Single Shot Video Project

Here's the link to my video on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyharr/8092140562/in/photostream

Hunter

Hunter- shot with a 4x5 view camera

More View Camera Photos

These are the most recent view camera photos I took for class. We had to use tilt and swing of the front standard to shift the plane of focus vertically and horizontally along an access not parallel to the camera.

The Moving Image: Narrative Sequence

First View Camera Assignment- Perspective

Here are the prints I made for the first View Camera assignment. It was about perspective control and correcting the converging vertical lines in photographs by manipulating the view camera.

Stop Motion Video Project

My first project in my video class this semester.

Cinemagraph Attempt

A new technique I'm learning for my internship this summer called a cinemagraph! Basically a still image with one subtle part that moves. I know this one is a bit pixely and jerky... but it's a start! Kinda awesome! 

The Book is Done!

In my book arts class, we worked on one project for the whole semester. We just finished it today. This is the cover of the book! The pattern is designed by Ali from my group. I chose the typeface.

This is my title page and press mark design. 

This is my final spread! The type is printed from a polymer plate. The tree and yellow leaves are cut from linoleum. The blue leaves are printed with a rubber stamp. 

Final Book Arts Spread

I just finished printing and cutting my spread today in Book Arts. This is what my final spread looks like. We have one more run on the letterpress to do on Friday... then next week we are binding our 16 editions.

HDR... the "right" way

So, in class this semester we learned how to use HDR (high dynamic range) to our advantage in photographs. For a few photographs in the "changing city" series I did this week, I wanted to try this new technique. It's composed of three different images of different exposures and I used vector masks to hide what I didn't want in each layer. I did like how I was able to get detail in both the shadows under the bridge and in the sky behind the bridge, which was a problem I faced in some of the single- exposure photographs.

The Changing City

this is the photo I printed for class

For this assignment, I wanted to depict the altered cityscape of downtown Kansas City. I've noticed that, especially in the more deteriorated parts, there is a lot of evidence of change throughout the city. Whether it be something small, such as graffiti, new paint, or a cluttered alleyway, or something larger, like the removal of an entire building, many aspects of the city change over time. I wanted to show the evidence of these changes in this series.

Opening Weekend at Kauffman Stadium

For this week's PHMD 222 assignment, I wanted to capture the spirit of opening day at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. Here are a few of the photographs from the series. The rest will be on my Flickr!

First Stitching Attempt

I've been working a little bit with a new technique I learned- stitching. This is my first attempt at putting together multiple photos (digitally anyway) to make one image. It's definitely got the fish-eye effect going on, but I thought it was pretty interesting and decided to post it anyway!

Man versus Nature

This is the photograph I plan to turn in tomorrow for this week's photography assignment. I wanted to portray the constant relationship between man-made and natural elements of our landscape. Sometimes, the human presence disrupts the natural landscape entirely and other times, the natural landscape overtakes the unnatural.

Even though trees are a natural part of the landscape, the human-planned placement of these trees illustrates the effect of human presence on the natural scene. 

Doors of Kansas City

(this is the photograph I chose to print for class)

For the last assignment in PHMD 222, I did a project on the doors of downtown Kansas City. I've always been intrigued by their uniqueness and the way they add character to each of their buildings, so I thought this would be an interesting concept to capture through photographs.

Trip to Bristol

Since I was fortunate enough to get to travel to Bristol, Tennessee two weekends ago to see my family, I also had the chance to take tons of photos (enough for my last two assignments). Here are the two that I have printed in the past couple of weeks from my weekend in Tennessee. The others are on my Flickr.

Low Key

Shooting Assignment 10- Bristol Landscapes

High Key Photo Assignment

Here's the photo I printed for the High Key assignment due this week. The rest are on flickr!

A Few More Photos

Monochrome

Color Scheme- complimentary 

Color Scheme- triadic

For the past two weeks, we've been working with color. Last week we did an assignment called saturated monochrome. Everything in the frame had to be one color (like the gray assignment). This week we did color schemes. We had to include complimentary color schemes, analogous color schemes, and triadic color schemes.

Colorful Grey

This weeks photo assignment was called colorful grey... We had to take photos of completely grey color. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be!  This is the one I chose to print- it's of the pedestrian walkway below the 12th street bridge downtown. I liked it because I thought it showed a few different variations on the "color" grey. The rest of my photos are posted to my flickr photo stream! 

A break-through on my page layout... finally

I think that I've finally come up with a design that I'm happy with for my spread in the book. It's still the same poem, just a little bit of a different take on the tree than the last time. All of the text (and maybe some of the leaves) will be printed with polymer plates. I'm going to make a linoleum stamp for the branches and the rest of the leaves. Could be time consuming, but I'm thinking it will look nice! 

Colorful Light Photos

This is the photo I decided to print and mat for class... I think it was the best photo that fit the assignment. The rest are posted to my Flickr stream.

Oh yeah and...

I just loaded my second assignment from PHMD 222 onto flickr! This time we had to take photos of as many different sources of artificial light as we could find. The objective was to help us see the difference in color of the different light sources so we can use them correctly (or avoid them completely) in future assignments.

Layout Revisions

After Monday's studio, I felt like I had a lot of work to do on these layouts for today's class. The professor seemed to like the ones with the big leaves the best, but I still wanted to try more with the full tree (since it was my original idea). I think these are even closer to where they need to be, but they definitely still need some work. Hopefully I'll get more helpful ideas from class today.

One more layout...

Here's another layout that's a little bit different. It still sticks with the tree theme, but I tried a different type of tree for my illustration. Also, all of the text is on one side instead of split between the two. I think it's my least favorite so far, but it gives me one more option to pursue! 

Another Layout

Here's another one! Same poem, different idea.

First Layout Attempt

This is my first layout attempt... because most of my class are graphic design majors, I was pretty sure that I had gotten myself in a little over my head this semester. I had to teach myself how to use InDesign. I'm still trying to work on learning the basics and I'm sure I'm doing things in very roundabout ways. But this is my first good attempt at incorporating a sketch into the layout with the text! I'm actually pretty proud! 

Transient by Faded Pages Press

My group in book arts decided to use memory as our subject for our book. It's going to be called Transient and our press company's name is Faded Pages Press. For my spread, I decided to use the poem "Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth. I think it really captures the transient aspects of memory.
Here's the excerpt I decided to use:

"These beauteous forms,


Through a long absence, have not been to me


As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:


But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din


Of towns and cities, I have owed to them


In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,


Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;


And passing even into my purer mind,


With tranquil restoration: — feelings too

Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,


As have no slight or trivial influence

On that best portion of a good man's life,


His little, nameless, unremembered, acts


Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,


To them I may have owed another gift,


Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,


In which the burthen of the mystery,


In which the heavy and the weary weight

Of all this unintelligible world,

Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood,


In which the affections gently lead us on, —


Until, the breath of this corporeal frame


And even the motion of our human blood


Almost suspended, we are laid asleep


In body, and become a living soul:


While with an eye made quiet by the power


Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,


We see into the life of things.

In darkness and amid the many shapes


Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir


Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,


Have hung upon the beatings of my heart — 


How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee,


O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods,


How often has my spirit turned to thee!


And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,


With many recognitions dim and faint,


And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again:


While here I stand, not only with the sense


Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts


That in this moment there is life and food


For future years."