The Theatre Project

So, I have been working on a project for my class that is all about the Cornell Theatre department and the individuals that make us into a department. I started out by giving everyone the same prompt which states:

" For this project I am planning on taking portraits of the Theatre Department’s students. This is open to any Theatre major and would need to take place in the next two weeks. The premise for the photos is to take the portraits where you feel the most “at home” on campus while you are wearing your favorite outfit or something that shows your personality the best. Props are allowed and encouraged. If you are in a relationship doing a portrait with both of you is acceptable."

It is now the end of the second week and I have finished taking the portraits of my fellow Cornell Theatre students. The media that I used was a 4X5 Camera and a 35mm Camera with a cool light system. The hardest part of the shoots was hauling all of the equipment around the campus, it usually involved two trips and would take a half an hour to set up and another thirty minutes to take down. Then, depending on my subject it would take me an hour to two hours to take the pictures of the people. I took pictures in locations from rooms in Bowman to pictures in a tree by ink pond, to the most common place, the theatre building. Overall, I took portraits of 14 people and took 34 4X5 Pictures and 288 35mm pictures with accumulated time of photo shoots between 30 to 35 hours on taking pictures alone. I have developed and made the contacts of all of my pictures, and I am relatively happy with my result. This is because until recently, I have not thought of myself as a portrait photographer, but instead as landscape/still life photographer. I have included one of my land scape pictures from my trip to Japan, that recently won an off-campus photo contest and was featured in the Cornellian. As I work more with my portraits I will begin to upload pictures from this project, please stay tuned...