Photosession

Last week we divided into groups and took pictures both outside and inside. We worked in different light and the main thing was to take portrait pictures of your team mates. After taking around 100 pictures it´s hard to choose, but here is two of them.

This is a picture of Andreas taken outside our school. I think the blue sky highlightes the color in his eyes and all in all it´s a happy photo. It makes you smile.

In this photo I managed to capture the light in Anne-Lenes eyes. It is also taken outside in the snow so the light is really bright, but in this picture I just think it made her stand more out since the background is blurry and she´s clear.

Magic!

In class today we worked with photoshop. We learned how to use "Spot healing brush tool", "Dodge tool" and "Burn tool".

- "Spot healing tool" - This is a magic tool in photohop, you can use it to erase spots and molls and other marks to make a nice and smooth surface.

- "Dodge tool" - This tool is used to make the surface lighter.

- "Burn tool" - This tool is used to make the surface darker.

As you can see I´ve used all these tools on this halloween picture. Works magic!

Evaluation - 1. term

In this subject the first term has just flown by. I feel really motivated to work with photographing and prints. To get something creative out of a person you have to inspire them, and in this subject I feel very inspired.

I´ve learned a lot this year, for instance how to use my camera properly. I would like to learn more about the special effects on my camera though, but all in good time. I´ve also learned to handle photoshop in a better way than I used to. I´ve never had a big interest for it, but now I think it´s growing.

I´ve also grown used to blogging now, all though it took me some time. There´s always a risk that something goes wrong or gets deleted when we use computers, that scares me. But I mostly think it´s a pretty good way to hand in all the assignments, then it´s all gathered there and I can also see what my fellow students have done.

I think the "5 category" assignments are great, they´ve made me think about photographing all the time, at least when I´m outside. I also like the freedom the assignment give us to be creative, not all subjects gives us that.

During the first term we´ve been to many exhibitions. The most interesting thing about these are that we get to see how different other people see things. We all see it different, so then it´s obvious that not everyone likes everything.

"At eye level" by Mette Tronvoll

15. Desember my photo group took the long trip out to Rogaland Kunstmuseum. Mette Tronvoll had an exhibition there called "At eye level". The guide told us that Mette Tronvoll herself joined when they hung up the pictures. The picture above shows the title of her display very well. They were places upon the wall at eye level. If the persons on the pictures stood next to them the hight would match. But many of them were bigger than a normal sized human being.

Mette Tronvoll wanted us to see the persons the same was she did, at eye level.

 

The photos were placed on the walls in different series. Some were of her friends and some were of people from other countries. In some of them she captured parts of the personality with just one picture.

"Ansikt" by Ingeborg Skrudland

"Ansikt" is an exhibition by Ingeborg Skrudland. One early Saturday morning my photo group and I traveled to Jæren Hotell, Bryne. Ingeborg Skrudland herself gave us the tour, which was really great cause then we got to know what she´d thought when she took all these pictures.

Ingeborg Skrudland is a freelance photographer, and at Jæren we didn´t only get to see her exhibition, but also some of her freelance work. She has taken the photos of the cows that decorates some of the rooms at Jæren Hotell.

I must say, of all the exhibitions I´ve been to, this was one of my favorites. She called it "Ansikt" which means face. Her photos were of people, some were very natural, but many of them stood out. She said that she liked people who tried to be different, someone who could colorize the entire photo without doing anything.

It was a really surprising display, she had actually decorated an empty pool at the hotel with her photos. I thought it was weird at first when they told me it was in a pool, but it kind of worked really well. The room was so bright that it made all the pictures stand even more out.

There was a lot of variations in her display. The photos were taken
from different angles, different places, different people, and both close and far away. Even though she called the whole collection "Ansikt" (face), she also had pictures of fruits, berries, eggs and other common things.

After the exhibition, we all went for a stroll in the park in Bryne with our cameras. The sun was up and we just went crazy. I had to work so I took the train, but the rest of the group went to another exhibition at Bryne Mølle. Herborg Kverneland had a display of calligraphy which is known to the class already. We learned to write calligraphy last year. 

All in all this Saturday was well spent, it´s always nice to see other peoples perspective.

Pictures will be coming soon!

My best photo - so far

The time has come again to pick my best photo so far, I actually didn´t have a real idea of which one to pick, but I ended up with this one.

If you want to read more about this photo you can go further down. I chose this one because I find it very eye catching. The jewelry makes does enough for the shiny part and close up you can even see the lines in my hand.

