Monday, 6 February 2012

Self portrait

A picture is worth thousand words, this picture shows how a student is deep into his education, it is a form of motivation or a gesture that even though there is a pile of books I have to get through I am on it. I had no complications taking this self portrait although I agree that there were many other ideas some maybe better but the reason I chose this photo is to connect to every student especially Dawson's student, if you look closely at the books on the table you can read Dawson library. Camera timer gives 10 seconds before it takes a picture, I was only on the other end of the table so it was more then enough time to place my self and remove the object that I had placed on the spot I m sitting to not be out of focus. This picture is taken in one of the study rooms of the Dawson's library in day light, opened curtains. It is a pleasure to have a chance to display myself and send a message through a photo.

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Photogram

Being able to make a photogram is awesome, the experience is delightful. to be able to play with chemicals and see the result. As you can see in my photogram I have many meaningful objects such as the key on the top left, a pencil on the bottom and most commonly the maple leaf on the right top that represents Canada. First i places objects on a photographic paper and then flashed the light with my cellphone for few seconds, inserted the paper in a chemical called Developper for 1 minute and a half and then for 30 seconds in another chemical called fixer and finally in the chemical called the stopper
the reason why the pendant is not visible because it was not lying flast on the photographic paper it . and then rinsed the paper in water and let it dry in a dryer. If any of the steps were not followed carefully we would see many errors in my photogram. Such as the gray color or complete pitch black.
had layers designed under and the shade under the key are two coins (tooneys) one slightly on top of another (put on purpose). It is great to have known how this works.