Oldest Family Photograph

I had my grandparents search through the oldest photos that we had in our family. They were able to send me lots of cool pictures ranging from the 30s-50s. It was cool getting to see these images of my family from so long ago. I got to see pictures of my great great grandfather charlie which was so crazy to think about. I got to see my grandpa's family picture from Athens Greece. He was the youngest(chubbiest). I saw my great grandmother taken in 1936 holding her dog. The oldest photo she sent me was from 1923. It was a picture of my great grandfather Kenny when he was 7 years old. This is my mom’s grandpa when he was really young. It was taken by his father Charlie while kenny was holding a shotgun.

Cyanotype

"The cyanotype process, also known as the blueprint process, was first introduced by John Herschel (1792 – 1871) in 1842. Sir John was an astronomer, trying to find a way of copying his notes. Herschel managed to fix pictures using hyposulphite of soda as early as 1839. In the early days the paper was coated with iron salts and then used in contact printing. The paper was then washed in water and resulted in a white image on a deep blue background. (Apart from the cyanotype process, Herschel also gave us the words photography, negative, positive and snapshot.)"Spike MacGee

"The Phoenix artist Annie Lopez wanted to stand out among her contemporary peers. Instead of trying to invent something utterly new, she has been turning to a 174-year-old photographic printing process — cyanotypes, once used for copying architectural drawings — and giving it her own distinctive twist.

Ms. Lopez created a dress pattern cut from tamale wrapping paper and printed all over with cyanotypes, which have a distinctly cyan-blue color. She printed the cyanotypes herself, in a process that took about 25 minutes per sheet of images. No darkroom was needed." Ted Loos

She has also done her work on clothing!

project 12

Project 11 Utopia Distopia

Magazine

Front, is a picture of my friend on Darth Vadrer v6. I used a font that had a rocky feel. I thought the picture would grab your attention so I used it!

First page is an advertisement of these new climbing shoes. Next is a guide for new climbing areas. I thought the line from the climber down to the shoe was really cool and made it a little different. 

Focused on my friend Quiotee, I used him for my main focus for the article. I liked the the picture on the left was dark and almost blended in to the background.

This was for national skate day, reminding people to go out and skate or just jump around. This page was made to give it a little extra life. Then a little hat add

Last page is a cool little add for milk.

I took this picture of my friend Quiotee climbing in Bishop, CA. In the picture he is wearing different types of climbing/outdoor products. The image draws your attention too look and read about the new things in the outdoor magazine. I downloaded an eroded font to help it blend into the rock. I liked the way the magazine came out and definitely think it would grab someone's attention.

This picture would have been used for a camera magazine. Advertising Nikon on the front as you can see on the strap. I edited the picture so it was really dark and the Yellow “Nikon” was really strong and popped out. I also blacked out the bottom left and right to take out extra background. The final product came out looking really mysterious and curious.

Fine Art
I took this picture of Eli downtown. I had him looking to the right so the sun would hit his face and give him a nice golden glow. I had the contrast way up to make the image darker and a more mysterious mood. I was able to bring the saturation down and still get the glow on Elis face.Also brought the highlights up for his jacket log and zipper to pop out more. I thought the zipper looked really cool but didn't distract your eyes from the focus of the image, Eli.

Fine Art
I took this picture of jackson M. The way he looks out of the window I thought was so intense and made me curious of what he was thinking about. I made the left side of the image black so you wouldn’t know where he was. It was for you to decide and wonder. I really liked the mood and that i was able to lower the saturation and still make image look good. I also gave it a cool temperature for a better feel.