Saturday, December 5, 2009

AT 11.2 Karsh

I love this picture because it really captures how I always pictured Pablo Picasso. Being a very hard, almost disturbing looking figure. I love the texture of the stone walls around Picasso. It helps to make him stand out. It also adds to the affect of making him look very hard and rough. The way Karsh lit Picasso, I love. It really makes the wrinkles on the forehead and the scowl really stand out. It looks like there is just one spot light shining down on Picasso making him the centre of attention. I think there must be a light shining from the upper right down onto the subject as well as one shining from the centre of the right. It really brings out the shadow to the side of Picasso. I like the positioning of the subject as well. He looks like a very small man in the frame, the way his eyes aren't in the usual, top third of the image but more towards the centre. I imagine that the Karsh probably dodged out the centre a little to brighten up Picasso and really make a black background around him. I could see Karsh maybe having Pre Flashed the image, to help bring down the light on that wall. I image with a light shining that harshly, it was probably very bright. He definitely has bumped up the contrast on this image because the blacks are very black and the lights are nice and bright.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Last Uniter of the year!

I'm so pumped they went with this photo! By far my favourite! Turned out so awesome, first shot of the night!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Women's Basketball

http://uniter.ca/view/2452/

Here's a link to my photo in the Uniter for this past week.

CI One Man's Junk...

Here are some of my images from the Junkyard! Super cool, I'm definetly going back there! There is so much stuff to shoot! It will be cool to see the place blanketed with snow too!



Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Colour Block


These are my final 6 images for CI Colour Block. I really liked this assignment, it has actually inspired me to make and put up a colour wheel of my images that I took for this assignment. I love how cold the blue image feels. I took so many pictures for each colour to figure out which best fits the feeling I get when looking at the colour. I think the green one worked out super good, because it's very natural looking. Which is what I think of when looking or thinking of the colour green. I also like that it's sharp cause when I think of green I don't really think of soft things. I love my pink one because it's so vibrant and bright. I love how the colour radiates out in the image. I also like that it's all rough but still smooth looking because when I think of pink I think of girlie things and not hard, pointy things. I love how my Orange image looks kind of like fire. I definitely feel warm when I look at the picture.
Looking at the photo of the similar colours I really feel warm and cozy. Like I'm sitting by a nice warm fire. I found when I was shooting the images, the yellow was really over powering. So I put the yellow in the background and brought the darker colours forward and put more of the red in the image. I love the way it turned out.
For the complimentary colours I shot so many picture for. I shot so many different combinations of colours. I ended up choosing this one, because it was the one that stood out the most to me. I found it hardest to find blue and orange images so I really wanted to use that one. I also liked the way the cold, hard thing in the image, is a warm colour and the soft background is the really cold colour. I like that they seem almost reversed in that way.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ironic?


These are 5 photos I took for my Ironic board assignment. I can't decide which one to use yet! It's Ironic cause it's a biker drinking tea all dainty...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Wesmen Volleyball



I forgot to put these images up. These are from Friday Nov. 13.

AAA Varsity Volleyball


Here's a shot I took at the AAA Varsity Volleyball match.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Published!!

It's so awesome seeing your work published! I just had 2 photos published in The Uniter (UofW Newspaper)! I'm so excited!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Student Council 09/10

Say hi to one of your new Student Council members! Along with Tara, Aly, Laura, Katy, and Lisa!! Awesome group! This is going to be fun!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Wesmen Basketball



Here are some shots I took at the Wesmen basketball games. The Uniter ( U of W newspaper) asked me to take some shots for them. Here are a few! I was playing around with the editor with them too.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

CI Itten's Contrasts


These would be my final 13 (I have one extra cause I couldn't decide) contrasts for Creative Imaging. I actually found this assignment not that difficult. I just kept my eye out for things and when I saw something that would work for a contrast I took a picture of it. I set up some of them, but the ideas for them came to me pretty easy. I don't think I could pick a favourite out of them. I really like pretty much all of them. I really like the way the intermittent and continues one worked out. I only had a couple seconds too take the shot, before I would have gotten hit by a car. I ran out a couple times just to make sure I got the shot. Anyways, that's about it to tell you about these right now.

Monday, November 2, 2009

People Suck!!!

I freaking hate people!! First spray paint, then a broken mirror, now 2 slashed tires!! Why are people such a**holes! If you have a problem with somebody tell them, you don't have to freaking damage their stuff. I want to throw a brick threw their window just so they know how it feels!!! SO ANGRY!!! I feel like Godzilla right now, wanting to SMASH!!! Must SMASH!!

