This week was quite interesting and slightly stressful. Monday we had the day off. Tuesday we immediately got back and had work time for the whole day. Wednesday we started a writing piece and learned how to do the resin coatings. Thursday we coated and printed quite a few pictures. Friday we started coating some pictures, but we messed up, we learned what not to do and how to avoid the mistakes that were made. HumanitiesWhat role does each step play? In the process of taking, printing, and coating the photos, each step is equally important. And every outcome depends on the previous step and how well it was executed. The first step was to make sure that your camera had the right settings, we needed to do this in order to get a high quality image that would meet the standards needed to print on the metallic photo paper. The second step was to physically take the photo, you had to have the conditions right. The right lighting, the right time of day, and the position you are in/the objects are in. Next was processing. We processed the pictures in lightroom, the most important thing that we did in the processing step was de-noising the picture, if it was slightly blurry or had any “hot pixels”, with the paper we were printing on, it would be very noticeable, we also had to amp up the brightness and bring down the contrast to get the picture to print the way we wanted it to. After processing was printing. Printing was probably the easiest part, all we had to do was load paper, press a button, and make sure we liked the way the picture came out. Next was mounting. Mounting was extremely, not difficult per say but hard to get it 100% perfect. We sprayed a piece of wood with spray adhesive and carefully laid the picture down as straight as we could. From there we used a roller to make sure that it was good and stuck and flat on the wood. After we were finished mounting the pictures, we started to mix the resin. In order to get the resin how we needed it to be, we had to combine exactly a 50/50 ratio of hardener to resin and then stir slowly, making sure not to mix any air bubbles into it, for 10+ minutes. Once the resin was completely mixed, we poured it onto the mounted picture, carefully spreading it around the photo evenly. After the photo was completely coated we had to take a blowtorch to it to pop the air bubbles. We had to move the blowtorch relatively fast across the photo to avoid burning it, but we had to torch it for at least five minutes to make sure that all of the air bubbles popped. Once we finished torching it, we covered the picture up so it wouldn’t get ruined and to minimize the amount of dust that could get on it. Roughly 30 minutes after we covered the picture we took it back out and torched it one last time and got rid of any lingering dust before covering it again. ChemistryWhat is the relationship with light?
-How does each step of the process change/involve light? -Why is it important to frame and exhibit work? Each step of the process involves light in a very different way, light also reacts differently to your picture depending which step of the process you are on. When you are taking your picture, it is important to take into consideration the time of day, so you can take it during your ideal hours of light. Sunset and sunrise. These times provide the best light because the sun is low in the sky, emitting a soft, diffused light that produces better pictures than the harsher sunlight. When taking the photo you also need to take into consideration that when you process and print your photo, that part of the process depends heavily on what the lighting is in the photo and what the light is focused on. When processing you need to take the brightness up or down and make adjustments to get the light to translate how you want it when you print. Once you print the photo, you need to mount it and then cover it in resin. Light reacts to resin in a unique way. It adds depth to your photo. It does this because the light goes through the resin and bounces off the picture back out of the resin, but every time it does that some of the light bounces back off the surface of the resin back onto the picture, creating a loop of light. Light is also plays another role in the resin process. When we look into the glare of the photo we are able to see dust and anything else that made its way into our photos and are able to remove them. We also use the glare when we are blow torching the picture to make sure that we pop all of the air bubbles. There is a certain pride that only comes when you exhibit your work for other people to see. Framing a piece of art that you made, making it look better, gives you a feeling of accomplishment. When you put your work out into the open for people to look at and critique, it can help make you and your work better.
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