Webin' the Net is a platform for students from the Art Institute to participate in a group blog. Each week students from Web Portfolio I will come up with a concept to illustrate with a photo and a few thoughts about how that photo fits the concept.
We call them "conceptlogs".
My father likes his food as spicy as it gets! I remember being little and my dad gave me a bite of his green chili. My eye’s watered up, my nose was running, and my mouth was on fire! Ever since the common hot sauce might as well be a lit match in my mouth. It may all be in my head but to this day I attribute my hate for spice to my dad.
Valentine's came up for our concept I wanted to capture what is most important on this day, my Valentine. The two best times of my day usually consist of waking up to these eyes so I wanted to show that intimate moment of first thing I see in the morning and last thing I see at night. Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday. I’m not quite sure why, it may be red is my favorite color, or chocolate is my favorite food, or simply I’m a romantic.
I love crafting, cutting, pasting, gluing, melting, and really using any medium to create. I was working with crayons for a personal project and realized they would work perfect for the texture concept. It is interesting to me that a simple crayon can have so many different textures, smooth, rough, jagged, shiny, dull. I had fun putting this together and think it represents the concept well.
This shot ended up quite opposite from my original idea. I wanted to show a snow boarder sliding down a rail with a blur, and then stopping him at the end with a strobe. Due to equipment failures I ended up taking a different route and panning my subjects. In the end I was happy with the change and must say these guys are fast!! 
