Eucalyptus Oil Transfer

For my third altnative process I wasn't sure what to do. I spent one class in the dark room playing with rayographs and solarizarion. I ended up deciding to create a eucalyptus oil transfer. It smelled really good! When transferring words, they print backwards, so using photoshop I reversed the letters and the word "forever" so when it printed, it was the right way. I decided on the theme love and forever due to the time of year. Since its only 5 days until Christmas I wanted to portray my family, and how we feel during the holidays! In this composition, there were three individual picture put together: the hand, the heart, and the word forever. I love this finished picture, as it is meaningful to me.

Gel Medium Transfer

For my second alternative process, I wanted to make a gel medium transfer. Since Ms. Zanini said you can make it into something I got really interested in this process. I decided to make a wallet. A wallet is something you use bascially everyday, so I wanted it to show something I love and something that I would actually want to carry daily. I decided on transfering four cameras because I love photography, and carry my camera almost everywhere with me. Two of the cameras are shown on the outside and the other two are shown on the inside. Using water colour paints, I painted to cameras blue and two cameras pink (my favourite colours)!

Silk Screening

For my first alternative process I chose to make a silk screen. I knew the perfect picture to take once I decided on this process. I wanted to make the shirt look somewhat like Pop Art by adding the four different coloured sunglasses (blue, pink, green, and purple), but the same black dog for each print. The original picture on my dog, Duke, actually had sunglasses on him. This made it easier for me to make the two-registration picture in photoshop. This silk screen is portraying my dog, and how much he means to me! It represents him perfectly (clearly he's super easy-going)! I also made an identical shirt for my brother for Christmas because he was jelous of mine.

Breaking the Rules

This photograph was taken as a decisive moment. Cora, the model, was not very impressed. This photograph breaks the rules of line and merger. The line of her leg contradicts the parrallel lines on the floor, however, her leg leads your eyes back to her face (which is the most important part of this picture... it makes me laugh). Also, The people in the background of the picture look almost as if they're coming from her head, hence the merger. This also adds more curiosity to the picture, and makes the viewers more interested.

This photograph was of my dog, Ray. This picture took me quite a while to take because Ray is a puppy and wouldn't cooperate very well. This picture breaks the rules of line and rule of thirds. Ray's paws are slightly off center in this picture, which breaks the rule of line. It adds more to the picture because its not perfectly aligned. Also, rule of thirds was broken because Ray is set in the middle of the picture. Personally, I think this works better with this picture, because the legs are slightly angled, so they lead right to the middle of the picture... Right back to Ray!

This is a photograph of shoes. I love shoes! I took this picture not really focusing on "breaking the rules". This photo breaks the rules of line, merger, and view point. The lines of the laces and the lines of the seems on the shoes all face different directions. This is acceptable here because the main focus in the picture is the socks and the top of the shoes, the lines just add detail. There is a merger in the picture on the left side, where there was a backpack, it almost looks like a shadow. This adds contrast to the main focus in the picture. Also, the vantage point in this picture was slightly angled and low down. This creates a different perspective to think about when looking at the photograph.

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!