I made a photography website for class

    If you would like to see my photography projects in one place please check out my new web page by clicking this sentence.

    I will update it throughout the year till I graduate. It's mostly an example website but it also shows that I can take photos and edit them well. 

    I am very proud of this photo I captured of my friend looking outside:

I love all the black, gray, and white shades in this image. I think I did a good job of not obscuring the beautiful faded details of the scenery outside the window. I wanted the focus to be on my friend though.

City Life Alphabet

    

    I am learning to love photography once more. I haven't seriously looked at the world through a photographer's eyes in a long time but last week I got to stretch my photography muscles with a cool homework assignment. I walked all over my neighborhood and the downtown area of Winnipeg to capture shapes in the city landscape that make the shapes of letters. I captured the entire alphabet and then I also had to take photos of extra letters to make my name. I moved my neck up and down and side to side a lot. I felt like a bird trying to collect all the angles I needed to build my art pieces. 

Here is the results:

    Later in the week I decided to take photos of events that happened in the city. I transformed into a documentary event photographer and took photos of Winter Fest at the Central Park and also at a block party in the Spence Neighborhood area and at True North Square plaza. I tried to take pictures of people without them knowing I was there but most of the time I asked permission. You can see those pictures on my Instagram: @Maplearticulations

The coolest picture I caught was at the True North Square fire show where I set up my Canon Powershot camera to painting with light settings by changing the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO:

Building a Board Game Instructions Manual

    This week I got the chance to make another poster but for the 50th year Special Edition of any board game I like. This was a mock-up of course but it was a fun project!

    I love building posters. Every time I have the opportunity I research new techniques and tricks to push myself in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I now know that if anything is pixelated, a simple surface blur that isn't very high will soften that and make it look more appealing. I am also getting more comfortable designing my own lettering and logo designs and using the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

I chose the classic and simple game called, "Guess Who?"  I love how it doesn't make my brain work too hard and I can actually sit back and enjoy it. There is no violence, it is all about guessing who your mystery character card is. And in this day and age you can even customize your character tabs on the gameboards to your liking. There is also a commercial version made in 2019 that has a wider range of diversity in their characters' features.

Here are a couple of pages from the 6 pages manual I made: