Photography 4 Vincent Van Gogh Powerpoint

Photography 4 Prints, Small strips, Value strips on the courtyard

 The strongest Technical aspect of my work is the Prints that came out when I developed it. By  using my negatives and the enlarger I was able to fit the picture on the paper. But i think I can improve on my borders and how much light touches the paper when using the enlarger. I got stuck between F11 and F8. I could never get the color right. So I could probably improve on those aspects of my work.

What was easy about this activity was aligning the strips on the easil and make the value strips. What also was easy was developing my prints and strips through the developer and stop bath and fixer, and so on. Ive done it so much I pretty much have it down to a "T" when knowing when to take the prints out of the chemicals. What was difficult about the activity was trying to find the perfect light outside while taking to photos. 

How I demonstrated the objective in this art activity was to show how I got the value scales on the value strips and how much light is hitting my prints. Also testing each Apertures on the enlarger and showing how to get borders using the easel. If I could do this activity again I would change the Aperture differently on the second print. Even though I still finished, it has been bothering me that I couldn't get these right. Ill try again another day!

Greg Stimac Power Point

Coffee Camera Project

The Strongest Technical aspect of my work would be getting the light exposure of the paper. Also getting myself center and in focus in the test strips on the 5x7 with the coffee camera. Managing to get light in most the test strips was a great accomplishment, but this is something i can improve on. The 5x7 negative is much better than the second one. Trying to make a positive with the enlarger didn't work. 

There was too much grey. There was too much light coming in besides the pin hole on the outside. What was difficult about this project was trying to stand still in the same spot without moving. Also trying to get the negative to the positive and kept getting a grey color on all of them. The objective was to see how the light effects this certain photo paper.

 Also trying to get a good photo out of it with all three colors,white, gray, and black in the photo. If i did this project again i would try to use a different F-Stop and maybe try different time on the enlarger. Also using a different coffee camera. 

The most technical aspect of my work is the way the light appeared on my pictures and my test strip. The first is my symmetry picture using little circle blocks to block the light in circle shapes, making a heart in symmetry form. In my heart i was able to get all three colors, white, gray and black. the gray is on the heart with the white. That happened because of the way the light hit the little blocks. 

The same with the landscape and the magazine, i got all three colors with the help of the enlargers. What can be improved on is my placement with the tree and clouds of my landscape.

 I could also improve on my borders of my pictures, and the end of my test strip. What i thought was easy about this activity was the placement of how i set up my pictures and where i wanted to put them on the enlarger. Also setting my F-Stop to 11 and F-Stop 16, as funny as that sounds when its so dark in there. When i put my seconds to 4 for my landscape and 10 for the other two, it was easy to see the picture develop in the developer. Making my test strip was a little difficult, it took me two tries and the one i finally thought looked good i kept. I used F- Stop 11 because 16 wasn't working as well, and used a filter 5 and put it to 1 second. 

There was a lot of adjusting for my test strip. I demonstrated my work through my imagination and showed you what i wanted to make in my pictures. Every picture has there own story and significance and was able to develop these pictures. If i could do this again i would make all of my pictures look like they came out of a museum. Making everything look perfect would be my goal for the next time. 

Polaroid Project

Polaroid Project

              The Strongest technical aspect of my work was the placement of the polaroids. Its the strongest aspect because that is the focal point in the assignment. The polaroids are supposed to be most visible and stand out for people to see. They also help you see the picture it is trying to put together. 

What I think can be improved on in this assignment is the putting the polaroid in a specific order so it makes sense. This picture shows his head being apart from his body, which need to be more on the plane of where his body is. Also making a better plane for him to sit on.

What was easy was the background and painting it using the blur tool. The background was originally a sheet of the music staff, i then blurred it out and made it purple. I made it purple because thats his favorite color. 

What was difficult about this project was where to place each polaroid on the plane and trying to connect them together. I tried to get important elements through the polaroids. I demonstrated the objective through the polaroid. Its showing the picture behind it. Im trying to show the audience that he's behind the polaroids playing guitar. If I could do this activity differently then I would make the polaroids more close together and make the background different. 

The Face Touch Up Project

The Strongest technical aspect of my work was using the healing tool to repair her skin. As i kept pressing option and click in clean spaces of clear skin, it made her face have less and less freckles, giving her a clear complexion. The technical of my work that can be improved on would be the sharpness of the skin, and her patches of skin tone. Especially near her mouth, when i used the brush tool, i tried to find the closest color to match the patches on her face. The easiest part of this project was adding the make up to her lips and eyes. I used a small brush tool to make the eye liner, then i used the brush tool for the lips and eye shadow on a bigger brush. The most difficult part about this project was getting rid of all the freckles with the same color skin tone to her face. Always trying to remember to press option, and clicking a different patch of skin was hard to get used too. I demonstrated the objective in this activity by removing all of her blemishes, trying to match the skin tone and used the different tools to do so. It demonstrated the beauty behind her freckles. If i could do this art activity again, i would change the contouring of the face. It would have been better to fix the darker patches on her face near her mouth and eyes. I also wanted to keep the all natural skin tone with it as well, i didn't want to make her look fake. This project was actually really fun for me but it also taught me a lesson that no matter what you look like you're beautiful on the outside no matter how much blemish, or scars or even makeup, it doesn't change YOU who you are.