Creative Mix

These pictures are from our field trip to our Creative Mix conference. Honestly, I didn't fully know what Creative Mix was, so I can't explain what it is. But since I can't explain what it is, this is a link to the Creative Mix 2010 website. I dind't take very many pictures inside the conference at all. While I was walking around outside, I was trying our HDR photography for my first time. Sadly, I didn't have a tripod with me, so each frame was slightly in a different spot, so I wasn't able to piece them ontop of eachother properly. So instead, these are the couple pictures I took that weren't for my HDR.

 This was the wall that everyone saw when they walked into the gallery part of the conference.

 This was our wall!

Granville Island

On our field trip to Granville Island, our class was given  list of pictures to take. I thought they were just suggestions, so I dind't actually follow them. Instead, I took real basic pictures, and photoshopped them a bit when we got back to the school. These are what I took.

For this one, I photo shopped in the cat's eye. I showed my teacher, and she felt that it would look better if it didn't have the eye in it, so I tried taking the cat's eye out. In the end, I really liked the one with the cat's eye, rather than the one without. To me, it seems more like my style if it has the eye in it.

Anonymous Double Exposure: Photographer

These photographs are from the roll of film that I got from a random photographer. We didn't know where the film came from and who used it. All we knew, was that it was sent in to us from somewhere in the world. I photographed nature with our mentor's macro lens, while the photography photographed the city that he/she lived in.

 To me, it looks like this plant is in a mid-phase of turning into a human, so I call this photograph "Becoming One".

 The strands of dew on this dandy lion look like strands of DNA, so this one I named "DNA Transformation".

 "Flowering Bulb"

 "Industrial Lion"

 This photograph is titled "Rundown Wilderness" because in the background, you can see a rundown or abandoned house, and this plant in the front is part of the wilderness, or the wild.

 "Window of Thoughts"

Anonymous Double Exposure: Student

These are my photographs from our Anonymous Double Exposure done with the students. The theme in these photographs is noise and silence. I shot the theme noise. To shoot noise, I took photographs of something that I own and use that makes noise; my violin. What is shot underneath, is a girl look through glass that was simulated by using a larg amount of plastic wrap.

 This one is titled "Embodied"

 "Body of the F-hole"

 "Stare of the Gypsy"

I call this one "Trapped Music", because it looks like the girl is trapped in the violin. I really like how it looks like she's pressing up against the body of the violin with her hand.

Surveillance: Granville Island

The surveillance project has gone on for a while now, so I continued to take some surveillance photos on our field trip to Granville Island. I took most of them while we were on transit (bus and sky train), but a couple of them are while we were walking off the bus/sky train. Because these are all surveillance pictures, I was trying to make it seem less obvious that I'm taking pictures so I was shooting from my hip. Take a look at all the faces and what everyone is doing in the pictures while looking through them; that's (to me) one of the main parts of a surveillance photo.

 This photo was taken when we first got on the sky train, looking through into the car ahead of us.

 Once this guy walked on the sky train, he kept laughing to himself and talking to himself every now and them.

 I took this one when the sky train stopped at one of the 'above ground' stops.

 Once we got off the sky train, we had to walk out of the terminal to get to the bus. On our way out, we encountered a strange man... He came up to all of us and told us that the, and I quote, "zombie apocalypse is upon us". He was singing as he left us.

 On our way to the bus stop I was just taking pictures of people that caught my eye, or..camera.

 This man just looked interesting to me because he was wearing jogging shorts and drinking a cold drink in the cold.

 This was taken as I we were walking onto the bus. I was a little hesitant to take this picture, because I didn't know what would happen if I was caught taking this picture. As you can see, this bus driver saw that I was taking her picture. As she saw this, she quickly covered the coin slot on the ticket machine.

I was hoping that this man would see that I was taking his picture, so I could capture an expression from him, but I was also nervous of what he would do if he saw I was taking his picture.

Surveillance: Dark Room

My photography class has gotten one of our first projects! This project idea came to my teacher when she visited the Tate Modern Gallery in London, England last summer. She told us that when she was in the gallery, there was an exhibition that a photographer had done that was all surveillance. These are my surveillance photos that I took. I took these with one of my teacher's cameras with a tripod in our dark room. How I made it look more like a "security camera" was by standing on top of one of the counters, and extended the tripod to its full length.