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.