Home Pagehttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/en-GB2009-11-07T09:57:56ZSquarespace Site Server v5.8.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Recap of a week - busy weekend aheadhttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/11/4/recap-of-a-week-busy-weekend-ahead.htmldanikyvor2009-11-04T16:40:23ZThis week started out feeling like it was going to be very productive. I spent six hours in the dark room on Monday, two hours of which were spent on one print (dodging - very time consuming). I did four prints, mounted three of them, got one final assignment finished and submitted, and another class assignment finished and submitted. I have two more prints left to do on Monday and once I mount them, I can officially say that I've completed the final assignments for three classes.

I have a presentation to do next week for my Communications class, and then 12 images to work on for my digital imaging class and a resource book of 35 photographers that we're researching.

I'm slowly getting there, but it feels really....well....SLOW.

This weekend I'm shooting on both Sat and Sun. Saturday, pics of a wee girl, and Sunday, a couple. Hoping the sun comes out. Also, Friday night I've got a meet up with some ex-colleagues, so it'll be good to catch up.

Keep an eye out for the results of my shoots! :)

]]>The Lit Treehttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/10/30/the-lit-tree.htmldanikyvor2009-10-30T08:29:20ZWhen we were at the Crinan Canal, and heading north back to Kimelford, I happened to look back in the wind mirror and noticed this tree away up on the hill.

The clouds were wispy, the hills were dark, except for this ray of light that was shining down on this tree. Whipped out my digital camera, zoomed in as far as I could and got the following shot.

I increased the colour saturation, and also did a black and white copy. I quite like both.

]]>More pics:http://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/10/29/more-pics.htmldanikyvor2009-10-29T13:14:32ZI've spent most of the morning working on these. Let me know what you think!

1) Celtic Cross at Kimelford. This was taken late afternoon when the sun was setting behind the hills. Taken with my Canon EOS 50D. I adjusted the levels of contrast.

2) My son - sitting on a stone wall. Also taken with my digital. All I did with this one was crop the sides a bit.

3) Loch Lubnaig - Also taken with the digital. It was in colour, but decided to switch it to black and white. Tweaked the contrast.

4) And finally, a red rowboat. This was taken with a cokin red filter on my digital.

]]>Row boat on Loch Melforthttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/10/29/row-boat-on-loch-melfort.htmldanikyvor2009-10-29T09:21:15ZThis was a red row boat on Loch Melfort. Shot with FP4 125 Ilford B&W (preferred film), developed the negative and scanned it in to Photoshop Elements. I adjusted the levels. Pretty pleased with this one!

]]>Full Tonal Rangehttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/10/29/full-tonal-range.htmldanikyvor2009-10-29T09:13:18ZThis picture was taken of a cliff face in Melfort. I shot with FP4 125 Ilford B&W, developed the negative and scanned it in to use Photoshop for editing purposes.

It shows the full tonal range used in black and white photography - pure black, pure white and the shades of grey.

]]>College Work & Learning Diaryhttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/10/28/college-work-learning-diary.htmldanikyvor2009-10-28T20:52:17ZI am having a lot of fun with my program at college. I am learning so much week in and week out and the time is flying!

I've discovered that my preferred method of shooting is with film, but scanning negatives in and working on them in Photoshop. That's not to say that I don't enjoy being in the dark room, I do - very much. But I feel that this is the best of both worlds; developing film but digitalising it instead.

However, the dark room is turning out to be quite therapeutic for me. I enjoy setting up my negatives, and deciding how I'm going to frame my image, mixing up chemicals and then watching the image appear as I gently swish the paper back and forth in the developer. I'm learning that there's an art to it, and indeed a science, and I'm really enjoying it!

I am VERY excited to be using Glencoe as my subject matter for my Higher project. I plan on shooting it over the christmas holidays and raring to go!

I have some photographs to post, but I shoot in RAW and then save them all as tifs, so some converting will need to be done. Keep an eye out!

]]>School in full swinghttp://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/9/29/school-in-full-swing.htmldanikyvor2009-09-29T09:29:31ZMy course is going brilliantly so far. We've developed our first rolls of film and prints. I've got five projects on the go, along with a major year-long project in which I take 12 pictures, develop, print and mount. Then I write a 1000 word essay on my compositions.

We have three themes to choose from: The Natural World, Youth Culture, or Does the Camera Lie? I've chosen the Natural World and I'm going to do Glencoe. I will do my first six images in October, when we go through, and then I'll do my 6 other images in April from the exact same spots. I'm quite excited about it.

I've invested in filters, and I believe my husband is buying me a negative scanner so that I can get my film work onto my macbook. Hard to believe we're coming into October already!

]]>Shoots!http://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/7/9/shoots.htmldanikyvor2009-07-09T15:22:52ZI am now actively looking to get involved with photo shoots!

Please have a look around my galleries, and if you like what you see, get in touch with me via the Write Me tab in the menu above.

In the meantime, I've added a couple more photos to the Portraits gallery.

Looking forward to hearing from you. :)

]]>Updates:http://danikyvor.squarespace.com/home-page/2009/6/11/updates.htmldanikyvor2009-06-11T10:18:58ZNew photos in the Portrait section of the galleries!

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