Lake of the Woods Area News Magazine

Just had 3 images printed in the Lake of the Woods Area News Magazine!!!

SO EXCITED!!!!!!!

Hybrid Photography

For this Analogue Tech. Assignment I decided to do a theme of Food, in particular fruits and veggies. We shot a roll of colour film, scanned it, edited digital and this is the result of the process.

PBR!!!

So this past weekend I was privileged enough to get the opportunity to photograph the PBR (professional Bull Riding). It was awesome, got to be down right on the floor, in the dirt with the bulls. It was very exciting. Got some really fun shots. I had a tough time deciding weather I like black and white or colour versions of the images.

Spring Break

So we have been on spring break the past week and it barely felt like a break I've been so busy.

The first Sunday of the break I went out to an Alpaca farm with Jonah, Chris M. and Kirsten. It was pretty awesome. Tons of different animals to photograph. The couple that owned the farm were super nice too.

I then went out to Kenora with Laura and Chris M. Monday to Wednesday. It was awesome, we got so lucky and had amazing weather. I actually got a tan! It was lots of fun, we went to Rushing River Monday. And it was beautiful. We then headed to my cabin Tuesday. We were hiking around the island all day. Said hi to Mr. Bear. Wednesday, we went and hung out at Chris's cabin. It was super nice out that day so we sat out in the sun and enjoyed it. Laura actually fell asleep in the grass.

Manitoba Moose vs. Hamilton Bulldogs

So I got to shoot another Moose game on Wednesday. It was fun again! The game wasn't as good, so I didn't find there to be as much opportunity for good shots, but I still got a lot!

Moose Game

So I was privileged enough to get to go shoot the Moose Game last Friday! It was awesome! I have so many more photos then I have put up on here. So fun!

Eggcellent!

So today, we were playing around with the Studio Hot Lights with Mirek, in Image Capture. I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed it. I want a couple little lights just like his, they are so fun!

Becca Final

And this is the final!

Becca

So one of my class mates asked me to do a drawing of her with massive hair. So here it is!! It's roughly 20in x 30in, something like that.

Movie Week

For movie week, I watched Oh Brother, Where art thou? One Hour Photo, and Pecker.

First off I watched Oh Brother, Where art thou? It is one of my favourite movies. I find it to be so witty and funny. I love the creativity in the film. It's so original in every way. I had never watched the way they made the film into the desaturated look before. I found that very cool. Scanning each frame and turn it digital and editing the colour. So cool! I love the colours in the film. So golden and dry, it works perfectly for the time the film is set in. My FAVOURITE photography moment in the movie, is when the three main guys are laying in the hay in the barn. The light is shining threw the boards and just going on the three men's faces. LOVE IT!

The second movie I watched was One Hour Photo. Super creepy movie. It was cool to see some of the things they use to develop rolls of film in a one hour photo place. The movie makes me wonder how many creepers actually do that with your photos. Freaky! I really liked the way they made the lighting so different for the different places. In the store, so bright and happy and open and then at the families place it's nice and warm colours, very natural. And then the creepers life outside of the store is very weird colours, everything is just a little off, there are greens where there shouldn't be. Not my favourite movie, but a good one.

The last movie I was saw Pecker! And it was hilarious. Definitely not for everybody, but totally my kind of humour! I loved all the hidden little innuendoes. My favourite was after Pecker went to New York and was hating how things were going, they showed a shot of his house and there was a sign right in front, looking like it was hung on the house almost, and it said Dead End Street. It was awesome! One thing that REALLY bugged me about this movie, was the Pecker was never taking vertical shots with his original camera and then in his show he had all these vertical shots. I mean he could have cropped them, but it really bugged me. I love how they referenced the Migrant Mother image, with the dad in the newspaper and the newspaper making up this big story about how he is suffering and has no money. That was very funny. Well done. I also liked the different perceptions everybody had of Pecker's work. The people from his home thought they were just images of them in their normal lives, but the people in New York thought it was a totally different world, and thought Pecker was actually making fun of the people. Which he wasn't at all. It really shows how people can see things totally differently.

Chip Drawing

Here's a drawing I just did for a Client. I thought it would be cool to document the process.

Ottawa Trip!

The uniter

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Image Capture Shoot Week 2!!

