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welcome to a new beginning

2011-09-26T22:54:00.004-05:00

I don't know what has come over me, unhappy feelings that have lead into the unknown world of what comes next.. a place I didn't see myself ever being, never mind revisiting twice.. what do I want to do with my life.. where do I wanna be in five years.. where am I going?! Do I wanna be a hairstylist, or has my love of photography once again pushed any sort of chance of that happening?! "So if you love it so much what's keeping you from it" good question. So I gave it some thought;

"For as long as I can remember I have obsessed myself with photographing life as it happens. I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure, the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there, what we have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. I love natural beauty and exploring the world we live in through the lens, a good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

My clients, along with my friends and family, continue to inspire me every day, and I love being given the chance to photograph them in their surroundings and every little spontaneous moment when people forget about the camera"

and I couldn't come up with one reason this isn't something I should be putting everything I have into.

and so this has lead me to my new beginning, my second chance. I know realize what I want and what I have to do to achieve it, there is nothing at this point that can hold me back, I will only be as successful as I want to be.

I have begun on my new promo and made new business cards as well as some flyers. I am working on a website and have challenged myself to blog at least one photo a day, weather I took the picture, something that inspired me or just something random on the internet that reminded me of my day!

_tiffanylynnePHOTOGRAPHY

Marinelli Family Portraits '09

2009-12-15T00:40:00.005-06:00

It's that time of year ...

Here's one of the familys I've shot this year for Christmas portraits

Happy Holidays!!

- T

Life's a climb

2009-09-26T23:18:00.002-05:00

"the struggles im facing the chances im taking sometimes might knock me down but no im not breaking i may not know it but these are the moments that im gonna remember most yeah just gotta keep going and i i got be strong gotta keep on pushing on cuz

theres always gonna be another mountain im always gonna wanna make it move always gonna be an uphill battle sometimes im gonna have to lose aint about how fast i get there aint about whats waitin on the other side its the climb" - miley cyrus

from winnipeg to toronto and back again

2009-09-09T19:50:00.008-05:00

Toronto... what an interesting place. if only i could begin to describe my five days in what they call the "screw face" capital. From Hookers at 3 in the afternoon to taking us 2 hours to get to the Toronto zoo because someone (not going to say any names *cough.cue.cough*) couldn't read their balckberry maps! But all in all it was a wonderful time filled with rain, and music video shoots, and shopping, and hiphop shows, and rappers, and KOTD battles and walking.. and walking.. and more walking!!

-T xo

look at how far we've come..

2009-09-09T19:41:00.005-05:00

so pretty much i totally forgot about this blog and can't believe it's already been over a year since my first day of Prairie View. feeling really weird about not going back to school this year is starting to get to me a little i think. buuut i have decided that come february i will be going back to school for hairstyling at at the arts and technology center to continue my education and to keep myself busy while i continue to make my photography business grow.

wish me luck!

since i havent posted in a while here's some photos from some grads i shot in June!

25 years and 9 months ago event

2009-04-06T10:10:00.005-05:00

First time flash user and not hating it so much...

over the break it was on of my friends birthdays/concert type thing. we got a small club on co Crydon ROOM720 and it turned out great!! going to lead to alot more.. oh oh oh and i got to use my new wide angle LOOVES IT =)

things are kinda starting to get a little better... just gotta keep my head up.

-T

Neglect, Regret and Uncertainties...

2009-03-02T10:12:00.005-06:00

AHHH... yeah that's a bit better.. just a little..

this is a venntt:

neglect and regret = not enough me time, not enough shooting time, not enough them time, not enough him time... really not enough time all together.

uncertainties = basicallyyy like in complete honesty, why am i doing this??
i love it yes,
its what i want to do yes,
its been my dream for years yes,
my passion yes,
m trrrying to put everything i have into it...
but it's gotten to the point that i'm not feeling like i am improving at all anymore and i am wasting everybody elses time who've been super kind to me all because i just don't have the time to get myself out there... im loosing steam very fast..
either i'm sick, working, too tired, sick or too cold, working to keep myself in school, not feeling well, did i mention sick??
nothing seems to be going my way at all lately, it seems everything and everyone is working against me.. i just don't feel cut out for it..
my body hates me this year and it's draining me past the point of return.. i've lost basically all
my confidence..

creativity needs a MAJOR boost..

errr help?

-T

Movie Extravaganza

2009-02-26T17:43:00.007-06:00

Review Window:

Photographer L.B Jefferies (james Sterwart) is recuperating from a broken leg and confined to a wheelchair in his small Greenwich Village apartment. He passes the time by spying on his neighbors through his apartment's rear window, including a danceer, a lonley woman who lives by herself, a songwriter working at his piano and serveral married couples, including a salesman, with a bed ridden wife, until the unthinkable happens, he witnesses a murder. It was a little slow but a good story.

