Alternative Photography Day 4: Portraiture: Light painting: Cyanotypes: Silver Gelatin prints

 We spent the morning learning how to make digital prints. We each went through the editing process of picking a picture we took the before and changing them to black and white. We also had some fun with flowers and portraiture

We next found a dark space in the locker rooms and learned about light painting. By changing our Shutter speed  and moving light sources around we were able to create interesting marks and lines in images.  

The spent the afternoon making cyanotypes.  A form of printmaking using the UV of the sun. When we done with that we took the prints we made earlier that day and developed them in the dark room.

I learned if the don’t invert your digital photo during the editing process than the black and whites in the prints will be switched when it comes time for the developing process.

I liked the process of developing my prints. I thought it was really cool see the picture form when the paper got submerged in the bleach. And also the trial and error aspects too, see if you need more light or less time. And making those small changes and seeing the big difference they have on photo being developed.

Alternative Photography Day 3: Portrait lighting: Silver Gelatin: Things Developing

 Today in photography we started the day with having 5 minutes each to take photos with portrait lighting alone.

We also took some photos around campus. after that we talked about different portrait lighting techniques and how to set them up and when/why we would use them.

 

 Lastly, we went into the dark room and used our negatives to create photos using the silver gelatin process (black and white). We learned how to use photography paper and how to develop the photos. Some people also made photograms using the same process.  

Alternative Photography Day 2: Meredith: Patterns : Shadows: Negatives: Cyanotypes

 Today we visited mill falls in meredith, NH. we walked around the town, taking pictures wherever we found of rhythm and patterns, shadows, and reflections. We had a whole lot of fun exploring the shops in that area, photographing everything from rows of candy in the candy shop to the thin ice atop the water by the town docks. 

Around 1130, we returned back to campus for lunch, and reconvened again at 1230. We spent the afternoon creating negatives through photoshop with the photos that we took earlier in the day. Despite some faulty printer troubles, we were able to complete the process of making a cyanotype with one of our photographs before time was up for the day. 

Learning the process of creating cyanotypes was especially interesting. It was very cool to see how the sun changes the colors of the cyanotype liquid on the paper, and finishing up by cleaning the papers and of course, completing the chemical process with hydrogen peroxide; which turned the cyanotypes that beautiful dark blue before our eyes. hopefully tomorrow morning we will have better luck with the printer and so with completing the remainder of our cyanotypes! 

Alternative Photography Day 1: Perspective: Turf: Bristol

 Photography Day 1

By Ryan Carey

 When we first got to project week, on the first day we did a recap of what we would be doing for the week. We learned about how to take pictures and rules to follow while we were taking pictures. Then, we did an activity on the turf, where we used forced perspective to make people look smaller than

they actually are by standing far away from the camera. After that activity we came in and learned about photoshop. After lunch, we went to downtown Bristol and took pictures along the road, downtown and the river.

Today I learned about the 9 compositions of photography. Also, I learned how to incorporate them while taking pictures. I learned more editing techniques while using Adobe Bridge. We also learned as a group how to use digital technology. Also, we learned how to get pictures from our camera to the computer in a very fast time.

I liked getting off campus and taking pictures while it was very good nice out. I really liked how we could walk around Bristol and just take pictures and not have to do a lot of work for it. When we were able to walk along the river and get a very good view. Also, I liked when we were able to walk around on our own and get very different perspective on many different objects.