Diwali Incense notes

Pitty the video is so jerky and pixelated.
I've like to know how to fix the jerkyness, I know the pixels are from low resolution.

David, do you know how to make the video play smoothly?

FINAL DIWALI INCENSE.mov

request to David

Most of the class are mainly interested in photography as their chosen art and so can we please learn lots more 'photography techniques' ie, how to: portraits, sunsets, night photography or more after photo effects like HDR.

Thanks David.

HDR photos

I spent most of Thursday afternoon photographing the Brahma Kumaris Centre for Spiritual Learning (the meditation centre where i volunteer), using HDR technique.

I look forward to learning this and hope to produce some lovely photos for the Centre to use in their advertising.

I'll post some examples when done.

Gallery visits

I'm really enjoying the extra visits to local art galleries.  We have some lovely ones here on the Mornington Peninsula.  I highly recommend the Manyung Gallery in Mt Eliza.  It is in a beautiful setting, has great art and sculptures and a very nice cafe.

My trip to MPRGallery - Experimentia Utopia images and video

a 'must see' website link.....INTERACTIVE WEBSITE

http://www.experimenta.org/exhibitions-projects/online-art-work-commission-2010/in-my-dreams.html

You Were In My Dream

Artists: Van Sowerwine and Isobel Knowles

Experimenta Utopia link

http://www.experimenta.org/

Experimenta Utopia Now : Chloé Lefebvre & Jean Dubois 'À portée de souff...

2nd term

2nd term has started off well.  Seems like we have more time to do assignments and less 'extra curricular projects' (installations) to try to get our heads around. 

I'm now attending every After Effects and Premier Pro class, even though this means missing story boarding.  AE and Premier were my main stressors last term as i was trying to do the assignments without being able to attend the in class lessons.  Something had to give, and storyboards is it.

I'm enjoying regular outing to local art galleries, the Peninsula was quite a good arts community and therefore several great galleries.

Next trip will be Manyung gallery in Mt Eliza, they always have wonderful art and sculptures as well as a lovey cafe.

Mc Clelland gallery visit

I visited the gallery and sculpture park last week.  Loved most of the sculptures but the artworks David Wadelton: icons of suburbia were not my cup of tea.

Experimenta Utopia link on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Pi4Ip_V7w

I visited the exhibition on Friday, this is a collection of the photos/videos that i took of it.

HDR PHOTOGRAPHY blurb

 Unfortunately i was unable to attend the 1st leason of term 2 on HDR, as i needed to attend the afternoon session of drawing, and when i arrived early in week 2 for the HDR class David was away unwell.   Hopefully by week 3, I can get some in-class instruction.

I went up to Mt Dandenong and took what i thought would be some lovely HDR images, however when i got home and tried to merge the 3 exposures I realised that you REALLY DO NEED to use a tripod.  I thought that the HDR software would line up the images, but unless you use a tripod the images are too difficult for it to line them up nicely.
Anyway, we live and learn.  So once the weather stops raining i'll go out and take more images, and keep practicing, it seems like an excellent photographic skill to have up ones sleeve.

My black and white photography slide show link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_pVroAyAE

black and white photos assignment.wmv