Holy Ghost Zone Take 2

Holy Ghost Zone Take 2,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

I went back and re-shot the Holy Ghost Zone and this is what I came up with. I like the line the roof creates and the Arby's is less separated from the Holy Ghost Zone.

Enjoy!

Welcome To The Ghost Zone

Arbys Ghost Zone Donuts,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

This church is located in Irving on Story Road just south of 183. I'm not sure what religion it's for, but it makes for one of the more interesting pieces I have so far in the series.

Church Series Straight From Cottonwood

Lepe_Final_4,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

I've added a page for my current series, a typology of churches at night. The first twenty images I've posted were turned in as my final portfolio for my class Digital Photography - Design.

This is some of the work I had on exhibit at the Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson this weekend. This series will also be on display at the Photoworks exhibit in the Art Barn at UTD starting May 16th.

Fall 2007 Photography Portfolio - With Bonus

a_lepe07,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

Well, as the semester is coming to an end, I have finally turned in my final portfolio for my advanced photography class. I decided to go with a progression of my work through the semester as it went from straight documentation of action in low light situations to a study of form and prolonged exposures. I think it went over well in class, especially after getting a return on the last class critique we had that was a lot more positive than I had been expecting.

I think I'll be going back to photographing what I think is interesting, and if I can find the time, go into a study of portraiture because I really find faces interesting.

Tune in next week. Same Bat-blog, Same blog-time.

More Blurs at Practice

2007-11-14, Frisbee Blurs_0251,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

Last Tuesday as the numbers at practice dwindled the guys decided to play a box game which packs the action in a confined space due to a limited number of players. This was a good opportunity to get some nice blurred action shots and I think this one was my favorite of the night.

Be sure to check out the action page for galleries with more pictures in this, and the racquetball sets.

Blur Study - Racquetball

2007-11-13, Raquetball Blurs-34,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

I went to the activities center to see what I could come up with and did some prolonged exposures of a couple of guys playing racquetball. I found some of these to look interesting when I inverted their colors and think I may do this with some other blur images because it gives it the look of an x-ray when there's an area where the subject overlaps that is darker and it is surrounded by lighter areas where the subject passed through.

These exposures range from 1/2 a second to 1 and 1/2 seconds at varying f stops.

Blur Study

2007-11-07, Practice Blurs-11,
originally uploaded by SLepe.

I think I finally understand what my teacher has been talking about this whole time. She wants a style, not necessarily "good" pictures, just a theme that we can carry as "artists" and taking those pictures in that style and refining the style. This is the direction I'm going to be exploring. Taking pictures at night and embracing the blurs that occur instead of going for traditional sports photography at night. I'll start with tripod stuff tonight so that everything that's not moving is a lot sharper.

These first pictures were done hand-holding at about 1/10 of a second at F 2.8 at iso 400. Check out the gallery in the "action" section.

How To Get More Work In A Gallery

I've just quadrupled the number of photos I've to on display in the show for my portfolio class, and the pictures going up are more my style instead of the forced "identity" theme photo. How did I do it? The gallery wanted more pictures to go up in the show and I volunteered a handful, of which 3 were taken.

On display I now have the picture of the bottles of hot sauce from my first post, the picture of Jimmy schooling Kevin, the one of Dan at Splatterbeat, one from one of the practice galleries found here.

Tomorrow night is the reception at our show and a number of other shows in the area, so if you're into that whole "art" scene, I highly reccomend goign and checking it out. There will be punch & pie. Or at least some other forms of refreshments. Details below.

Fotophile: Where's Your ID? the UT Dallas photography student portfolio with work by Valerie Wong, Jeanie Vichayanonda, Justin Valle, Blake Tomlinson, Wendy Ray, Talia Luna, Alex Lepe, Sam Lang, Alvin Haynes, T.J. Griffin, Anne Friske, Hannah Frank, Irene Formillo, Scott Dougherty, Albert Almanza and Aekta Ahluwalia up now, reception 7-10 October 26, through November 18

The Courtyard Theatre is located at 1509 H Avenue in Plano just off 15th.

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