These would be my final 25 images for my Image Capture assignment over the holidays. I really liked this assignment because you could take pictures of whatever you want you just have to use F22 ISO100. I really tried to have fun with it. There are pictures from Kenora, London, Toronto, Port Stanley,The Hawk Cliffs, Port Bruce, and Pinecrest. There's also a shot from an airplane. Lots of variety!

DT13.2 Blogging Non-School-Related Photos

These are 10 images I took for myself, not for a school assignment. Over Christmas I went away to London, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario. These are some images from the trip.

1. The first image is of a Blue Jay. I took it threw the window of my Papa's house, which is where I stayed while in London. We would put crushed and whole peanuts out on the window sill and watch the Blue Jays and Cardinals fly over and take them. We did this every morning while we were there.

2. The second image is a picture of Yvette and my Papa. I get to see my Papa only a couple times a year and Yvette only at Christmas. It was awesome to get to come out and see them for a much longer period then normal. I took it at a place called Pinecrest. Its one of our favourite spots to go when in Toronto. It was also the first stop on a little road trip I took with my Mom, Papa, Uncle and Yvette. It was an awesome day. Pinecrest, is a ceramics gallery as well as a little restaurant. It's in the middle of a forest of hundred foot trees. There is a beautiful pond that the restaurant faces where I used to photograph swan.

3.This next picture is of one of the beautiful swans that were on a pond just outside of Pinecrest. There were 5 of them, my guess is 3 young ones and the 2 parents. It was a great challenge trying to get a good picture of these swans because the one in this picture kept attacking me. I had to keep jumping back and running off the bridge as this huge bird lunged at me.

4. The next picture is of one of the funny art pieces at a place called WinterWheat. It's in this woods and they have put all these funny characters and pieces of art around the forest. The serve fresh, hot apple cider there. It's a very neat place. I took a picture of this piece because it reminds me of my Uncle.

5. This picture is of a snow fence on the beach of Lake Erie. It's in Port Stanley. As you can see, it had yet to be used, there was no snow out there. Port Stanley has been a favourite stop of ours for years. My mom grew up very close to there so we always go. There are some amazing restaurants that we always go to when out there. They have the best fresh Perch around!

6. The sixth picture I have in this series is a picture of a goose. I took it in London at SpringBank Park. Its one of our favourite parks that we always go to and look at the dam and feed the birds. I actually snapped this picture in Storybook Gardens. It was a favourite place in the park where my parents used to take my brother and I when we were kids. It's kind of a zoo, with only a few animals, but the theme of it is nursery rhymes. I loved this picture because you don't often see geese around when there is snow on the ground.

7.This picture is of David Smith and Bill Slater, 2 of the olympic torch runners. I was lucky enough to catch the torch being run threw St.Thomas on one day and then threw London another. This was the hand off in London. Bill Slater road a double decker bus to the final spot. I got lucky to be right at the hand off to get some really awesome pictures. It was so fun and exciting. It was nice at this spot to take pictures too because David Smith was there early so he was just hanging out posing for photos with the torch till he could light the other one.

8. My eighth picture I took on another road trip that we took once my Brother and Dad got out to London. This was at the Hawk Cliffs. They look out over Lake Erie. They are absolutely incredible. It's like the world just ends. I love this picture because of the colours and how you can just see a little bit of the lake but can tell that the ground just drops off. That was the first time I have ever been to the Hawk Cliffs so it was a very cool experience. We also went out to a wind farm and walked right up to one of the massive windmills. It was very cool.

9. This picture is of the Zombie ducks as my brother, Uncle and I call them. I took this at the Bluffs in Toronto. There were some kids feeding the ducks in a parking lot. There was a boat ramp and these ducks just kept coming out heading straight towards these kids as if they were possessed. It was a very funny site to see. That was the first time I have ever been out the Bluffs there which was cool, and it was snowing so the Lake looked very scary and neat. When we were there, we found a women who was feeding the wild cats that live in the rocks. It was very odd to see, all these cats roaming around in these tunnels in the boulders.

10. My last picture was what my family and I did the last day we were in Toronto. We all went up the CN tower. We have been up it many times, but it's always different. It was a perfectly clear day so we could see everything. We could actually see buildings on the other side of Lake Ontario. My Brother and I had fun jumping on the glass floor freaking my Dad out. My brother and I also went outside at the top of the tower. It was so windy you could lean over and be on a crazy angle and you wouldn't call over. You could barely open your eyes it was so windy. It was very fun.

That was pretty much everything I did over the Christmas Break! It was a great time!