Ivy Chang Photography

I know it’s been a while but I’ve been super busy with work and doctor’s visits.

I’m not quite the landscape photographer, but a 35mm color photography class in college pushed me to explore this area.  Naturally, I travelled to my favorite place in Athens to experiment.  It has the most spectacular scenery, and on some mornings you’ll see the entire area filled will low fog making it so eerily beautiful.  I’m going back to my old stomping grounds on May 4 – 5 for a conference, so I’m hoping I can get some of those shots then.

All of these shots were taken with my Canon A2E 35mm camera with a 50mm 1.4 lens.

This second triptych is located near the school’s intramural fields.  I’m sad to say this was a late discovery, but nevertheless, I came back for several photoshoots here before my life was consumed in the photo labs as I prepared for my exhibition and graduation.

Hopefully with some holidays coming up this summer, I’ll have some more time to shoot something fresh.  Stay tuned!

 

Several years ago, I had some friends that were really into filmmaking.  I came on board as the “on-stage” photographer and I have to admit it was a lot of fun.

This one particular set of photos was for a music video for the song 사랑인걸 (It is Love) by Mose.  We went to Atlantic Station and it was nice because it was nearly abandoned because of the rain that day and was the perfect setting for the song.

So here is your star actor for today, Sangwon Kim.

 

Back in 2009, I was taking an intermediate photography class at UGA with an amazing professor and photographer, Mary Ruth Moore.

She was really the first person to ever acknowledge that I had an eye for photos and made me think about whether or not I could pursue this in the long-term.  I’ll be honest, I appreciated but ignored her initial comments and went on doing what I thought I was meant to do.  Clearly, the other path didn’t work out and I humbly came back to Mary Ruth and she welcomed me as her student.

I will say that taking traditional photos really made me understand and appreciate photography a lot more.  The entire process from loading the film, taking photos, unloading and developing the film, observing, and then spending hours upon hours chemically printing each shot in the darkroom really helped me hone my skills as an artist.  I feel like that experience overall helped me learn the beauty photography and I think all photographers should step away from their digital SLRs and learn what it feels like to create beautiful art manually from beginning to end.  I’ll tell you — it is one of the most rewarding and gratifying experiences.

With that said, here are some of my works from my second year.