Friday, October 30, 2009

CI Field Trip 1


Oh how I love taking pictures at the zoo! I love trying to catch the animals making funny faces. I think I got a few! There's one of the snow leopard and one of the camel that are pretty good! I had fun, it was really cold and windy though, which wasn't very enjoyable. I think I got some really nice colours in my pictures too. I had fun!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Walk Towards the Light Final


These are my finals for a CI assignment "walk towards the light". We had to take pictures in different lighting. One night, sunset, sunrise, indoor lighting, cloudy, and sunny. I wonder if you can figure out which is which. Good luck!

Environmental Portrait


This would be my environmental portrait for my Digital Tech. class. I wanted to show the passion and intensity that my friend has for boxing. When he doesn't have anything else to look forward to he can always turn to his boxing. I had trouble with the lighting in the gym. I had to use my flash the whole time which really bugged me, cause it faded out some of the colours and flattened everything up. They still turned out pretty cool though. I'm pretty happy about them. And I got to reconnect with an old friend which is always awesome!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Yousuf Karsh




Yousuf Karsh was a master of studio lighting. Although he didn't always use it in a studio. He had an amazing way of making any scene look like it was shot in a studio. Sometimes sittings would take all morning or all afternoon to set up. When lighting he often lit the hands separately. For most of his career Karsh used an 8x10 bellows Calumet Camera, made in the 1940's in Chicago.
He developed his film by inspection, a laborious and old fashioned procedure. He would selectively desensitize the emulsion so the tonally reversed image could be examined under a special safelight. To evaluate densities as they built up in the emulsion and to still leave them thin enough so highlights were not inelegantly clotted required a familiarity with the exact opacities that would correspond to the tones Karsh envisioned on a particular photographic paper. This took training, stamina and finesse. After many years of apprenticeship Karsh would allow the development of the less challenging exposures to an assistant. After would come the task of printing the final image to his high standard. The processed he used for printing the final image varried because he used many different paper. Some he used gelatin silver print some were photomechanical reproduction(offset Lithography). He also used Gravure prints. A gravure print is a photomechanical intaglio process print. It was developed in the mid-19th Century, in which the image is transferred to the printing plate by using a light sensitized gelatin film surface on a metal plate which is then etched. The gelatin silver process is used with currently available black and white films and printing papers. A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto acetate film, fiber based, or resin coated paper and allowed to dry.

The image of Grace Kelly (top left) that Karsh took I find absolutely beautiful. It's a real contrast to his other images where they are very dark and has very hard lighting. It's so bright and elegant. I love how he has her positioned in the photo. Her had his basically centred while her body is fades off to the right. It looks to me like he must have lit her from every angle. The top of her had is very bright, from an over head light, but there is a glow around her and very hard edges, so it must be back lit as well, while her dress every ruffle is also catching the light. He made her look so soft with the soft lighting on her face. I love the contrast of the darks and whites in the image too. The whites are perfectly white and the shadows in her hair are perfectly black.

In complete contrast to the Grace Kelly picture, is the Picasso picture (middle). I love this picture because it really captures how I always pictured Pablo Picasso. Being a very hard, almost disturbing looking figure. I love the texture of the stone walls around Picasso. It helps to make him stand out. It also adds to the affect of making him look very hard and rough. The way Karsh lit Picasso, I love. It really makes the wrinkles on the forehead and the scowl really stand out. I like the positioning of the subject as well. He looks like a very small man in the frame, the way his eyes aren't in the usual, top third of the image but more towards the centre.

The bottom image is of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. I really like this one because of the way Karsh made him look like a regular guy. Even though he was prime minster for 17 years. He looks like a very hard man. Contemplating something important. I love how the front of the face is nice and bright and it fades all the way to black. I also love the light behind the subject, very bright along his face, making a nice hard edge. Karsh really does an amazing job of capturing every wrinkle on the face. Even though Trudeau is very young in the picture, you made all his little flaws stand out. I love the placement in the image. I really like that it's a close up of the face, really showing off that intense contemplation. I'm glad the leather jacket is included, though, helping to make him relatable and not just another guy in a suit. I really want to know what the subject is looking at off the frame. Karsh captured the fears gaze amazingly, leaving room for us to make our own assumptions.
I find all of Karsh's work absolutely remarkable and he is most definitely a master of lighting.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Backyard Safari


This would be one of my shoot week assignments. This one is for Image capture. I had a lot of fun with this one, mainly because my favourite thing to shoot is wildlife. It was fun, made me want to go to the zoo more.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Frame Within A Frame

This would be Jason, my brother. This was my board assignment for a frame within a frame.
I love the way it turned out!!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Winter Storm at the Cabin

