This proved to be a fun project and it was great to see how the student interpreted the process, especially as we were ending a more traditional photographic section. Until this point my students were becoming perfectionists, trying to obtain the perfect edit/print. I really liked how they struggled with the less than perfect transfers. We used the Golden Paints instructional videos as a starting point and then experimented using a variety of substrate material, with paper proving the most successful surface. However, the possibilities are endless and the students have learned to be more open to this and it starts the conversation on matching intended vision to working method and ultimately the final presentation.
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This is work that students submitted to the Belmont HS Art Show - Work is being prepped now and more exciting news to follow!
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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
A potpourri of interests here. Our first assignment of the year was a loose exercise, and the students did not let me down. Meant to get them out with their cameras again after the long summer, they were asked to just make, allowing this first set of images to serve as a guide for the next project.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
I start the Foundations in Photography class by demystifying the camera. It is not the magic box that makes you great photographs. It is a tool. The response from students is a giggle and a "Mr. Boysen, you are crazy".
"This is a hammer, nothing more"
"What?", they say...
Repeat after me... "This is my hammer. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My hammer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my hammer is useless".............
This series is their exploration while learning to use a hammer...
This Digi Photo/Digi Art class is thinking about photography as communication,,, in a very loose way. Not in the traditional journalistic or documentary sense, instead starting at the base level as we begin to think about concept. As always, my assignments are open to interpretation and I fully expect students to define it differently than I might.
This 1/4 we experimented with phone cameras, trying to push them beyond the selfie or snapshot. The images were also used to learn the editing software Adobe Photoshop.
