Well well well, a few weeks have past, and damn, what a busy few weeks it has been. I cannot believe that this quarter of Graduate School has gone by so damn fast. However, Thursday is the last day of it the Summer 16 classes, and I am very excited to say that the portfolio of Sam is going SO much better than I had thought it would. I am constantly looking around at new inspiration from Mike Brodie to Corinna Kern (two photographers I would HIGHLY suggest for the SG audience if you are looking for some amazing documentary art photography), and Catherine Opie to Will Ellis and Melissa Spitz. I cannot thank enough this quarter of classes as it has be very inspirational to me and helped me grow SO much as a photographer on what I can do and helped me branch out a little to experiment in what I can do for my portfolio and in ways I can improve it. Damn, it really has been amazing.
I even went through and reshot a few images yesterday (even with the class ending on Thursday...yeah I know...look at what was going on last quarter and the quarter before that and ask me if I would have felt this way now...I would most likely say that you are out of your fucking mind!) and I think that they came out really well. One of them was just a simple angle reshoot to get the image looking better, but the other one was a completely different idea for one of the images in the portfolio. I am stoked by the look of new image that I will post it right now.
There is something about this image that says, at least to me, so much more that the image that I am replacing it with which is this one:
But really, if it wasn't for class and some of the people in there, including the professor, than there is really no way that I would have thought of some things for this. I have also included some hand written notes from Sam about how it feels to have a panic/anxiety attack that I think really just makes everything fit like a glove now. I think that honestly, if I was not already going to be taking a art business class and student teaching next quarter, I would be more than happy to go about my 45 credit hour review and blow that thing out of the water.
As I said, I am feeling very good about this portfolio now...it is turning out to be very amazing.