5 categories

A few weeks ago we got 5 new categories to guide us on the camerafront, they were:

- Own choice - nature
- Hands
- Light
- Black/white
- Weather

Once again our task was to pick out ten different photos, so here we go:

Own choice:

These two pictures I took from my own freedom. I don´t believe there´s a general purpose behind them, but I figured I could put them both under my own category; nature.

- original





This was actually the first photo I took with my new cellphone, it´s a Nokia E71 with a 3,2 mp camera. It´s taken in the summer and on the side you can see a small version og the original photo. I´ve cropped this photo and had a little fun with it in photoshop. When this lucky shot was captured it was bright sunlight outside and the butterfly flew away right after. For me summer looks exactly like this photo, at least the original.
Camera - Cellphone Nokia E71 3,2 mp.



































Sometimes when I´m out for a walk right before it gets dark there´s an incredible light, and when you look at the trees around they look entirely black, that´s what I´ve tried to catch in this one. I stood under the tree and took the picture from underneath facing the sky. One thing I learned though is that you have to be a really good photographer to catch that blue and mysterious winter light, and you got to know your camera.
Camera - Nikon D40.

Hands:

I got two photos in this category, but I also have a third one with two categories.



































This is my hand. The composition is slightly to the left side, but in my eyes that made the photo better. The room it´s taken in is lightened up by a lamp consisting 3 light bulbs. I have not fixed a lot on this picture, but I made the colors a bit weaker to get an antique feeling that fits with the jewelry I´m holding.
Camera - Nikon D40.





















- Original















This is not one of my favorite photos, it´s not sharp enough. At first it was just a joke, me and my friends were bored when we waited for the bus, but after looking at it for a while I kind of liked it. Despite the dark colors it sends out a lot of positive energy. It´s taken on a pretty grey day, but the light was good. What I´ve learned from this photo though, is that photos are fun, and it´s posible to share it with other people and get internal memories.
Camera - Cellphone Nokia E71 3,2 mp.

Hands and light:

This picture fits into two different categories, so I chose to place it in both.





























It´s taken in front of a poster behind my lamp in my room. I´ve always been facinated by old photos, so I chose to use the sepia effect. If you take a good look at the hand you can see major contrastes the lightest area is almost plane white and the darkest area is almost pitchblack. The lamp in the photo is the only thing that lights up the room, which is probably why it´s not as sharp as it could´ve been, but it works with the sepia effect.
Camera - Nikon D40.

Light and weather:

These two pictures fits in two different categories as well, both light and weather.






















- Original













I live on the top of a mountain, and every sunny morning I´ve always wanted to capture the sun rising. One morning I finally got my camera and did it. The sunlight spreads throughout the picture and reflects in the water. I edited away some of the redish light on the mountains, which made the photo better in my opinion. The biggest thing I learned is that sometimes it´s worth getting out of bed early.
Camera - Nikon D40.




























After a long day the sun goes down, this photo is taken from the bus window out on Forus. It was one of those spontanious captures. I was really facinated by the sky and the building areas, the light made all the buildings and other stuff look so much darker, and the clouds stood in such a big contrast to the sky. Since the photo is taken with my cellphone, it´s not the greatest, but I still like the image, it´s sort of a modern sunset.
Camera - Cellphone Nokia E71 3,2 mp.

Black and white:

I have one picture in only black and white, but as you can see above I´ve used this effect together with colors in some of the other photos.



































I´m kind of a messy person, but this week I managed to find "art" between the mess. On my floot there was a bunch of cd´s and some earings lying around, so I put my camera on the floor and pushed the off button, not really knowing what the turnout would be, in my opinion it was a lucky shot. The reflections in the cd´s plays with the light from the lamp and that´s what makes the whole picture worth watching.
Camera - Nikon D40.

Weather:

The two photos I have under this category is very different from each other, one is from the summer, and one from now, autumn/winter.





















Lately we´ve had a lot of cold weather, and this weekend the ground started freezing up. I really like this picture because it looks like autumn covered in winter. The colors were really clear and you can see the frost glimmer. I captured this image on a grey sunday and I learned that a lot of things are prettier close up, all though not everything. By the way if you click on the photo it will get clearer than it is here.

Camera - Nikon D40.
























There´s some pictures that you might feel you´ve seen before, like the traditional picture of a railroad, sometimes with a lonely person walking towards the distant end of it. This summer I was going for a walk and I saw the picture from a different view. A more happy and sunny picture. I have played a little with the black/white effect in photoshop, to make a bigger contrast. The things I´ve learned might be that there´s always different ways to look at a photo, different sides.

Camera - Cellphone Sony Ericsson, can´t remember mp on the camera.