Assignment 7

This was a very fun assignment and it was the first time I tried to make a stop motion animation. It is difficult to find a really good topic or subject, and I don’t think mine is that great but it was the best I could find in this short time.

I used a large green piece of ice and I tried to take a picture every 2-3 minutes during the approx. 3h while it melted. I ended up with 130 pictures, and I  made de 38 seconds video (with credits and title).

The song I used is J. Butterfly by Maurah, and I tried to synchronize the pictures with the song as much as possible.

For taking the pictures I used a tripod and I used a wireless shutter to make sure the camera won’t move. For all the pictures I used the same settings: aperture f5.4 but I used an automatic shutter speed to make sure more or less that the pictures would have the same amount of light. However because I didn’t do this in a studio I couldn’t have complete control over the amount of light; and because the Ice melted in more than 3 hours the light changes a bit in each picture. I tried to use the flash to have the same amount of light, but there is still a visible influence from the sunlight.

Assignment 6

Part A

      I took this picture of the Old Port during "Montreal en lumiere" and I changed the skating rink with water from a different picture I took of a sunset over water. I also added a huge moon and the portrait [from assignment 5] we had to include in one of the edited pictures.

 In this picture I made the sky out of water, I added the Eiffel Tower in Montreal and I made a white tunnel to nowhere.













Jerry Uelsmann

       Jerry Uelsmann was born in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan and almost all his life revolved around photography. What was interesting about Jerry Uelsmann was that he saw photography different than most other people. He thought about it as a different world, more exactly a  new world seen through his eyes. His passion for photography appeared during highschool. After finishing school he worked as a photography teacher.
          His photographic work consistes mostly of surreaklist imagery, formed with more then one negative. At the time when he worked all the work was done in the darkroom, and it was very difficult not to distroy the image. Today it is a lot easier with the all the techology, and with the help of photoshop people can do something similiar a lot quicker.






Wols

     

        Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze). was a german photographer and painter who was born in 1913,  in a wealthy family. However he lived most of his life in Paris, and later during the war he tried to US but with no succes.
He is mostly known for his pictures and paintings that are described as abstract art. As a photographer he's main team was stains, and he had a lot of pictures taken in kitchens. He modified those pictures in a dark room to make them look strange. But because this was very early, photography was not very advanced so it was very difficult to edit pictures. However he managed to creade is pictures in such a maner that they appeared to have a textural quality.




Part B:  Diptychs

 

Edit:  I decided to upload a panoramic picture too.

This is the view from my balcony.