Final Project Proposals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAH!!!!!!!!

1.) I want to shoot portraits of people in vintage clothing in out of place environments. For example: taking a portrait of someone in a computer lab wearing clothing from a past time period i.e. 1980's 70's 60's and even 50's . I would get the clothing from goodwill/thrift stores/craigslist. Color and lighting will play a big role in this project, possibly using filters or post processing to give the photo a vintage or retro feel to them, Also I want the lighting to look like old photos maybe by using a flash or blown out highlights.

2.) Another idea is environmental portraits, environmental meaning shooting portraits outdoors using reflectors or long exposure night portraits. I want the photos to feel unnatural in a natural environment, to do this I will put the sitter in clothes that are to delicate/clean to be in a rugged outdoor environment or clothes that are overly outdoorsy in a cleaner outdoor scenario. This project would take some research in lighting in the outdoors.

3.) I want to take still life's in studio and out of studio of small objects with the idea of making them look bigger than they actually are. I might have to take out a macro lens or use post processing to get the desired effect . The idea is to make ironic images of things that are just not meant to be big.

4.) For an easier project idea I might want to do a photo journalism project where I highlight the influence of the digital age in today's society and how modern devices impact our every day life.

Friends

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven

Me and Another Guy (roomate?)

Narrative Project:

Theses are a some images from a original set of 7 photo's i had to do for photo class, there are two more images then in the original narrative set. although the idea of this story is the life of me and my roommate, at Rochester its just stuff that is over looked about college the down time. the story is pretty loose and basic. you can interpret it any way you want i would actually prefer it. oh and the tittle is from the comments that my professor made on the images online "From the set, it feels like 7 pictures of you and another guy (roomate?)" i thought it was funny and would be an appropriate tittle.

Chsistian Witkin

Christian Witkin:

christian Witkin is a great photographer i thought i would mention and show some of his images, he works some Ad photography, but he mainly does fine art. being a aid photo major i am always looking for photo to aspire to and ways to make fine art work so i don't fail my fine art photo class and looking at photographers like this and reading there biographies and summaries of work helps. so here is some more work from a great fine art/AD photographer check it out:

intro

This Blog:

This is a blog for my Photo Arts class I am attending at RIT (Rochester institute of Technology) taught by our beloved Professor Greg Halpern. I will use this for two things posting personal photo endeavors, interests, and class requirements what ever they might be. I might also ad in some personal stuff like the delicious ham cheese loaf sandwich i just ate, don't worry Greg i will make it clear what is class requirement content and what is random Ben stuff. Ok so before I get to ahead of myself my name is BenJamin David Kitzmiller, or Benny Kitz, or just Kitz. I am an advertising photography major at RIT I'm a second year transfer student from CSM (College of Southern Maryland) aka the school for winners. well i got better stuff to do right now, which may or may not be taking photos so I'm going to end this here and do my required blog entry tomorrow. My next Blog entry will be about narrative/selective photography or something like that. Please stay tuned. Good night and good luck America.