Zone Systems Practice

For a final project, we tried doing what's called zone systems. This is my practice of looking at a "perfect image" and identifying the different zones.

2 Month Pinhole

My mentor, Ken Ku, did a 2 month pinhole exposure while he was away in Korea. This was the turn out.

Cherry Blossoms

So as Spring began to unfold and bloom, all the cherry blossoms started to appear and come to life. My class went out and photographed them, and these are some of the ones I took. I used infrared film for the first time.

William's Park

With this year coming to an end, photography and writing went down to another local national park for a picnic to celebrate and relax. We didn't have to take any pictures, but I went down with a camera knowing that this is a very beautiful park. Here are some of the pictures I took.

Derby Reach Check Up

While Nature Verses was up, my class went to the park so that we could all look at our piece and see what mother nature thought of each of our pieces. While we were there, we had a pot-luck lunch. As everyone was eating, I went and took pictures of the geese that were very close to us. I was only able to get a few good ones as I had to use a shorter shutter speed which made most of my pictures blurry.

Nature Verses

This year I was proud to be part of a project called Nature Verses. It's both a photography and writing major show, but it doesn't necessarily have to have photography or writing in it. This is a project that takes place within a local national park. The criteria for our piece is only that it's 'environtmental awareness' related, and that our pieces to not hurt nature in any way. What I came up with was a piece that I called Time will Only Tell. It was supposed to be a "window looking into the possible future" to show what will happen if we don't stop cutting down our trees.. I wanted viewers to walk by and see my piece as if they are looking at a tree stump with crundge around, instead of a beautiful, full grown tree. I went out and took pictures of tree stumps, and then I printed a big image and wrapped it around a tree.

My original idea was to send the digital file to an artist that I talk about in an earlier post, JR, with my proposal for my project idea, and then hopefully he would send me a massive print of my image. I was then going to glue it to a tree using non-toxix, environmentally friendly glue, but that I realised that that wasn't a safe idea. Because I also wasn't able to get ahold of JR, I had to make due with what I had. Even though I was not able to go with my original idea, I am still happy with the end result.

Studio Still Life

Last year in photography 11, I had an assingment to photograph white-on-white using my school's studio. This year, however, that assignment changed a little. This year I was given the assignment to photograph glass, metal, and textured objects using certain lighting on each. Sadly, I was not there for the workshop given on the different lightings, so I went to a friend whom told me the lighting styles, but when I went to shoot my pictures, I had forgoten all about them. These are my best pictures from all three categories of glass, metal, and texture.