Sushi & Exposure

A field trip taht my teacher set up for my class was to go out for sushi and take night shots in the down located around my school. Sadly, not everyone was able to go on the field trip because it took place between the times of 5:00pm and 7:30pm in late november. Out of the students that did come, it was only me and another who stayed to take night shots after we had sushi. My teacher didn't even stay! It was very, very cold and wet that night, so me and my friend were only able to take 1 picture each. It took a while to set up the cameras and lights, but so these are the only pictures we came up with.

 I was just playing around with a flash while using a very long shutter speed.

 Take 1

Take 2

I don't really know why you're able to see what I assume is his breath in this one but not the first.

SELF Favorites

These are my favorite self portraits from the 'Self' gallery.

 I really like how this student chose to use a piece of concrete instead of a canvas, and I love the detailing of the creasing on her shirt.

 I just plain and simply loved the mere size of this piece.

 This portrait was one of the few that looked so life-like! And when you look at it up close, all the different colours, and the way she used all of them are so amazing!

 The portrait of this student matched the pose and the actual way the portrait of the real painting perfectly!

 This portrait was done in only graphite, and the detail is just incredible. This has to be one of my top favorites.

 This student's style of painting is one of my favorites between all the students.

I really like how she chose to do her painting on a round canvas rather than a box canvas, and her medium chose of pastal adds a lot to the piece.

SELF

The grade 11 and 12 art majors put on an gallery called 'Self'. What they did, was take a picture of themself, and include an interesting pattern as the background. Some students used the pattern strictly as a background, and others intertwined it with their portrait. The poses that the students chose were from those of paintings that famous artists used, for example 'The Scream' and 'The Mona Lisa'.

 This is the artists who this project was inspired by. Kehinde Wiley goes on the street and takes black people's portraits, and then paints them with a patterned background as he did himself.

These are the grade 11 self portraits (above). Personally, the one of the girl holding the paint brush and wearing round glasses is my favorite from the 11's.

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.