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baby girl Lyra, 10 mos old
Depth of Field/Focus Assignment
I'm playing catch up on flickr tonight so I hope this works for the dof assignment for Studio 26, it's been a crazy 2 weeks and I sincerely apologize for not participating in the discussions this assignment.
Æ’/2.8 145.0mm 1/125 ISO 400
Won second place in DPS photography contest, Assignment: Abandoned!
It still needs a title. Any suggestions?
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.
This is by far the hardest I have ever EVER worked for a photo.
The assignment was "water" and the teacher wanted us to think about a concept, plan out a picture and make it happen. Exactly opposite of everything I usually do!! I looked on line for ideas and saw the instructions for a shot like this. Knew it would be a challenge but had no clue how many little snags would come along with the challenge.
I taped the glass onto a tripod at an angle. Set up the camera on another tripod and started out with a small amount of water and blue food coloring. Started out shooting toward the sky but realized I had trees and houses reflecting in the water. Relocated to another spot on the deck facing another direction and tried again. This time roof lines showed up so I moved again and hung a quilt (all white) from the eaves behind the glass. Quilt was too close to the glass and my DOF was too deep so stitching showed up in background of the photo. Back in the house to gather up a big sheet of white paper and pin to the quilt. Great except the paper had been rolled up so it had a little bend to it and the light reflected changed part way down the photo. In the mean time, I had run out of blue food coloring so switched to orange and had gone from pouring half a cup at a time to an entire pitcher full as I held the shutter down. A hundred shots later - some with no water in the photo, some with the pitcher appearing in the top of the photo - I had a few to pick from. Cleaned up the mess, put everything away and then worked on processing for a couple of hours. Even sent off some choices to a couple of friends.
Turned in this one.
Did not make it to "Hall of Fame" - most favored photo of the week in my class.
Guess I should have just drank the water!
- Glass sheet (sat on black paper).
- Large black sheet of paper as a backdrop
- Shell positioned 18" to 2' away from backdrop (to avoid illuminating the black paper)
- Camera mounted on tripod on an angle
- Flash positioned to the left of camera and level with the shell. At an angle to create desired shadows to emphasise it's texture.
- Camera in manual mode
- Exposure taken of backdrop and exposure compensation applied to ensure the background (in other words everything but the shell) is under exposed to black.
- Flash exposure reading taken from brightest area of shell (to minimise burn out in final image)
- Shots taken and fine tuning of settings until desired exposure is achieved
This approach was taken since there was limited natural daylight available at the time - but it WAS light.
The conversion to black and white and final editing decisions to achieve the final image cannot be covered here...
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
9x36 strip softbox at rear (directed at background)
24x32 softbox on left directed at subject
black reflectors on sides of image
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
This week’s assignment is to find a quiet place
Don’t – none, just take a break from your busy days and go shooting!
Dare – add people (same as last week, sorry I just love pictures of people)
My husband and I went to Colonial Williamsburg yesterday just to stroll around. It's about 1 1/2 hours from our house. On the way home we stopped at this wonderfully quiet place on a river bank. My husband is off in the distance and I'm in the corner (shadow).
WIT - Adjustments in LR basic panel
Assignment White Rajah, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal T2391, 1970
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#29 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
University Assignment Season! Hogging Power Points and Bashing up the Keyboard on both my Mac and iPhone!
Assignment Maltese Maiden, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal T2635, 1972 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#34 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.
Title: Assignment - Budapest.
Author: Edward S. Aarons.
Publisher: Gold Medal.
Date: 1963.
Artist: Gerry Powell.
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 - 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.
Assignment to Disaster, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal k1534, 1965 reprint
Cover art by Charles Binger
#1 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Swarali Photo Assignment (November, 2015)
Title:
People:
Place:Redmond
Date:2015:11:14 17:20:12
File:DSC_7020.jpg
Assignment Treason, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal R2303, undated reprint
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#2 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
Assignment - Lowlands, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal s1073, 1961 PBO
Cover art attributed to Paul Rader, may be Charles Binger (see below)
#13 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
this is my submission for the second assignment for Strobist Bootcamp II. I'm a bit disapointed because i cannot seem to get the colors to come out right on the web.
I'm a complete novice at studio work and this was a major learning experience for me. It turned out to be much much more challenging than i had thought.
Strobist: 580EX II 1/2 camera left and behind, 430EX 1/16 camera right about level with the subject, gold reflector camera left, held by a voice activated stand (my son). Canon 30D with 17-85 lens 1/60 sec, F/16 (set up in my stream)
Please view the version of this photo with the correct color profile in my photostream