The title of my project is “A Blurry World”. The artists that have inspired my work most are Aaron Siskind and Uta Barth. Aaron Siskind has inspired my use of taking pictures that zoom in on the details of an object. He helped me to learn how to create a photo that catches the beautiful details of a normal object. Uta Barth has inspired the way I take photos that are out of focus. I learned through her photos that taking out-of-focus pictures can be challenging since some of the scenes would not look nice without focus. Also, her work is mostly bright colors, which is different from Aaron Siskind’s work and this helped me to develop different skills of taking different kinds of pictures. In order to develop my ideas for this project I experimented with researching about Uta Barth and examining her pictures. I also brainstormed some ideas about what I wanted my triptych to look like. After experimenting, I brought together the best parts of my project to create my final series of images by taking several different pictures with different angles and different styles to decide what my final three pictures would be. To create my final series of images I chose the best three pictures from all of my other photos. These pictures have met want I expected, and they fit my vision. I chose to work like this because the style of this artist is very different from the last artist I examined, so I would like to try something new. Also, I really want to take pictures that are out of focus and that show some infrastructure. Overall, I think the strengths of the project are I successfully took blurry pictures and followed the style of Uta Barth because I feel confident about the pictures I’ve taken, and I think they are related to my vision and Uta Barth’s style. The areas that I will need to work on in future projects are getting pictures that are more related to each other or taking pictures that involve more skills because, in this triptych, the last photo did not really fit in with the color of the other two pictures. So, I would try to be more careful when taking the pictures that I need to remember what my theme is. Also, I need to work on my skills in taking pictures because I think my photos’ creativity needs further improvement, so in order to take better pictures, I think I need to work on my skills more.

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Here are my favorite 5 photos. For next time, I would choose somewhere else to take my set 2 pictures because I already have a similar background for set 1. Also, I would work on my technique of getting blurry pictures, and I would pay more attention to the lighting.

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These 9 photos show out-of-focus photos of different objects. Most of the photos have bright lighting, which differs from the last artist I did whose work is darker.

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I chose these 38 pictures because they fit my vision, and they differ from the last photo set. This set has more pictures of a wider vision of an object, and they are out of focus. These pictures are similar to Uta Bath’s style and they follow an ethereal or elusive theme.

This photo portrays a close shot of the flowers. For improvement, I would want to take photos that could be changed into black and white photos. I think this photo will lose its beauty once changed into black and white, so I would try to take photos that could fit different styles. I could also try to take photos from different angles and views.

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Here is my 11 selected photos, they include the element of using focus, and they all show the details of an object.

Uta Barth

Part 1:

1. focus
2. shape
3. line
4. value
5. color

I chose Uta Barth’s style because I like to play with the focus and her work includes different focuses on an object. I wanted to try to take blurry pictures so I appreciate her work. I think her work portrays everyday object (which fits my vision) that includes light and shapes and make them blurry. She blurred the focus of her camera, resulting in images that undermined the audience’s expectations for the photo. It relates to my vision because I like photos that are blurry because they make me feel like I’m in a dream that’s full of memories.

Part 2:

I chose this picture because I think it’s really beautiful to picture a sidewalk with trees beside it. I like how she uses strategies of blurring pictures to make a normal picture more interesting. It is unusual to me because I rarely see pictures of blurry visions, most of the photos I see have high quality. The photo is a sidewalk so the lines get smaller when it gets further away. And the wall and trees beside it make the photo not monotonous. Uta Barth’s photos are abstract because she intentionally depicts ordinary objects in an inconspicuous environment, in order to focus attention on the basic behavior of observation and the process of perception. I like how she uses this kind of strategy to make the ordinary special.

Part 3:

My vision is to seek the beauty of blurriness. I will take photos in the style of Uta Barth. I am particularly inspired by Artnet, and I will try to take pictures that are out of focus and uses lighting.

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I chose these 62 photos because I think they show the style I like, they are all shootings of detail. And I think it’s really interesting to have these photos as some are hard to tell what it is and some can be told by only looking at a part of an object. I chose to take pictures similar to the style of Aaron Siskind and referred to his work, the pictures turned out to be better with color. These photos have similar aspects to his work, such as details of an object and uses of focus.