Second Year PHT 350 Portrait I Assignments

The second year students are enrolled in a portrait class that teaches them the fundamental basics of portraiture that include studio lighting, posing, environment, available light and combining flash with available light. Core areas of portraiture that are highlighted throughout the term include: Studio 4 light review, outdoor, couple, low, high key and editorial portraiture. To measure whether or not the fundamentals being taught are being understood bi-weekly assignments are assigned and marked. It is my intent to display some of the top submissions for each category that is taught. The most recent category  - outdoor portrait is displayed below for your viewing. Congratulations to each of the students whose image is shown below:


Jessica Loughlin

Karmen Meyer

Ashley Urban

Miriam Den Oudsten

Oct 26th – 30th – Second Year Students participate in one week Work Experience

Our second year students had a break from regular classes last week to participate in a one-week work experience exercise. They each had the choice of discipline and locale for the studio they wanted to visit for the week. Although many of them stayed in Edmonton some travelled to Calgary, Saskatoon, Vancouver and even Las Vegas to participate. It was a great opportunity for them to get a taste of the real world of studio photography. The staff would like to thank all those individual studios that sponsored our students, your involvement is greatly appreciated. A list of website links for the participating studios is listed below:

www.kimberleyfrench.com/
www.3tenphoto.com/
www.burchphoto.com/
www.cwhillphoto.com/
www.laughingdog.ca/
www.edmontonjournal.com/
www.fredkatzphotography.com/
www.curtistrent.com/
www.dgphotographics.com/
www.helgaphotography.com/
www.klyment.com/
www.kevinclarkphotography.com/
www.knphoto.ca/
www.emmalovephotography.com/
www.waynewallacephotography.com/
www.trogphoto.com/
www.scadephotography.com/
www.purephoto.ca/
www.bluefishstudios.ca/

October 5th - NAIT Students and Staff treated to a Phase One training session

On Monday, October 5th all of the Photographic Technology staff and second year students were treated to an educational Phase One and Capture One Pro session presented by Walter Borchenko of B3K Digital (www.B3KDigital.com) out of Toronto. Walter is a Canadian Partner of the Phase One organization and he flew in to educate us on the new P21+ Phase One back, cameras and lenses that our department purchased from him. Students and staff were amazed with the quality of the Phase One RAW files and the ease of use of Phase Capture One software and digital camera platform. We look forward to continuing to work with Walter as we educate our second year students on the benefits of capturing images with a medium format system using the Phase One camera system.

The image below was taken during the session and demonstrates a B&W conversion through the Capture One software. One of our second year students, Jessica, posed for the demonstration.

NAIT Open House "Big Shoot" - Oct. 1, 2009

Every year at our Open House the students produce a "big shoot" which requires a group effort to plan and design a set, gather the necessary props and models, light & photograph the result, and produce "teaser" directional signs to entice guests to come and visit our department.

This year the chosen theme was modelled on the Hasbro / Parker Brothers board game "Clue". All of the models are students within the program. Instructors Fletcher O'Grady and Ian Grant provided assistance and the photo shoot took place in a very brief (due to time constraints) flurry of activity. The photo session also gave the students a first experience with one of the program's new Phase One P21+ cameras, using it tethered to a MacBook Pro for the session.

Here's an example of the result . . .

Directional signs were produced using individual images of the characters, such as Mrs. White, Mr. Green and the other well known Clue characters.