Photography Studio 1

Ryan Reeves Vs Marcus Foligno  By: Aaron Levinsky/Star Tribune I want to discuss this photo as I think it really demonstrates that sports photography is an art form. Think of the luck that Aaron Levinsky would have to get a fight to break out right beside where he is perched and he had to have the right lens on a the perfect time which is crazy as so many sports photographer are using telephotos. This photo captures the perfect moment of a spirited hockey scrap against two of the toughest guys to play the game and it is beautiful. Even not as a huge sports fan (other then the Calgary Flames) this photo caught my eye. I've never seen a hockey photo shared all over the internet and on the front of every page for a week, it was insane.  It united hockey fans, photographers, and artists alike just based on the pure composition and timing that this photo displays. I am excited for the future of sports photos as I think more and more artistic photographers are going to get into the ...

The Photo Genius That Is Weegee Weegee (Usher Fellig) was born one day before me on June 12, 1899 102 years before me. His work is absolutely incredible and I can't believe how he took so many incredible photos with such unique style that is so dominate in mainstream photography today using photoshop but he did it all with the camera. His experimental distortion photos are some of my favourites I have discovered as they have such a unique beauty to them and I would absolutely love to learn how to do that all in camera or in the darkroom potentially. HIs street work is also facisnating with his approach on capturing events right as they happen by having a police radio in his car for his work .  Here are some of my favourite photos of Weegee's.  All photos and information from:  https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/weegee?all/all/all/all/17  

Self Portrait in the bath with wet hair and soft lighting By: Kort Woycheshin I wanted to discuss this photo more in depth as I discovered something really amazing when editing it in Lightroom. I shot this photo in uncompressed raw with a file size at about 66mb in one photo which is honestly insane but so nice when editing. I originally though black and white editing was boring, just up the contrast and you are good to go. Oh boy I was wrong.... The coolest thing I learned was about dealing with the colour sliders and how they were effected my skin tones when changing them. Red was predominantly my face and orange was the rest of my body. I found if upped the exposure of the reds you could soften the skin really beautifully and take a different approach to getting rid of blemishes compared to using a clone stamp or a gaussian blur to get rid of blemishes. Instantly when upping the red my pores became less pronounced and this gave a very classical Hollywood style beauty portrait look t...

  Bathtime Photographed: By Cody Robinson  This is the digital picture that we took prior to taking a picture with my film camera. The idea was to try and use the water as a barrier for sound, to show how men can scream and say everything about how they feel but it never gets passed that barrier. I think it's really impactful and vulnerable, and gives good insight onto how I feel about the topic.  This photo was very difficult to get as a hate being underwater and the feeling of water going into my nose is awful. 

 Contact Sheet This is one of my contact sheets for this final assignment and for this post I want to talk about the meaning of my piece and thought process going into this final project.  Men's mental health has always been an interesting topic to me being someone who has suffered throughout my life and has seen how detrimental men's mental health is in my family. The original idea was to explore the lineage between mental health and family and how certain things are passed on and some are not. I wanted to capture myself, my father and brother during an interview discussing some fairly heavy topics and photograph moments from this conversation fairly sporadically. My brother was unable to be apart of it due to time constraints which changed a the project narrative a bit but this did allow me to explore my Dad's mental health more as well as my own. So far I have a few favourite images that show uncomfortable moments, high contrast, emotions and more. I did my interview wit...

Exposures f11 2000 f8 2000 f5.6 2000 f5.6 1000 f5.6 500 5.6 250s (Perfectly exposed)  f5.6 125 f5.6 60 f3.5 60 f3.5 30 f3.5 15 This assignment was really interesting to me as it have me a new outlook on the exposure triangle. Last summer a photographer friend of mine gave me shit for not knowing the exposure triangle and how to use it. I then devoted quite a bit of my time understanding how it worked and the principles behind it. Once we did this assignment I had developed a huge new understanding of the exposure triangle and its effects to the point where I barely even need to think about it anymore. It's so useful to actually do this test showing how you can achieve plus and minus 5 exposures by tweaking things and how there are different ways to achieve this dependant on your needs. As a sports photographer outside of school knowing this by heart is unbelievably useful as I am so often using 4000/s shutter speed and often the lighting in places I am shooting is terrible and need...

 Some of my favourite shots all captured on the Fuji Film X-100v by Austin Knibb  Technical Assignment (behind the scenes) My thought process behind my photos in this project were a little bit different then typically what you would expect in a still life. In terms of objects I didn't have a lot of very colourful things/interesting things in my home as lot's of my items are camera gear and tech stuff that is very metal looking. To analyze the way colour modulates images I wanted to go downtown Lethbridge and use the buildings to test how different colours would react in film. Also being downtown gave me a nice grungy style that I appreciate with the dead planters and leaves all over the place.  Shooting the city was really exciting and interesting with film especially on the day we chose as It was very overcast and moody outside. I love how the detail looks in the final developed film, the grain in the buildings and the contrast is so different then digital noise. We went...