It's fall here in San Jose, just barely, but nonetheless I'm having to break out my jackets. This photo was manipulated in photo shop for an assignment that I did for an art history class, and really captured what this time of the year means for me. Hope you like it.
It has been way too long since I have posted on here. Since my last post things have tremendously changed in my life.
A quick list:
Quit my old job at Victory Lane.
Moved out of my house.
Moved into a new house.
Took position as photo editor of the Spartan Daily.
Celebrated my 23rd birthday.
I hope to be posting more here, though I am pondering moving to a wordpress blog on my server, which hosts www.joeproudman.com.
Also be sure to check out www.spartandailyphoto.com. It is the new photo blog of the Spartan Daily. It's amazing.
I look forward to the US Moto Grand Prix at Laguna Seca just about as much as I look forward to my birthday. It means nothing but bikes, beers and good company on one of the biggest weekends in America. This year's event happened to on the fourth of July.
Here is a quick photo from the event. I'll get more up as soon as I can. I am way behind on editing.
So I took a quick trip down the coast (I love living in California) earlier tonight. I just need to take a drive. While I got over the hill into Santa Cruz I was hoping to be greeted be a gorgeous sunset, but was instead welcomed by the gray clouds and no sun. As I was leaving to head back home and walking back from some cliffs I saw the sun peaking out from under the clouds, and ran up a small hill to get this shot. I hope you like it.
That's exactly what Harvey Rañola is trying to figure out. Well, actually he knows what he needs to do, and that is get a job. That is easier said than done. Take a look a series that Harvey has started, documenting his time being unemployed. It's funny and really a bunch of nonesense, but is very well put together and interesting. Keep and eye out for future episodes.
Got a gig shooting the Soulja Boy concert recently. It was a nice event to shoot, as I had access to pretty much everywhere. Here are a couple of shots from the concert.
For my Advanced Digital Photography class we mainly have one large project, our umbrella project. We had a choice of a subject we wanted to pursue, with not too many restrictions. Some people did studio lighting, others did a theme on drugs and alcohol, one person is doing a project on race. I wanted to pursue something with my faith.
At first I wanted to create images in the studio that shared my view on Christianity, being a Christian. I tried to find similar pieces of work, but had a hard time. Eventually I decided to go a different route. I figured it would be helpful to find out what people around me believe.
So instead of a studio assignment it turned into a documentary. What I do is find people, take their photo and ask them, "Who is God to you?" They then write it down and I eventually scan that piece of paper and place it next to their photograph.
I hope to do around 10-15 of them all at 16x20. This project has gone several revisions since I started a few months ago. Firstly, I want to focus on college age people. A recent sermon I heard said that more and more college age people are drifting away from religion. Secondly I want to print big. By printing larger, I wanted to make the images very immediate. I wanted the words bigger than life.
With this project, the people I document are now creating God in their image. It is extremely interesting to compare the writing to the people in the photographs. I am about halfway done, so let me know what you think.
