10th Roll: Spring Break - Free Choice

I chose to photograph the spout with a drip of water. I was glad the way this one turned out because it was just like the one I wanted when I saw the water dripping. It was a good use of shallow depth and focused well on the subject. The other photo I shot was a piece of broken tree that looked neat and exposed. I burned the tree and the water photos for 4.5 seconds each.

12th Roll: Portraits

The portraits roll was all about taking pictures of someone. Different techniques to use was framing the face or outlining the body. I chose to photograph my dog, Molly. The one with the stairs worked well because she's framed by the staircase and her body is outlined by the light that she's about to run towards. The other one shows Molly outside and the sidewalk at an almost perpendicular way to her body. I tried to make the rule of thirds worked and that no lines went through her head. The stairs and Molly had 5 seconds overall and 5 seconds around the her. The one with the sidewalk was just 5 seconds.

15th Roll: Dramatic Lighting

Dramatic lighting required us to use side lighting from a window, flash light, or some other device that gives off light. In dramatic lighting it was important to know how to correctly use the light meter; changing the aperture or shutter speed if needed. Some of the photos I shot didn't turn out the way I'd liked because they were too dark or blurry. The shoes and a photo of a wooden figure were the ones I decided to print. The shoes have the best detail and the lighting worked well. There's a shadow of the shoes that I tried to capture. The figure was okay but I wish some of the other photos of the figure had shown up better. The wooden figure was used with a 5.6 aperture and 5.6 seconds with a 3 and 1/2 contrast sheet. The shoes were on a 5.6 aperture with 5 seconds.

11th Roll: Positive and Negative

My positive negative with a tic-tac-toe looking board. I think it came out pretty well but the lines could be straighter. I think the positives came out a good black, I didn't really like the negative. Maybe because it looked different from what I'm used to seeing. I think where the four pictures came together worked well because you can see the edges of the blocks.

17th Roll: Last Free Choice

 Molly, rock bed, and contact sheet. The last photos in Photography and I chose to print out a picture of Molly and a rock bed near my home. Molly was framed in the picture by the desk legs and the rock bed was pretty straightforward with a nice S-curve but the car detracts from the picture. Molly photo was on an aperture of 5.6 with 6 seconds overall and 5 seconds on the right-hand side of the table leg. The rock bed was burned for 5 seconds on an aperture of 5.6.

13th Roll: Carter's Mountain Substitute

In this free roll, I took pictures around my neighborhood. The one of the goose on the water was one of the many I took of the geese (seen in contact sheet). However, this one where the goose is symmetrical with the water worked well and was good timing. The second one of the bird and stairs was lucky because the bird was right there when I turned. I captured it pretty well I think. The dodging and burning process took a long time but it was worth it.

14th Roll: David Hockney Color

For this assignment we got to shoot in color film and take multiple shots in one location. The technique was created by David Hockney where you are supposed to stay in one spot and take multiple pictures of the landscape. To make it more interesting put the camera in a vertical or tilted angle. I liked the way my David Hockney photos came together.

16th Roll: Cale

 For this roll, the class as a whole, walked up to Cale Elementary. It was fun to see the kids having a great time without worrying about school, homework, and tests. The picture with the boy on the far right and the teacher on the far left walking in opposite directions was a quick shot. The second picture with all the kids running around the parking lot was a bit too light. I tried for more contrast but it make it even lighter and adding more seconds didn't help.  There's not really a subject of interest, I tried to make it so that the blurred girl is the subject but there are too many other distractions and it doesn't stand out.

7th Roll: Hands and Feet

For this roll we had to take pictures of feet and hands. The complexity of wrinkles in an old persons to the smoothness of a baby's. I chose to take a picture of my dog's feet and my mom's hand while she was working on a sudoku. I cropped the dog picture so that my horizontal line of the deck was a third of the way down. My dog had licked a place on her right front paw and I made sure I got that in the picture. The one of the hand with the pencil hanging loose and sort of diagonally accross the puzzle page. I used 5 seconds on the dog feet and 2 overall seconds for the hand with 2 seconds dodging the hand to make it lighter.

