Downtown New Haven this is a great view.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Week 7

Hello All, I found this one to be a little hard, because I really am not a colorful person. But it was fun once I got the hang of it...

Window project

Another difficult assignment, loved ones were shy, my house has no great window light so I used a buddys house and his dogs.

a few more at:
http://www.fotothing.com/dickeykarle/

great class as I learned much and can now utilize some great websites and of course Picasa. Thanks all, thanks Jerry!

Black & White

This is the same photo just in Black and White

Week 7 -- Composite Submission (Week 5 Detail Scan too)

Whew!

So here it is, my final blog entry! Had a blast everyone!
Thanks for all your wonderful comments!

Jerry, I got the scans to work--hooray!


You can see a few more on my fotothing @ http://www.fotothing.com/melskigphoto/ .

I was surprised to see how the scanner picks up every speck of dust! But it was definitely worth the effort!
I also had so much "fun" with the composites too!

Thanks again, Professor Nevins, for an amazing MOD!
-Melanie

Surreal Paintings

Hey everyone! Well, this my last posting on Blogger with the surreal paintings. I have to say that this assignment was unexpected, but worth while. It's an interesting way of expressing yourself in a modern, yet creative way! I enjoyed all of your work and wish everyone the best of luck in the rest of the schooling, take care!

Week 7 -- Composite Submission

In reading the grading rubric one last time, I discovered we could possibly create composites as well. I combined an Old Saybrook beach shot with the butterfly detail shot and gave it some saturation and soft focus. Hope you like this!

-Melanie

Week 7 -- Surreal Submission

Hello all!

Can't believe how much fun this surrealistic painting was! I found myself over thinking each of my "canvases" with a lot of repetition, "Path to Enlightenment" for example, but then I created "Dragonfly n' Feathers" and "simple" was achieved!

I also had trouble in sizing my work (not quite sure how to enlarge them)--never quite got the edit/copy/new/paste thing as I always got a message about saving it before I saw the final picture and I didn't want to do lose anything. But they're all there on my fotothing for your viewing pleasure: http://www.fotothing.com/melskigphoto/. I will be the first to admit they are "out there."

Had a great time with all of you and viewing your fabulous work! Not sure if I can join AR336 yet, but I'm going to try to swing it with my schedule. Hope to see you there too!

-Melanie

P.S.

Jerry, at 11:48pm this evening I was resizing all the windows I had open on my laptop and found the "SCAN" icon for my Epson on my desktop of all places. There was never a button on the machine that I could find so I gave up on completing the detail project with any more submissions. But there it was and I tried it and sure enough, it works--that's the test flag you see above--black background and all! I won't be able to fotothing anything until after midnight tomorrow night, but I will grab some flowers and try it if you say I should at this late date. I can however post the flower scans to the blog between 9pm-midnight. Let me know if the 4 pieces were enough. Thanks!

Surreal Pictures

What a fun assignment! Great job everyone. It is amazing how using the same tools, we all have created such different art. You can see the rest of my pictures at http://www.fotothing.com/mkos/photo/350b2f700060049f7f47811555fc59a2/ Thanks for a fantastic class Jerry!

This was an interesting assignment. I really enjoy seeing all the different things people came up with using the same materials. These are some of the ones I've made and I'm still working on a few more and I think they're getting better the more I practice.

Here are 2 of the pictures that I liked the best out all of them. I enjoyed this project, really brought out the artistic side in everyone. Thanks for everything throughout the class. I enjoyed seeing everyone's and the different perspectives, as well as the feedback on my photos. I hope to see some of you in the second class in Mod 2.

Jenna

u can barely make out new haven in the backround

mt carmel. a little after sunrise

Week 7

Hello All Again!!!

I really enjoyed making these pictures. At first I wasn't sure how to coordinate all of the different objects with the different background. It ended up being really fun. I sent the link to a few of my coworkers, and now they are using this program to create interesting desktop back rounds.

I believe this is our last assignment, so I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this class. I also really enjoyed looking at everyone pictures.

regards,

Stephanie

The Digital Portrait

Hey everyone! This was another challenging assignment, however kind of fun when I found the right people (my friend and sister's dog) to model for me!

Flying High

Once I figured out my troubles in "paint" the assignment is actually really neat. Me...and artist?

Week 6 - Portraits

My models are my girlfriend Sarah and her cat, Bella.

The portraits of Sarah were done in a beautiful picture window at the Haight-Brown Vineyard up in Litchfield. It's absolutely gorgeous there this time of year and makes for excellent scenery shots.

Week 6

This was the most challenging assignment so far. My first issue was finding a person that wanted to cooperate with the project. I ended up using my mom, but she fought me tooth and nail. To be completely honest I would not want to be photographed either.
In addition, to having difficulty retaining a subject I was not really able to capture the correct lighting to get what the professor wanted. I tried my best, but shooting objects is much easier than shooting people.

Macro

Shadows

Week 5 -- God is in the Details

Reached my max for today on fotothing so here are a few "details" that will be posted later.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go the "digital" route with this assignment due to two obstacles: the scanner I thought I could use creatively only scans paper for printing and the minimum "macro" distance of my digital camera is 3 feet away. I had these shots from my film camera, a Canon EOS Rebel T2, printed and placed onto Photo CD's which I loaded into Picasa2.

I shot them about a month ago on Ender's Island in Mystic, CT. Whether it's peace, serenity, or just plain silence you seek, this oasis delivers. And with its beautiful gardens and butterflies during migrating season (August to September I believe), St. Edmund's Retreat is the ideal place to photograph to your hearts content!

When I realized how bright the sun appears on the tops of the flowers, I warmified them some. I tried to adjust the shadows, but it always resulted in the whole shot going dark--no room for subtlety in Picasa2 without destroying the whole shot.

Jerry, if you would like authentic digital photographs, I will be happy to shoot more this weekend--I just won't be able to get too close. but I could try and crop any results.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

-Melanie

Week 6 -- The Digital Portrait

Hello everyone!

I apologize for the delay. Following your suggestions Jerry, here is another shot of Mom with her head toward the light and a revision of Dad's portrait with more light and cropping. The bottom edge of Dad is the true bottom. Also, I noticed the more light I added to him the more "noise" appeared--it got very spotty. In any case, I'll upload some more tomorrow along with my Week 5 Detail shots to my fotothing: www.fotothing.com/melskigphoto/.

Have a great weekend all!

-Melanie

Week 6

This was a very frustrating project for me. I have to remember that this is a learning process. These are three of my better ones. The rest can be seen at http://www.fotothing.com/mkos/.