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For the final assignment for my film photography class.
Concept:
This is the antithesis of the Ansel Adams type, quintessential landscape photo.
Instead of being perfect and crisp and accurate... instead of using extremely precise exposure with well-defined accuracy using the zone system and other techniques... this photo is everything that those things are not.
This photograph was shot on 35mm in a 120N Holga. However, while that type of photography yields imperfections and "happy accidents", there is still an amount of precision and technique that goes into shooting this way. Because, of course, while you're playing a sort of guessing game, you certainly can't just go into it blindly - it won't work that way. You have to make extremely educated decisions on exposure, perhaps moreso than you do with the zone system and such techniques, because you are, in essence, shooting in the dark.
This is something that I have been working on a lot during the past month or so - and I feel it is developing into somewhat of a personal language. This lo-fi, imperfect, accidental experimentation with photography is wonderful - I have fallen very much in love with it. I gave up my other idea - to revisit the self-portrait - for this. Alternative landscape, at its best. :o)
Process (thought I would add this in case anyone was curious):
35mm Kodak 125PX black and white film in a 120N Holga. It's really easy, and doesn't really require any extra manipulation to the Holga.... you just have to tape up the window really well, using a few pieces of cardboard and loads of tape. Tape alone will not work - you'll get light leaks.
You should wind about 28-30 clicks between frames - you can do less or more depending. It will yield you about 16 shots. Once you're done with the roll, you have to leave it in the Holga and take it out in a darkroom. In the darkroom, you can unwind it from the spool that was in the Holga and wind it back into the cannister, and then process it yourself, or take it somewhere.
To print this, you need a glass plate in the enlarger, in place of a negative carrier. Using a negative carrier won't show the sprocket holes. When you print it, it will always be just a little shorter than your paper, if you print for the entire length.
For these images, I printed on glossy fiber paper, and then sepia toned them. You need bleach and sepia toner to do this. This also brings out the numbers, I found. In black and white, it was somewhat difficult to see the numbers.
I'm taking a class called Assignment Photography. Each week, we get a different assignment; the goal is to broaden our photography, so we don't get into ruts. This week, the assignment was a self-portrait, that creatively says something about who we are.
Assignment Suicide, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal D1539, 1965 reprint
Cover artist's signature is indistinct (Lou somebody)
#3 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Today, I was given the greatest treasure. My mother gave me my grandmother's Bible. I always remembered my grandmother being a spiritual person. I didn't realize how much until I saw her Bible. I have never seen a Bible so worn and studied in my life. She made the cross bookmark. This Bible is filled with her thoughts and verses that were important to her. Plus all kinds of poems and newspaper clippings she used as bookmarks. Not to mention the family history she recorded in it. I have a great start to researching my family tree. This book is so fagile and delicate. It means the world to me.
Assignment 52: Reflections
(Only had my iPhone with me at the time, but sometimes they do come through---)
Assignment Tokyo, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal 449-02390-075, 1971
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#32 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Please critique seriously and also point out weaknesses!
This is actually my first picture I did not shoot in automatic mode...
Active Assignment Weekly: Mar 1 - Mar 8: Fairy Tales.
WIT- Same shoot as the last but lightened the image. Some desaturation of color too.
Assignment 52: On the Street Where You Live
I had something else in mind for my last shot, but when I walked out the door, I saw this wide-eyed guy on the newel post.
Trying to take a nice picture of my "48 star" USA flag I have had since I was a child.
As you notice, I had a helper!! LOL
Assignment - Sorrento Siren, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal s1270, 1963 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#18 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Cover art was not credited anywhere in this book; confirmed as McGinnis in "The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis" by Art Scott & Dr. Wallace Maynard.
Squirrel by Hideo Komatsu. A rare occurrence of me having done most of the available assignments for all of my classes next week allowed me some spare time for folding. Folded from a test square of Golden River paper.
Assignment to Disaster, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal k1534, 1965 reprint
Cover art by Charles Binger
#1 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment - Moon Girl, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal d1849, 1967 PBO
Cover art uncredited
Re-scanned Jan. 2014
#26 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
PCA282
Shooting for a purpose
Jan 5th 2014
I must admit I thought the assignment wanted just the image (with no text) but I note all the others so far have text added - so I did!
The meaning is obvious, I hope. An Agency specialising in counselling services for those experiencing marriage or relationship problems.
On reflection I wish the crack was a bit narrower, but I hope the meaning is clear. :)
Two images. The bells and the cracked earth background showing through. Blended in PSE5 and text added there too.
Kate
Active Assignment Weekly: Jan 18-25 "Details"
Rumpleteazer is one of the most beautiful cats I have ever seen. He has just as much spunk as when my mom saved him from the side of the road many years ago.
There is a color version of this in my photostream as well, but I thought the b&w highlighted the details a little more effectively for the AAW.
"And when you heard a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming
Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie! And Rumpleteazer!"
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!”
― T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Original Caption: Coho Salmon in Columbia River Fish Hatchery. (From the Sites Exhibition. for Other Images in This Assignment, See Fiche Numbers 92 93, 94, 95, 96.) 05/1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-11419
Photographer: Falconer, David
Subjects:
Portland (Multnomah county, Oregon, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
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