Well sense C.B. is all off in New Mexico this week we had a very small class.
There was only me and three other students that showed up to class today. And as for the mentors, one! Just one of our mentors came to class today, Paul. He is pretty cool though so he just let us work on our finals for the whole day.
We found out that the postcards are due this upcoming Tuesday, luckily I already got those done and set aside a long time ago. But I did have to print out 5 of them, completely blank, to give to Kat (one of the main Y.I.F people) and I got that done at the end of the period, even though I should have done it first because I didn't have time to write my name on any of them, I was in such a rush to get to the bus stop so I just asked Paul to give them to Kat when they were done printing.. The only reason I had to rush was because my bus comes very soon after class ends and I wasn't trying to wait downtown for an extra hour doing nothing, ya know.
Looks like everyone, well, all 4 of us that were there, got our postcards done with, so that's good. Hahaha.
The only time we weren't working on our photos was when we had break, which we have every class. It is just a 15 minutes break to get our eyes off the computer screen and have a little snack, cause it can be pretty stressful working in photoshop sometimes. So thank you Y.I.F staff for giving that little break to us :]
Paul showed us a slide show of some of his work, he is a really talented photographer. He inspired a lot with his images. He also has a website because I guess he is in the process of making a portfolio about the Pacific Northwest. I forget the name of his website but I would still like to add it onto this post sometime soon because I think you will really like it.
Oh, and I was practically forced into making a facebook so everyone could talk to me and "discuss" the class and how we are doing with projects and what not. Hahaha, I love my class, their hella cool(:
Friday, November 5, 2010
Tuseday, Nov. 2nd: Photo Session, Lighting/Angleing.?
Finals! Finals! Finals!
Feeling kind of stressed because we are so close to the end and we haven't really done anything yet for the show, like printing out test prints, choosing frames and mats....it all needs to be done and I got a feeling we are going to be in such a rush here within these next few weeks.
I already have one photo that I want to put in the show that is all done and ready :]
And I know I want to put a picture of this 4-leaf clover I took in the show too, except I just need to figure out which one I want to really edit and use, which kinda sucks cause I already spent about an hour on one that I don't even know if I wanna use.
Now I know that's getting somewhere, but still, that is only two out of five!
Anyways, today our teacher had us go around the building and mess around with different lighting from the sun.
He chose partners for us and then we were off on our own. Me and katlin (another girl in the class) decided to go up the street because that was the only area that the sun was still hitting around us. We had both left our cameras at home but C.B. was nice enough to let us borrow his camera :]
So we took turns taking pictures of each other at different angles, and with different lighting of sun rays.
When she was done taking my photos and I looked at them, there was direct sun hitting my face and that's when I realized how freaking red/orange my hair is getting >:[ looks like I'm gonna have to dye it soon. haha.
Eventually everyone else realized that was the only sun too and followed us to the top of the street to take their photos.
At the end of this photo shoot session, C.B. had us all stand together for a class photo. He took a couple of shots and he said at the count of 3 jump, 1. 2. 3. JUMP! and so we all jumped as he shot the image. It was pretty cool because he had gotten us all in the air, which is hard to do with a lot of people. And it only took one shot!
After that we all headed back into the classroom and began uploading the photos we just took.
C.B. was very satisfied with our images and especially the "class photo" of us all jumping. I have a feeling he really loves this class. I do to though! I'm going to be super sad when it's over :'[
But anyways, the rest of the class time (which wasn't much) was spent working on photos we think we are going to use for our finals. Even though class ends at 6:30pm, I stay till about 8:00pm every Tuesday because they have open dark room and I take full advantage of that, I wish they had it on Thursdays too, that would be awesome. So ya, C.B. stayed till about 7:00pm helping me on one of my photos. Then he is going to be gone on Thursday. I'm super jealous of him! he always gets to travel.
Feeling kind of stressed because we are so close to the end and we haven't really done anything yet for the show, like printing out test prints, choosing frames and mats....it all needs to be done and I got a feeling we are going to be in such a rush here within these next few weeks.
I already have one photo that I want to put in the show that is all done and ready :]
And I know I want to put a picture of this 4-leaf clover I took in the show too, except I just need to figure out which one I want to really edit and use, which kinda sucks cause I already spent about an hour on one that I don't even know if I wanna use.
Now I know that's getting somewhere, but still, that is only two out of five!
