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An assignment in printing that required us to apply special effects to our prints. The effects we had to choose from were traditional darkroom effects and we were to apply them to our digital files. Two related shots were required for the assignment. I chose to recreate a lith print digitally, and I am more than happy with the results.

The Lint Roller

This is another assignment from DII2, but I felt that it deserved it's own post. Each quarter it seems like I have at least one image that makes my blog title relevant. This quarter that image is the advertising assignment in my photoshop class.

The Lint Roller:

It lives on my wall and this blog now to remind me that getting it wrong every once in a while is part of the process.

Digital Image Illustration

DII2.

This class has really challenged me this quarter. It's entirely about composite images, and while I enjoy composites I have a hard time making my brain think fast enough and big enough for the assignments in this class. It's almost over, and I have definitely gotten into better work habits because of it.

One of our assignments was to illustrate one of the seven deadly sins. I chose gluttony, and was fairly happy with the results:


Our final had to be at least ten images composited and was just as challenging as the other assignments. The theme for the final image was history. I decided to to a brief personal history so all the pieces in the composite image are things that have been important in making me the person I am today. It's pretty 2D to create a cartoon-ish feel and it's meant to be a little silly (as I am a little silly). I'm pretty happy with the results:

Copy a painting

For studio class we had to choose and copy a painting. I did not particularly enjoy this assignment.

The one on the left is the original and the one on the right is my copy.

Day for night

It seems that about once every other quarter I get really lucky and my instructor Tom Moore takes my photo. This time he took my photo to demonstrate a technique called day for night. This shot looks like it may have been taken late at night with me under a street lamp, but IN FACT, it was taken in the middle of the day. If you would like to know how to do this effect enroll in art school.

Location Update

Urban Portrait / Fashion

Outdoor Portrait

Panoramas!!!!

For printing we were assigned one seamlessly stitched panorama and one gestalt.

Stitched:

Gestalt:
I'm very happy with each of these!

Large product.

Location photo of a large product (i.e. a car)

I sorta feel like I'm back

This quarter has been very frustrating. Full of over-thinking all my projects and feeling like 80% upon seeing the results.

But I feel like I'm sorta back.

Cliche:
One card short of a "full deck"!

eh? eh?

Scream

AHHH hahaha. Mel shot a scream series last quarter and I helped!
Photo by Melanie Watson.

Click here to go to her website http://melaniewatsonphoto.com

Opposites

Opposites

Shot for studio.

This class scares the crap out of me.

Time

For Digital Image Illustration 2 (my mind may be completely in jello form between this class and studio by the end of the quarter) we had to illustrate time with a photo composite image with at least three images.

I'm not thrilled with my results, but it's done (and 786 MB):


The longer I thought about time trying to decide what to do for this assignment the more I kept thinking that time is just something that somebody made up one day. That's how time came about--some very smart (or very cruel) person a long time ago said, "Hey, it's noon now." So I decided to illustrate a different way that time came to be in our world. If time exists on it's on, in its own world (nature perhaps?) then couldn't it have seeped into our world through some little secret door somewhere? That was my concept anyways.

reshoot

In the interest of my blog's name I've got to put the bad, as well as the good, up here if I'm being fair about things. Especially when photography school is the main scope (also a mouthwash)--failure is an option. In fact, I'd say it's sometimes completely necsessary.

This is my lighting class final photo. Prepared food. Food photography is way more difficult than one might think, and even knowing it's difficult going into it I ended up with a beverage shot. Ugh. It's pretty clearly photoshoped into the kitchen, but I think my light matched alright (I have to say SOMETHING positive about the shot or I'll lose my mind).

I don't know the actual grade on this shot yet. In fact it's the only project from last quarter that hasn't been graded yet. I'm sure my instructor is somewhere (perhaps as we speak [or I type]) debating and/or laughing right now.