Mixed Lighting

When trying to capture mixed lighting, I was stuck! Mixed lighting is defined as multiple illuminants with different colour/temperatures that can further complicate performing a white balance. After reading this, the colour wheel inspired me to try and display the mixing of light and colours together. For this photograph, I placed a red light and a blue light on either side of Stephanie. This forced the two lights to mix and create purple light in the middle. My favourite part about this picture is Stephanie's shadow. I thought it was so cool how her shadow is red, even though the blue light was pointing in that direction. Overall, mixed lighting was not as hard as I had put it out to be, and my photo was successful!

Painting with Light

Painting with light was such a fun assignment! I thought it was going to be impossible, but it was actually quite easy. In this photograph, I got Stephanie to pose as if she were holding someone's hand. With the light from my Ipod, I traced someone else holding hers. I was having a bit of difficulty lighting Stephanie up enough as the picture was taken in the darkroom. So, using her Ipod, we taped it to the wall in front of her in order to create enough light to see her as well. This effect created a better outcome, as Steph is lit up the same colour as the person I traced with the light. In this painting, I was trying to create an innocence to Stephanie. I tried out many different pictures, but this was definitely my favourite!

Royal Winter Fair

At the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, there are many fun family activities. At the petting zoo there are over 160 different animals from goats to llamas to ducks just waiting to be fed and pet! There are also many animals at the Royal to compete. There are many different contests and awards including cattle, poultry, horses, rabbit, and more! They compete for best size, coat, or even over all amimal! In the family fun zone there are many different activities to enjoy! Not to mention many different shows to watch, including everyone's favourite, Super Dogs. There are so many things to do. 

In the picture above, a llama was poking his head up waiting to be pet. All the animals are very friendly, but very selfish as well! They always push and shove each other in order to be the first at the food! However, this llama was definitely posing though. This llama in particular was quite confident and soft to pet too. The animals all interact with people very well. Such a great experience!

Renaissance

This work of art is called “Young Woman with Unicorn”, painted by Raphael Sanzio. This painting is important to the Renaissance era because it has amazing realism. Raphael's artwork was so amazing because he always added emotion and expression to the subject. This lets the viewers understand his paintings better as they have something/someone to relate to. Not only is this painting so realistic, but it compliments the subject in the artwork as well. The lighting and shadows on this lady’s face are very flattering. This lighting is also visibly seen, and thus gave me the ability to repeat it when photo shopping Laura’s face into the painting.

Raphael, the artist who painted this picture, was very influential in the Renaissance era; he was known as the "genius" of high Renaissance painters. Raphael was the greatest designer of the Renaissance, and he was thought to be one of the most detailed painters of all portraitists. By painting emotional themes, Raphael made people think of personality when they looked at his paintings because he put realistic emotions and expressions into his paintings. Raphael has inspired painters up until the 1900s because he used perfect use of color, balance of composition, and sweetness in the subjects of his paintings. Raphael was one of the greatest painters in the Renaissance!

In French, renaissance means "rebirth". This historical age spanned throughout the 14^th to the 17^th century. In this era, artists looked back on the times before them, improving the different styles from their past. Creating a sense of space was a major innovation of the time, as was perspective, because it was a clever device that causes your eye to see in three-dimension. Art during the Renaissance was mostly made for commissions or religious reasons. The rebirth of this period also included classical learning and a rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greece, as well as beginning of human spirit and creativity.

 In this photograph, I photo shopped Laura's face onto a famous painting by Raphael. I chose this picture because of the unicorn! I thought this portrait was very unique, because it wasn't your typical Renaissance portrait painting. I asked Laura to be my model because she has a lot of character, and I wanted to change the feeling of this painting by adding different emotion. The lady in the original painting was quite serious, and I wanted to change this picture to a humorous and light-hearted mood.  Laura definitely helped me achieve this!