Commercial Drive

Commercial Drive has a huge photographic potential, so there is we big range of variety between my pictures I have taken. We were all given a theme-word before we left for Vancouver which we had to take pictures of, and mine was 'funny'. My themed pictures aren't as great as my actual pictures but they defiantly make me laugh.

JR's InsideOut Project

I think that our school community is one that is very open about everyone's sexuality. Most high schools that I know of are not as open as we are, and this is something that makes our school community stand out. I value how anyone can come and be who they truly are. I hear a lot throughout the hallways of how someone came to our school thinking that they would not be welcome because of they way they dress, but turned out to be very welcome to our school and see that there are more people that dress weird. I think that for the InsideOut project, we should explore how our school is an 'open-sexuality' school, and the struggles that you would possibly find in other schools.

Concentration

For my concentration, I continued my string project. Instead of wrapping just the head of my model, I went and wrapped most of the body. This series is supposed to give the feeling of how we all have strugles and challenges in our life, and it's sometimes hard to get through them. These are my best and favorite photographs from the series. Also, here is a link to a VoiceThread I made for a group critque for my class.

Comic Page

My photo class did an 'in-class' photogshop assignment, in which we learned how to take a digital image and turn it into a "comic book page". We all did this with a portrait, so because I don't have very many portraits at all, I took a portrait that my friend had already taken. Afterwards, I remembered about my Erwin Olaf shoot, and realised that I did have some portraits, so I ended up with doing two comic pages. I really enjoyed it, so I decided to copy my girlfriends' art style. What she does is use every single colour that she sees in her pictures, so I tried doing that for my final comic page. I'll post that when I'm finished it, but here are my two comic book pictures I did in class.

Self Portrait & Alter Ego

An asingment the grade 12's got was to take a roll of colour film for self portraits, and a roll of colour film for self portraits but as our alter ego. I used expired film for my self portrait and new film for my alter ego, but sadly because the expired film I used was only a few years old, it didn't make much a noticeable.

Wrecking Film - Mine

Here are my photographs from my Wrecking Film. The ones on the right are the photographs before I wrecked then, and the ones on the left are after I stepped on the negatives.
 

 

Wrecking Film - Reticulation

     Wrecking film seemed like fun at first for me; scratching it, purposely developing it wrong, etc. I was honestly excited to wreck my film! And yes I know that sounds a little bad. For my photographs, I went into the local grave yard and took photographs of tombstones. The wrecking film effect that I was going to try was reticulation, which is 'the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion'. Or, in other words, I make the emulsion of my film crack during developing.

     What you have to do to get reticulation is heat up the film, and then flash "freeze" it all while the film is developing. What I did was bathe my film in hot water for a few minutes to expand my film, develop the film normally, then I put 5 ice cubes in the container to make ice cold stop, fix, and rinse to make the film cool down rapidly and shrink, which should make the film crack.


     When I finished rinsing my film, and I was able to look at it under light, I saw disappointingly that I was not successful in getting reticulation. So I went to plan B; scan my film, then scratch the hell out of it by stepping on it in gravel. Now, I'm very glad I scanned my film before I went and stepped on it because I didn't realize how much of the photograph I was actually going to scratch of; let's just say I was dying inside as I was stepping on it, and saw it afterward.

Here are some samples of what reticulation is supposed to look like.

 Notice how all the photographs have a "pattern" of cracks? That's reticulation.