Wednesday, December 21, 2011
her morning elegance
Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie is stop motion animation. I think its absolutely fabulous!! The entire animation is taken from on angle. It took 6 weeks of scripting, 3 weeks of storyboarding in animation, 48 hours of shooting (2096 still photographs).
Her Morning Elegance from Kenneth Chua on Vimeo.
The behind the scenes / or making of is equally interesting. I'd love to try something like this someday.
Her Morning Elegance from Kenneth Chua on Vimeo.
The behind the scenes / or making of is equally interesting. I'd love to try something like this someday.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was my choice of photographer for our research and writing skills assignment.
He is a world renowned landscape photographer, who lived most of his life on the West Coast of the United States. His images, still today, have aided the conservation effort to save much of California's desert, which we now know as National Parks. With a career spanning more than six decades, there is a wealth of information about him. A couple of youtube videos, I came across while researching him.
It was Adams sublime photographs of Yosemite that first caught my attention, particularly his images of Half Dome and El Capitan, one of the most famous climbing destinations in the world.
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| http://www.ansel-adams.org/images/Ansel_Adams.jpg |
He is a world renowned landscape photographer, who lived most of his life on the West Coast of the United States. His images, still today, have aided the conservation effort to save much of California's desert, which we now know as National Parks. With a career spanning more than six decades, there is a wealth of information about him. A couple of youtube videos, I came across while researching him.
It was Adams sublime photographs of Yosemite that first caught my attention, particularly his images of Half Dome and El Capitan, one of the most famous climbing destinations in the world.
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| http://www.endigorae.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ansel-yosemite.jpg |
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| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/gallery/images/09.jpg |
Monday, December 5, 2011
Flash Photography
Last week in Sally's photographic techniques class we had a very quick introduction to flash photography. It is a subject that next semester, we will be focusing on and I'm super excited about it.
I love photographing people doing what they love to do best. Over the past couple of years that has been climbing, because that is also a passion of mine. While away last winter in Hampi bouldering I had the opportunity to play around with my flash taking photos of my friends. The nature of bouldering (climbing on boulders with crash mats), particularly in the sun, means that we are prodominantly climbing in the shade which can make for some quick difficult images: dark rock and foreground against a bright sky behind. So it was here I some great fun with my off camera flash.
Setting my Nikon D300 to commander mode and using the built-in flash as the master and my speed-light as the slave (synced up through the Groups options), here are some of the images I got. What do you think?
I love photographing people doing what they love to do best. Over the past couple of years that has been climbing, because that is also a passion of mine. While away last winter in Hampi bouldering I had the opportunity to play around with my flash taking photos of my friends. The nature of bouldering (climbing on boulders with crash mats), particularly in the sun, means that we are prodominantly climbing in the shade which can make for some quick difficult images: dark rock and foreground against a bright sky behind. So it was here I some great fun with my off camera flash.
Setting my Nikon D300 to commander mode and using the built-in flash as the master and my speed-light as the slave (synced up through the Groups options), here are some of the images I got. What do you think?
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Projects Projects Projects
Projects, projects, projects - that's all I seem to hear about and not to mention assignments. Unfortunately, for me - its coming from all directions. As soon as I think I get my head above water with my photography course I start to panic about work and my students. Of course, then my work emphasis changes and I attempt to give the other attention and so we're into roll reversal, and I start to panic about the other. Are you confused , yet? Because I certainly am.
Amidst all the panic and confusion, however, I have managed to get to a concert. Thursten Moore, played the Button Factory in Temple Bar last Sunday. Here's a few of my pictures from the event.
Amidst all the panic and confusion, however, I have managed to get to a concert. Thursten Moore, played the Button Factory in Temple Bar last Sunday. Here's a few of my pictures from the event.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Printing
Finally, I've a print that I'm happy with!!
The salt part of the salt n pepper duo on a checked table cloth (in case your wondering). Lots of techniques applied. I shot with ISO 3200 film and developed as appropriate, which gave the super grainy texture. Using the split grade printing technique, the enlarger aperture was set to F/8, I started with a filter grade 0 for a 6 second exposure, followed by filter grade 5 and a further 18 second exposure and then I burnt in the two top corners for 6 seconds at filter grade to draw the eye down. I like it, but what do you think?
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| split grade printing |
The salt part of the salt n pepper duo on a checked table cloth (in case your wondering). Lots of techniques applied. I shot with ISO 3200 film and developed as appropriate, which gave the super grainy texture. Using the split grade printing technique, the enlarger aperture was set to F/8, I started with a filter grade 0 for a 6 second exposure, followed by filter grade 5 and a further 18 second exposure and then I burnt in the two top corners for 6 seconds at filter grade to draw the eye down. I like it, but what do you think?
Monday, November 21, 2011
Dissappointment on the Brownie Front
After taking all eight exposures, I embarked on the little task of retrieving the film from the camera and getting it onto the spool, in the dark bag - a challenge on its own. After much flustering I managed it and developed it according to guide lines I found online. To my utmost dissappointment, the film came back blank.
I'm not sure if you can see, but the strange little track mark on the left hand side was probably me, trying to put it on the reel - as there was no feeder whole (like on the side of 35mm film) - its hard to get onto the reel.
I'm not sure what has gone wrong.
I'm not sure if you can see, but the strange little track mark on the left hand side was probably me, trying to put it on the reel - as there was no feeder whole (like on the side of 35mm film) - its hard to get onto the reel.
I'm not sure what has gone wrong.
- The film definitely loaded.
- The film wound on (you put it on a spool on one side and take it off the other).
- I checked the shutter and it appears to be working.
- Problems with the developing?
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