Project 7 Prework

Surrealism was a cultural movement that appeared in the 1920s which sought to unlock the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Artists would create works that depicted illogical scenes, strange creatures made from everyday objects, and a style of art that would allow the unconscious to be expressed. The works of art would also include juxtapositions and surprising elements. Some of the most famous artists from the surrealist movement are Salvador Dali and René Magritte.

Salvador Dali:

Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Salvador Dali
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/

Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/

Rene Magritte:

The Son of a Man, Rene Magritte
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/

The Pilgrim, Rene Magritte
http://www.renemagritte.org/

Ronen Goldman:

The Magician, Ronen Goldman
http://www.ronengoldman.com/

Tommy Ingberg:

Stone Part 1, Tommy Ingberg
http://www.ingberg.com/

Jim Kazanjian:

untitled (object), Jim Kazanjian
http://www.kazanjian.net/

Project 6: Alternative Process Through Digital Means

In this project I was supposed to make photos in photoshop that look like they are made through alternative photographic processes. I made a cyanotype, a gum bichromate, and some wet plate collodions. Out of all these processes, I liked making the wet plate collodions the most because I really liked the way they turned out. Personally, I had the most trouble making the gum bichromate because of how the colors interacted with each other as layers, while trying to make the photo not turn white and having the colors still show.

Cyanotype:

Gum Bichromate:

Wet Plate Collodion:

Project 6 Prework

A wet plate collodion is an early photographic process that almost entirely replaced the daguerreotype in the 1850s. Making a wet plate collodion photo required the photographer to coat a glass plate with a collodion mix and then dip the plate into silver nitrate in a darkroom. This would create a negative which would then be used to make a print.

John Milleker Jr.
darkroom.baltimoresun.com/

A cyanotype is a photographic process that creates a blue and white photo. A cyanotype would be made by painting a photosensitive mixture on paper and then you would place an object in front of the piece of paper which would expose the mixture creating a negative.

Anna Atkins
vernacularphotography.com/

A gum bichromate is another early photographic process that involves placing a photosensitive mixture onto a piece of paper that is exposed to light. While a lot like a cyanotype, a gum bichromate would be multi-layered with each layer being exposed individually with photosensitive mixtures that contain different colored pigments. 

Scott
lumberjocks.com/

This project involves the use of many types of brushes in photoshop. After downloading some, I made this while messing around with the brushes. I also made my own brush out of a photo of a clay statue from an earlier project.

Project 5: Multiple Image Techiques

In this project, we went out to take pictures to make HDR photos, panoramas, and multiple exposure images. I found this one to be interesting because of the ways we took the pictures, and how we edited them in photoshop. I enjoyed making the HDR photos the most because it brought out details in darker parts of the photo that you would not usually see.

HDR Photos:

Original

HDR

Original

HDR

 Multiple Exposure:

 Panorama:

Extra:

This photo is one that I thought was fun to make and though it does not belong in any of the types of photos that I was supposed to make I still think that it is still worth showing.

Semester 1 Final: Photo Emulation

Semester 1 Digital Portfolio

Project 4: Basic Photoshop

Shallow Depth of Field (wide open aperture)

Deep Depth of View (closed down aperture)

Freeze Motion (fast shutter speed)

Motion Blur (slow shutter speed)