STREET PHOTOGRAPHY.

Ref- (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=street+photography&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1024&bih=843&tbm=isch&tbnid=SJ-3vWZFuMogrM:&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/image_galleries/stephen_wright_street_photography_gallery.shtml&docid=FdlbsblJ9PQC1M&w=470&h=394&ei=BYmETv3LOYmo8QO2p5gq&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=740&vpy=280&dur=65&hovh=206&hovw=245&tx=121&ty=90&page=1&tbnh=166&tbnw=198&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0)

This is a picture I took off of google as an example of street photography. Using the streets of a city as your back ground, capturing the life of the busy streets and creating visually  appealing pictures with the angles of buildings and streets.

Stop Mo. with Tony Baker.

Architechture.

Pinhole.

I experimented with pinhole cameras for the first time at college using already made pinhole cameras that the teacher had made. It was a really fun experience but many of the pictures didn't develop apart from one that developed really well and was my fist time trying it.

Photograms.

A photogram is a fixed shadow of three-dimensional object on a light-sensitive material. There is controversy as to whether the photogram is it's own medium. Part of the scope of www.photogram.org is to strengthen the medial independency of the photogram as a shadow picture. Everybody know's the strange feeling watching for the first time his own body as a photogram on an x-ray. Sometimes the technique is also called "shadography" or "rayograph". This process can be easily re-created at home, in a darkroom the paper is briefly exposed to light and later developed.

Here are a couple of my experimental photograms we did in our college darkroom.

Painting With Light.

Death..Page for the scrapbook.

There were a couple themes to choose from and I choose death. I have always had a fascination with the 'Day of the Dead' (http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/dayofdead.htm) a Mexican celebration, in October, where the dead are given offerings. It's a spirited and colourful gathering of family and friends to pray for and remember their loved ones that have passed.  It's believed that when loved ones pass they enter the 'afterlife' and so offerings of food and beautifully painted candy skulls are contributed outside their homes on altars. This holiday originated in the Latin American traditions but has spread all over the world and is famed in America and even in some places in Europe. I particularly enjoyed this festival because at home in California the air would smell of Mexican food, the colourful altars, and the beer would be flowing. Death doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. It reminds us that we have to appreciate life and all it's beauty. This is my first page in my scrapbook which is for colour scenes and pictures we've taken or pictures we like from the web. I like all the colours, it keeps your eye busy and even though it's about death you wouldn't guess that is was. I don't like the way the images are placed on the page, they seem sloppy and don't flow well. I like the life and death contrast and how death is hidden away in the common world but in Mexican culture it is celebrated as much as a baby being born.

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Image merging with ToNy BaKeR