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16-35mm 2.8 for wide shots and an 85mm 1.2 for portraits. I also use the 580 ex11 speedlight and bounce it off of the ceiling in low light situations.

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Things I have learned about photography thus far

.it's difficult
.shooting expired film is difficult, annoying but sometimes yields amazing results
.digital is accurate, but where's the fun in that?
.digital is based on the film world
.its about a point of view, so I should figure one out soon
.portraits where the person is looking at the camera if done well, are incredible
.try and find an interesting angle
.look for the light
.the camera doesn't make the photographer (or at least I hope)
.concept can be everything
.just because someone takes their clothes off or you are in a foreign country doesn't make you a photographer and it doesn't solve any questions
.its hard to take photographs of beautiful works of art, and make it your own.
.photograph your passions
.photograph what's around you
.photograph with a concept in mind
.photography is work, when you take photos you are working


I don't know what I am doing.... and I am lost photographically. I'll figure it out one day, but for the time being I've lost my voice. I have serious artists block and every path I go down just feels trite, and forced. Where did my perspective go?

let's visually connect the world...

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A city of Facades

My goal for my photography work, is to show how obsessed our culture is with appearance, facades, down to the way we design our cities. We are so obsessed with how things appear to the forward viewer we forget we live in a three dimensional world, and in a sense we create two cities within one, we create the city that is to be seen and the city that exists behind it. Our focus is the front, and we neglect space behind it. The duality of the suburban city. We create thriving metropolises and ghosts towns at the same time.
The photographs will be taken in two sets, City A and City B. City A being the facades of all the buildings, and city B being the opposite side. The question is do I display them in sets, similar to the Bernd and Hilla Becher, or long strips of film printed on long sheets of paper, like the way a city lays out so you can see the city as it exists in space? Overall I want the cities to have a flat cut out appearance, so the shots will be taken straight on from roughly the same distance to further emphasize the idea that people only think of buildings as they would think of a drawing, only designing the front and neglecting the other sides.
Along that similar note, one could take photographs of each side of the building and arrange them in a grid so one could see all sides at the same time and see the entire building broken down and made flat. Must explore multiple approaches and see which works the best.