Honeysuckle
Stiff-Stem Flax
Texas DandelionThese photographs were taken near Cedar Creek in the town of Navasota, Texas. (Technical: Pentax K2, FujiFilm 200 Speed Color Film)
Copyright Teddy Wilson 2008
Copyright Teddy Wilson 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Animals on Film...
Dog’s Eye
Cows in the Shade
Kid in the BrushThese photographs were taken in Grimes and McLennan Counties, Texas. (Technical: Pentax K2, FujiFilm 400 Speed Color Film)
Copyright Teddy Wilson 2008
Copyright Teddy Wilson 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Internet Arts...
The internet is amazing.
I know this may seem obvious, but I think that I underestimated the depth of which the internet can be used for artistic expression and the arts community. There are thousands, if not millions of web sites, blogs, and vlogs dedicate to the arts. There are of course the web sites that are for official arts communities, professional artist and dealers, and for museums and art publications. But, there are by far much more “starving” artist, and these amateurs and working class artist have filled the internet with art.
So are so many people with so much talent, that I think it is revolutionizing art. I think that art is no longer just something that people have to go to a museum or art gallery to see. I think the internet is giving artist of all statures the ability to share their art with the world. The revolution does not just affect those artists who work in the visual arts, such as painting, and drawing, and photography, and graphic arts. This revolution affects the written word as well, and it is also affecting the spoken word.
Not to mention that an application for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is just a click away.
Online there is a blending of art…it seems as though sometimes it is hard to tell where different styles stop and others begin. There also seems to be so much positive feedback between artists. On community sites and blogging sites there is a type of negative mist that seems to hang in the electronic atmosphere. From the dip I have taken into the world of art on the internet, there seems to be a positive vibe so thick that you could drown in it.
So, to support the arts community on the internet, every week I am going to feature a new artist that I have found on the internet. Look for the first featured internet artist on April 30th, and on that same day I will feature a YouTube internet artist.
Support arts on the internet! (I am going to have to work on that slogan.)
I know this may seem obvious, but I think that I underestimated the depth of which the internet can be used for artistic expression and the arts community. There are thousands, if not millions of web sites, blogs, and vlogs dedicate to the arts. There are of course the web sites that are for official arts communities, professional artist and dealers, and for museums and art publications. But, there are by far much more “starving” artist, and these amateurs and working class artist have filled the internet with art.
So are so many people with so much talent, that I think it is revolutionizing art. I think that art is no longer just something that people have to go to a museum or art gallery to see. I think the internet is giving artist of all statures the ability to share their art with the world. The revolution does not just affect those artists who work in the visual arts, such as painting, and drawing, and photography, and graphic arts. This revolution affects the written word as well, and it is also affecting the spoken word.
Not to mention that an application for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is just a click away.
Online there is a blending of art…it seems as though sometimes it is hard to tell where different styles stop and others begin. There also seems to be so much positive feedback between artists. On community sites and blogging sites there is a type of negative mist that seems to hang in the electronic atmosphere. From the dip I have taken into the world of art on the internet, there seems to be a positive vibe so thick that you could drown in it.
So, to support the arts community on the internet, every week I am going to feature a new artist that I have found on the internet. Look for the first featured internet artist on April 30th, and on that same day I will feature a YouTube internet artist.
Support arts on the internet! (I am going to have to work on that slogan.)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Texas Continues to Bloom...
Albino Paintbrush
Dandelion
Bluebonnet
All photographs taken in Independence, Texas. (Technical: Pentax K2, FujiFilm 400 Speed Color Film)
Copyright: Teddy Wilson 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Night Photography...
Park Bridge at Night
Campus Hallway
Park at Night
These three photographs are my first experimentations with night photography. These experiments have given me a barometer for what to expect when taking photographs at night, and in low light settings.
I used FujiFilm 1600 speed color film for these photographs. It is the best speed for night photography, although it is expensive. All of the photographs were taken with an aperture setting of F8; I felt that this aperture setting would be a good middle ground baseline to work from. I took three exposures of each scene, and the exposures where staggered from ten, twenty, and thirty seconds.
I found that the different between the exposure times was essentially minimal, but the exposure time would be important depending on what kind of look I was trying to pull out of my photograph.
In the first photograph of the bridge I felt that a ten second exposure time produced the best photo, although I think that I will use a filter the next time I take a similar photo to reduce the starburst from the park lights. The longer exposures dulled the color of the grass, however increased the intensity of the reflection on the water.
In the second photograph I came to the conclusion that the ten second exposure time also produces the best result, because in the longer exposure time the red color of the brick is diffused and the shadows are less apparent. This is my favorite off all the night photos that I took with this roll, because it is simple and creates an interesting feeling when you look at it.
The second photograph I once again came to discover that less is more. With such a high speed film there is not a need for long exposure times, and with short exposure times you can bring out interesting things in a night photograph.
These photographs were taken in College Station, Texas, on the campus of Blinn College and in Wolf Creek Park. (Technical: Canon AE-1, FujiFilm 1600 speed color film)
Copyright: Teddy Wilson 2008
I used FujiFilm 1600 speed color film for these photographs. It is the best speed for night photography, although it is expensive. All of the photographs were taken with an aperture setting of F8; I felt that this aperture setting would be a good middle ground baseline to work from. I took three exposures of each scene, and the exposures where staggered from ten, twenty, and thirty seconds.
I found that the different between the exposure times was essentially minimal, but the exposure time would be important depending on what kind of look I was trying to pull out of my photograph.
In the first photograph of the bridge I felt that a ten second exposure time produced the best photo, although I think that I will use a filter the next time I take a similar photo to reduce the starburst from the park lights. The longer exposures dulled the color of the grass, however increased the intensity of the reflection on the water.
In the second photograph I came to the conclusion that the ten second exposure time also produces the best result, because in the longer exposure time the red color of the brick is diffused and the shadows are less apparent. This is my favorite off all the night photos that I took with this roll, because it is simple and creates an interesting feeling when you look at it.
The second photograph I once again came to discover that less is more. With such a high speed film there is not a need for long exposure times, and with short exposure times you can bring out interesting things in a night photograph.
These photographs were taken in College Station, Texas, on the campus of Blinn College and in Wolf Creek Park. (Technical: Canon AE-1, FujiFilm 1600 speed color film)
Copyright: Teddy Wilson 2008
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