Silk Screening

My final alternative process for this assignment is silk screening. The objective was to silk screen something marketable. After much consideration and a few failed attempts at choosing a picture to posterize on photoshop; i went with the "cliche" of a picture of the Eiffel Tower to print on a pillowcase. I took this picture on a trip to Paris last March, and it is one of my favourite photos. 

Original Image

Posterized Image

The next step in the silk screen process was to transfer the picture of the Eiffel Tower onto a screen and then expose it to light. From here I had to wash away the emulsion and use fabric paint to print the image onto the pillowcase. The end result is something I am quite happy with. 

Silk Screen

Final Product

Breaking The Rules

This assignment is all about breaking the rules, the rules of photography. I found it especially challenging to simply forget all the compositional elements of photography I have been using to take pictures all semester. This first photo is breaking the rules of simplicity. A simplistic picture with good composition would have the pink flower as the main focus with the stone as the only background. Instead the background of this image is cluttered with other plants and flowers, as well as a ziploc bag. 

1/40 f5.6

The second picture breaks the rules of rule of positioning. The dog is placed past the rule of thirds position with its tail stretching through the picture. The dog's head is also cut out of the photo. There is also a bit of asymmetrical balance from the case in the top left corner of the picture, however it is too high to balance the power of the image.

1/200 f4.5

  This final picture breaks the compositional rule of lines. Lines are supposed to bring your eye through the photo, however this picture distracts the eye instead. There are many opposing angles and bars throughout the picture that make it hard to decipher a clear path through the image.                          

1/40 f5

Gel Medium Transfer

My second alternative process assignment is a gel-meduim transfer image of the flowers in OT's attrium. I took the picture with a Nikon D3100 digital camera and then proceeded the apply the gel medium to the printed photo.  I added acrylic paint to the image over the green and red parts of the flowers, then applied additional coats of the gel-medium. Once I had applied about thirty coats of the gel-medium and it dried, I put the image into a  tub of water and peeled off the back paper; leaving just the gel-medium picture.

Gel-Medium Transfer

Photo Journalism

During our class field trip to the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), we were assigned the task of taking a picture that could be used as the cover photo for the Toronto Star. To do this we had to become "photojournalists". I was finally able to find this photo after walking around for what seemed liked forever trying to find the perfect shot.

f.10 1/30



This picture is of a trash container and a recycling bin in Grange Park. While Cora and I walked along the park's main path, I noticed that people who walked into the park weren't there to admire the scenery or go to the playground; they were just there to throw away their garbage. These containers were being filled with fast food waste and paper. Although only one of the containers (the blue one) was a recycling bin, no one seemed to care when they stuffed their leftover McDonald's french fries into it, and their paper waste into the garbage bin. I felt that this would make a good newspaper cover photo for an article concerning the environment and the affect Toronto habitants are having on it through their wastefulness.