Well this was a fun experience! My dad and I got the Kenora just as it started to snow and the wind picked up. We loaded up our boat (our cabin is on an island) and were about to head off...but, our boat didn't start. So we had to call my Grandparents and my gramma came and picked us up in their little boat. By this time the storm had gotten much worse! We headed out to the cabin and some of the waves were 2 meters high, huge! It was the absolute most terrifying boat ride of my life. Even my dad said, after, he was scared. Anyways, our cabin was freezing, seeing as it's not insulated. So I spent the night in my grandparents cabin. I went for a couple 2-3hour hikes looking for the deer and foxes and whatever else I could find. The storm was still really bad when I was out but it made for some pretty cool pictures!
There's supposed to be mainland behind that little island!

CI Mood Lighting


These were my 5 favourite shots from the Creative Imaging assignment, Mood Lighting. They actually turned out pretty good. Try and guess which picture fits which mood;
Happy
Sad
Romantic
Scared
Lonely
My favourite is the scared one! I love the lighting in that one and how it ended up!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Baloo!!


This would be my new bff! I've named him Baloo! He has decided to make his home under my grandparents cabin! They have been hearing noises under their cabin for a few weeks now, but we all just assumed it was squirrels or a fox, something farely small. Finally one night we were sitting watching tv and we could hear the animal again. So I went outside with the spot light, expecting to find a little fox running around and looking back at me was a giant bear!! Cute as a button, but terrifying! Scared the daylights out of me, but of course, being me I ran and grabbed my camera and snapped some shots. The next day my Grandpa was working on the water lines under the cabin,expecting the bear was gone. Turns out the bear was under there with him! So he crawled out and left the rest of the pipe work. That's when I again grabbed my camera and crawled under the cabin and snapped some more shots of him. Poor guy he was making the cutest "leave me alone" face, I'm tired! Anyways, He's awesome and he's my new pet!

If anybody has a spare Picinic basket, I know he would greatly enjoy it!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Composition at Home



These are my final 6 images from the assignment Composition at Home for CI. At first doing this assignment I was really frustrated! I tried to start it one day and I got really angry with it so I left it for a couple days. Still not looking forward to working on it, but this time it was much easier. I started walking around my house with out my camera and really looking at things. I wrote down all my ideas and which category it would fit in. That seemed to really help and I actually started to get really excited about the assignment! I actually found the Depth one the hardest in my house. I'm not really sure why it was so hard. I don't think I was totally sure how we were supposed to show depth whether we could use a small depth of field, or if we were to layer object. I think I ended up with some cool shots though! I actually ended up having a lot of fun working on this in the end!

Monday, October 5, 2009

Chris modeling!




This would be Chris being an excellent model!

Monday, September 28, 2009

Showering with the Geese



So I went out yesterday to try to finish off the last of my DT assignment. It had been raining out, but while I was driving over to St.Vital park it was just spitting a little. So I figured I would get a little damp (since I didn't have a rain jacket) but I would be fine in what I had on. So I pull into St.Vital park and park my car. I put my camera in one of the rain guards, just to be safe. I get out of my car and get over to the geese and start taking pictures. When all of the sudden the skies open up and buckets of water are falling on me. I considered running back to my car, but with in seconds I would completely soaked right threw. So I figured I would just keep shooting. Wound up getting some funny shots of the geese in the rain. They didn't seem to enjoy it very much either.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Working the subject....100 creative ways

Oh boy, what do I say about this assignment. It started off really good, I was finding lots of angles and interesting shots. I thought I had to have at least 50 images by now and to my surprise I only had 30, 70 more to go. I found it pretty hard to come up with new angles and ideas. Maybe I chose bad objects, but it was very difficult. Finding 100 different shots of say building would be so much easier cause of all the different textures and I guess cause it's a bigger area and there is more going on. Anyways, I think my 100 images came out pretty good, they were basically all different. That was also really hard, I couldn't remember what I had already done so I was worried I was just going to end up repeating things. Luckily I don't think I did.
Over all I think it went well, though.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Image Capture assignment at Grand Prix


So these are a little late, but this is my Image Capture assignment done at Grand Prix. We had to do this assignment on our field trip last thursday to Grand Prix. It was fun! Man, panning is so hard! I really need to work on it. I had a lot of trouble getting the faces in focus and nice and sharp. The faces were all much clearer than the background, but

I don't like that they aren't perfect.

