This is a small list of all the projects (photos, collages, videos) during the several classes I took at the Kingston establisghment of Saint Lawrence College. The most prominent classes are photography, visual arts, video editing, and Photoshop (with a bit of minor stuff from other classes like Interpersonal Skills and film studies). With all that’s said and done, here’s the stuff as follows:
PHOTOGRAPHY
Smaug
NIKON COOLPIX
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ISO – 400
This was a photo I took of a LEGO minifigure based off Smaug the Dragon from The Hobbit movies on September 27th 2018. I forget what exact project I handed this in for, but I played around with it using Adobe software to make it look darker while increasing some of its highlights. My teacher liked this project a lot and gave me a good grade for it.
This is a slideshow photo essay I did featuring a series of photos that depict the SLC campus during the 2018 Christmas season
PHOTOSHOP
This was a demo assignment me and the entire class had to do where we took a stock image of a city street market and applied several filters on top of it. I made mine look very dreamy and mysterious.
This is a practice I made for a Photo Composite assignment where I took two photos of Saint Lawrence College brand teddy bears, sent it onto Photoshop where I darkened the image, and included another photo I took outside SLC with a seagull sitting on top of a lamppost which I masked to make it look like it was behind the teddy bears.
Here is the full Photo Composite assignment that I handed in for my grades and took on a really fun, spooky theme with the alluring vampires. The main background came from a really creative Halloween decoration I made on my own where I took an action figure of Count Orlok from Nosferatu and the flashlight on one of my iPods that I placed on the stairways so I could recreate the iconic shadow scene from the 1922 silent film. Other source photos that I took on my own during numerous occasions were paper decoration bats outside teacher offices in SLC during the 2018 Halloween season, a giant spider animatronic from the 2017 seasonal Spirit Halloween store, and Henry Alvarez’s wax figure of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula at the Louis Tussauds Waxworks. I added both elements onto an Adobe Photoshop Pro file where I masked out all the excess background of the original images and later used black paint to cover up some of the blank space that the Nosferatu background couldn’t hide. Some extra effects I did was applying a mist effect in front of everything to make it look mysterious and applying a black-and-white filter over everything to pay homage to vintage horror movies from the 1920’s-60’s. One cool thing I also did was duplicating the spider file so I could mask the red eyes and apply a “glow” effect to make it look scary. Hands down, my biggest masterpiece from the entire semester.
This is a Word document I typed up explaining the pros and cons of using softwares like Photoshop that rely heavily on photo manipulation
For my final culminating project in Photoshop class 2018, I made a large fanmade poster of the Marvel superhero film Avengers: Infinity War featuring several characters and vehicles from four of the six official building sets I owned at the time (I didn’t get the other two until Christmas). I took a picture of every figure I owned and placed theme on an Adobe Photoshop file where I edited out all the excess background of the original photo. The orange moon with trees in the background was taken outside the college one night when I was waiting to come home and some of the other assets (space background and Thor’s lightning bolts) were stock images pulled offline. One neat effect I did was creating copies for specific character/items (Iron Man’s arc reactor, Thor’s lightning pads, the Infinity Stones) that I would adjust the lighting for so they would look brightly illuminated. When I ran out of time to work on the project at school, I did several of the other characters at home so I could easily import them when I went to school the next day. I especially love this artwork the most and I only wish I could access this file again so I could incorporate Spider Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Shuri, Proximia Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, and Vision into it.
These two images are the final projects I made on my last day of Photoshop class where I had to demonstrate several skills to my teacher. The left image is a Beefeater wax figure that can be found in Louis Tussauds Waxworks and the right is a “Ask the Brain” fortune teller located in the “Hall of Horror” section of Movieland Wax Museum of the Stars in Niagara Falls, Canada. Some of the tricks I demonstrated include color saturation, text writing, cloning, and moving another part of the image around.
VISUAL ARTS
This was a Word assignment I made discussing the emotional appeal of the entire art genre as well defining the motion and movement you would find in such art pieces.
This is a Powerpoint presentation which features the in-depth look at the Pop Art genre that was popularized by the likes of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and many more.
This is a Powerpoint presentation I did about the life and work of famous wax artist Madame Marie Tussaud who founded her own line of wax figure exhibitions that went on to become a museum franchise.
This is a Powerpoint presentation I did about three different art genres: assemblage, conceptual, and installation.
VIDEO EDITING
One project we had during this class was to make a short 30 second advertisement for a very specific place or advertisement. From January 29th to February 3rd 2020, I was part of a Special Olympics Ontario competition that took place in Sault Ste. Marie where I won a few medals. Using the same camera I used throughout the college year, I shoot and filmed some footage from both the opening-closing ceremonies, skating challenges, and the bus rides to there and back home. I then decided my brand of advertising choice was going to be the Coach Canada buses used for touring athletes around the province and taking them to important sports events. Everything was done on Premiere Pro and the stock music I used was Strange Precident by Silent Partner. Both the teacher and class loved my video and I made a 5-minute documentary of trip to Sault Ste. Marie which I turned in as the final project for the class. I’ll be sure to upload that soon.
FILM STUDIES
As part of an online film study class I did with a group of students, this is a Word document where we had to sell a pitch for a movie about a kid who obtains x-ray vision and has to deal with an evil principal who seeks out his superpowers.
Splinky's Art Gallery 