repppinnn' podzy

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"chyea das me"
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So "this guy" I know had a big birthday coming up, and I knew I had to make him an awesome gift that would make it memorable. He's a music producer, and is working on a new album, which is going to be a solid one. Comparing the songs on his soon to be released album compared to his last, gave me a sense of sophistication and progression. Sure I give him my opinion on the songs' progression, but I felt the need to contribute more to the completion of the album. I've always wanted make my own graphic for a t-shirt, but not with iron on paper that just ends up fading away with a few washes. For our alternative process unit in photography class, silkscreening was a optional process provided. Combining a project and a present is always fun as it gives you extra motivation to make the project better, and vice versa. I took many pictures of him, with bold poses not showing too much of his face, as I wanted his figure to be on his own shirt, although not obvious to the world. As I was shooting the pictures and different poses of him, I took a picture of him fixing his hair by accident. Scanning the pictures on my computer after the shoot, left me contemplating between a serious, bold pose, and the natural hair-fixing photo. I ended up choosing the unplanned shot, opposing to the fact that most people would have probably chosen the other shot for this scenario. The title of his new album is "Who We Are", which was the message I really felt was portrayed in the picture I chose. He has a natural, light lauging-smile on his face, with one hand on his forehead, looking as if he just made a silly mistake and is now laughing it off, displaying that we are "who we are". Although the picture may sound as if it looked youthful, it really looked mellow and complete. I cropped his body out of the picture, made it b/w, and put it on a black background in photoshop with his name and new album at the opposite side of the picture. Finding the perfect font for his name and new album title required a lot of scavenging. Once I finally found the font I was was so pleased, as it was so clean and crisp, reflecting another style/side of the picture so well. After a choatic few days of pulling this together, I felt a huge wave of relief as my first tranfer to a t-shirt was incredibly successful. I loved the shirts, and my final curiosity was to see his reaction when opening his present on his birthday.

Cyana Type

It's amazing how the sun can help create such an interesting affect on an image. I never thought of cyana type being very unique, until I attempted it myself. I wanted to do something with this picture after taking it, but I wasn't quite sure what exactly. Upon pondering which process to close the unit with, I immediately thought of this picture and the cyana type process combined. I didn't want to do a cyana type of a landscape photo, because I feel as if that is what most people use. I wanted a photo with a lot of meaning and life and detail to it, and for the cyana type to add an old, mystic affect to it. I am very pleased with the outcome of this photo, as the reflection from the window on the piano is so crisp and unique, and the angle of the photo with muted colour adding lots of depth to the picture. 

Photogram Shinanigans

I really had no idea what to do for this project, which was different to all of my other processes, and is understandable as it was my first process. I looked around my kitchen the night before I planned to do my photogram and couldn't find anything that would look interesting in the picture. I picked up my headphones thought that they would be very fascinating to incorporate, as I have such great appreciation for my music. I then wanted to create and Apple add-like picture with the headphones, advertising the iPod and it's amazing capability to store mass amounts of music, but without the  iPod. I wanted to create an interesting background for the headphones, and wanted something to symbolize music coming out of the headphones. I ended up taking a cabbage leaf, as it is a transparent background, but also provides an interesting, delicate pattern. I then took cooked quinoa and decided that I was going to use it to represent the music coming out of the headphones. After finishing this assignment, I realized that this photogram reflected myself very well, as I already mentioned, I love music, and nutrition. I used food that I incorporate in my diet frequently, which are healthy and really do resemble my attitude towards life. 

breakin' the rulez

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As a new photography student, remembering all of the rules and boundaries in photography, AND being able to incorporate them all into my photos is a challenging task. You could imagine that it was a huge relief to hear that our assignment was to break the rules of photography. I really enjoyed taking the photos for this project, and was very pleased with my products.
 The first picture, is taken of a friend fixing a frame. She is behind a chaotic background of various watercolour paintings, which I loved, and considered to be a unique background. The placement of the chair, pottery wheel and cabinet are what break the rules in this photo. All of the objects draw your attention to them easily, but they suit the style of the picture, making it a good photo, even though it is not composed of properly according to the books. 
The second picture is taken of another friend breaking the rules of the art room, and putting tape on the desk. I found this idea of a photo fun, as I love unposed pictures of people doing creative things. This photo breaks the rules, because of the various objects spread on the desks, the tilted angle of the shot, the objects in the far background, and the fact that the model's body in the photo is cut off awkwardly. 
The last picture is captured with another friend as a model, in front of disorderly shelves of items. I think this photo is exceptional, because of the face of the model fitting into the theme of the picture. With a very messy, and artistic background, the model's facial expression almost looks as if he understands that his space is in disarray, but doesn't really care. This photo breaks the rules of photography, as the bookshelf acts as a merger behind the model's head, the randomly placed chair to the right of him, and the placement of the cabinet to the left of him with distracting books on top of it.