Slack!
I haven’t picked up my camera in quite a while. I constantly think to myself that I need to start taking my camera around with me again but I never end up doing it. I just need to start journaling again and maybe I will start having ideas. For now, just a couple of camera phone images… Haha
-Tricia
Post?!
I am itching to move…. I’m going on a year and a half of living in this place and I have not lived in the same dwelling for more than a year since I was 19. This is also my first time living in an apartment and my first time living without roommates. I miss having a house with a yard and a front porch where I can put my carved pumpkins. I miss coming home to a house where I can admire light peeking through windows, and being able to take pictures in my yard at night without a neighbor seeing me and thinking I’m strange. I really miss my last house… I was living with my best friend, her boyfriend and their child. Kristine and Miguel would come over and I would cook dinner, bake cookies, get drunk and occassionally I would ride bicycles with them. It had a fenced in yard for my dog to play, it was close to downtown and my job. It was very much the best year of my life.
Once it gets close to the end of the year, my mind races and I tend to dwell on those long-gone moments from my past. I have decided to post images from my past. Enjoy.
I did a couple of long-exposure images from my front yard when I lived in Cayce. I hated living there, which is why I only stayed for about 6months before packing my things and leaving one weekend. If I remember correctly, these had an exposure of about 5 mins.
My friend Brana and I decided to take pictures at the old Gallery 701 before it was renovated. We had planned on trespassing, and while scoping out an entry point, we ran into a group of people that were actually being given a tour by the owner of the place. We asked if we could tag along, and they happily allowed us in!
The semester before my first gallery show, I took a portfolio class and I decided to do images of sketchy places in Columbia at night. These were my two favorites of the 10 images I shot.
That is all for now.
-Tricia
IOT, Images
It’d be silly of me not to show the images that I had in the show, no? Each one of these is a 12×12 digital print, taken with Ilford Delta Pro, 100ASA B&W film, with a Yashica TLR.
Finally!
The show is over! I really enjoyed doing the show, but it was so much work and stress that I’m relieved to be able to relax and not think about it. The show itself went very very well. I’d say there were about 150 people there (give or take), which is right around what I think we prepared for. All of my best friends and the people that I love were there and I went home feeling so overwhelmed. My former professor Kathleen seemed genuinely proud of us, and another professor at USC (Gordon) spoke very kind words to me about my work. It was just an amazing, humbling experience.
Anyway… here’s the meat of the post. Most of the pictures were taken before many of the people came because I borrowed my mom’s point-and-shoot camera, and the battery died after about 10 pictures–obviously not a photographer!
-Tricia
Illusion of Truth, less than a week away!
Okay, I have learned my lesson. If I want to be a professional photographer, I am going to have to just print my photos myself. I would say that I have spent enough time in a darkroom to be able to print something and have it come out (almost) exactly how I want it. This whole digital outsourcing thing—not my cup of tea.
I had my images shipped via 2-day US Mail to my job. After the 5th business day I started panicking and went to the Post Office in search of my images. They cannot be found. I had the tracking number and everything. The USPS claims they left notice that they attempted to deliver my package at 11:31am August 11th, but no one was available to sign for it. Umm. I work at a bank. SOMEONE was there. When the supervisor of the Post Office told me she had no clue where my box was I felt so defeated. I had a panic attack, so I called Eric crying and in need of advice. He had me convinced that I was going to go back up to the Post Office once I got off of work and bang on the doors DEMANDING my work. When I returned to work I walked into my manager’s office and once again started crying. I just KNEW I was going to have to reorder my work and spend so much more money (that I don’t have) getting it overnighted so I could MAYBE have it by Monday.
Thirty minutes after I returned to work, the mail carrier walked in with my box of images.
I can hear the voices of the photo-influential people in my life saying something to me like: ”You put something so important to you in someone else’s hands, when you could have done it yourself with no stress and a better outcome.” Toby DEFINITELY would be upset with me that I didn’t print them myself.
The images look okay/nice though. They’re a little dark, but with all things considered I am just glad I don’t have empty frames going up on the wall next week.
-Tricia
Jenniffer and Travis, wedding.
I finally finished the pictures for the wedding of my two friends, Travis and Jenniffer. I took over 1500 pictures that day, and they are all edited down to about 600 final images. I had such a great time at this wedding and it was, by far, the most work I’ve done in one 12 hour day. Their theme was “The Perfect Pair” which is why you will see pears in many of the pictures. Enjoy!
Ashley and Mike, engagement
Yesterday my friends Ashley and Mike got married at a beautiful lake house near the Sandhills Mall out here in Northeast Columbia. I took SO many pictures! So while I am organizing and doing the color correcting for them, here are their engagement photos from a couple months ago that I never uploaded.
Terry and Kevin
Words cannot express how happy I am that these two friends of mine are now married. We all used to work together at Olive Garden. Terry is a great friend of mine that I love sitting around her house drinking wine and dangling our feet in her pool. Kevin used to be our manager at Olive Garden, and he was always my favorite manager because he’s just one cool dude. They’ve been together for a couple of years now, but they are still just as disgustingly cute together as they ever were, and because they both have children from former marriages, they KINDA remind me of the Brady Bunch.
