Hipstamatic: Humans vs. Zumbies

The last mission of the fall for Athens Humans vs. Zombies at College Green on Ohio University Campus. I've been photographing these guys since Saturday and almost wanted to give up on doing so because of the difficulty of shooting this event, but I stuck it out, and finally made some hipstamatic images out it as well. I wanted to take time and challenge, and work on embedding myself. It was fairly easy with this group all they did was look at me and kept on playing the game. They where too busy and I was busy making pictures so it worked out. I would stop and talk to them before and after the missions started to get a feel for the cultured, all around these guys are pretty nice. 

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WorkingPortraits

This weekend I really tried to push forth my new endeavor, portraits.  Whether it was with my iphone or camera I was practicing posing people and bringing out their personality. In all of these photos I barely told the subjects to stand here, and nothing else. The expressions you are are an accurate reflection of how the individuals felt self consciously at this point in time. 

Attempt at Portraits

My attempt at taking portraits, there are some technical things that could have been done better here, I'm not happy with my pictures but I happy with my efforts. This is Jessica Lax a museum curator in Athens, Ohio. Curating is something I'm interested in doing in the future, so I said why not photograph her for my assignment.

I recently got into portraiture after reading some material by Josh Birnbaum which was very insightful. He was talking about the balance between subject control and photographer control in photographs. It made sense to me, and his work reflected his philosophe when I checked out his website. So I now embrace the portrait as an exploration device into people's lives

I'm lacking a tighter shot here out of this selection and I centered her in almost every photo. I plan on going back and ding this shoot better this coming week. So be on the look out to see pictures from my reshoot. 

-Aaron

Slice of Life: Greenhouse Manager

Hung out with Harold Blazier Ohio University greenhouse manager for a couple of days. My first long form assignment in months and it kinda got me back in the swing of things as far as documenting and spending time with people.  

I really enjoyed taking with Harold and making pictures of him. Plants are something I am very interested in almost as much as photography. I always tell people I would have gone to college for Botany if I could go back to my freshman year.  

No one was ever in the greenhouse at my old school, I wanted to photographer so bad. Glad I got to do it here in Ohio.

A Few Images from my time at OU so far