Thursday 12 June 2014

Photo Essay - the Real One - Visit to Barber





This is me pre-haircut. The hair was getting almost Rapunzel like. 
 


Dad is driving. Better keep his eyes on the road. Oh look there’s the fire station.
 
 Vincenzo’s Barber shop, the best quality barbershop for myself in all of
Bloor West Village.
 


 This is the barber shop's pole. Oddly enough I never see it spinning.



Vincenzo’s business hours.


This is the interior of the barber shop. Although small,
he is good at making magic in this place.

 
 
One of the barbershop chairs.  Old fashioned isn’t it. 
But old fashioned means good.  
 

 
Cash register at Vincenzo’s.
 
 

 $20 is the cost for a haircut at Vincenzo’s.

 
Me .  Post haircut. Handsome aren’t I.

 
The foods at the nearby Coffee Culture.  Good quality muffins.
A daily routine on a Saturday barber shop visit. is to get some food at the end .
 

Sunday 11 May 2014

photo essay



                                  This picture has a view from over head , It has proportion because of the big and small shoes.  There is also railing lines pointing to the shoes .

 
 
This picture is an example of a light and shadow. The dark parts of the tree and houses contrast with the setting sunset sky.
 
 

This is an example of pattern and texture of a tree bark. This maple tree is at the front of my house and it perches like a flag on the front lawn.


This picture is an example of contrast. The grass is all green but the dandelion stands out in a crowd. The dandelion is eye catching.



 
This picture is a Grand perspective piece.  It is an example of line where the wall runs towards the ball.    this is also an example of light and shadow. the light reflects off the brick.
 
This  is a close up photo of my right eye . This is a self portrait. It is an example of close up or zoom in. what can I say  I have an eye for detail . 
 
 
 
 
 Now this one is a humour shot.   It is a bird feeder  with a naughty  Squirrel  on it.  There is a frame around the bird feeder created by the tree branches .  There is also texture from the tree trunk and branches .
 


Wednesday 7 May 2014

camerons mighty composition


Ideas for Cameron's mighty composition essay

Art Class

·         People making gargoyles or just slacking off 

·         Paintings being done or getting started

·         Kiln for pottery when its ready

·         Teachers talking about the lesson

·         Windows letting in grand sunlight

·         Good perspective in the pottery room ( a magnificent view of the windows casting sunlight)

·         The paint bits that you peel off 

·         The colour that the water changes to when you get rid of waste paint.

Rose’s room 115 at lunch

·         Computers

·         Rose on her computer playing some word game

·         Adam and Hasuh talking

·         Table where people sit and talk about what’s new

·         Crevice where you can see the library through the window

·         Photos on the walls of roses students (and also myself)

·         The random spiked ornament hanging ominously on the ceiling  

·         3 Paper cranes dangling on the ceiling like a popcorn string

Taking TTC to school

Royal York Subway station billboards, escalator, people, guys working on the escalator, Gateway newsstand, walls and lights, subway car and platform, inside of the subway car

On the way – the signal lights, people on the subway, ads on the subway,  Kipling area from subway car view ,   newsstand  rear end ,  44 platform ,  44 bus route , 

On the bus  777 Kipling avenue ,  Kipling yards,  a factory which may deliver by train ,  and the MasterCard centre ,   the water tower,   the way towards humber college,  the bus stop at Birmingham   

Cafeteria at LCI

·          The vending machine in the cafeteria  

·         The spot in the cafeteria where they serve hamburgers

·         The spot in the cafeteria where the  today’s special is waiting

·         The table which is in front of the vending machine  providing a crystal clear view of the assorted drinks in the prized machine

·         Cheese burger (before I eat it )

·         Today’s  special being served     

Sunday 27 April 2014

camera research final


April 18, 2014

Five Cameras Research by Cameron Smith

Different brands

SLR film camera – (Single lens reflector)

Brands: Canon, Minolta, Nikon

Good for: The manual controls can give you flexibility in how to take photos. People also like it old fashioned (non digital). It has good image quality on printed pictures. You can take alot of different types of pictures using lens, lights and tri-pods.

Drawbacks: The problems are you need to develop film in processing. It is non digital so it’s hard to develop films, it costs money to buy film, film is hard to find at stores and this type of camera rarely available so it is hard to buy these brands or to fix one.  It is also harder to learn how to use this camera.

Medium Format

Brands Holga, Mamiya, Fuji, Pentax

Good for:  It is good for getting close up photos with manual lens. It is not as heavy so  you can carry it around easier, good for taking pictures of larger areas like landscapes or cars or houses, can be used for focusing in a large picture of something small with a lot details.

Drawbacks: They can be really expensive ($10,000). They are not adaptable as they take specialty pictures. Many of these types of cameras use film not digital so they are hard to use., not very flexible for taking a variety of pictures and seem hard to figure out how to use.

Large format

Brands: Kodak, Monorail, Arc Swiss

Good for: These cameras take larger then medium format  photos so you get better picture quality and can take really large photos of landscapes and lakes. You can get film or digital versions of large format cameras.

Drawbacks: This camera is really heavy to hold so it you will tired lugging it around. If it breaks it could be expensive to fix. Sometimes you need to develop your own film and that it not easy – even for printing digital pictures. This type of camera is not very flexible, could be hard to figure out how to use and good for large but not small or regular old picture taking.

Digital SLR

Brands: Sigma, Canon, Tamron, Tokina, Panasonic

Good for:    This camera is good photo shooting and it has zoom in or out options for picture taking. You can download your photos to a memory card or computer. It is easier to use and lots of different types of digital cameras to choose from. It can take some speciality pictures using special equipment like lights and lots of lenses.  

Drawbacks: They can be very advanced and you need to know how to use the manual options for using the camera, they are more expensive than some cameras and sometimes they are little bigger and heavier to carry around.

Point and shoot

Brands: Canon, Yashica Panasonic

Good for: This type of camera is good for group shots, versatile for most types of picture taking, general small, light, easy to use and carry around. It automatically sets up to take a picture – you do not need to set the controls. You can have a digital version or a film version but the digital version is more common.

Drawbacks: Although you can take alot of pictures, it has a limited number of views to take pictures and cannot choose to take pictures in a different way. You cannot take speciality pictures except what is offered in automatic option, you are limited in how far you can zoom on a point and shoot and you are limited in using other equipment like extra lights.  

Which camera is good for you?

The camera that is good for me is the  point n shoot because it’s the only modern camera that I could recognise easily  and the only hand held one so that my hands wouldn’t get tired using it . The camera doesn’t cost a lot of money to buy, it’s flexible and can take a lot of different pictures. It’s easier to use then the other cameras.  I also like the fact that you can put the photos on the computer with no sweat. To add more good news, there’s no film to buy or develop so no hassle whatsoever.

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