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03.30.12

Fine Art – Cyanotype

My friend had a deer skull from a long time ago, and I always meant to take a photo of it. I had the perfect opportunity when we experimented with Cyanotypes for a NAIT Photographic Technology assignment. We took a photograph on 4×5 negative with our old 4×5 cameras, then developed the negatives in paper developer instead of negative develpor. We then made contact prints of the negatives onto watercolour paper, using UV lights. The top photo is the cyanotype on watercolour paper. Below is the original negative that I used for the contact print.

02.07.12

Solitude Theme

I was given a theme of solitude/mystery to shoot, so I told my dear friend and model to grab a hat, trench coat, and a large knife and we’ll head out and do a shoot. Unfortunately he shot me down, concerned about the legality of carrying a knife in public. I guess it’s probably not legal to be around downtown at night, waving a knife around? So instead we grabbed an old suit case for a prop instead. In the end, we didn’t need anything to capture the mood.

I also hope it’s not illegal to share this amazing cat with you. My biggest worry is that my instagram will become overloaded with cat pictures. Is it a crime to love your pet? Is it a crime to spam everyone with photos of it 24/7? Okay, probably. I try to restrain myself as best as I can:)

02.06.12

Fine Art Experimental Portrait

One of my favorite classes at the NAIT Photographic Technology programme is Fine Art photography. Our first assignment was to remove ourselves as the photographer from a portrait. You could ask people to take a picture of themselves while they felt comfortable, tell them something silly and snap their shot when they didn’t expect it, etc. My “thing” is self portraits, so I decided to do an experimental self portrait in which I had a natural smile. Something that is extremely rare when reviewing my 200-something self portraits.

To do the experiment I simply set up a black background and a simple two-light set up on my couch, in front of the tv. I set my camera to take a picture ever 25 seconds, and watched SNL reruns until I got a natural cracking up, smiling like an idiot capture. I think I got about 600 photos from the couple-of-hours long session, of which about 30 were interesting looking expressions – not the bored t.v. stare.

Here are two of my favorite/most idiotic/infectious looking smiles:)

12.15.11

Last NAIT assignment of 2011

Yay! Finally it’s almost Christmas break…

Here is my final portrait class assignment for this year… a self portrait for an editorial assignment. I pose with my best purchase ever, Margarita, the bald head. She helps me with lighting set ups, however she really needs to get some hair quick.

Editorial Self Portrait Corrie Side

One more semester at NAIT until I graduate! What an incredible experience! I have improved so much as a photographer – coming in with the bare essentials and now I feel like I theoretically conquer any lighting dilemma! I have also very much improved at transforming theoretical solutions into a real solution with experimentation – flagging lights, gridding lights, it’s such a magical world!

My dear friend Sabine Shabbits also took my photo for her assignment… I’ll post it below, but all the credit belongs to her! Please check out her website at http://busybean.zenfolio.com/. She is my partner in crime for very many things that happen at NAIT…