This year I again had the pleasure of attending Nerd Olympics 2012. Instead of taking photos like last year, I decided to Instagram events and post them to Facebook & Twitter as they happened. Please enjoy this recap.

Thanks to Mom, Andrew, Melissa, the PHT Darlings!

Thanks for everyone for coming and the PPOC & Technicare for supporting Thesis Night 2012.

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!

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 ]]> http://supa-f.com/blog/2012/solitude-theme/feed/ 0 http://supa-f.com/blog/2012/fine-art-experimental-portrait/ http://supa-f.com/blog/2012/fine-art-experimental-portrait/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:56 +0000 Corrie Side http://supa-f.com/blog/?p=1008 NOTE: the images in this feed have been downsized or removed for copyright reasons. To see them in their unmodified state, please view the original post by clicking here.

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.

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So one of my classes this semester is a group project to service a “major client” and take photos for whatever they need. My group teamed up with some predator specialists who took us on a tour of Strathcona County (Sherwood Park, Alberta)’s coyote frequently frequented pathways. And we happened to see a coyote!

Anyway, this was just a quick note of a cool moment. Off to day 2 of this year’s PPOC convention – saw Johnny Tran tonight, seeing Doug Box tomorrow, Bambi Cantrell on Sunday and Kristian Bogner on Monday. Busy week!

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.

For my portrait class at NAIT I had do to an executive portrait! I decided to shoot my good friend over at www.splodinator.com, Newbs. Lately I have been watching a lot of David Ziser videos on Kelby Training. His techniques have inspired me to explore with the loupe lighting pattern and one off camera flash. Enjoy Newbs’ photo below!

Here in Edmonton, Alberta we have a yearly event called the Hair Massacure. People dye their hair pink, raise donations, and then chop off all their hair in honour of cancer survivors. My good friend Andrea Brown is raising $1000 dollars for the Massacure.

I asked her if I could go along while she was “pinking” her hair to document the process and raise awareness.

Check out this video I made for Blu’s Womens Wear in Edmonton, this holiday season!

Amanda Trajkovski made the music for the Blu’s video – she also created the music for the intro I created for Splodinator.com’s Definitive 50 Gamecube Games intro: