Journal Entry Two

Pin hole Camera Shots
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             This is a slightly edited version of my original image. This one is now up right and its colours are now inverted back to black and white. I had to invert the colours because the light sensitive paper creates a negative image, so I simply put it back to "normal" in this shot.

            I took several shots but this was the only shot I had to work with. The first two shots were under exposed and the third had some form of light leak. This image was the fourth shot I took. The shutter was open for three minutes exactly. It was taken on the forth floor at Grimsby Secondary School. The big black spot in the center, I am guessing, was a drip of developer.



Pin hole camera shot Improved

 

 

          This is my improved shot, it is the same shot as the above, but I adjusted the lighting, improved the sides from the scan, got rid of fragments and a stain from the paper clip from drying the image, and of course, got rid of the big blotch in the center.

Journal One

Journal entry one

10/02/2013         2:14pm

Last Sunday my Dad and I went hiking, on the Bruce Trail in Grimsby. It was a gorgeous day and the second day after our first blizzard of the year. The snow was still fresh, deep and untouched so our objective was to capture some of the pillows of snow on the frozen river. The wind had not yet taken the snow off of the trees so we took lots of shots of the still forest. We encountered many small animal tracks which gave us intriguing clues to their secret lives.

 

 

Geting to know your style - assignment #1

Long Exposure Sunset - By: Dave Fallis

This is a photograph of a sunset. The photograph is divided essentially in half. The top half contains silhouetted mountains against a cloudy sunset. The bottom half contains a very smooth layer of water. This photograph is really effective in its use of layers. The dark blue clouds in the sky draw your eye to the colliding mountains and sun at the vanishing point. At the vanishing point you see the most colours. The majority of the photograph is deep blue, but at the vanishing point you have pinks and yellows. I really like this photograph because the long exposure creates a very soft textured photo which has a calming effect. I also like the fact that you can only see the outline of the shapes of the trees and cannot actually see any trees or vegetation.

Pre-Sunrise reflection - Dave Fallis

I like this photograph because it is a landscape shot. The most interesting part of this photograph is that it appears upside down, but in actuality it is just a reflection in the water. The mist looks like wispy clouds while the clouds look like waves.

This is a very effective photograph because the eye is immediately drawn towards the deep fog at the top of the photo then your eye takes you down to another layer, briefly  to the silhouetted black trees. I also like the layering in this photo because the clouds behind the tree layer gives it an interesting and subtle effect.



Dead Trees - Dave Fallis

            In contrast to the other two photographs, this photo is a black and white image, and is very sharp in feeling. This gives it a dreary affect which makes it a lot bleaker compared to the above photos. Like the first photo, this photo is also divided essentially in half. The top half depicts dead trees in sharp focus causing a spear-like effect. The lower layer shows the trees reflected in almost completely still water. The flatness of the water brings out the trees making them more spear-like than the top layer.
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