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My negatives were very easy to find, I firstly started with (as you can see in this page) the printing composition with only five pictures. To find the settings for these pictures I started off with what I usually start off. Which is at aperture 2.8, no filter, and I begin with 2 seconds, and go up in two's until reaching 10 seconds. When i saw that something was turning up, but it was way too white to see anything, I immediatly added more time. then i began at 20 seconds and went up in steps of 10 seconds till i reached 70 seconds. At that point everything turned out, however, I saw that if I added only a little bit more time to the maximum time, it would turned out better. Therefore, all of my negatives which you can see on this page are at the same settings, mainly at aperture 2.8, filter 0, and 75 seconds. I'm very happy with how they turned out because most of my pictures are in focus and their contrasts are close to excellent.
During this claustrophobia project it was relatively difficult to find things that were claustrophobic while being at school. It took a lot of thinking, when someone mentioned taking pictures of a spider; I figured I could go look for a spider. But with temperatures like these, finding a spider was almost impossible. When walking around the school, I found that it would be interesting to take pictures of things such as the elevator, which scares many people including myself when something is wrong with it. When finally getting all the pictures together, I saw my negatives turned out well. Finding the settings for the printing compositions is always what takes up most time. However my negatives didn’t seem to be grey at all, for which it makes finding settings a lot easier. Again, during this project I had finished my prints rather fast. When we started, we thought we only needed to print 3 pictures. I managed to do so in only 2 classes. However, the second last class we spent working on this project, it turned out the assignment said we needed to print 4 prints. Which I managed to finish in only one class, and start on another project (the teacher prints). Printing was not a problem for me, my images turned out well, with good settings, and I am very happy with them. However, it does seem to me as well as the teacher that my framing skills are rather bad. For which the picture is not straight on the paper. This will have to be improved over the course of this class.
This photography was taken by George DeLoache, an American photographer, and often takes pictures of portraits. This is a very interesting picture. It covers, unlike the other images, over half of the man’s body, and is also in black and white. The lighting is very different from other pictures, because it seems like a lighting that goes vertically across his body. I think it is very interesting because the entire picture is very dark except for the middle of the picture vertically. That part has more light and more shadows, which gives a very nice effect.
This image was taken by Carlo Schuller, a German photographer who mostly takes shots of fashionable appeal. In this black and white image, we can see the way in which this photographer has put both hair as light into action. The light is coming from her front left side, which is reflecting on her hair and part of her face, as well as part of her body. This picture was most likely taken as a modelling shot for which the photographer was able to move around with the light on at all times and take the picture with the right lightings on her and on her hair. I really do like this picture because of its ordinary look, and the natural yet posed face and look in her eyes.
This photograph was taken by a man named Bill Schwab, who was born in 1959 in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American photographer who is well known for his emotionally charger but peaceful urban and natural landscapes. He had received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the Central Michigan University. And has shown many solo exhibitions around the whole of the United States. This image is of an Asian lady, looking into the camera. The use of light is rather peculiar in this image because it is pointing straight at the face, and the back of the image (the wall). It is interesting because only the center of her face has sharp light, the rest looks rather dark still, and is not as strongly emphasized. However, because of this different use of lighting, I think it makes it a special image, and rather interesting too.
On the last print, I was looking at a close-up of the two girls. Sadly, it is not a very sharp close-up. It does still have some distance. This image has the same effect as the previous one with Faith’s glasses. On this picture there is also a reflection of the light, which is rather upsetting. Like I said for last picture I should have asked Faith to take her glasses off. I do however like that Renee is the only one in true focus, because that then focuses more on Renee’s hair, yet have Faith as well in order to evaluate her within the picture as well. This image didn’t need different settings than the other ones either; it also had an aperture of 2.8, and filter 0. Its test strips were started at 65 seconds, like the first print. And then I went up in 10’s until I found the right setting, mainly aperture 2.8, filter 0 and 95 seconds. Then I printed it in large size. Over all I am happy with this image, and like I said, I like that Renee is in focus and Faith is not. Like, she said herself, this image looks like the photographer wants to emphasize on Renee, and have Faith seem a background person. However the contrasts in this image are very clear.
The use of light in this image was by using an umbrella, and we can see a slight reflection of it in her eyes, this was probably because the light intensity was too high, therefore I should be careful next time to put a softer light source. Yet for the light to be intense enough to still be able to get those shades by her neck and under her chin. This image was the second one I printed. As well as the most difficult one to find the settings for. Because I took this image from the same set of negatives, I thought that by starting on the same timing as the previous full print it should be alright. However, it turned out not to be the case. It took me a relatively long time to find the settings because I needed to go higher in time since it was too light. When I reached 145 seconds I found that that was the right setting for this image. Then I printed it on the larger paper. This picture was one taken for the assignment of an image with two subjects, for which I included both Renee and Faith. It is a pretty nice picture, however just like the previous picture, its contrast is not too outstanding, it does still contain a little bit of grey, yet it does still give it a nice effect. I am a little bit upset about the fact that Faith is wearing her glasses because that made a negative effect when it came to the lighting since you can see some of the light reflected on her glasses. However over all, I like this image, the shadows it gives off between the hair and the faces of both of the girls, as well as that shadow Faith’s sleeve creates upon her arm.
