Well here I am, week 2 of my placement well underway. This is a really good experience for all of us in this course I'm sure. Hard to believe that my college had never had a placement portion in the course before. It took our current coordinator about 5 years to get it into place. There are quite a few options for placements within Sudbury so it's not like any of us should have had any trouble getting a placement.
I'm working at Creative Odyssey in Sudbury, Ontario. If you get a chance you should check out their website, they do some nice work and I'm learning a lot about different processes that we touched on in our courses but not in-depth (www.creativeodyssey.com). Unfortunately I can't post any of the jobs I've been working on because of a non-disclosure agreement I had to sign, but trust me it's fun stuff, and after all I did get into this career because I enjoy it and it is a lot of fun. I don't think that many people actually get to work at something they really enjoy, so if you do have a job that you love, count yourself very very lucky.
If you are stuck in a job that is not something you enjoy, or isn't creative, I highly recommend finding a hobby that allows you to be creative. Whether that means scrap-booking (which is very popular these days) or photography (another popular pastime), just find something that you think you’ll enjoy and go out there, be creative and have fun. I leave you with a piece I did for my Advanced Design Applications, this was for a film festival and I utilized the International Type Style of Josef Müller-Brockmann. It seems that converting it to a JPEG has dulled the colour a bit, but it still works. Enjoy :)
So we did some HDR photography in class the last couple weeks, they are pretty cool to do, but I'm guessing much easier if you actually have "bracketing" on your camera, which I don't. So in order for me to do HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography I have to manually set my shutter speed to get the 3 - 7 different exposure levels. If you've never tried HDR you should it's really kinda cool, here's one of the photo's I took. FYI old, rusty, dirty things look really awesome in HDR.
Well, well, well, well... It's almost done! My first semester of my 3rd year is almost done! I have a placement in a little over a weeks time :) I'm really looking forward to it, I think it will be a great experience. I've been doing freelance work but this will be in a studio :) Then only one semester left and I'll be among the ranks of the working class again :)
