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Last month, BFA had a talent show called “BFA’s Got Talent”, a play on the British TV show “Britain’s Got Talent.” There were a lot of amazing acts, both musical, and theatrical. It was also the first time I had taken school pictures for a while. It was nice to do that again.
I would’ve uploaded the pictures sooner, but my gallery was having trouble. But they’re up now. Click here to go there.
Before starting on this project, Mr. Bryan showed us a few books with flags and explained the elements that make up a good flag design, like not placing design elements on the right side so that fraying won’t ruin the meaning of the flag.
This is my personal flag created in Graphic Arts. It took me only about half-hour to come up with the design.
Extract from explanation:
To begin, the flag’s proportions are 16:10, which is the standard for computer widescreen monitors, which shows my interest in technology and is also an approximate to the Golden Rectangle. The blue rectangle in the middle is 2.39:1, which is the standard for an anamorphic picture in cinema. The red stripes, white stars on blue represents the flag of the United States and France, two countries that I partially associate with. The stars are in the arrangement of the constellation Orion, one of the more recognizable constellations in the northern night sky, which represents my love for amateur astronomy.
The seven-pointed stars are a symbol of perfection in Christian religions.
Our assignment was to create something with a letter from our initials in Illustrator. There had to be at least 5 different typefaces used and only one color. I decided on the letter L since it seemed the most flexible letter.
Over Spring Break I saw a movie on YouTube showing a hexapod robot modeled after an ant (See here: A-Pod). Though I might make a model of that. It turned out to be a bit more difficult to make.
It ended up being more of a robot scorpion thing. I wish I could’ve had more control over the outlines to give it a better sense of depth.
Now I have to finish my personal flag…
An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, is a typographical design that spells out one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another view point, direction or orientation. The words spelled out in the other view point, direction or orientation may be the same or different from the original words.
One of my first real assignments for my Graphic Design class was to create an ambigram out of my name. It tok me a while to figure out what I was going to do, but then it hit me: I could do my name in hex code! I looked around for a hex code translator and found this site, which offers hex code and a lot more! It took a lot of sketching and help from Mr. Bryan to get the forms just right. I’m pleased with the overall result.
Noah Leigh (Note: the “N” and “L” are in uppercase)
4E 6F 61 68 4C 65 69 67 68
I’ll have more assignments to post later.
Yay! I got my new site design up! My Dad and I crunched during the last few days of Christmas break since all our time before was occupied with preparations for my little sister’s 13th birthday. I wanted to impliment sIFR in the post titles, but I couldn’t get them to style correctly, so it’s scrapped until I can figure it out.
The Gallery has not been updated however, and I don’t when that might happen considering it’s a completely different beast. I’ve been toying with the idea of integrating the gallery into the blog using a plugin, but I haven’t found one that suits me yet. But we’ll see…
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I finally got my pictures from the Christmas Banquet and from December up on the gallery. There are still some that were taken on the last days of school that I’ll need to get, so they might be a while.
Enjoy!
Christmas Banquet. People were talking about it since mid-October, making it out to be the big event of the semester, which I suppose it was, though I saw it from different perspective: a photographer’s.
In case you didn’t know, Christmas Banquet is a big dinner that happens at the end of November. The guys ask the girls to be their date for it, often with elaborate proposals. I was not one of them, since I didn’t ask anyone, despite my friends constant hounding of me to ask someone. But I didn’t relent. I was planning to take pictures during the event, something would be made much more difficult by having a date. During the whole month of November, I had to endure constant prodding by well meaning friends to get a date, while at the same time hearing about the people that others had asked.
They started selling tickets on Thursday, Friday, and Monday. And I managed to miss it every single time! I asked Mr. Bryan about what to do, and he made arrangements and I got a seat! I asked him about which camera I was getting and was delighted to hear that I would be getting their top end stuff: a Nikon D300 with an 80-200mm f /2.8 lens!
For Christmas Banquet, we’re expected to wear a suit, which I had bought before school. I’ve never worn a suit before, and it was a bit uncomfortable. But I lived 
Along with the camera, I also got a flash, which was pretty much a requirement for the low light (think romantic camera light), and a monopod, which allowed me to shoot at 1/40th of a second and get a sharp picture.
Once I had given the camera back to Mr. Bryan, I could safely say that it was one of the most enjoyable photographic experiences I’ve ever had. The subjects were interesting both on stage and off, I didn’t feel limited with inferior equipment, and I got great food to boot!
I took 414 pictures at the Banquet, so it might be sometime before I actually get some up here. I’m also working on a redesign of the site which will, at best (meaning highly unlikely), go live before the end of Christmas break. Here’s a teaser:
Tomarrow’s my birthday, so I’ll be feasting on banana bread all evening!
During our long three day weekend on the 14th, I got a D70 with an 18-50mm f/2.8 lens for taking pictures of Thanksgiving dinner (I know, worng time, but that’s when we did it). I used it to get the shots I’ve been dieing to get for a while. I feel like I succeeded in that respect.
Note: I uploaded the full size pictures (3008×2000px.) this time. You can get the high res versions by clicking on the medium size picture.
Enjoy!
Massive amount of new pictures will soon come to the gallery.
Stay tuned…
Photos from October at BFA are up now.
Last Friday, our freshmen class went on a field trip to the WWI trenches on a hill in Haut-Rhin, near where my parents live. The weather was horrible. It was cold and rainy, and my socks were damp. Was pretty depressing. But, I got to bring along one of the yearbook’s cameras; their old Nikon D1x with a 50mm f/1.8 prime on it. It really sucks battery life and two of the three batteries that I brought didn’t work, so I couldn’t shoot at the end of the trip. There were times when I wished I had a longer focal length, but in general, the prime satisfied my needs. I’ll get the pictures up in the gallery eventually. EDIT: They are now up.
More portrait photos in the gallery, and I’ve updated the About page that you can click to on the sidebar.
