Photo class progress.

[serafaery]

Fell way behind in my photography class and projects while being sick the last week. Caught up a bit this morning. I got kicked out of the lighting studio (was supposed to have a reservation but a teacher needed it for a class), so I had to make due with a classroom that was letting in plenty of natural light through the shades. It's the best I could do, though, and our instructor did say last week, "There's nothing wrong with adapting." So hopefully it'll be okay. The kit lights seemed to do the trick just fine, even with the natural light coming through a bit.

I still have the "in nature" lighting shots to do, which will take me at least an hour, probably two. Going to try to take a long lunch today and work on it.

My Personal Project is going to be totally lame. I'm disappointed. I have pretty pictures of lattes from the Latte Art Competition a couple weeks ago, but that's all they are: pretty pictures of lattes. Snore.

I wanted to personalize my coffee pictures by getting photos of my favorite baristas and stuff, but it's just not going to happen. I don't have time.

I just can't figure out how to display my latte pictures in any kind of interesting way. Since I'm not making a book or prints, I'll be showing them on a DVD in class (to be played on the TV). I guess I could put some Mum behind it or something, but telling the story about the competition is sort of boring... I would just be babbling about how much I like the way milk foam interacts with freshly pulled espresso shots. Guh. *headdesk*

I did well on all the other projects and I'm sure I'll do well on the final after acing the midterm, so I guess it's okay that my Personal Project is lame. It's just kinda sad. I wanted to do better.

Here's a picture of a rosetta Drew poured me the other day:

Comments

[fragilemuse.livejournal.com]

well, maybe find a way to babble about foam interacting and all that. i'm sure you could come up with something neat :)

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thank you. *I* really like the way the foam and coffee interacts and how baristas turn a cup of coffee into a little mini drinkable work of art, but I'm not sure anyone else will care that much. Temporary art is my favorite kind, and beverage art is no exception. :) I guess all I can do is try, right? Try to express what I find beautiful and interesting about it.

[fragilemuse.livejournal.com]

hehe or you could always just come up with something lame like how the ever changing blah blah of foam makes you think of the ever changing state of our society etc. and how coffee brings people together and forces them apart. this reminds me of the lame essays i had to write in school.

[anthalus.livejournal.com]

Have you considered interspersing your pictures with some from here:
http://www.art.com/gallery/id--b1954/coffee-posters_p5.htm

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I *really* this idea. The little latte graphic is really nice. Thanks for the inspiration! I would want to use royalty-free images if I used anything like this, so I will poke around and see what I might find. :) Thanks!

[anthalus.livejournal.com]

Anytime!

It's that darn graphics design side of me that never gets used :)~

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

I love it when they put pretty things on coffee. A lot of people do the ferns thing (yours is the prettiest I've sen though!) and there's a guy at one of my favourite cafes here that does little hearts.

if I had a TARDIS I'd totally take you on a coffee tour of my town.

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

I like the hearts, too. I get them a lot. The ferns thing is nice, too. I loves them. Drew does exceptionally good ones.

I think I would LOVE New Zealand, and will definitely make a beeline directly for you if I'm ever able to visit.

<3<3<3!

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

and will definitely make a beeline directly for you if I'm ever able to visit.

Please do! I'd love to meet you in person, and I love showing people around my town!

[skyesidhe.livejournal.com]

btw, I just have to say how flattered I am that you did part of your project using me! also, I don't think talking about foam and crema and interaction and all that would be boring. That's what art is about right? getting really rediculously excited about something, and getting to geek out on it in an interactive way, whether it's visual or talking or both!

[serafaery.livejournal.com]

I am so very lucky to have friends like you who are willing to pose for stuff like that! Thanks so much for helping me out. I ended up using the pictures of you from the Blend Tamp Your Face Off thing primarily, which I will happily send you if you want the hi-res ones? They're a little blurry due to such a narrow depth of field, but I like them. You were definitely the sexiest! :)

I'm going to share all of my Tamp Your Face Off pictures with the Barista Exchange forum thingie, so if you just want regular sized versions look there. I'll probably upload them to flickr and then link them there.

You're right, I think - art is about geeking out over things that excite you, being inspired and interracting with it and yes yes!