ROMAN ALEXANDER

January 29, 2012

Quick little quicky.

Myself and my brain have been all over the damn place lately. Week 3 is ahead of me. I shot for architecture yesterday and I wanted nothing more than to shoot myself. It aggravated me so much because cars kept slowing down wondering what the hell I was doing. Someone even came up to me and asked me what I was doing. Everyone who is not a photographer thinks the 4x5 is some kind of a weapon of mass destruction, or some super secret government camera. I really don’t know, people are pretty oblivious. I couldn’t use the 90mm lens because I would literally have to be standing in the middle of the street to use it. My life is more important than this class, so there ya go. I put my 210mm lens back on and left the bag bellows on and went back onto the curb. I shot the house. Quickly, I picked up my camera, ran across the street with it, planted it on the driveway, focused, composed it, and shot my detail shot. Then I got the fuck out of there before the family came home. A headache soon over took me. 

Today I’m shooting 8752057023 things. Not really. 2 things, plus writing a 1 page paper for something I should’ve did, like, Wednesday. Anyway, I photographed my cousin Sophia earlier today. I’m trying to photograph people I’ve never photographed ever in my life for my fine art class. I like it better that way anyway, I seem to get a better picture that way. Especially when shooting with my 4x5. I drove us to an empty field/lot somewhere in Montclair. I loved the location, so pretty. I wanted to run around the whole place. I shot 4x5, but I only shot 2 sheets of color since that’s all I sadly had left. The rest was B&W. After I shot some digital ones because I was bored and I was in love with the area and light. 


Then she wanted to photograph me. Excuse the bitch face and just my overall gross face.

Yuck.

Then we found these two little mounds.

Sophia: “HAHA, they look like boobs! Roman go run over to the boobs!”


Feed me.

Now, I’m setting up a still life. I have to wait until it’s dark to shoot it. Until then, I’m going to write my paper. 

Bye.

Midnight - January 9, 2012

It is extremely hot in my room right now and I’m pausing my movie to blog…at midnight…

I haven’t had a solid update on this blog since the summer (only my work) so I decided to kind of keep this blog alive-ish. So I guess I’ll start off by saying that 3rd term was blur; a big fat blur and I’d like to keep it that way. 

Moving on.

The only real shooting I’ve done over my month long break is digital. Yuck. It’s not even artistic shooting it’s more of just documenting my hang outs with friends and so on and so forth. It’s mostly to keep my old friends in my memory, so I can keep tabs on them since I never get to see them. It’s so depressing that I only get to see them when we’re on a break and we all go to school in the same state. The problem? We all live far away from each other now. One friend lives in central California, another in Long Beach, another in Brea, another here, another there. You get the point. Then there’s me. Still in Pomona. I loathe Pomona so much, but when it’s me and all my friends united it feels like we’re all still in high school again; like nothing ever really changed. Just our hair, or our clothes, or our relationship status, haha.






I haven’t even seen all of my “hometown” friends yet. There’s a few I haven’t seen yet. We always have a dinner or something planned before we go back and that’s this coming Saturday. I already know not everyone’s going to show up because that’s just how shit goes. 







I see it as that I saw the important ones. Harsh words I know but I’m kind of blunt like that.

I’m going to go “hiking” with my 4x5 sometime this week when I’m not mentoring the incoming 1st termers at Art Center. annnnnnd I’m saving up for something new. Something bigger than a 4x5. Can you guess? 

Anyway, back to my movie.

Happy New Fear, I mean, Year.