Marie Antoinette shoot.
I'm going to mix things up a little today, and talk a little about a funny thought that ive been having before posting photos.
so everyone knows that when a painter paints, when a write writes, etc we all know that they can start with nothing but an idea. yes, some painters like to have an image in front of them, yes some writes write from life, but it is always a creation of their imagination that was in its final form, never real life.
a photographer can alter their photos, but they are no matter what photos of something that was a reality (and this is with a few exceptions). i cant take a photo of something that doesnt exist. a painter however can paint something that doesnt exist.
so usually this meant nothing to me, because i simply photographed what already existed. and photoshopped a tiny bit. then i started coming up with ideas for things that i wanted to shoot in places that didnt exist.
i toyed around with building sets a bit for the past few months as im sure you all have noticed. but it was always me buying stuff and just putting it in to a set.
for this marie antoinette shoot youre about to see i built everything. i even designed the wall paper in photoshop from scratch then printed it out and stuck it up. my lovely husband built that lounge chair the model is on (out of steel and brawn:P) from raw materials. as in like wood, screws, batting and a staple gun. i built a whole floor for this shoot for fucks sake.
and all of it almost 100% from nothing but what i had envisioned (the only thing i didnt make is the pattern on the fabric on the lounger and its pretty much exactly what i had pictured)
so i realized something strange.
it is as follows:
when making a photograph as i have been a very unique thing occurs.
i start with an intangible idea, you cant touch it, feel it, see it. its not real.
i build that vision in to a reality, the chair i imagined becomes a real chair, you can sit on it, its totally functional.
it becomes a physical reality.
then i do the photoshoot, and photograph the reality.
then i process the photo to my liking and take apart the set.
and i am back to an intangible reality, the end product is not the reality, but the fiction.
like if the owner of GMC had someone draw up a car, the made the car, then just ignored the car and he only cared about the drawing.
thats all...i dont know why it strikes me as funny that i have to make something real just to turn it back in to just an image...but it does.
so now that ive tried to put that idea to words and bored you all to death.
heres the shoot.
oh and i forgot, i baked a cake too and iced it...and made a frosting bow...tasty.
so everyone knows that when a painter paints, when a write writes, etc we all know that they can start with nothing but an idea. yes, some painters like to have an image in front of them, yes some writes write from life, but it is always a creation of their imagination that was in its final form, never real life.
a photographer can alter their photos, but they are no matter what photos of something that was a reality (and this is with a few exceptions). i cant take a photo of something that doesnt exist. a painter however can paint something that doesnt exist.
so usually this meant nothing to me, because i simply photographed what already existed. and photoshopped a tiny bit. then i started coming up with ideas for things that i wanted to shoot in places that didnt exist.
i toyed around with building sets a bit for the past few months as im sure you all have noticed. but it was always me buying stuff and just putting it in to a set.
for this marie antoinette shoot youre about to see i built everything. i even designed the wall paper in photoshop from scratch then printed it out and stuck it up. my lovely husband built that lounge chair the model is on (out of steel and brawn:P) from raw materials. as in like wood, screws, batting and a staple gun. i built a whole floor for this shoot for fucks sake.
and all of it almost 100% from nothing but what i had envisioned (the only thing i didnt make is the pattern on the fabric on the lounger and its pretty much exactly what i had pictured)
so i realized something strange.
it is as follows:
when making a photograph as i have been a very unique thing occurs.
i start with an intangible idea, you cant touch it, feel it, see it. its not real.
i build that vision in to a reality, the chair i imagined becomes a real chair, you can sit on it, its totally functional.
it becomes a physical reality.
then i do the photoshoot, and photograph the reality.
then i process the photo to my liking and take apart the set.
and i am back to an intangible reality, the end product is not the reality, but the fiction.
like if the owner of GMC had someone draw up a car, the made the car, then just ignored the car and he only cared about the drawing.
thats all...i dont know why it strikes me as funny that i have to make something real just to turn it back in to just an image...but it does.
so now that ive tried to put that idea to words and bored you all to death.
heres the shoot.
oh and i forgot, i baked a cake too and iced it...and made a frosting bow...tasty.