Tangrams and Photographic Film.
I just finished Day Two of the Summer
session at Shoreline Community College and now I gotta go buy some
stuff. I'm currently in three classes (tested out of the basic “How
to use a Mac” class). I have 2D Design, Photography and in four
weeks (after some Mac noobs finish learning how to point and click)
I'll have a class on preparing graphics for print. I almost tested
out of that class too but missed it by a couple of questions so I'll
just suffer through a description of the difference between 8-bit
color and 16 or 24 bit color.
In 2D Design, the first assignment
involves creating an image using tangrams. I need an X-Acto knife, a
straight edge and a felt tip pen. I've been studying tangrams (both
the game and the art people do with them). Not sure what I'm going to
do for my tangrams but it probably won't be of a NSFW nature. I was
thinking of doing something with filmmaking or music. The main point
is to learn how to cut straight lines, be creative and learn the
process for presenting portfolio pieces for critique and a grade.
Photography looks to be interesting
with the first half of the class using film and darkroom techniques
before moving on to digital cameras. I have to buy some photographic
paper so I can do some direct exposure art photographs. I'm thinking
of doing something with tools as I have a lot of them. The idea of
building up something through multiple exposures and creative masking
is interesting.
I was able to borrow Tamara's Canon
film camera (EOS Rebel XSn) for the other film projects. There's
still some ASA800 film in the camera from a while ago. The camera
will take the Canon EF lenses (and the M42 lenses with the EF
adapters) that I already have so I'm looking forward to playing
around with this. All of the projects use Black and White film so I
won't have to worry about the color temperature of the film (or
setting a while balance). I have to see if I need to pull out a light
meter and tape measure to get my exposure and focus correct. I may
and try to do some forced perspective pictures or something with
ultra long exposures at night. We also get to learn how to develop
our own film. So stinky chemicals here I come.