Photography Review

Logan Carters work influences mine in a lot of ways. We both really enjoy traveling to capture the perfect photographs. I would definitely aspire to become a successful photographer like he is. He mostly likes to work with nature and his favourite thing to photograph is waterfalls. He really cares about how the reflections works in many of his water photographs such as the Thailand one in my examples post. He has gone to many countries in search of the perfect photo opportunities. His strengths are definitely for nature such as reflections in lakes or waterfalls. He uses the GoPro so he never knows what will come out of the picture. Normally it's used for underwater photos but he uses it to broaden the horizons and such. I think his other strength is whenever he uses the panorama settings. Every single panorama he has done has turned out beautifully and it really pushes out the deepness of the places he has seen. All of his images are really strong and I see no flaws in them.

Logan Inspired Pictures

Logan Carter Biography

            Logan Carter is a young photographer from Calgary, Alberta. He was born on January 16th, 1991. At a young age his family traveled the United States and him and his little sister, Jenna, was being home schooled. They both spent their last four years of high school at Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle Washington. He graduated there in 2009. He later went to Walla Walla University in Walla Walla. He more recently became interested in photography when he made videos for his University film class. He now is a freelance filmmaker/photographer and gets hired to film and edit events such as student mission trips or even home renovation videos from local churches.
            Logan recently came back from a big trip with his friend Devin in December. They visited China, Thailand, Nepal and Bangladesh. He was called to Thailand and Bangladesh to create promotional videos for their Adventist schools and communities. He brought back images from orphanages and Universities and they all came out completely beautiful. Once they were done taking pictures and videos, they had vacation time in Kho Phi Phi Island and spent days their rock climbing with old school friends and riding mopeds around the island. In Nepal, They climbed the Annapurna Mountain Trail.
            At the moment, He is working as an independent contractor (freelance) for ROW Adventures, an outdoor travel company that takes adventures all around the globe. He isn't performing any photography for his travels but he is creating a series of promotional films. He will only use pictures for personal interest. He will be working until September and will travel to Ecuador, Peru and the Galapagos, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and BC, and perhaps Europe and Africa. 
            Logan hasn't won any awards for his work, but he has been a finalist two times in his "Best of College Photography" competition. Two of his pictures have been published in their books. Everything he uses for photography is digital. He preferred editing use is Photoshop CS6 and the plug-in that goes with it called "Camera Raw".

All the Equipment used in his Career:
Nikon D40
Nikon D7100
Nikon D7000
Nikon 18-105mm kit lens
Nikon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens
Nikon 55-300mm telephoto lens
Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 wide-angle lens
Manfrotto 546B tripod legs with fluid video head
4 Class 10 SD Cards of varying sizes
GoPro Hero3

Logan made a small video of all his best filming moments. Including Africa and local shots:

                                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ckxd2nlUnk&feature=player_embedded

May 17 - Spring Time

I took these with Macro setting on my Canon Rebel T4i. They were in my backyard after a few minutes of rain and sunshine mixed. :)

Logan Carter Photo Examples

Metlako Falls, Oregon - December 20th 2011

Prayer Wheels in Kathmandu, Nepal - November 13th, 2012

Namibian Plains - April 14th, 2011

Mount Robson, British Columbia - August 29th, 2012

Skeleton Coast, Namibia - April 14th, 2011

Koh Phi Phi, Thailand - December 18th, 2012

Sossusvlei, Namibia - April 14th, 2011

*All pictures taken from Logan's website: www.logancarterproductions.com

All pictures shot with the Nikon D7000 and the Canon Rebel T4i*

May 10 - Shoes that tell a story

These shoes belong to my best friend and boy, does he have stories to tell. :)

Urban Camouflage Assignment

 

"The Garden Boy"

 I used face paint and stuck my little brother in the garden. It was definitely entertaining. But this was a simple and small idea for my first time doing camouflage.

"The Canadian"

I also got my older brother into it. My face painting is a bit terrible, I'll admit that, but this one is still my favourite. It turned out pretty good and if you squint a little, he's almost imvisible. :)

Aaron Larney

             Aaron Larney was born and raised in London. He has graduated out of Central Saint Martins with a Masters degree in BA Graphic Design. He works with many different kinds of art. Mostly digital and motion graphics. I especially enjoy his prints of stamps and his artwork around that. I like how he used molds of the whole alphabet using letters that were in labels of car names or random fridge magnets. 

            Aaron has made a couple Urban camouflage projects and they include the urban setting of graffiti. I think this was an amazing choice because when I think of the word 'urban', I think of graffiti. And I believe a lot of other people would think that as well. His other urban camouflage project was noticeboard camo. He wrapped someone in newsprint and then stood them against the billboard that you find at workplaces and schools. I think this was creative because he used something that you see in every modern day life. And if someone was camouflaged behind it, it would be very relative in a small way. 

           All of his other work is mostly graphic design with videos. In one video he recorded two guys talking about buying something expensive. And then he added pictures of words or a representation of what they were actually saying, at that exact speed. It was like a lyrical collage and I really enjoyed it. I would like to see more art designing like that. 

          His influence on me makes me want to go out and do more graphic designing and collages like he did. They are modern and fresh and funny. I would enjoy trying out the graffiti camouflage that he did as well. It seemed like an interesting project. I also think his letter moulds would be really fun to make because then you can make a different kind of font using funky, and well known labeled letters. 

          I would enjoy to do more work this way using computers with photo editing and other designs. I am definitely inspired by Aaron Larney's work to pursue more new types of art such as Urban Camouflage. And I hope he has inspired others to do the same. :)

May 3 - Creep in Close

This is my beautiful mother! I figured this was appropriate considering Mother's Day is coming up soon. :)

April 26 - Segments of 3

I took this in the school library.