Monday, September 26, 2011

Polaroid Transfers





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For my polaroid transfers I tried to find pictures that had many colors and had interesting components to them. For some of my pictures I did get bright colors and tried to use layering or other things. One that I did was of the mountains it had layers and colors. This one  turned out better than the other with less lift off. The other one was a bird on a fence with another bird behind it on a sunflower. This one was darker so when I transfered it there was more lift off. In this one I needed more light colors not dark ones so that it would transfer better.

Monday, September 19, 2011

4 photos using layers


This photo is showing 4 layers. The first layer would be the foreground;the snowy ground. The second layer is the house. The third layer is the trees on wither side extending above the house. The fourth layer would be the sky as the background. This also has good composition because the subject(the house) isn't directly in the middle of the photograph, this makes it more interesting.

This photo also has 4 layer. Again the first is going to be the foreground, in this case it is all the shrubery with the cacti.The second layer is the mountain range behind the cacti. The third layer woulkd be the sun. And the fourth layer is the yellow sky. I really like this picture and how the layers are one behind the other all lined up and showing a scenery.

This photo has 6 layers. The first layer is the two men and the bull in the front of the picture. The second layer is the hand carrying the red bucket off to the side. This photo also uses the framing technique because the third layer is framed by the first layer; the two men roping the bull. and then the fourth layer is framed by the third; the man on the horse. The fifth layer is the ground, and the sixth layer is the sky. Layers are hard to get but this photo was able to get 6 which makes it really good along with the framing.

This photo has three layers. The foreground is the trees. The second layer is the castle. And the third is the sky. This shows how simple layers can be, but to really get a good picture with many layers it takes a lot of work.

This portrait uses layers. The photo has four layers. One layer is the main subject, the girl. The second layer is the stone wall behind her. The third is the plants to the side of her, and the fourth is the pot that the plants are in.
      What I liked about my layering photos was that I could get at least three in each photo. What I didn't like was that on some of them I didn't use other concepts to the photo besides just layering, i would sometimes just go back to subject in the middle of a quick shot. Layering can help you as a photographer because it can apply to any subject and will make all of your pictures stronger if they have more layers. The more layers there are the more intresting the picture will be.
       Fiber paper is museum grade paper because it is smooth and can make a picture look really nice if the person knows what they are doing in the darkroom while printing.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

3200 speed film

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 These two pictures show that 3200 speed film is grainy and sharp isn't what this film is about, the picture should still be in focus but it isn't sharp and defined. I choose these two because they show that even though the film is grainy the picture can still be in focus and that the film adds a different effect to the pictures. This helps so that in the future with 3200 film I can stilol take pictures of whatever and have them turn out really well but with a deifferent style than the other pictures I take.I think that the grain in higher speeds film is really cool I like the different look it gives to pictures but there are some pictures that you should still use slower film speed to get the clairity.I liked my idea for the lighting on this roll, I took pictures at night trying to get dramatic lighting, a few pictures this concept worked and I got a picture of the headlights on the highway at night time which turned out really cool. For this roll I used ISO 3200. If I retook this roll I would make sure that there was actually enough light in the setting to be able to see detail. The disadvantages of this film is you don't get total sharpness. The advantages is that you can shoot in dark settings and get a better result than with slower speed films.

Photo 2 roll 1

My first roll of film was a free roll at school. My subject was Caroline and the school garden in the back. My first two prints were both from the garden. My very first one I worked on was of a flower with the sun burtsing out in a star behind it. to actually show the star effect of the sun  I had to burn in about 28 extra seconds at the top of the picture. This really brought out the star effect. My second picture I didn't really change anything, no doging or burning. The second photo was of a grasshopper sitting on one of the flowers with the sun reflecting of its back. I think I shouldnt have stuck the grasshopper in straight in the middle of the picure and should have tried to get some of a background so it wouldnt be blank space without the grasshopper in the middle.