Working on AT and DT assignments at the Park


Here are the colour versions of some of my AT Simple Composition pictures. I think they look pretty cool with the high contrast of colour. The bright red edges of the guitar make it stand out of every scene. There are also some of the images for my DT Exporting assignment. I was really trying to get some shots of the birds flapping their wings. It was really hard, I always have both eyes open but the one i'm not using is blocked by my camera so I can't see anything. So I was holding my camera up by my face waiting for a shot. It was a little tiring and frustrating.
I think I'm going to use birds as my theme for this DT assignment... it shall be tricky trying to get the 1 sec. shots with birds though. Should be interesting!

AT Simple Composition B&W Film


This is my Simple Comp. assignment. I had lots of fun shooting this one. Basically the point the of the assignment was to have 1 subject in the image and use basic composition to enhance the image and make it interesting. I have colour versions of some of the guitar pictures too. Some I like more in colour and some I like more in B&W. They both are pretty cool. I have a couple favourites, I wonder if anybody can figure them out! I actually love how all the images turned out.

I was happily surprised!!



Tuesday, September 22, 2009

AT Simple Composition

So I decided to go out and take pictures of some guitars today for my A.T. assignment. I'm so glad I took my digital camera with me and took the pictures in both the black and white film and digital. Some look super cool one way while others look really good the other way. However, this image is awesome in both! I think it looks like an album cover. Totally framing this one! haha! Oh my gosh! There are so many geese at St.Vital park! A little girls started to feed them right beside me and I was worried they were going to eat her! The dad ended up picking her up out of the pack of rioting geese! Anyways, got some good shots out of it! I'll put a slid show up later of all the photos!

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Stress Test!


So yesterday was a pretty eventful day! I woke up as per the usual and found myself feeling so crappy. I did my regular routine and down to my jeep. I get in and start on my way, I look both ways before I enter the street and notice something out of the corner of my eye. I get out of my car and walk to the other side and low and behold somebody has spray painted the whole side of my car, windows and all. The only thing I could think was thank goodness they didn't write something. So then I go to school and it's the regular kinda of day, out shooting in the morning and then shooting again in the afternoon. Our class is told we aren't aloud back in until 3: 15. So we all come back up at that time and grab our stuff to head to the computer lab. When Laura notices that her Debit card and money is missing. Everybody checks there stuff and more people have their Visas, Debit Cards and money gone. We were all in complete shock! How could one of the 36 of us, who we just spent the day before bonding with, do something like that!? Of course the police were called and such, but talk about stress. We all felt completely violated! We don't know what they were touching. I was looking threw pictures from the school trip and I didn't even want to look at the other students, cause I don't know who it is. I don't know what it's going to be like on Monday. Very Very awkward is my guess.

I'm not going to be able to look anybody in the eye other than my classmates.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

DT2.1JB Lines




This assignment was very challenging for me because I wanted to do more than just obvious lines. Thinking of creative ways of showing lines was hard. I ended up driving around and going to parks getting ideas and writing them out. There are lines in everything, though, if you just look closely and pay attention. So once I started to take pictures and look at them and see that there always seemed to be lines leading to the subject, I started to relax and not be so "stiff" about what I was doing. Then my creativity started to flow and I had some neat ideas. I wanted to have people in my photos so I had to wait till the evening for my friends to be available. So while shooting the sun was setting so I didn't get the nice blue sky I had originally wanted. It ended up really making the shot of the side of my jeep gorgiouse, though, with the oranges and yellows.
So it all worked out in the end!

My Passion

Monday, September 14, 2009

My Experience

Hi,
My favorite photography genre would have to be wildlife and nature photography. I also like to do portraits, not in a studio but out on the street. I hope to really learn the business of photography so that I have the confidence to go out and sell my work and sell myself as a photographer. There are plenty of other things that I would love to learn, such as studio lighting, and wedding photography. I have so many really great memories related to photography. My first memory that I have from when I was 10 years old. I went on a road trip from Winnipeg to Toronto with my Mom, Brother and Papa. We drove across a long bridge and we got to the one side and it was really foggy. The bridge seemed to vanish into nothingness. I had a little Crayola camera and I took a bunch of pictures of the bridge and was so proud of myself! When I got home from trip and developed my film there were no photos on the roll. I was so disappointed. So that is my first photography related memory. One of my best photography memories is, I went to the mountains to work on my photography and there was a spot where there were these mountain goats. When I got there, the goats were at the very bottom of the cliffs, down by the river. I climbed over a fence with my camera gear and sat at the top of the crumbling cliffs and waited for at least an hour. Slowly the goats worked there way all the way up the cliffs and eventually were standing right beside me. I got some of my favorite shots ever there! It was awesome!!
Patience definitely pays off!!

Chocolate things

Those Chocolate things that somebody brought were SO yummy! Thank you to who ever brought them! I will enjoy another at lunch most likely!