City of God:

Taking place over the course of over two decades, City of God tells the story of Cidade de Deus (Portuguese for City of God), a lower class quarter west of Rio de Janerio. The film is told from the viewpoint of a boy named Rocket (Busca pé in Portuguese) who grows up there as a fishmonger's son, and demonstrates the desperation and violence inherent in the slums. Based on a real story, the movie depicts drug abuse, violent crime, and a boy's struggle to free himself from the slums' grasp. I think Ienjoyed this movie the most.

War Photographer:

A Documentary I found really impressive is “War Photographer” about James Nachtwey. The Director of this film managed to mount a small video-cam onto Nachtwey´s camera so the viewer kind of looks “through the eyes” of the photographer. Photography, presented to the public in 1839, was believed to create images that were accurate representations of the world. In 1859, it was predicted that photography would be able to visually document future wars correctly. Photography’s accuracy was assumed and taken as a mechanical impression of reality. As explained by louis Daguerre, the creator of the first commerical photographic process, images produced by the camera were of “absolute truth” and “infinitely more accurate than any painting by the human hand.

-T

New Toy

2009-01-19T10:27:00.004-06:00

So for CI this week we started on the History of Photography, which I do have to admit, I am finding really interesting. So our mini assignment was to go to an antique shop and take a picture of an antique camera and write down its information. I went to the Johnson Terminal and I have to say I've always wanted a box medium format camera and so I was looking around and I found the cutest little Lindar camera and fell in love with it, so I bought it haha.. I still have yet to shoot a roll in it, but I am super excited to!!

Everything so far works on it, so hopefully I'll have that luck when I'm shooting my first roll =)

-T

Christmas Break..

2009-01-05T21:05:00.008-06:00

Started off with being possibly two of the worst weeks I have had in a VERY long time. Everyone in my class knows I was sick and we all thought it was the comon cold but I decided I should probably go to the doctor to see what was wrong with me for sure (although I had already seen two) and I then found out I had walking pneumonia... wonderful. Bedridden with the most painful chest coughs and headachs EVER! So I missed out on the first two weeks of being able to complete any kind of assignments. Luckly, the Christmas eve I was feeling a bit better and got myself out of bed for Christmas. So with almost two weeks down and nothing started I was rushing to finsh anything I could, not to say I'm completely dissapointed but I mean, I know I could have done much better. Still not feeling the greatest, but slowly getting better. And I did the best I could..

Here's my Linear Narrativee :

New Years Eve.

and a few from my Self Assigned Assignment:

Santa Portraits.

-T

Long Time No Blog

2008-11-29T00:32:00.009-06:00

So it's been a while since I've blogged so I figured I'd make an update with a few self portraits. Hard stuff to do being as self concious as Iam about everything about me, but I pulled myself together and with some help from a few loved ones I came up with something up to my standards anyway!

It's all a question of identity

while holding onto the past

and trying to look forward to the future

being uncertain of who Iam.

The truth comes out.

-T

Working with light

2008-11-03T22:08:00.003-06:00

Besides fighting off a cold this weekend and the crazzyness of Halloween, the working with light assignment for Industry Studies was alot of fun. I've found a new love for simple photography something I thought I had trouble with before! The light coming from my window seemed just perfect for taking these pictures!

So something tells me simple photographs will be seen quite a bit in my work for the next little while!!

-T xo

Black and White

2008-10-23T23:32:00.005-05:00

Pretty pleased to say that all my worries about my portraits not turning out have completely gone. They turned out better then anticipated. Alex and Kevin did such a great job and i got exactly if not more then what I wanted out of them. I believe I can safely say i captured that 'badass' look -

But I think I might have a problem knowing that they were supposed to be of one person, but to pull off the I guess 'mood' I wanted in these, i needed two poeple, and I think I did, I just hope that I wont be penalized for it..

-T xo

Portraits

2008-10-23T00:36:00.006-05:00

So I went out and did my portraits this evening, and I was so discouraged because my models seemed to not be able to do it when I wanted to and thought was best to do, leading to me having to change my idea completely. So 11 oclock at night and we're finally getting ready to leave to get these done, very certain they wern't going to turn out at all and I would have nothing to show for class on friday, when suddenly things changed for the better.. or well it seems to have .. We decided on going to the forks at the skatepark to see what we could come up with, so I brought my digital camera with me as well as my film and took a few just to see how my lighting was before I started shooting with my film, hoping that this is going to help me in anyway. Well my digital images turned out great and I had so much fun shooting them, I guess it does help that my models were so cooperative. So I just had fun with it, takeing things as they came..

Here's some of the digital photos that were taken(i have still yet to get the roll developped and am very excited to see how they turn out!)

-T xo

ah man...

2008-10-21T19:52:00.006-05:00

So I really wish that I could work up the courage to go out and shoot the downtown "ghetto" area. While I was out doing my zoom burst assignment of graffiti, we happened to come upon this area behind the graffiti galary that look as if it were a gang hang out, it was so interesting and I would loved to have stayed there and taken more then the five or six pictures that I did, but all I kept thinking about was the camera in my hand(that's basically worth more then my life right now) , and someone finding me here and not being happy about it, so I left in a rush promising myslef I'd be back.. I hope..

heres what i took anyway ;

- T xo

Shoot Week

2008-10-20T23:58:00.005-05:00

Oh what a lovely shoot week indeed ...

