved to London in 1958 and studied Photography at the Regent Street Polytechnic. His first job with photography was on a cruise ship. He returned to Scotland a year later to shoot street sceens. The Sunday Times and the Illustrated London News commissioned him in the early 1960s after seeing his work. In the mid 1960's he worked on a catalogue for "The Sculpture of David Wynne". He also photographed "The Book of London" (1966). One of the people who were photographed in the book, Yoko Ono, introduced Iain to the Beetles. John invited Iain to photograph the cover for the Abbey Road album. He took six pictures of the Beetles crossing the street. A policeman was hired to stop traffic, and they did this at around 11:00 to keep fans away. He also shot the back cover for the album, and got angry at the girl who walked through the picture. This is the defining moment for Iain. He worked with John until 1971, doing work like:
The cloud on the album cover for Live Peace in Toronto.
Photos on the album Some Time in New York City.
The wedding cake in the Wedding Album.
Yoko's book Flies.
The cover photo on Yoko's book Grapefruit.
The merging heads of John and Yoko on the vinyl single Happy Xmas (War is Over).
Kenny Rogers And The First Edition - cover photograph of Somethings Burning
After this, he went and taught part time at Stoke-on-Trent college. After he quit, he photographed the cover of Paul is Live on the same Abbey Street, but with a sheepdog. He died in 2006 of lung cancer.

The all famous Abbey Road album cover, the only one with Paul smoking out of the six. I think it is well done, but it needs a new angle. By looking at a few different versions of the picture, and looking at the angle of the shadows, this looks like more like somebody cut out the band and glued them to another, brighter display of Abbey Street.

This picture of, I think, John Lennon is a very interesting mix of creative inginunity and contempeory pictures. The stephoscope on the road gives the definite crazy feel to this otherwise formal picture. I personally think he is trying to find the beat of the city.

John and Yoko on the cover of Happy Xmas (War is Over), holding a gigantic sign protesting the war. I think this is not the best, the background takes away from the scene more than it should, and if the war is over, than why is there a "if you want it to be" on the bottom of the poster.

Can I please get a 'what the' here, this is just a really weird picture from what I have seen of Iain's work. The guy does not need to be standing like that, and he needs to get a better dog to fit the scene. Also, it looks like the guy and the dog are superimposed on a backdrop of Abbey Street because they look clearer than the background, and the shadows are on slightly different angles.

This is the back cover for the Abbey Road album. Nicely put with the sign, but this is the girl who he got mad at for walking into the picture. He really needs to get rid of the girl, but he needs some sort of plant in it.

And this is the Simpsons (Best by far)

Takanobu Hayashi

For this project, I decided to pick a very obscure and more modern photographer from Japan. Takanobu Hayashi was actualy born in Dailan, China in 1946, but his family promptly moved to Japan, eventually arriving in Kyoto. He first became interested in photography during his high school years. After graduating, he worked in the school darkroom for two years until he went to the Tokyo College of Photography. After he graduated, he worked with his photography as a fasion magazine freelancer until he returned as a teacher for the T.C.o.P in 1983. He is still teaching there today.
Takanobu works with black and white photography of nature in an urban environment. That's the only way I can put it. He took pictures of animals in man made structures in his only published book Zoo. This book won the Higashikawa Prize in 1986.

This picture defines what I said about nature in an urban environment. The bird in the river is the nature, and the house in the background is the urban, but there is still the balance between them.

Again with nature in an urban environment. The bushes along the side is the nature, and the road is the urban, but still the good balance, even if it is more on the urban side.

This small pond is from his book Zoo. If you look closely, you can see some animals in the grass near it. While the whole thing looks natural, the small rope barrier adds the urban touch I was talking about earlier.

This picture can take the cake on the weirdness level. It seems to be a person reflected in a broken mirror in front of some large plants. While still weird, it is able to completely represent nature in an urban environment. It still gives the nature vibe with the plants, but the mirror also gives somthing of an urban-nature vibe because it's a mirror, but the cracked glass looks almost like vines of some sort, adding to the weirdness scale, not to mention what the person in the mirror is adding to the weirdness scale.

This is a barren desert, with the crumbling remains of some house or fortification. I really like how the sagebrush in the front looks the same size as the remains, but you know the sagebrush is just closer to you. Still fitting in with the nature in an urban environment.

Final Project Proposal

I am proposing to do Ice Cream for my final project. Shooting ice cream in different ways to catch the light and shadows on the ice cream and on the chocolate sauce will be a main point in this. Also, shooting ice cream in different stages, such as half eaten or melted will be paramount in this assignment for me. I had some expierience with this last term, so this should be even better.

Wynn Bullock

Wynn Bullock was born in Chicago in 1902. Befeore even touching a camara, he was a very good singer. At first he worked with his great tenor voice, singing in a large choir in many preformances across the westren coast. He even sang to the president at one time. He worked with his voice for many years, hoping to make a living out of it. After he married, he went to Paris to work with a very famous voice coach there. This is where he became entranced with the art of photography. After touring an art exhibt of the works of Cézanne, Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, he returned home with a passion for photography. While working on his photographs, he also ran Arrow Camara in California. He later sold the buisness. Some of his most famous work was displayed in the exhibit A Family of Man.
He works with many patterns of nature in his work. He uses natural swelling and erosion to make his pictures feel alot more natural, but it still makes them unique. And, like all photographers, he also likes to stick a person in the picture to add the human element into the equation. I think his work captures the true nature of some of the strangest forms of nature there is, but some of his photos are on the more contempeory side so you can see more.

This picture seems to really bring out the detail in the tree trunk and the person's hands, making for a great balance between life and nature. Dosen't this look like a guy running his hands through a very wood like beard?

This photograph truly brings out what I said about him getting real close and finding just the right way to shoot it to make it like this, shapeless but still beautiful and mezemerizing. I can't tell what exactly it is, but it almost looks like a girl in some weird negitive light.

This is a picture of a tree trunk on a beach, and this is also the way he uses the the roots to create a interesting picture. The roots look like a skull or something similar to it.

How he was able to take this picture, I don't know. But I really think this is a great picture with the mist covering everything but a few oddly shaped structures, creating a mystical or natural feel to it, but still giving off a modern or urban feel. Anyone have the foggiest idea what the thing in the back is, it looks like some Shinto shrine.

This is a very weird, and very cool tree in the moon light, kinda like the night assignment. The fog and the moon create very distict shadows and make a great picture, eerie, but great.