http://www.sophiejodoin.com/

Oil / conte paintings. Lots of mood/ raw emotion. Would it be possible to create something more like this with photography? in the dark room?? liquid light??

I like the interaction in the top photos and the sense of alone/ individuality in the bottom one... reminds me a bit of Arbus's work.. very "alienation" in my mind.

http://www.tamaralichtenstein.com/page/1

Holga?? Double exposures and some light leaks in some of her work. I like the lighting and different angles on face/ body etc.

http://www.snarecreative.com/?p=51

Beautiful colour and mood,.. some double exposures etc.. Holga??

Terrible initial experiments with HDR. Downloaded some trial software and just having a play,.. though it puts grids and watermarks on everything which is annoying. Using multiple different exposures to deal with light and dark areas. I've seen a lot of interesting examples,.. though portraits tend to look very plasticy and odd.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/mac.html

http://www.imagenomic.com/download_nwpg.aspx

Quote from Susan Sontag - On photography:

"Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate; familiar things small, abstract, strange, much further away. It offers, in one habit forming activity, both participation and alienation in our own lives and those of others- allowing us to participate, whilst confirming alienation."

http://2009.atcamberwell.com/courses/bahons-photography

Want to check out more work from this and other graduate photography sites.

Eleanor Odell:

http://ericruby.com/

http://colinkopp.com/

Purely a nice site design for Photography.