My Noise + Silence

Hello Class,

I wanted to share my roll of images. My theme was Noise and it was shot on the Silence roll. I interpreted noise by shooting self portraits in an extremely noisy environment: Lonsdale Quay. Unfortunately there wasn't as many people there on Saturday as I had hoped. Perhaps I should have gone to Granville Island. In any case, I also thought about noise in a non photography aspect and decided to also process push process the film with Caffenol-C that had washing soda which was not completely dissolved.

I pushed the film 3 stops and agitated vigorously during the development process. I wanted the images to have extra grain and the gritty soda to create dots on my film. Worked out just as I planned.

Caffenol-C

For those of you who will be using Caffenol-C to develop your negatives, here is the recipe when you are mixing the developer:

5 tablespoons of instant coffee (must be caffeinated)

3 tablespoons of washing soda

1 teaspoon of vitamin C

5oo mL of 68-70 degrees (Fahrenheit) water

In two SEPARATE beakers measure out 250 mL of water to the correct temperature. Mix in coffee in one and washing soda in the other. Once the instant coffee has completely dissolved mix in the vitamin C into the COFFEE mixture. Make sure that your washing soda has completely dissolved prior to adding it to your coffee mixture. Also make sure that all the micro-bubbles have dissipated from both containers before together. This will ensure that all the necessary ingredients have properly dissolved.

Processing times will vary, however, based on tests done on the Ilford Delta 100 film, developing time is roughly around 15 minutes. I usually stop with water, but remember to check that your water temperature is cold (around 68 or below) otherwise your film may fog. Fix, hypo, and wash as usual.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing your results!

Image Sample

Photo Majors,

I hope that you all were able to take advantage of the weather this weekend and took shots based on your themes. I want to take this time to remind you that your rolls are due tomorrow (September 21st) as we will start developing film. For the grade 11s, you will use the regular developer and standard methods to develop your film. Grade 12s, you will use Caffenol-C and we will go over PUSH/PULL technique as well.

For the remainder of the week, there will be darkroom demonstrations and refersher seminars. You are required to print 1 contact sheet and 5 proof prints. More specific insturctions will be given during class.

Finally, I wanted to share some results with you. I have already scanned Alex and Sam's negatives and took the liberty of working on an image.

Welcome

Hello Photo Majors,

Welcome to Photography 11/12 Major blog. Here is where I will keep you updated once + per week on assignments, events, field trips, links, resources, notes... etc. Please make a note of the address and visit often.

This is a special year, I would like to first acknowledge Ken Ku. Ken graduated from LFAS in 2003, then continued his education at SanFransisco Art Institute and is an artist in residence at LFAS this year. Super exciting!

Jayme Johnson who graduated from LFAS in 2010, will be working as a Lab Technician to assist you in the darkroom for part of the year. Please welcome these two photo enthusiasts to the class. Also, ask them lots of questions and challenge them, they want to help.

Final Grad Show

The votes are in for the final Grad Show:

Jeremy
Tessa
Dayne
Emily D
Rikki
Taylor B.

11s Colour CD Cover

Elements of Design:
Line, Shape, Form, Texture

You are going to take a series of high contrast B/W photos for a CD cover. The music is up to you- could be a remake of an already existing CD for your favourite band, or a CD cover for an independent band, or for an imaginary band. Your images should be distinctly inspired by a musical genre or style of music. Your series will be photographed with black & white film, but printed monochromatically using the colour printer. Each of your images should include at least one of the Elements of Design: lines, shapes, texture, form, colour (but hard to do in BW film, that will happen in the darkroom).


Colour Darkroom:
Print a BW contact sheet, make sure you have included all of the elements of design. Then print four 5 x 5 prints. They are square to fit the proportions of a CD cover, so consider the format when you are shooting, you will have to crop off part of your photo. You are to print your photos on colour paper with the colour processor. You are to use colour filters to create mono-chromatic (one colour) colour. Try four out of six colours of the colour wheel. Remember that the colour on the enlarger will make the opposite effect on your print. Adding a yellow filter creates a purple print.

Chinatown- Field Trip Thursday

Chinatown
Charge Batteries/Load film. Bring lunch or $$ and wear sensible shoes and bring a jacket just in case.

• 11:30 Meet in the class
• 11:45 Bus Departs for Chinatown
• 12:45 Arrive Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens.
  578 CARRALL STREET
• 1:00pm Bob Rennie Gallery at the Wing Sang Building
  THE WING SANG BUILDING 51 EAST PENDER STREET
• 2:15 Visit Shane Oosterhoff
  STUDIO 207-321 RAILWAY STREET
• 3:30 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden (bring $5 in advance)
• 4:30 Free Photo time
• 5:30 Bus Departs from Chinatown (Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens)
578 CARRALL STREET (same as drop off)

• 6:30 Arrive back at LFAS