Anyways, today our teacher had us go around the building and mess around with different lighting from the sun.
He chose partners for us and then we were off on our own. Me and katlin (another girl in the class) decided to go up the street because that was the only area that the sun was still hitting around us. We had both left our cameras at home but C.B. was nice enough to let us borrow his camera :]
So we took turns taking pictures of each other at different angles, and with different lighting of sun rays.
When she was done taking my photos and I looked at them, there was direct sun hitting my face and that's when I realized how freaking red/orange my hair is getting >:[ looks like I'm gonna have to dye it soon. haha.
Eventually everyone else realized that was the only sun too and followed us to the top of the street to take their photos.
At the end of this photo shoot session, C.B. had us all stand together for a class photo. He took a couple of shots and he said at the count of 3 jump, 1. 2. 3. JUMP! and so we all jumped as he shot the image. It was pretty cool because he had gotten us all in the air, which is hard to do with a lot of people. And it only took one shot!
After that we all headed back into the classroom and began uploading the photos we just took.
C.B. was very satisfied with our images and especially the "class photo" of us all jumping. I have a feeling he really loves this class. I do to though! I'm going to be super sad when it's over :'[
But anyways, the rest of the class time (which wasn't much) was spent working on photos we think we are going to use for our finals. Even though class ends at 6:30pm, I stay till about 8:00pm every Tuesday because they have open dark room and I take full advantage of that, I wish they had it on Thursdays too, that would be awesome. So ya, C.B. stayed till about 7:00pm helping me on one of my photos. Then he is going to be gone on Thursday. I'm super jealous of him! he always gets to travel.
Thursday, Oct. 28th: Artist Satements.
Last Tuesdays assignment was to bring in a quote, lyrics, video, saying, anything you thought was cool basically.
Our teacher was off in California doing some family things sense his dad recently died. So that left us with just the mentors teaching us for today. At first they had us read off what we brought in and talk about it.
My class talks a lot so that took up almost half of the class time.
After that Kenna (our mentors names are Paul & Kenna) had us look up on flicker and each find an image that we like. The whole point of doing this was that we had to pretend the image was one that we took and write an artist statement to go along with it.
I think I did pretty good except for the fact that It's hard for me to express myself through writing sometimes, although I thought other classmates of mine did even better.
She showed us this video that I thought was really good, it was about this award winning photographer who travels the world and his art gallery is the world. He goes around to different country's and takes face-to-face photographs of people he thinks are daily hero's and paints up their photos on the buildings, the streets, peoples homes, tops of buildings, tops of trains, all these different unique settings for just everyday people of the city. He said it makes their story's travel on throughout the world and throughout history.
We got the rest of the class time to work on ether our own artist statements or photos for the finals.
I'm pretty happy about that because I got my artist statement done and over with. I also got some camera equipment for free because they were having a sale and most of the stuff was free which was awesome.
I also got this really nice film camera and lens for 5$! so that means when I start taking film classes I wont have to use their little point and shot because I'll already have a advanced one. And I got a book on how to start a professional photography business for free too.
Our teacher was off in California doing some family things sense his dad recently died. So that left us with just the mentors teaching us for today. At first they had us read off what we brought in and talk about it.
My class talks a lot so that took up almost half of the class time.
After that Kenna (our mentors names are Paul & Kenna) had us look up on flicker and each find an image that we like. The whole point of doing this was that we had to pretend the image was one that we took and write an artist statement to go along with it.
I think I did pretty good except for the fact that It's hard for me to express myself through writing sometimes, although I thought other classmates of mine did even better.
She showed us this video that I thought was really good, it was about this award winning photographer who travels the world and his art gallery is the world. He goes around to different country's and takes face-to-face photographs of people he thinks are daily hero's and paints up their photos on the buildings, the streets, peoples homes, tops of buildings, tops of trains, all these different unique settings for just everyday people of the city. He said it makes their story's travel on throughout the world and throughout history.
We got the rest of the class time to work on ether our own artist statements or photos for the finals.
I'm pretty happy about that because I got my artist statement done and over with. I also got some camera equipment for free because they were having a sale and most of the stuff was free which was awesome.
I also got this really nice film camera and lens for 5$! so that means when I start taking film classes I wont have to use their little point and shot because I'll already have a advanced one. And I got a book on how to start a professional photography business for free too.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)