Final Finished Fin

So the semester is drawing to a close as we reach Week 12 and I've decided what photographs I want to use for my final folio for this class. Over all I have really enjoyed this class and feel like I have gained some new photography skills throughout the semester. I hope that the class enjoys my photos and will let me know what they think they mean. I think that is more important than what I think they mean, and even though I have selected my folio photos I am still stuck on what to name them. Do I follow Cindy Sherman and just leave them untitled? I'm not sure just yet but here are some of the photos I've selected for my final folio. 

Anyway this is Rachel signing off. 

Keep snapping!

x

Bed Black+White

When you have plans but people cancel at the last minute is the worst. Which unfortunately and fortunately happened to me the other night. I was meant to go out to meet a friend and got myself all done up only to be told that they couldn't make it. Exasperated, naked and with a full face of makeup on I got into bed. After a while I looked over to my camera and decided to stuff it and spend my evening in a more productive way and take some photos. I didn't really have any idea on what I wanted to do I just played with the settings on the camera and clicked the button, What I ended up with was mostly fuzzy out of focus photos but I liked it. Following with my theme of strong shadows and black and white I edited the photos which resulted in these beauties. 

Beers and Thoughts

A lot of my inspiration in life usually comes along when I've had some alcohol in me. Especially when I'm out with other artists. Peta and myself caught up with some beers the other night after class and our conversations are always crazy and interesting. At some point I thought it would be interesting to start taking some photos of myself during the night to see how my face reacts during conversations. I just kept taking photos kind of absentmindedly while focusing on our discussion. 

These two were my favourite of the night. 

 I noticed that I tend to touch my mouth when listening to people, I'm not really sure why I do it, maybe it makes me look more interested.