| Chasing around ghosts is more natural to me than hanging around people. 'tis true. |
| So I guess this very well might be the closest thing I'll get to do to an an artist's statement in my near future... (hurray time for introspective art bs talk) Well, the basics are that I'm Gabe, I'm a photographer, or at least I aspire to be one. I decided one day bored that I should give up on books and try something new. And here I am, I'm currently enrolled as a photo student in college. I am trained mostly in traditional b&w film photography. I use photoshop but really only know the basics. My photos, in my opinion, centralize around awkwardness, or at least my feelings of awkwardness. I don't really feel comfortable anywhere, or at least with most normal things. I'm extremely unconfident about everything I do really. I have a hard time understanding people and often don't even bother. I have a hard time doing normal chores and keeping a daily routine. I have definitely spent too many hours/days/months/years alone locked with my thoughts that probably only go in some type of negative circle. I tend to be distant and see everything from this gloomy third person eye. I take all of my pictures from this skewed viewpoint. I have a hard time posing people so I try to take candids. I enjoy taking pictures of peoples backs or their shadows because for many years i had a hard enough time staring at people's faces. Hell, I much prefer objects and architecture, i enjoy lines much more than I understand people's emotions or how to use them for a pictures sake. The funny thing is that people say that I'm not as awkward as I feel. I guess this means the therapists are earning their paychecks. The funnier thing is that these feelings that fuel these artsy photos, I'm trying to lose. I wouldn't mind taking boring pictures of happy people and easy picturesque sunsets if it meant normality and happiness, but alas, it never worked for me yet. ---- From a technical standpoint, this album so far is a tale of 3 cameras (will update when I get off my ass and write down what I have/if more cameras get put in here) 1. A Canon Rebel XT with a 28-200 lens (ironically, for all the blab about awkardness, I usually don't use the zoom.). 2. A Nikon F2 with a 50mm 1.4 lens (my fathers, an amazing item.) 3. A Nikon N80 with the basic 25-80 kit lens. ---- About my pictures, please don't use them without permission. At least tell me if you did and link me to the page. I know god is out there and laughing at this because I didn't pay for photoshop... but comon dudez. |
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"Fully alive and she knows how to believe in futures."
~ Flyleaf
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