Searching the light with Jordan Myall

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AT21.1 Hybrid Photography

The subject of choice for my colour negative assignment were portraits. I chose to photograph my boyfriend Lester but didn't stop there. I was shooting one afternoon and a couple walked by and asked me to take their photo. I thought what the heck why not photograph people I have never photographed. I also photographed a couple shots of myself. I set up my tripod had Lester make sure I was in the frame and in focus and he clicked the shutter for me.

Movie#3: Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

Ok so I don't have a start to my day here because I watched this in the afternoon after watching One Hour Photo. But again I made popcorn and ate some skittles also had some juice. Yum yum!!

Now this movie was a little weird. It is about 3 guys who escape from jail to find some treasure ( or so they thought). Now they walked and walked, stole a couple cars, almost got caught, made a record, became famous without knowing so and kept walking until they reached their destination.

Having watched the little clip of how they processed the film from the movie. I did noticed the changes in the color throughout the movie. If I have not seen it I don't think I would have noticed it. Of all three movies I think this was the worst of the bunch. I much preferred One Hour Photo and Pecker. This movie was a little slow paced whereas the other two kept you on your toes (especially Pecker).

Movie#2: One Hour Photo

Ok so this began a little different then yesterday. Today Tara brought in lawn chairs for her and I to sit in. I also brought lots of snacks and a blanket.

Alrighty, sit back and enjoy my blog about ONE HOUR PHOTO:D
This movie I'm sure we have all seen at one point or another. But here is a refresher if you have not seen it. This movie is about a man who works at a savmart and works in the photo lab. He becomes obsessed with one family in particular and when they bring in film he prints a copy for himself as well. When he went home it showed that he had almost a full wall of images from this family. One Monday when a young female brings in her film to be printed Sy (Robin Williams) realizes that the man in the images is the father of the family he is obsessed with. He then plans a masterful plan to rat out the father who is cheating. One thing leads to another and the police are called in to deal with him and he is arrested.

I have seen this movie before and I must say it is low on my favorite list but still a good movie. I love any movie that Robin Williams is in. I did enjoy that they showed us how a photo lab really runs. And I enjoyed that film going through the machine. Seems easier then developing film in the canisters. It was a little creepy that he was a stalker though. This gives me all the more reason as to why I would not want to send my film in. Which worries me that maybe Labworks would do such a thing.

Movie#1: Pecker

Well my day all began with buying a bag of popcorn and a drink. I then popped my popcorn and sat in the back row of the class. I got myself comfortable before the 87 minute movie began. And which movie did I watch you ask?

Of all names to call a movie I watched PECKER. Yes, that's right it is really called Pecker. This movie is about a young man named Pecker who lives in a Baltimore. He photographs random image from his home town with a 35MM camera. He planned a gallery a restaurant he worked at and was discovered by a women from New York. He was then brought to New York to have an exhibit and became famous within a couple hours.
This movie was absolutely hilarious. Not only did Pecker never change his film but the developing time was better then our times. Apparently, we don't need to keep our images in the fixer for more then a minute but two seconds works just fine. We also apparently don't need to wash our images either we can just hang them to dry. I know some people who watched this movie with me thought it was pretty painful but I find the corniest movies are always the best.

DT13.2 Blogging

These images here are my favorite 10 from Christmas break.

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I was walking down Provencher when I saw this bush with some burrs on it. I remember in the beginning of the school year I used to get them stuck on my clothing while shooting around the exchange. I thought it would make a beautiful image of something that is so anooying:D

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This tree was a little further down from the bush I shot the burr on. I just loved how the tree grew in and it wasn`t something you see everyday.

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Walking through the wooded area where the bent tree was we stumbled across a rock that we had to walk over.

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Alright this image was taken while walking my boyfriend to work after a fun day of shooting assignments. As we all know these lamps are all in the district but I hadn`t seen any with red bulbs until I walked by the bar Alive.

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I was shooting around my house one day when I realized that the wheelbarrow in my yard was standing upward. It was one of those ``Wow that would make a great shot`` moments

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I have been waiting to shoot this image for sometime. Im glad I didn`t shoot it sooner otherwise I wouldn`t have been able to use it as one of my favorite for this assignment. I just love the colours they used for the lights.

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This is my absolute favorite shot. I was actually out shooting for Ross`assignment when I walked over to the via station and was about ready to pack up all my gear and BAM another ``Holy smokes thats going to be my fav shot`` moment hit me.

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This image is from the same area and the one before it.

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This shot was taken while waiting for my boyfriend to get off work one day. I just liked that the moon was already out and it wasn`t quite dark yet.

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and lastly this is my boyfriend. I just bought my Macro lens and heard that you can do great things with it and that it can get great people shots. So.... I told him to stand by the window and I shot all sorts of images seeing how close and far I could shoot with this new amazing lens.

AT11.2 Karsh

http://homepage.mac.com/curatorial1/KARSH%20%7C%20Heroes/large-79.html

I chose the image with Edward and Joanna Steichen which was taken in 1967.
From what I have learnt so far in the darkroom I feel that the techniques used in this image are as follows:

I believe that Karsh shot this image with a high perspective. It looks like Karsh was on the top of a hill shooting down towards his subject which would be the people in the boat. He also used the rule of thirds by keeping his subject on the lower third of the image. Because the image is outdoors I would say he used natural lighting of the sun. You can see that his subject is lit up as well as spots in the water and of course on the tree. I really see a lot of contrast in this image and maybe a bit of dodging and burning on the trees and bushes to the left side. Im not 100% sure I can say that he would have flashed the image because we didn't so anything this dark in class. But it may be a possibility.

I absolutely loved that we got to see this exhibit. I liked Karsh' exhibit better then Richard Harrington's. I found that Karsh's images are a lot more clean cut which is what I like to see in people portraits. It was difficult choosing one image to choose from but I found that the Edward and Joanna Steichen piece stood out the most. I love the clean lines, and that for myself anyway the subject are the people in the boat then it leads you to the tree on the right side of the image and around the image to the people again. I know I was told by you that I use to much contrast sometimes but I love the dark look in an image. I feel that it sets off a mood depending on the subject in the image. I also love the perspective of the image because I feel that if he shot at eye level he would not have received the same effect that this image sets. All in all I loved all his work and will definitely be going back to the WAG to see his and others exhibits.