History Project

This idea has been in my head for many years. The idea came from seeing famous movie scene in the location they were shot as well as war photos in the same location today. So the project that was in my head was to take historical/old photos of near by towns that I could find online or that people have shared and go to the location and try my best to take the photo as it was taken back then. ( i wrote the whole project out but thats the over all idea of it.)

These are 2 examples of what the inspiration came from and if you click the photos above they will take you to there site where you can see more examples. 

A new photography friend of mine ( Dan ) Gave me the push to actually do it finally. So I packed everything I thought we may need and we only used a hand full of things. We used my ipad with photos on it to help frame the shot and to see how close we could get. some of the photos we recreated had to be a panoramic as well as HDR ( over, under, exact exposure). 

From doing the first round as you could call it of photos it helped us understand a few things such as working as a team, framing the photo as well as other things. It was also interesting to see how much buildings and the areas have changed over time. 

The creative/artistic part of the project is the layering part (part 2&3) where the real part of the project takes place. the side by side is more of a reference so you can see the full photos.   

The below is group one part one

The old/historical photos for this project were from many sources

Famous photographer #16

Edward Weston

Born is 1886 Died in 1998

The middle photo is one of his most famous and iconic photographs

one of the most innovative and influential American photographers and one of the masters of 20th century photography.

He photographed many things such as landscapes, still life, portraits and much more.

He knew he wanted to be a photographer at a young and got his first camera which was a simple box camera at the age of 16.

He learned photography and assisted his father in his studio. ( sounds a little like me)

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Film Fest Party 2018

I was asked to photograph a party for the 2018 Chatham Film Fest Kick off party. A long time ago in middle school, I volunteered to help set up the film fest and got to see a few films. Now I got to be apart of the team and document the party. The party was also an event for Brian Cox as well as Stephen Lang. I had a lot of fun at the event since I got to do candid photos "( which is something I am known for). When ever they wanted to do posed photos they would find me and say “zach can you take out photo” which I am ok with. The food as also very good, I had like 20 grill cheeses ( they were mini triangles) as well as a few mini burgers.

Color Run 2018

I was asked to photograph the color run at the elementary school agin this year which I said yes to since I had fun doing it last year. This year it rained on and of during the event but the kids still had fun playing games and dancing to music. They changed the run this year but it was pretty much the same. My favorite part of this event is at the end where they throw color into the air and seeing everyone covered with chalk.

Ghent 200th Birthday

Ghent is celebrating its 200th birthday this year. In the summer there were a few weeks where the town historian gave history walks. The 12th he gave a history presentation and the 13th was the big party for the town. There was parade, fly over, food, fireworks, local venders and historical things to see.

So I had this idea to get the fireworks behind one of the 2 town stables the town hall or the Bartlett House. I figured it would make more for a better end of celebration photo if it was the town hall.