People People

So here i am, continuing to walk the streets of main south, and finding people that will allow me photograph them. this week i have two different people. up until now ive been taking pictures of people at work, or in their work habitat, like the firefighter, or car salesmen. but these week i just took pictures of people of normal people on the street, that i thought had interesting background or surroundings. the first pictures are of an interesting man that was just sitting on his steps. i have a close up, then a lot of pictures of him further away with his house and steps more in the picture. the second photo is of a cute woman who was sitting in her truck watching a baseball game with her dogs. i liked the way she interacted with her dogs, and she felt very comfortable in front of the camera. thats all !

People

So i took advantage of the beautiful saturday weather. I walked around the area, to see who was out, and i found a lot of people working outside. When the weather is nice, people are so much friendlier and more likely to let you take their picture, ive learned. so i have a ton of pictures of each of these people, but i didnt want to put a ton of the same ones but slightly different on my blog as not to bore you all, but ill do that in critique.

The mechanics wouldnt look at me or the camera, but i like the photo, because its more photo documentary, its a picture of them doing their thing. the fireman was super nice and i took a billion pics of him and the truck, but i like that you can see the worcester ladder 7 above the man. the car salesman was also really nice and i got him to laugh for a couple pictures, which is nice because his facial expression looks really natural. anyways, i have a couple other photos of people, but i liked these men. ok, thats all

Pictures

So i finally did it!! i took pictures. I went to a couple different stores/ shops on main street, and asked the people working there if i could take their pictures. some said no, or were busy, or on the phone, but i got these people who work at like a dollar store.

I like these pictures, and i like the people, but i also feel like it looks similar to the picture of the woman in the corner store i took last semester. However, that may not be a bad thing. So these are the two that i like. I think that i might be transitioning from taking pictures of worcester people, to having my theme be more like "pictures of strangers" kind of like that book frank showed us the other week. anyways this is a start, and these people are defiantly strangers. i like the one with the wife cause shes not the main focus of the pic, but shes still in it. and the one of the man is very much of him and his background.

K, thats all!

So kind of like Liz's post this week, im going to vent about frustrations/ ideas.

so i walked the streets of park (i guess thats just one street), there was almost no one to be found. it was also not even that cold today, so i mustered up the strength to go outside and try to take photos. No one around, nothing really interesting or exciting on park ave. When i have done this in the past, it has been nice outside so people are outside playing, and sitting on their steps, etc.

However, it hasnt gotten to that stage in the temperature yet. So i have figured out what i am going to take pictures of while i am waiting for it to get warmer outside.

Im going to go into different stores, establisments, etc and take pictures of the people in them and that work there, like my picture of the woman working at the corner store. this way i can be inside and take pictures of worcester people, while waiting for march/ warmer weather to come around when i can wander the streets and have them actually be alive with people.

So that is all.

So, i havent taken any pictures of main south people yet. Its been really cold and awful weather and finding people on the streets has been very hard. I find that i have taken the best pictures of worcester people when it is nicer weather outside. Its hard to find people walking around outside, much less people who are willing to stand in the cold to have their picture taken by a stranger. But I am brainstorming ideas of where im going to go in main south to take pictures of people, and hopefully it will start getting a little warmer. So another photographer that i am inspired by with my main south project is Manuel Alvarez Bravo. He was a mexican photographer who only took pictures of real mexican people. He wanted to stay true to who he was, and to also show the world the people of mexico. anyways his photos are of mexican people in their natural habitat, kind of like main south people in main south.

So heres a classic photo of his, of just a typical working class mexican man. i like it because this man in just in the street, in his normal clothing, just like what i want to do!!

New

So its a new year, and a new photo class. My project that im going to be working on this semester is something that im really excited about and something that i have been working on since i started taking photo classes freshman year. Im going to take pictures of people in main south. I like walking the streets of main south and finding interesting people and taking their pictures. I like taking pictures of strangers because i feel like if i can tell a story about them in the picture, then its a good picture. Over the past two years i have found and photographed many interesting main south people. Kids, elderly people, cashiers, mothers, etc. I feel as if everyone should know and understand the city in which they live in, and the way to do that is by learning about the people who live there.

I got inspired by Mary Ellen Mark. This is her photo above. She too took real life portraits of strangers on the street. I love this photo and probably wont take one as good or intense, but i love her style. Thats all for know

Things

So this week i took photos of really random things that i found around. The first one is of a bedside table. I like it because i like the colors of the gold jewelry. I also like the weird different things that are on the table. A guinness cup, a framed picture, a jesus candle, and pills. I thought that it was an interesting assortment of things. The second picture is of a toilet and other weird things that i found in a junkyard. I thought that it looked interesting and ambiguous from an above level. Thats all for now!