Long awaited photography stuff

Excuse anything that resembles utterly atrocious spelling…As I’m writing this directly in OD than writing it elsewhere and pasting it in here…As I shall have lots of pictures to stuff in here. See…Finally, I gotted to them.

These first two are not actual photographs, but photograms. We put down a sheet of light sensitive photopaper, then arranged severl items over it. In this case, bubble wrap, produce netting, a broken clothes pin and a pine cone. The first one is the orginal photograph, which comes out in negative tones. The second is a positive print, made by placing a new sheet of paper down, and flipping the photogram upside down on top of it, and exposing it for 15 seconds. (I believe it was only 15 seconds anyway.)

 
The top picture of these two is a projection scale test. After getting the negative in the enlarger you place a sheet of paper down, put the scale on top of it, and expose it to 60 seconds of light. The scale allows only a certain amount of light to reach the paper, show diffrent exposure times. From the scale you pick the best exposure time to make prints from.
If I remember correctly the scale read about 2.5, so with a shift of aperture, (letting in less light in this instance), I could raise it to a 10 second exposure (which is what you are aiming for, around 10 seconds).
The second picture is the intial picture after figuring out exposure length.

 
The top picture of these two is using a filter of 0. It softens the picture. Lightens it up, as you can really see the twigs and what not that the nest is made out of in that photo. It’s probably a bit too much in the grey scale…So if I decide to make a ‘real’ print from it, I think I’d go up a bit in filter.
The second picture is with a 3.5 filter. Which is about the mid-point of filters, so it’s the one we start all pictures out on. [Think I might of lowered over all exposure to 8 or 9 on these pictures too…I’ve got notes taken on the back, so hopefully I can reproduce what I need.]
Since it’s a higher filter there are more darks in it, and it’s hard to see the twigs. I think I decided that a 2 or 2.5 filter would work the best. [Would of made a print with that, but it was getting late that night, and I wanted to get home to my Critters.]

 
This is a high contrast photo. It is the same as the two above it, only thing that has changed, once more, is the filter. This is at a filter of 5, the highest filter. It is for everything being either black or white. Kind of creepy.

 
These two again show the difference a filter can make. I believe the first one is a 3.5, and you can’t really make out the needles at all. The second picture, I don’t think I took it down to a 0…It might be a 2…I put the photos away so they wouldn’t get damaged after scanning, and I’m being too lazy to get them back out. But…As you can see, just by changing the filter, it really changes the photo. If someone was really bored, they could probably count the needles in the second picture.

 
These two were for specific assignments in class. I believe both were for shape.
The top one is of the Critter’s slide, covered in snow. It’s filter was lowered a bit to get rid of some of the shadow that was under the slide itself. It really helped to brighten the picture.
The second one is the satilite dish. I decided to go with the angle I did, and get the tree in it to make it more interesting. That way they kind of play off each other.

 
The top one of these is the river that I take my rubber boat down. Opposite side of the bridge that we put down in. It was one of the first pictures I took. I think it might be a little bit darker than it should…So if I do a new print of it, I think it’ll be with a lower filter. [Gods…I really hadn’t intened to add so much ‘technical’ talk into this entry…It’s just sort of happened. Sorries. Anyways…
The second picture was a picture of chance. It was taken on the roll that was supposed to be for textures. But I seen the deer, and turned around to get pictures of it. This, I believe, was taken from across the road from where the deer was at, while I was hanging out Appa’s window. *laughs* I don’t think you get the full vision of it on the computer though. In the actual print, you can see the deer’s eyes & nose even! I was actually quite impressed with myself.
[I’m hoping to manage some more deer pictures…But I need to start carrying the camera with me for that. But that means dragging it to class with me, so the battery doesn’t get cold, or the mechanics of it getting too cold. & I’m not sure I’ll be able to catch sight of as many come spring when the trees start to bud out. I’ve been doing really good lately of seeing them along the roads in the treelines, where not many people are going to catch sight of them. I counted 10 on the way home from school the other day! Yeah…Deer is speaking to me, and I should be bloody well listening…And I’m meaning to…I just need to figure out for sure what Deer is trying to tell me. I’ll get to that.]

The final two are a couple of my favorites. The first one, despite being a

garbage can, I like. I did a good job of framing it in the tree branches (I thought this before James said so after looking at the negative). It’s outside the library on campus.
The second picture is the bridge where we set the rubber boat in to go down the river. It is the starting point…Well, right before the starting point. This is dirrectly down river (the length of the bridge width) from the first picture of the river. We set the boat in just to the left of this. I do have a picture of it as well…But it’s still on the two dark side…And it was before we learned about filters, and I was having a rough day, and just wanted out of the dark room at that point. I might go back and reprint it later.

So there you have it…Some of the work I’ve been doing in Photography. I was suppose to go an make more prints today…But I never got to T.C. to do it. Not going to get into the details of it in this entry…But I will hopefully get to make some next week (if not before then) and I will have a helper with me. [I told a sick & distraught (as she had to go to her father’s after school) Sonja that I would take her to the dark room next week-end to make prints. Hopefully Harley won’t object too much to not going…I think, perhaps, I will work towards taking him in two weeks after I take Sonja. I can have him earn it somehow.]

I need to have 10 good prints by the 16th (I believe it is) of March for the first portfolio review. [The final portfolio calls for 21 photos I believe.]  I have a list I want to print from the value assigment…Despite cussing out said assignment at the time.

As for my red/black hair pictures…I know there are some, somewhere…I’m just not certain where they are hiding. I’ll either find them, or take more…Though the black isn’t as black as it once was already.

Hope you enjoyed the picture show…And didn’t get too overwhelmed by the technical stuff that snuck out there when I wasn’t looking. *laughs*