Lots and lots of wonderful work being made right now in all the photo classes. The Digital Photo classes just finished up making their blogs and getting organized. We went on our first shooting field trip and will be talking composition, cameras, and editing in the next couple of weeks. In the 3-4 class, students are learning to make prints in the darkroom using cameraless techniques. Some beautiful cyanotypes were made using both plant materials and a variety of transparencies. Students made photograms and tone reversal tests and shot some fantastic images with pinhole cameras. They will now take their knowledge from all these tests and make some thoughtful final pieces. I can't wait to see what they come up with. In the 5-6 class, we made three different idea books using various Japanese stab binding techniques. These little books are being filled with image ideas, visualizations of poetry readings, and technical notes. The 5-6 students are also working on printing with fiberbased papers. Each student is making one print on a matte surface and hand painting the image with photo oils. They also shot a roll of film based on the prompt "dawn and dusk" and will be printing that piece on a more standard glossy surface. These will then be mounted, framed and hung in the LincGallery.
To the 3-4 students-Here are the pinhole and photogram slideshows.
