torsdag 22. mai 2014

In the last post I had a picture of the national stage, which is a big theatre here in Bergen, this picture was a part of many others I took when we had a photosafari around town. Here are more of the ones I took when I walked all over Bergen literally.






























This is most and the best of the photosafari pictures I took.

torsdag 27. mars 2014

Been a while, well a while back we made some deep prints where we took a picture of a famous building, then made it black and white, then we placed a transparent plastic plate over and scratched out the lines and details as deep as we could. After this we washed it off, put ink on and rubbed it with a newspaper until there was only ink in the carvings. then we put a sheet of paper in water for a while, dried it a bit and lay it ontop of the carving and out it through the print machine


From this:

To this:

And the final result:


That's all for this post


onsdag 15. januar 2014

Experimenting with the dark

In this post i'm gonna show you how it went when I experimented with writing with light on slow shutter time with cameras. It was pretty fun, but it was insanely cold that day and I could barely feel my fingers or face when I finished. I kinda dedicated some of the pictures to my girlfriend since I didn't have much ideas to what to write in the air, so just warning about that.


I first tried to make a smiley... it didn't work out that well.. I set the camera to low compared to where I stood.
I tried to make a smiley again, but as you can see it looks more like a bad try at a Yin and Yang.(And I pretty much failed at the camera placement again..)
Warning, "gooey" stuff!


I had little to do, before I started working on the lightwriting, I tried to find some other things I could use to experiment with light and darkness. I took some pictures of the lights for away comming from the city, it turned all blurry on each try, like this from the neighbourhood here:

But suddenly there was a car driving out from the parking lot, so I tried to capture what I could, I kept the focus on the wall and let the car drive by with headlights on, the result was pretty cool:

It got the lights to look like beams and made it so the car wasn't there at all, which I think looked really good.

Sorry for posting gooey stuff.
until next time readers..

Lots of stuffz going on

A lot of things has happened lately, doctors appointments, an exam and lots of tests and presentations. So it's been busy, maybe not for the others in my class, but I have had to little time.

I can start with the assignment we got on making a picture with mini versions of ourselves, which we got to choose the theme of. Right from the start I wanted to make an "angel/devil" on the shoulders, as the conciousness we see in movies. I had issues with making it and it went slow, the lighting on the mini-me's was so weird and they got so pixelated when I shrinked them, but I got it working and got the picture together.

(Title: "Why do I hear better on the right side?")

Everyone has that feeling where they have to make good or bad decisions or thinking about positive or negative things about yourself and others, and they feel like they have two sides arguing with eachother. So here's my version of it.

We've also worked with making fruit juice labels, I took an easy turn on the assignment and made a juice label with the traditional christmas citrus fruit Clementine, it's a pretty simple logo, but I didn't want to overdo it.

tirsdag 19. november 2013

Photo Edit Using Stamp Tool

In class we were given a quick lesson in using the stamp tool in photoshop, I didn't pay much attention, because it was the first tool I used a lot when I first got photoshop on my home computer a while before I started Olsvik. I wanted to try experimenting with fur over from a wolf to a human, so I put two images in one(one of a wolf and one of me).
And from there I started the editing, first it looked really weird, but the more fur you saw and the less skin, it looked better and better. I took most of the features from the eyes and mouth over to match mine too. I really liked how it turned out, I got the muzzle shape right and the eyes are lined like a wolf is, all in all I am proud in my work.
(The finished photo edit)

Thank you for reading!
-Niklas

Printing Assignment 1 and 2


Moustache Print

A while ago we finally started on the printing part of our Print and photo class. First we had the assignment where we took a photo of ourselves and drew either in photoshop or by pen a moustache or full beard on the picture.


















Following that, we made the photo black and white by using the hue/saturation and threshold tool in photoshop. Then printed the picture out and out it under a glass plate, painted with black or printing paint ontop of the glass where the dark parts of the photo was and put a sheet of paper over and pressed down to print it onto the sheet.

(I will update the blog later with the finished prints I took)

Crab Print

We visited the museum of natual history and were to take photos of animals who we were to make the same kind of editing treatment as we gave to the moustache, it was an easy job to do so far, but then we 
were going to scrape out the same photo on a ceramic like plate.

(picture after treatment)


We used different tools(as seen in the picture below) to do this scraping, or carving as it can also be called. 

After we finally finished the carving we were to use a roller dipped in paint and roll it over the plate so it spread equally over the parts rising up from the carving.
After this we put the plate in the middle of a newspaper and lay a sheet of paper(either normal copypaper or ricepaper) ontop, then it went into the press about two times to make sure it got printed good.
(The pressing part)
When this was done we let the paint dry and hung it up on the wall.
Thanks for reading!
-Niklas