blur

This is my blur project! The hardest thing was trying to get the shutter speed right, and on some I focused so much on the shutter speed, I forgot about the light meter and they turned out a little dark. Best part: making my friends do silly things so that I could photograph them.

Landscapes part 2/2

I think this is my favorite picture out of the landscapes. I really like how the ivy on the tree makes i't's own mini landscape, and then there is the real landscape in the background. I probably needed to develop it a little darker, but most of the light patches are because it doesn't stay flat in the scanner.

I really like this picture because it looks like some sort of weird, ethereal forest, and just a little bit haunted. I also really like the contrast between the dark trees and the white sky. What I needed to work on was to develop it longer in the dark room, so it turned out a little darker. 

landscapes part 1 of 2

So this is part one of my landscape project (the others are still not dry enough to scan).

I really liked this project! I got to fiddle with my camera and try some new techniques I'd read about. Some worked (focusing on the background rather than the obvious subject) and others didn't (holding a mirror under the lens to block out unwanted objects) but over all it was one of my favorite projects so far.

black and white face smashes

scanned face

This is my favorite so far! I always thought it was a myth that you could do this, but voila! So you do this by turning the scanner on an rotating your face over it. I could do a million of these!! I did a few in color, even though the assignment is black and white. Unfortunately, I didn't realize until afterwards that this computer didn't have photo shop. But do not fear, there are more, in black and white, on the next post!!

portraits

I'm a little upset, because I lost the best photos on this reel, which is why there are only two pictures. I still have the contact sheet, but the film went MIA before I could actually print them... Hopefully they'll show up soon enough and I can get them done ASAP!

Just for fun!

So I went on a trip to Ashland for the Shakespeare festival a few weeks ago, and my friend gave me an extra roll of film from the year before. I had a blast looking in the weird shops at the fun things they had around, and these are my two favorite pictures from the trip! To be honest, they're my two favorite pictures so far this year.

Self Portrait

Welcome to my face! For some reason, the moment I turn the camera on myself, I go from a perfectly normal teenage girl to some distant cousin of the loch ness monster. Technically, however, the difficulty with this project was both focusing (a lot of them turned out as blurs) and exposure (a lot of them look black or dark dark grey). Here is the finished product, however: three doofy photographs of yours truly.

Alphabet

So this is our alphabet project! I had a lot of fun with this one, and it was nice because it was just digital so I could focus on only the shapes. I went into DT Portland to get some of these photos, but it was all so dark most of them turned out very black. I also had a lot of fun with my cello, because it's such an unusual shape.

So the pictures above spell (or are SUPPOSED to spell, the format isn't exactly right. But if you start from left to right going down, it makes sense) WHO HAD FUN? and the answer is I DID!

Pinhole Project

This project was my first in photo 1, and I'm actually kind of proud of it. Pinholes are harder than they look. My biggest issue was the exposure time, and the picture to the far top left was overexposed, while I have suspicions that my self portrait was under exposed. But still, I'm happy they turned out bearable, to say the least.