Brooklyn campaign

My concept for the downtown Brooklyn campaign is distinctive views of the brooklyn bridge, views i thought were interesting while i was taking pictures of the bridge, not the everyday picture of the bridge.

423 Fulton St. (Now)

Here's how the building at 423 Fulton looks right now, it hasnt changed a lot,now it has a store that sells glasses..

Historic Brooklyn Photo(Then)

Here's the picture of old brooklyn the address for this picture is 423 Fulton St. I wonder ho this looks today.

Bookstore poster

heres my poster for the bookstore...

Olivo Barbieri @ Yancey Richardson

I decided to start my gallery day by checking out all the art galleries around the block. The one that impressed me the most was Olivo Barbieri’s site specific, which is being shown at the Yancey Richardson gallery. I was also impressed with the Ghost I’m chasing by Nan Goldin her portraits of the old couple were really touching, and the size of the photographs gave me a feeling of numbness, it was like I was feeling, the couple’s embracing their love.

The Rat & Bear exhibition by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, was really weird and unsatisfactory for my taste. I did not like it, I thought it was tasteless what’s the point of having of dressing up in a rat and bear suits and do funny movements and then having the suits like in an altar type place.

Olivo Barbieri’s work is really interesting, and I enjoyed it a lot, my favorite picture was the one of the Coliseum in Rome, such a historical place how beautiful it is and it still stand thousands of years later it shows how powerful mankind can be. It also shows how small we are in this world, it made ask myself how does this planet looks from the outside, from the universe, if there is life outside this planet how do they look at us? What do they see?

Barbieri took his photographs from a helicopter 300 to 500 feet above ground with a large format camera, I will love to see work like this done in New York City but in the less remote places because obviously in the middle of the city I believe it cant be done maybe in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx parts less known of the city which are as good as the landmarks in downtown. Mr. Barbieri’s concept is great I belive he should do this in different parts of the world and see how people react to it. And see how small we really are in a Universe full of things that we do not know about.

Point of Purchase

I took this picture at the H&M on 5th avenue, I think the mannequins look nice and stylish, it attracts the customer to go in and shop.

the station

somehow, i really like this picture maybe is the solitude of the train station, or the way the platform looks kind of neverending, I take this train everyday I have to go work, and i saw the station so solitary eventhough it was 12 in the afternoon..

Liz Von Hoene

Liz Von Hoene photography is pretty amazing, She has her own style in all of her photographs, I like the way she makes her models look, in a very fashionistic matter but at the same time, soft and kind of makes them look normal, i also like her black and white photographs speacially the one were there's an scenery, a small house and a woman wearing a white dress, I also like her advertising was impressive, I will chose her to do the photographs for my ad.

For this campaign I used the font that Armani uses for its logo, i used the font for the headline. I think this one works better than campaign A, because I think it looks more like a "real" fashion ad, I even added a strip, for the consumer to smell the product.

Campaign A

Here is my ad for Armani Mania, deodorant I diffuse the light to have a dark/black background I wanted to give the product a sense of importance, and that it workd,also I wanted to make it look like a fashion ad, for a cologne. The first one is the original photograph of the ad.

The Pit

So, last thursday I went to a metal show at Irving Plaza,to my surprise the show was sold out. I went to see Between The Buried & Me, they were opening for a band called Bleeding Trough, which i dont really like because all of their songs sound the same to me, so i was watching BTBM,their music is really cool and rare, they go from a ballad tune, to a really metal part,in one song in seconds. and all of a sudden a huge mosh pit formed and all the kids were really static to see them perform, i think this is a good picture because it captures the energy of metal shows,look how that kid is hanging from the ceiling.

Carnaval 2006 "La Vega"

ok,so last weekend i went to Dominican Rep. for four days it was an emergency trip, but in spanish theres a saying that goes to bad times show a good face something like that you guys get me, so i decided to go to the carnaval in La Vega, every sunday during the month of February every town in Dominican Republic has a carnival, La Vega is the most famous one in the country, it is estimated that more than 100,000 thousand people go to this small town, Dancing, Partying,Parades, driking, and of course getting your whacked on your butt by the diablos is an awesome experience, a little a short explanation about the carnival in La vega.some of the the diablos are nice and will pose for the camara but there was one that came after me with the balloon to hit me..:)

The Carnival is the most traditional popular festivity of the Dominican Republic. It goes back to the colony, on the eve of lent, when people in Santo domingo disguised themselves to imitate the European Shrovetide.

If "people began to wear masks in Santo Domingo" as of the 16th century, the truth is that this colonial tradition increased with the heroic deeds of the republicans on February 27, 1844 and August 16, 1865, to such an extent that almost since then these are the official dates of celebration of our carnivals, regardless of the fact that they may fall or not on shrovetide. The first date at least normally falls on lent. It is known that the carnival is celebrated before lent, which is a time of penance and preparation for Christ´s passion. taken from this web site...http://www.dominicana.com.do/english/carnival.htm here are some pictures hope you guys like it

Survival of the Fittest

wow!, how many pigeons New York City has? where do all of them come from? so i was waiting for a friend around Bryant Park, when all of a sudden a lady threw bread on the concrete right next to me, i saw all these pigeons coming at me, and i saw how much they were fighting to get a piece of the bread, kinda of people live here in here New York City always trying to get a piece of the bread, before the bigger pigeon gets it. I believe is a great picture because it shows how much the pigeons are fighting to survive. I was lucky to zoom in this much without scaring them.





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What I've learned so far....

I believe the Advance Photo Studio has helped a lot with expanding my knowledge of photography, regarding lighting and the use of a studio. For example I didn't know about how the angle views were call,like bird's eye , eye-level, etc. also the naming of the lights has helped me a lot with how to set up the lights and the name they have. I expect to learn more things during the semester.

the view from my living room

this picture is for my advance photo class, i took it this morning while enjoying the wonders of nature, i think is a cool picture because of the the snow is around the fired hydrant, I've never seen anything like it, there's probably over 12 inches of snow, wow how great nature can be.

Richard Foster Photography

Wow, what a way to utilize lighting and shadows Richard Foster photography is great, I love many of his pictures, but this is one is the one that gets my attention, I like how he uses the spotlight to light the grill of the Rolls Royce car, and how it kind of touches the logo of the Royce, this car is the most elegant of all, and Foster gives the elegant touch with the way he uses lighting, and how he leaves the car in soft darknessm and the grill and logo of the car with the soft light makes it amazing. To view more of Foster's photography you coulg go to his website-www.richardfoster.com

Photo Class picture

La Playa(beach), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, I know is not the best picture ever, but i still cant figure out flickr and linking it to blogger,anyways there you have it "la playa", I think its geourgous, I miss real the real beaches...

test

testing, just testing