Work of Professor Cyr

Being shown professional work by your professors is cool to see. It's also cool to hear how they got started out. Seeing that Professor Cyr got his start as an undergraduate, just like a lot of the people in the class, is interesting to know. Often we think that people have to start out before that to make anything of the profession that they want to pursue. It was interesting to see that his main profession was/is printing while still taking photos and doing his own personal work on the side. Until he told us about this being a job I had never thought of it as one within the field of photography.
I specifically liked his work that he did with the darkroom processing bins and all the different colors that the became over years of use. It was cool to see that he had ones from famous photographers as well. I also liked the photos of the different developing agents that made bubbles. Neither of these two projects had pictures that looked alike.

Photoshop

Since I've started taking photos and editing, I was never big on photoshop for editing, I'm still not. I'm used to Lightroom and applications like that. Recently, and recently learning to use it better, I've been using photoshop to add to my edits. Being able to take objects out of images flawlessly is very helpful so you don't have to worry about the object as much during the shooting, if you can help it that is. Sometimes you can't help it. Being in Digital Materials and Processes is teaching me a lot of new things and different ways to do things, such as moving a particular object from one part of the image to the other and making it look like it belongs there. Also learning a little bit of photo restoration is cool too. I don't have any work from that class to show examples though. Overall I'm starting to like it a little more, after learning a bit more about it.