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!

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!

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.

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.

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!!

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!

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!

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!

Chris modeling!

This would be Chris being an excellent model!