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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.

03.28.12

Michelle

Michelle stopped by for a quick photo shoot today. I had a NAIT assignment to replicate a famous photographer’s style, so I chose to replicate Joe McNally’s portraits on black backgrounds. They are characterized by a dramatic head and shoulders portrait, combined with a very cold rim light.

I really loved doing this assignment, it was a great excuse to look at other photographer’s photos and lighting techniques. One of the hardest things about photography is staying inspired. Right now I’m listening to the TEDTalks on Netflix Canada. I tried watching the photography/video one and was incredibly bored. Instead I’m really enjoying the series on beauty & fashion, and would highly recommended it for other photographers. Especially the video on fashion and copyright for fashion designers, and how the whole open-source mind set boosts creativity, and often times boost sales, too! A perfect compliment to an assignment like this NAIT one.

I would also love to post this lovely outtake, a photo of my mom who stepped in to help me set up my lights:)

02.16.12

Reminder: Thesis Night is TONIGHT!

Be there or be square!!

Details:
What: An entire semester’s worth of work and sweat into 2 minute presentations!
Who: NAIT 2nd year (graduating 2012) photography students
Where: NAIT Shaw Theatre (106st, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA <3 )
When: TONIGHT (Feb 16) 7pm

See you there!

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:)

02.01.12

One Light & Self Portraiture

One of my first inspirations for off camera flash was everyone’s One Light expert, Zack Arias. One of my assignments this week was to create 4 different set ups with just one flash. Please enjoy the photos.