My nephews second birthday (people and things)

a trip downtown (zoom burst)

went to the zoo (backyard safari)

and outside with my puppy (shutter speeds board assignment)

-T xo

Fashion Photography

2008-09-26T13:28:00.003-05:00

Photography was developed in 1830. In 1856 Adoplhe Braun published a book with 288 photographs of a Countess de Castiglone making her the first ever fashion model. Fashion photography made it's first appearance in the 20th centuary, in French magazines sucha as La Mode Pratique. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar were then the two leaders in the genre throughout the 1920s and 1930s, until Edward Steichn, George Hoyningen-Huen, Horst P. Horst and Cecil Beaton transformed the genre into an outstanding form of art.

Today the most famous fashion photographers are; Mario Testino, Steven Meisel and Patrick Demarchelier.

Mario Testino

i love the expression on her face, and the way her hair is all over the place. The white dress on a purple background makes for a great contrast and that fact that she doesn't look frozen still (which isn't always a bad thing though) makes this photo great!

Steven Meisel

the darkness to this picture is great, the mystyriouse fashion model walking down the sidewalk with a knife in her hand looking extreamly good and walking like nothing ever happened really make me stop and look at this photo over and over again trying to figure out what exactly it is that she's done. the b/w contrast is amazing and i really enjoy the way they played around with this photo.

Patrick Demarchelier
i really like the colors to this picture, i'm not entirely sure on how to explain them or say what i feel about them but it just adds to the sadness of the photo. i like how shes looking down into the fridge and the angle he shot it at. everything here just works in a way i'm not sure how to describe!

some interesting fashion photography links;

http://www.wikipedia.org/fashion_photography
http://www.fashion.net/howto/photography
http://www.catright.com/
(and again)
http://www.staticphotography.com/

Static Photography

2008-09-23T11:47:00.004-05:00

So this is possibly one of the best photography websites I have ever found.

http://staticphotography.com

Why you ask.. well static photography is all about the Vancouver fashion scene and portrait photography, and if any of you have been fallowing my blog at all then you'll know that fashion is the industry that I want to be in. Now not that it's the Vancouver scene specifically that I want to be involved in, but these guys are pretty darn amazing at what they do and their website shows their work and love for the art.

IS2 Tiffany

2008-09-22T14:31:00.004-05:00

Our second assignment for Industry Studies class was lines. I had more trouble with this shoot then I thought I would. It's not that I couldn't find lines to caputre, but I was second guessing everything before I was about to take the photo(even though I know that's the last thing I should of been doing) and I was feeling very well at all. I didn't get much and I got pretty frustrated, but I'm somewhat happy with what I did get.

What attracted me to photography..

2008-09-09T16:12:00.007-05:00

I remember this one Winnipeg Bomber game that my mom took me and my sister to when I was around 15, we were sitting in the v.i.p section because at that point my step dad was mascoting as Buzz, and my mom handed over her camera to me and told me to take a picture of her and my little sister sitting on the bench, shaking and not sure how to use this high tech (at the time) camera, my mom told me "just point and shoot." All I can say is that picture came out better then any picture my mom took with that camera. So I guess you can say the interest started there at the back of my mind. But I never really got into photography until high school, in grade 10 and 11 I took yearbook as an option to keep me involved in the school a little bit more. After that I just fell in love with the art. I volunteered with the Winnipeg Free Press student website Extra, and worked with them all of my last year in high school, it was an amazing experience even only using my very little digital camera. Two Christmas's ago my parents went out and bought me a Canon Digital SLR Film camera and told me that I will do wonderful things, ever since that day I can proudly say I am a complete and total shutterbug!! My camera is always within arms reach and my friends know that when it's in my hand I'm in my own little world!

I'm hoping by the end of PrairieViews diploma course i'll have learned everything that I do not know and should know about photography; all the functions on my camera, how to use lighting, even how to pose people properly to get everyone in a photo would be amazing. Anything that the teachers have to teach me I want to and hope to learn!

If I could go back in time the one person I would love to meet would be my Uncle Darren. Okay well it's not that I haven't mett him before but I was 2 or 3 when he passed away and I feel like there is part of me missing. My Uncle Darren was my mom's twin, and all my family keeps telling me when I ask, is how strong of a bond, myself at 2 and him had before he was killed. They said I wouldn't sleep and I wouldn't eat. It was obvious that even at two that man had an imapct on my life. I don't want to go into complete detail about what happend but what I can say is that the love of a family can be something amazing.
My Unlce risked his life and lost it for his little brother..

My first posting

2008-09-09T11:17:00.009-05:00

As a photographer my main subject interest is nature. I find the world a beautiful place and want to show it to people the way that I see it. I also shoot my friends enjoying their sports, I have friends who are into motocross and snowboarding(as well as many others) and watching them take jumps, do tricks and capture them in their moment of glory is a great feeling.

My career goal is to one day get involved in the fashion industry and work for a major magazine in New York, a dream that will one day hopefully come true!