Presentation Response

I really enjoyed hearing about all the different photographers in the past two classes. In particular, I found Anna’s presentation about Cameron Wittig especially interesting and well put together. It’s neat that she was actually able to get in contact with him and ask questions over email. His approach to the project when he couldn’t show the musician’s face was both creative and successful. I loved seeing all of the different things he did with the idea from pixelating his face, to covering it with dice, and creating collages with it. The end result was a really fun way to do portraiture. Even without being able to see his entire face, you can still learn a lot about the musician just by how his portraits are collaged and put together. I also really agree with the comment from one of his friends that said that his work always had more than one thing to look at. In all of the portraits, I look at both the face, and what he is doing to cover it up. In his landscapes, he never just takes simple photos of landscapes. There is always another aspect that he adds in to make it more visually interesting. In many of his landscape photographs, he does double exposures to add to them. One of my favorites of his landscapes is the one with the mountains and the moon, because of the way the light is working. Overall it was one of my favorite presentations.