Thought it looked cool

I took this on the way out of graffiti ally, I used a 1/40 second exposure, then I twised the camera while I was taking the photo. I thought it looked pretty funky. It has nothing to do with my curiculum Ms. Zannini... just thot it looked cool...

Breaking teh Rules

For these three photos I attempted to break the rules of photography... Which didn't turn out as well as I had anticipated. It was actually difficult to break rules despite the fact that I was not trying to use them, they just turn up no matter what photo you took. So I decided to focus on one rule, the most prominent, the rule of thirds.

For my first photo I was walking behind the group and I noticed that everyone was bunched up, it almost looked like the end of a line. Sometimes if an opening popped up, I could see all the way to the first person in the line. So I took advantage of this and tried to get everyone in the center of the frame, thrying to get everyone the farthest from the "focus points". I didn't really check this photo while I was there, I should have because I think I could have gotten a better one.

My second photo, I like, there are several things that fall just off of the "focus points". I took this on the intersection before graffiti ally, since I had a few minutes to play with settings I took about 7 photos of this. I really liked using a higher exposure because it helped make solid colours "pop" more. You can see this because of the McDonalds sign, the white car and the graffiti to the left of the McDonalds sign. By only eliminating one rule, I was able to allow other to stay therfore creating an enjoyable photo to look at... I think.

For my last photo, I dunno. This was taken by accident. I wanted people in the foreground, but not EVERYONE. I like this one because although people fall on the "focus points", your attention is still drawn to the pink bike because of it's extremely contrasting colour. I think it breaks the rules by breaking the rules. It's cool how the bike is still the main focus point despite the fact that "elements of design" say it should not be. I find it interesting how great this terrible photo turned out!

3rd Alternative Process - MULTIPLE EXPOSURE

For this one I took a picture of Rachel's feet in mid stride in the studio room using 1:1 Lighting. I then brought the photo into Photoshop to add the "board" she is walking on. My original idea was slightly different but I changed it because I though the flat board looked nicer. I then found some pictures of trees and buildings, cropped them out, and printed them onto an acetate.

After my first attempt the photo looked awful due to the crappy printer in the library. So I had Ms Zannini photocopy the paper copies of the pictures I had. Then it looked better. The vertical lines had been eliminated and the photo looked more "full". I also noticed that the buildings and trees looked a little dry. So I added a star field photo I created in Photoshop to add more volume to the photo. Then the photo came together.

My final exposers looked awesome, I made two, one with the original idea of the star field coming out of Rachel's boot, and a second of it just on the board. The one of the stars coming out of the foot seemed to just look better. So I dried it off, slapped it into Photoshop, filled in the background with a gradient, and threw it on my blog.

2nd ALTERNATIVE PROCESSSSSSSSS!

I really LOVED how this process turned out, it was just awesome and funky and... nyuuuuuuuuuugh. I decided to use a shot of buildings I took in Toronto. I thought it would make a really interesting print. When I was making the print I actually had no clue what I was going to put the print on. It wasn't until the day I was exposing my photo that I decided to put it on a shirt that already had a design of a urban setting.

To make the silk screen, I first printed out an acetate of the photo I wanted. When I was in the library I noticed that the buildings alone would be a little boring so I decided to throw the planet earth into the picture, made it look better I think. I then placed them under the screen and flipped the switch, waited 6 minutes and scrubbed like crazy for around 45 minutes. Of course this was all after the creating and painting of the silk screen which was a pain because it stuck to the bottom of the dark room cupboard and was a mission to get out...

When I was printing onto sheets of paper to check my design out, I noticed that one solid colour wasn't that awesome, so I threw some red in there. It was pretty cool and looked even better on the shirt. I was a little disappointed because I got a small drop of red fabric paint of the side of the shirt and forgot to put some spot remover on it and only iron the design. So now I have a silly little line on the side but it doesn't really matter.

All in all it was a pretty awesome silk screen and if I find the time I would like to print onto more shirts! Because Ms Zannini said that she might steal the one I made...

1st Alternative Process

I used one of my photos from Toronto to create this acrylic lift. I tried one before this but it did not turn out as well as I expected, the back was fluffy and I think I did too many layers of gel medium. So I tried with this photo which surprisingly I just snapped when I was walking across a street and Ms Zannini told me to "HURRY UP!!!" For a photo that took little to no preparation, it turned out really nicely.

I printed this out as it was, no alteration of contrast or brightness and taped it down to a piece of construction paper. I then took 3 days to layer on gel medium, I lost count but I think I used about 12 layers by the end. Then I took it to the water and started scrubbing. It took me 2 days to get it right after constantly asking "is this done, can I rub more off?".

When it came to taking the picture, I was stuck. I couldn't find a way to make the picture look "good". I finally asked Ms Zannini how I could make it look nice and she suggested holding it up to the light in the studio. I modified this by placing the picture right on top of one of the lights. It was a little troublesome because it would start to melt and get stretchy if I left it on the light for to long, I had to take the picture reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally quickly. I saw that it still didn't look good enough so I decided to try placing the original photo underneath, it was really cool because it created a sort of reverse duplicate type of effect.

I was then done... ha