New series in art lessons... Photography

Photography is a really broad subject as art. What you are doing is using the digital camera or film (those relics do exist still but not in as much use as they were just ten years ago) to record the light as it reflects off an object. This holds true for both black and white and color photography.

However in today's world I am going to assume that for the most part, most people are using digital cameras (cell phones, tablets, what have you) Digital photography has so many aspects that we can cover. so we can have a big series on better photography.

There are some advantages to digital photography. Once you have made the initial purchase of your equipment you are not paying for film and developing to just see what you have. It also eliminates the wait time involved with film development. The cost of the chemicals needed to develop the film is also eliminated.

My mom took two different black and white photography classes and I got to see her old film canister. (we sold it last summer) It had a wire coil inside a metal canister with a black plastic lid that had a really strange bump on top. I can't imagine standing in compete darkness trying to wind the film into that coil and only touching the edges because if you touched it incorrectly you ruined the film.  So many things to go wrong.

Of course I do realize that the downfall of digital photography would be a digital memory fail of some sort. However if care is taken it is still the simpler way to photography,

We are first going to talk about taking photo's of dolls...or other inanimate objects....hey wait I am so not inanimate. Well you know short people like me.

This is a great photo mom took of my sister Beth. While you don't see her face you get the feeling she was riding along on her board and mom caught that great shadow in it as well. 

She was standing still and the breeze blew her hair giving it a feeling of motion. (lucky shot mom, lol)

What mom?

I was just told not to bust my mom's photography skills. Truthfully she does ok. 

So in next post we will talk about lighting a photograph.

Saige

I have been bad about blogging...

Sometimes, even us dolls get really bad about blogging. I can't make any excuses why I just did. I really need to give you some more great art ideas that you can do. I will do my best to work at this harder as we all need to practice. I need to work on my blogging skills that is for certain.

Here is a really cool drawing my mom did. It was sketched in pencil then the colored it with colored pencils and inked all the details in . It isn't perfect but it is one of her best attempts at a Dragon.  It was scanned then into the computer so it wouldn't get lost.  It is a good way to preserve drawings. 

So to let you know what I was up to I have spent a ton of time standing around in a dress getting my photo taken. Yeah modeling. I have been working for Confetti Doll Designs as a model alongside their main model who's blog is http://iwantcandytoo.blogspot.com/ and her name is Candace. She is fun and has an adorable younger brother named Andy. 

I also recently did a little modeling for Dolls For A Cause. 

Their next campaign begins on August 31 on Facebook and it will run through the 7 of September. The awesome ladies that run that group have explained that they have recently changed all of their ways of fundraising. While they originally were using Ebay they found that the seller fees were dipping into their total funds available to donate, and by offering smaller groupings but more of them in comparison to one large group project they were able to make their donated goods available to a wider range of people. They are earning greater amounts of money to help where needed. Then the last change they made was moving to a more personal story. We have been finding people who have illnesses and have been donating to them in the place of the large corporate conglomerates. They supported a girl fighting cancer and Pam of our upcoming campaign is a close friend of so many of the ladies that sew and donate the clothing. 

Pink for Pam event can be found at this link, and you can learn more about the Dolls for A Cause group on their facebook page.

I absolutely adore this dress. I love how pretty I look and I feel very much like I was channeling Molly Ringwold in Pretty in Pink.

Keep practicing your art and I will work hard at a new project idea for you all to do. 

Love 

Saige