2nd Year Portrait Assignment Updates

Students are well under way here at NAIT now that they are back into school. They have had three portrait assignments already handed in and marked. We usually start the year off with a review of lighting fundamentals first presented in the second term of first year. Their first assignment was to create a portrait using a classical four light setup – main, fill, separation and background. Two portraits were required a ½, ¾ or full-length captures using two distinctively different lighting patterns. 

Their second assignment took them outdoors to take advantage of time of year and fall foliage. The basis of this assignment was to capture two portraits of an individual in a scenic environment enjoying it and oblivious to camera. The second capture was with a closer view of the person, and may show the subject relating to either the surroundings or to the photographer/viewer. The two images were to be presented in a collage state with presentation being part of the mark.

Finally, their third assignment was "Advanced Portable Flash". We discussed guide number, light fall-off and fill-flash techniques. We are all faced with situations where we have to supplement ambient situations with flash - either as a fill source or to provide a "main" light to create shape and form. Two portable flashes were required with the decision left to the students as to what the two lights were going to do - main/fill, main/kicker. main/separation or main/background. Even though some of them feel they do not have a handle on the fundamentals of fill-flash the results proved otherwise.

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