Photography 17/9

Nothing really to report for the week just been, I took a time out and spent most of the week off trying to de-stress, and completing my final proposals. However, I did spend more time trying to tweak my digital pinhole without much success IMO, I tried a jar lid with a similar size pinhole, but less thickness and had similar results. Im not ready to give up just yet though.

This photo shows the big drawback to using a dslr for pinhole work. All those black marks are dust on my sensor, so I had to purchase a sensor cleaning kit lol. But hey, at least I learnt how to clean the sensor by myself.

Professional Practices 17/9

Mid semester break over and done. Dylan has made contact with the person he is asking about exhibition locations, so we will get a report on that on weds. Originally for my website, I had chosen SmugMug as my web builder of choice, however during my digital software purchasing, I discovered that sometime in the past I had bought a bundle of software that included a web designer program.

Needless to say, it was a pleasant surprise and Ive found it pretty easy to use so far. Its not going to take me much longer to finish a website that Im happy with.

Animation 5/9

Time for Harmony! I have been waiting for this all semester. We were shown how to trasnfer our animatic from Storyboard to Harmony. One thing that caught me out was that each camera angle/shot created its own project folder. My previous animation was all one project, and I hit the frame limit in Harmony. The way we did it this time makes sense to me now as to how people can create proper full length animations using the software.

Im really happy with my animatic mark, and I got some really good feedback on how to improve what I had done. First thing I fixed was the dragons laugh, I changed to from a  deep human laugh to a hippo grunting, which funnily enough sounded enough like a beast laughing. I also had to rearrange my shots because I didnt have them grouped by camera angle, but that was easily enough done. The next part wont be hard at all, it will just take time.

Photography 6/9

Today I tested out my photogram stencil idea, and didnt have clear results.

 





I wasnt the only person having these results, and after a frustating day, Sarina talked to Chris and we discovered our technique was faulty. I will try again next time Im there and fingers crossed Ill nail it next time in terms of clarity and evenness.

On Weds, Leigh mentioned about using a digital camera as a pinhole, so I did some research online and discovered how to convert a cap into a pinhole "lense". The down side that I have noticed so far is a very narrow field of view, and the focus is fuzzier than an analog pinhole camera. The upsides however are no reloading paper for each shot, large photos, colour!, no worrying about light leakage, and extremely quick shutter speeds.

3 seconds

2 seconds

1 second

I wonder if there is a camera setting that I can play with to help with the sharpness. Failing that, I can always use Lightroom/Photoshop to adjust the photos. Thanks to Leighs suggestion, I now have another option that Im interested in for my project.

Professional Practices 5/9

As of today, we are officially off the Think and Create committees, and on to our own events. The class exhibition caught my attention from the get go, because I need experience with organising/running an event of this type. I do need to make sure I dont get railroaded however, and make sure everyone in the group gets heard but I think I can manage it. It is going to be good to actually have some involvement now, unlike the previous committee with too many people. This exhibition is gonna be awesome! *fingers crossed*

Photography 30/8

Proposal presentation day! I feel ok with my presentation but as with all of them, I still feel like I could have done better. On the plus side now I am solidified towards a a goal instead of having to come up with a concept so that should make the next phase easier. Sticking to my timeline is going to be the hardest part, Im definitely a "sporadic burst of work" type of student lol. As long as I dont end up backed up and scrambling in the last few weeks, I shall call it a success.

Professional Practices 29/8

Todays problem solving was creating the worst exhibition we could think of, individually and then collated into groups.Leigh, Aaron E and myself managed to win best "worst" ideas. I really need to finish my CV, but I am having problems with the fact that my work experience is not in the art industry. This makes filling in the skills section tricky. I really want to start my website, but due to Smugmug having a 1 month trial system, Im holding off until after the 14th so that when I hand it in, I dont have to pay to have the website up. Im definitely keen on the solo showcase option for our class moving forward, its a bit more varied in terms of experience options for everyone.