Steel Wool

When I first entered the field of photography, I began looking through hundreds of images on the internet looking for anything to get the creative ball rolling. I stumbled upon something I didn't understand at the time. It turned out to be a picture of someone spinning steel wool. It was amazing, I couldn't understand how it was done and that's what intrigued me. I started looking at more and more and  I began seeing these magnificent images people were coming up with. I knew I had to give it a try. After getting the basic concept down, I took to the night to try something I never knew would become my favorite type of photography. To me these aren't just pictures, they are creations of my mind. Visions only seen when the shutter closes and the camera processes what has just happened. When I first began it was very simple, drawing letters and simple shapes but I realized that it was not necessarily the steel wool that made the images appealing but the background and how certain surfaces reflect the light and are illuminated by the burning of the steel wool. During an assignment in Digital 2 Professor Cyr asked us to do a final project that would be a small body of work which had to have meaning behind it. I was puzzled as to what I could do with my steel wool pictures while also bringing meaning to them. We talked and he asked me what the significance was of me being in the photos and I wasn't quite sure. I realized that I would weave myself into the background or foreground somewhere sometimes easily noticeable other times not so much. So I decided to go ahead and make my project based around how an otherwise boring photograph could be changed drastically with the introduction of myself and what I bring with me.

One of My first Steel Wool shots 

One of my Final images from intro to Digital 

Another Shot from the early days