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 ...

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. 

 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...

"Organic Growth" By: Kort Woycheshin For the diptych, I used a Sony A7IV, 85mm f1.8 lens, and a tripod to take these photos. These photos are located in a small wetland near the university that gave for very interesting organic growth. I wanted to respond to "I/You" by placing myself in the field similar to a tree and to resemble the growing stages of my life that I am currently going through. The sun was shining through another section of trees which gave the tree a very pleasing glow to it and I wanted to juxtapose that by wearing all black. I wanted both of these photos to be centre framed to try and give the viewer a sense of similarity and belonging when viewing the photos side by side. The contrast between these two images is meant to show growth happens in different ways and at different stages.