ANNUAL REPORT
PHOTOGRAPHY
Overview
The Photography Centre (Room 417) is equipped with a wide range of facilities, allowing students the opportunity for hands-on learning in areas such as traditional black & white printing, traditional colour printing, digital printing, and a variety of historical and experimental photographic processes.
The traditional B&W and Colour Darkroom complexes contain a total of 59 enlarger stations, including 14 mural printing stations and two large-format wall projection stations. The Colex Colour Processor will develop traditional colour prints up to 30 inches wide, while Basic and Advanced B&W darkrooms contain large sinks for hand format.
The Epson Imaging Lab is equipped with Macintosh computers, film and print scanners, as well as large format Epson inkjet printers upon which students make photo-quality digital prints up to 60 inches wide. Students can also output digital negatives in this facility, which in turn can be used in our Historical Processes area to create Cyanotypes, Van Dyke Brown prints and Albumen prints.
The Historical Processes area is equipped with a Stat Camera and UV Exposure Unit. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in old 19th-century techniques. Photography staff assist by preparing chemical formulas for students, which are weighed and mixed using recipes from the past.
The Print Finishing Room is used for trimming, dry mounting, mat cutting and photo editing purposes.
Three Shooting Studios accommodate photography students who wish to produce indoor still life, portrait and tableau pieces. The studios are equipped with Mole Richardson tungsten lights and various studio accessories. Speedotron Strobe units can be signed out from the Photo Equipment Cage .
The Photo Equipment Cage has available for sign-out a wide range of portable equipment, including: 4”x 5” view cameras, digital cameras, filters, light meters, film developing tanks and portable strobe kits to name just a few of the items available to students. Much of this equipment is available for overnight sign-out for students interested in location photo shoots.
Schedule
Materials
Consumable materials can be purchased from technicians or class assistants during open studio hours. Please check studio and shop schedules in order to ensure you are not interrupting a class when you go to buy materials. Materials can only be bought using OCAD U tickets. Tickets can be purchased from the Cashier, Monday to Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Cashier is located in the Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaul Street, Level 1.
The following materials are readily available for student purchase:
Film
Ilford FP4 Plus 125 B/W 4x5
Kodak TRI-X 320 B/W NEG 4x5
Efke Infrared B/W NEG 4x5 (limited supply)
Kodak Ektachrome 100 COL POS 4x5
Kodak Portra 160 NC COL NEG 4x5
Kodak Portra 160 NC COL NEG 8x10
Kodak TMAX 100 B/W NEG 8x10
Polaroid Film
Type 52 – 400 ISO B/W 4x5
669 – 80 ISO colour
Spectra
Dupe/Ortho Film
Fuji Ortho (reversal/stat)
Fuji Duplicating Film
Colour Photocopier Transfer Papers
Colour Photocopier transfer paper 8.5 x 11”
Colour Photocopier transfer paper 11 x 17”
Water transfer paper 8.5 x 11”
Epson 4000 & 4800 Printing
Epson Premium Luster Photo paper
(SO41405) 8.5 x 11”
Epson Premium Luster Photo paper
(SO41405) 13 x 19”
Epson Inkjet Transparency (SO41604) 8.5 x 11”
Epson Iron-On Transfer Paper (SO41153) 8.5 x 11”
Ink only (you supply media)
Other
Film Sleeves (35mm/120/4x5/8x10)
Drymount tissue 2” wide
Seamless paper
Magnetic tape
Nitrile gloves
Logan mat blades
Diffusion Material
(Tough Spun Flame Retardant)
Contact
David Otterson
Technician
416-977-6000, Ext. 264
Office: 417h
dotterson@faculty.ocad.ca
Hugh Martin
Technician
416-977-6000, Ext. 264
Office: 417h
hmartin@faculty.ocad.ca
Angela Del Buono
Technician
416-977-6000, ext. 264
Office: 417h
adelbuono@faculty.ocad.ca
Darren Cerkownyk
Technician
416-977-6000, Ext. 264
Office: 417h
dcerkownyk@faculty.ocad.ca
Linzi Bugeja
Technician
416-977-6000, Ext. 264
Office: 417h
lbugeja@faculty.ocad.ca
Last Modified:1/24/2012 12:57:32 PM
UPDATES
We are now in Week 4 of WINTER 2012 term. The shops and studios are open. Please visit individual studio pages for updated schedules.
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October 26 & 27, 2011. Click the logo for more information.