At Least An Idea
For my Photographic Explorations project that's due in two weeks, I decided to focus on two themes. Passing of time and abstract. Our prof told today that our project actually doesn't have to be one whole theme altogether. It can be totally separate ideas in each photo. He doesn't mind. I kind of prefer to have a theme somewhat though, so yes, passing of time and abstract...the thing that will tie the two themes is rust. You know how rust or like stuff can get on to walls, ground and stain it? If I crop them properly and just take photos of the stains so it looks flat, it'll abstract. If that made sense. So I thought my photos of 5-8 will be a mixture of objects with rust on them and abstract of rusty stains on ground/walls etc.
The picture above is the best one of the batch I took today. To save time, I decided to do this project digitally. Does anyone else have any idea where I can find rusty stuff? I mean, without heading to downtown and try to find stuff. I want to keep it in Markham thank you. Like, I took a whole bunch at school today (hence the photo above), but not all the photos I took are that great and well, the more to choose from the better, right? Even though the weather can affect the colour of the photos...maa, PhotoShop will save me somewhat.
In other news, I am in love with our digital lab's scanner damnit. I want that Epson. DDD= It's large so I can scan huge pamphlets on it like Kakumei 2009 and Playzone! I want to abuse it so badly, but the scanner is right in front of the window of the lab office, so it'd be so obvious that I'm doing something not related to courses. Other than that, even though it's a flatbed scanner, I can scan negatives on it. *________* Scanning negatives and having it turn to colour/proper b&w photos on your screen without doing anything? That's awesome. I can scan about 30 negatives at once yo. That function I can abuse more easily as I'll be scanning negs for projects since I would love to scan all the negatives I've done so far for courses and keep a digital copy. Of course, I could buy a scanner that has the function of scanning negatives at a reasonable price, but the fact that it's large format. That's what makes it expensive >< I-I want...orz;; Also, since the scanner is a reasonably new model, even if you scan at a high dpi, scans won't be pixelating or look bad so easily. With my scanner, probably 600dpi is the max it can go before things look really really weird. It's not perfect at 300dpi already, so...
Anyways, hope to use the scanner sometime soon...