Water Critique

The Students completed their third critique class this week (Oct 22, 2913) with the theme of Water.  The students were allowed to come up with their own way to present this theme in their images. We had many great images and here are the top three images for the week.


Megan Arnemann

 

Verily Johnson Cookie

 


Noella Steinhauer

NAIT Open House 2013

NAIT held their annual Open House this year on October 18^th and 19^th. The students and staff of the Photographic Technology program worked hard to make this a successful event. During NAIT’s Open house visitors to our booth got the chance to vote for their favorite Black & White and/or Colour images displayed by the students.  Below are the winning results!

Thank you to everyone that came out and supported us.  A special thanks goes out to the sponsors of our event., Vistek , Don’s Photo, McBain Camera and Technicare Imaging Ltd.

 Top Three B&W Images

 Sara Watson

Lauren Voisin 

Noella Steinhauer

 Top Three Colour Images

 

Corey Pollack

 Taylor Wilson

 

Lauren Voisin

Self Portrait - Critique

Self Portrait is one of the more anticipated assignments of the year, as it gives you an opportunity to express yourself creatively.  This year, it was critiqued once again by the guys over at Laughing Dog Photography.  Dustin, Dwayne and Adam delivered a unique approach to the critique and gave some real life advice.  Here are some of the top scoring images.

 Charissa Kennedy

 Christophe Benard

Alysa Lybbert

Vintage Reproduction

The first year students were given an assignment to test their skills in lighting, composition, post-production and attention to detail. They were asked to chose a photograph shot before 1960, and see how close they could come to reproducing it using the skills they have acquired. Considering that none of these images have "copy and paste" off the originals, I think they came pretty darn close! Nice work guys!

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Critique Class - Portrait Relationships

We are getting closer and closer to the end of the term now.  Last week's critique class was judged by Robert Bray of the Art of Photography.  As he has won Portrait Photographer of the Year 3 times for Canada in the PPOC, he chose a portrait category that focuses on relationships.  Below are some of the top images.

Charissa Kennedy

 Penny Vanderheyden

Sara Watson

Shayla Kurta

Science Fiction/Fantasy - Critique

The Science Fiction/Fantasy category has been around for a couple years now.  Leigh Frey is one of NAIT's official photographers and she is a former NAIT grad herself.  This category featured some of the best images of the year and it really pushed some of the students.  The images that received the highest marks are featured below.  Which ones are your favourites?

Charissa Kennedy

Penny Vanderheyden

  Megan Kruse

Alysa Lybbert

 Josie Baerg

 Courtney Bergen

Critique - Intimate

We have gotten a couple weeks behind in the blog post department.  We are pushing further into the semester and more and more assignments are getting handed in.  This critique was judged by the lovely ladies at Studio 9 photographics.  The critique topic was Intimate, which, as usual, is up to the interpretation of the students.

The top images as selected by Studio 9 are as follows:

 Josie Baerg

 Sara Tetz

 Lauren Voisin

Penny Vanderheyden

Critique - Painting with Light

This past weeks critique was selected and critiqued by Corey Hochachka of Troglodyte Photography.  The topic was painting with light which could be taken as a theme, or a technique.  The traditional methods of Light Painting involve extra long exposures, and the use of light sources as a paintbrush.  There have been more and more experiments with light painting lately, and therefore many new modern techniques have evolved.  

The students have created some interesting images, and there are a few really great ones in this set.  Which of these images do you find yourself drawn to the most?

Penny VanderHeyden

Charissa Kennedy

 Christophe Benard

 Megan Kruse

Critique - In Camera Illusions

The third critique topic for this semester was entitled "In Camera Illusions".  The students were to create an image that exhibited a creative illusion, without the use of photoshop.  The guest critique judge was Renee Robyn, a very talented local photographer who creates illusions in and out of camera..

Some of the images that received the highest marks are below.

Kelsey Somers

 Tara Joyce

Lauren Voisin

Jesse Kushneryk

 Riane Lutz

Evoke emotion using the colour red - Critique - Edmonton Photography School

The second topic for critique was selected by the second year students.  This is the first time that the second year students were the judges in critique class.  The images were graded by each of the students, and their mark was derived from the average of the results.

It was interesting to see the variations in the marks and feedback from 18 different individuals.  It is a testament to how much art is subjective.  It was also an exercise for the second year students to practice constructive criticism, and evaluating other individual's work.  Something that is more difficult than many might expect.

This week's topic was to "Evoke emotion using the colour red".  There were many images that centred around the themes of passion, leading to a few racier images.  However, many of the more successful images had a blood component in them.

Below are the 6 images that received the highest marks as chosen by the Second Year NAIT Photographic Technology students.

Sara Watson

 Janine Esplin

 Christophe Benard

 Charissa Kennedy

 Riane Lutz

Penny Vanderheyden