9th Roll: Framing

For the framing roll, we were supposed to make the subject outlined by a frame of some sort. Windows, door ways, and hats or umbrellas. I chose to get the footprints of my dog when she went out in the morning. I think the paw prints look good in contrast to the snow. The second picture I took was one of a playground near my neighborhood. I tried to get the tall objects (bottom right corner) in the center of the bars. I didn't make it very clear so the eye goes all over and doesn't know where to focus on.

6th Roll: Rule of Thirds

In the rule of thirds assignment, I used lines to help me. The morning I took the photograph of the two posts leading into the field, there was a heavy amount of fog. It's not easy to see, but in the horizon there are trees that have fog. It would have been better if the horizon were a third of the way down but to get the two posts in the picture I had to have the horizon in the center. The parking lines and the crack in the road made an "A" that I though was very interesting. I put the vertex in the upper right hand corner to make it more interesting. I printed both at 4 seconds.

8th Roll: Free Assignment

This is in place of the Carter Mountain assignment that I couldn't attend. In the roll I took pictures of mostly plants that were blooming because of spring. I found a leaf on the ground that was half on grass and other on cement. When printing, I had help from Mr. Garland to dodge and burn. The overall photo was put under for 4 seconds and then I used a pin to dodge the leaf and let the grass burn in for 2 more seconds to make it a little more darker. In the photo with the trees, I tried to dodge the lightly colored petals while the surrounding received a few more seconds of light. I started with 2 seconds for the whole picture and then used my hand to block the tree petals for another 2 seconds. I used a few sheets to make the left building darker, but it still came out pretty light everytime.

5th Roll: Conveying A Message

For this roll conveying a message I used my dog. He was digging in the backyard under the steps and it was really sunny and hot that day so the picture came out lighter than usual. I'm thinking I could have tried a different angle to get a better understanding of what's going on. In the other photo, I used my shoes and put them at the edge of the balcony and shot at the ground below. I was trying to convey the sense of height which is a bit hard to tell unless it's explained or looked at closer. It would have been neat to do this off a building that's higher up.

4th Roll: Lines

In the lines roll, I decided to print the reflection of water and a tree branch that had water droplets. Lines are in the reflection from the trees. For the other picture I chose the branch that had an aperture of f/5.6. It has a good use of depth and lines in both the droplets and the branch. Lines can be diagonal, horizontal, and vertical. They can be in an S-shape or a C-shape and this gives it a feminine or masculine look. Another photo that I like but decided not to print was number 26, with a reflection on the hood of a car that showed the trees. 

2nd Roll: Motion

In the second roll, we took pictures on motion. Half of the roll was frozen and the other was blur. The picture with the dog was off focus but would have shown motion pretty well since the dog was running towards me. In the second picture, the fan was spinning on a medium speed so taking a freeze shot of it was fairly easy. To get a frozen picture you need to keep the shutter speed at values over 1/60 and under that for a blurry photo.

3rd Roll: Depth of Field

Depth of field is used to help focus on a certain subject or get the whole picture in detail. To adjust depth, you need to use the aperture on the camera. The bigger the number the smaller the aperture and the more clarity you get with the foreground and background. The photo of the trees and the sun shining through is my photo with an aperture value of f/8 and enlarger time of 6 seconds. My shallow depth is of my Zune but I focused on the headphone cord instead and the actual device is a bit out of focus. I used an aperture of f/2.8 and put the enlarger on for 5 seconds.

1st Roll: Pick and Choose

This was just the first roll and we hadn't had any lessons yet besides setting up the camera and getting the light meter correct. We went outside of MHS and finding interesting things to photograph. The car headlight was an okay photo, I would change it by making the headlight more to the left side. I am glad that the detail showed up really well. The day was bright enough and it gives a shine/glow to other cars in the background. The second picture was taken at the corner of a step where there were leaves and dirt had built up. I was glad with the way it turned out, but on the left it's a bit blurry. I have kept the aperture of the enlarger at 5.6 every time and haven't used a filter yet.