Some photos

I took during my Summer break in July in New Mexico:




The rooftop decorum of the famous Lensic Theatre in {Historic Downtown} Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since its construction in 1931, its condition slowly deteriorated. In early 2001, reconstruction finally ended and was reopened.
















This is the Saint Francis Cathedral down the street from the famous Lensic Theatre. Built in 1886 by Jean Baptiste Lamy, the left tower is actually one row of bricks higher than the right tower.

Some art:

Of mine, a picture from July, then some artwork from yesterday.


This one is a timed delay for around 4 seconds and my subject {Stepsister} spun her arm while holding a sparkler.










Yup, Master Chief in Bic pen! Just finished it last night. I just had to put this up because I'm so jealous of my skills.















Sample-series of my art:

Awesome photographer

One of my favorite photographers is Jussi James. I actually know this woman, and she is crazy-awesome-cool, and she is pretty much my connection to a lot of concerts. One of my favorite concerts she brought me and my friend and my stepsister to was VirginFest in Vancouver, B.C. last May. She gets invited to all of these different concerts, and she's not afraid to get right in with the moshpits to get some good shots.

Here are some examples of her work: {from her website (and the last image was sent to me by her): http://jussijames.buzznet.com/user/}


Bert McCracken, lead singer for The Used; Taste of Chaos concert, Seattle, WA

















Tim McIlrath ,lead singer of Rise Against; VirginFest concert, Vancouver, B.C.


















Robbie "Cheeze" Negrin, guitar player of The Classic Crime; secret showing Bellingham, WA
















Matt MacDonald, lead singer for The Classic Crime; {see above}





You should go look up The Classic Crime, an awesome "local" band who say they're from Seattle when on tour, but they're actually from Bellingham. Support your local bands and check them out!

What I've Learned:

Basically, every camera is just an extension of the original 'dark room' design. There's some kind of photosensitive paper or other device {such as CCD} to capture light that is directed to the device by use of shutter and aperture {pinhole}. Any other camera, whether it be manual or digital has all of these basic features.

What I've Learned:

Basically, every camera is just an extension of the original 'dark room' design. There's some kind of photosensitive paper or other device {such as CCD} to capture light that is directed to the device by use of shutter and aperture {pinhole}.

Building a Pin Hole Camera

So far my group and I have completely made our pin hole camera from a Quaker oatmeal 'can'. For pictures on the process, check out . Also, once our experimental pictures using this camera are developed, then we will post them on our blogs. Hopefully, they will all have developed over the weekend and are actually visible, because, some of our experiments with exposure time should produce some cool frames.


Here is our process in making our camera:

Materials:
*Can or box to use as dark box {we used Quaker oatmeal can}
*Someway to make this light-tight, include black construction paper, black (spray) paint, and tin foil.
*A place that is void of white light to transfer photopaper to and from the camera {and develope the film later}. So that you aren't operating total darkness, you can use a red light that won't tamper with the paper.
*Photopaper
*Appropriate chemicals to expose the pictures
*Some kind of shutter to let light in for allotted amount of time. Can be a cardboard flap, as long as it can be made light-tight.
*Subject to capture on film. Generally still objects when experimenting with lighting and exposure times. As you progress in exposure times and all that, experiment with moving the subject around,

First of all, this whole assignment about making a pin hole camera in digital studios was to help the class when looking at more complicated cameras. Basically, every camera is just a more complicated version of a shutter, a pin hole for letting light in, a light-tight box, and a image capturing device {ranging from photo paper to digital intake}.



Note:
When light enters the dark box, the image on the outside of the hole reverses or mirrors on two lines: the horizontal, and the vertical. This means that whatever you take a picture of, it will be recorded onto the photopaper backwards and upside down, so any words will be backwards.


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To reproduce this simple design, my group and I used a Quaker oatmeal 'can' to act as the box. To make it light-tight, we spray painted the inside and the lid of the can with black paint. Using a pin, we punctured the bottom of the can to be used as the pin hole to let light in. We used the bottom for the hole, because the lid of the can will be where the photopaper will be held to 'absorb' light. Tin foil and duct tape was used to further light-tight the can.

Spray paint the inside black so no reflections 'dance around' in the box when taking a picture:















Here's our group's pinhole {with shutter held open}:



After creating this behemoth of a camera, we transfered photopaper into the lid using a Dark Bag {light-tight bag with zippers and arm folds to keep light out}. Taking it outside, we found a subject to try and capture and opened the shutter for the allotted times. Because we were trying to figure out the exposure time, we tested using 8 min, 6 min, and 2 min exposures. Now, we wait over the weekend until Mr. Hiller can process the paper. Also, when you are recreating this, keep the camera very still.


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Apparently over the weekend, Mr. Hiller stayed up until 3 am working on the exposures and testing the camera designs. There is a design "flaw" in our Quaker camera: The light coming through the pinhole wasn't reaching the paper. This could be from the length of the Quaker can, because it's really long comparative to the other cameras in the class. My group will have to redesign the structure so that the light coming through the pinhole will actually land on the photopaper and develope into pictures. We'll probably have to move the position of the paper forward. That, we'll debate on how we'll accomplish this in our group. Later...

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For those of you who are going to be building a pin hole camera in the near future and are reading this, make sure you build it appropriately. That is, make sure that the light from the hole actually lands on the photopaper; don't make the box too long(!)

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Last Friday my group met and talked about the change in design. Apparently, we are going to cut a hole in the side and then load the paper on the opposite side, so that light can actually reach the paper without having to be exposed for 30min+.

More photo stuff:

What we want to learn in class:

How to become a good photographer in every aspect {from set up to digital manipulation}


Essential:

How to setup, take, and manipulate a quality and interesting image.

Digital Photography

What I want to learn:

* How to set up a picture
* Edit a picture to give it a certain 'look'
* Use different camera settings
* Use filters on pictures


Did today:

* Set up Gmail
* Set up Blogger