They got married on May 1, 2010 right here in Columbia SC. I didn’t get too many pictures at the actual wedding itself because one of their friends (as a gift) hired a photographer for them… and that guy kept stepping in front of me. But here’s some snapshots anyway 
Jenniffer’s Bridal
Woo! Update!
I have never really been the type of photographer that is able to capture the moment. In all the years I have been taking pictures, I have always leaned more towards taking pictures of things that are still or things that I have set up or modeled. Motion is not something that captures my eye, but things that are sedentary, aging and abandoned are what I find appealing. With that being said, I am really challenging myself recently to take pictures at weddings. I thought buying myself a new flash would help me but I am finding that having to learn how to use one (and make the pictures look nice) is another obstacle. By the end of this weekend I am hoping to buy myself a new zoom lens to also assist me with “capturing the moment.” but I know that I have a long road ahead of me.
As mentioned in my previous post, Eric, Marshall and I are working on a show that will be put on at Gallery 80808 this August. I am excited to be working on an artistic project because I have not done anything of the sort since I graduated in December of 2008. Our theme (and title) is “Implicit Memory.” Right now I am doing some research about the meaning of the title to help me develop my ideas. I am going to be shooting with a Yashica TLR on B&W 120 film. I cannot express my excitement for developing film again. Right now I feel as though I will be doing a digital output for the prints, but I kinda feel the need to be in a darkroom to watch the images develop in the trays and get high off the fumes from the chemicals. Maybe if I volunteer some time in the photo lab at USC, I can have access to the dark room this summer…?!?!
I will post pictures at a later time from some of the shoots I have done in the past month… so look for those coming up! For right now, just admire how beautiful this camera is that I am borrowing:
-Tricia
I’m BAAAAAAAACK!
Yes, that’s right. I have decided to get my blog up and going again. I kinda took a break from photography after I graduated because I felt lost without having a deadline or a project to work on behind my camera. I lost my creative dazzle and interest in being behind my camera.
But now I’m taking bridal portraits, shooting weddings, engagement photos etc… as well as putting on a show with Eric and Marshall this August. I am super excited to be behind my camera again and I can’t wait to start blogging about it!
Long time…
Yes, It has been awhile. The show went very well. I think the most important thing about my show was that at least 25 of the people I care about most were there supporting me, and it really made it a special evening for me. I wish I had gotten some feedback about my work at the show, but my anxiety was so high I stayed as far away from my work as possible. From what other people told me I had an overall good response to my work… woohoo! So… Pictures!
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- OchoFoto Crew
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- At the show
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- My work hanging
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- Afterpart At ArtBar
There’s many more, but those are just a sample 
-Tricia
Gallery Update #3
The show is getting SO close. I would say that I’m half-way done. I shortened my series to 4 diptychs instead of 4 triptychs (4-16″x20″ and 4-10″x10″). I have 2 of the diptychs printed and I shot the third one tonight. I plan on photographing my last one over Spring Break. I already ordered my frames from dickblick.com so they should be here any day now!! I’m glad I haven’t procrastinated this semester with this show. I am doing horribly in my Latin American history class, but at least my photography is going well
I have finished my Artist Statement for the most part:
“In this series, I am photographing couples who are in an unconventional relationship. I think one of the most defining things about who I am is that I was raised by lesbians (my mother and her partner, Edye). It is something that sets me apart from everyone else, but to me it is completely normal. I hold my parents very dear to me because they taught me to love and accept everyone regardless of race, gender and sexuality.
With these images, I want to show the simple beauty of people existing in a certain space together, but also the beauty of simply having someone to share to share your existence with. These images are intended to provide the viewer with little glimpses into the subjects’ lives. I took these pictures with the snapshot aesthetic of Nan Goldin in mind because it is the snapshots of us and our close ones that trigger our memories–more so than the formal sit-and-pose images that merely document our existence. These intimate images are ways of holding on to these moments as something cherished and significant to the people.”
And soooo are we ready for some pictures? These pictures are unedited because I can’t figure out how to change the file types from tiff to jpg on this computer… Soooo just imaging the images are color corrected and the picture of beds are cropped to squares. Consider this a sneak peek that will make you want to come to the show to see it all put together
-Tricia
Gallery Update #2
So we changed the name of our show, which I am very happy about. The name is kinda stupid and silly, but we all find humor in it because it is an inside joke with everyone involved in the show. It’s called “OchoFoto” now. When we started coming up with titles, we kept playing around with the idea that there were 8 of us, so we came up with silly titles like “L8rG8r,” and other titles with an 8 subsitituted in place of the sound “-ate.” For some reason whenever we would get frustrated we’d just say “ok let’s just name it Ochofoto” and I guess it just eventually stuck. We all know it’s a stupid title, but we are a fun group of people so it just kinda works, I guess. I enjoy it. Much better than “Auto-Focus off.”
I feel like I have finished one of my triptychs. Just three more to go. I have also thought of another couple that I could photograph, so I either need to add to my show or subtract one of the other couples. Cost-wise, I feel like I should still only do 4 triptychs, but I will still photograph all the couples I have lined up because I see this as a project I want to continue working on.
I will post pictures of the triptych later Work calls
