11/21/08

That time has come!

You finally get some of my pictures with a brief summary of why they are what they are.

First off, before we even got our cameras together, we learned to take pictures with a CAN! Canera... It was the pinhole project where we had a can with a small hole drilled in it to let in a little light. Inside, we placed light sensitive paper. We would uncover the hole to reveal the scenery to the paper and depending on how bright it was, we would leave it uncovered anywhere between 1 second and 3 minutes. It was around this time also, we were JUST learning to develop light-sensitive paper.

This is the result: a negative.

(Though this was a bad picture, I can't find my other photos.)

Eventually, we learned how to turn these into positives with just light. So here was the result:

About a week later, we finally started running our cameras. Our first project with them was to find a visual metaphor for the following words:

High Point

Familiar

Too Much

12 Midnight

The End

Love

Three

Contemplation

Warning!

Electric

Sharp

Red

Reflection

Movement

Soft

Cold

Closed

New/Old

Single

Oversized

Intimidating

Hot

Energy

Music

Community

Shadow

Heres just a glimpse of some of the pictures I took for this project:

(These are the expanded versions)

Now that we had some experience with the cameras, we started getting more restrictions. In this project, we were supposed to work with leading lines. I didn't do anything fancy...

I missed the next project, but we focused on different types of lighting: Silhouette, Direct, and Diffused.

We recently took pictures OF OURSELVES. We weren't allowed to include anyone we knew, no one could take the picture for us. Due to safety reasons, only one of these photos are allowed to be posted, so here you have it.

Just a couple of days ago, we were supposed to take 24 pictures of one object at different angles to make the viewer look at an object differently. I selected a camera, but my lens sucks with close-range pictures, so most  of these are blurry. If there's enough time after posting this, I'll probably make an enlarged picture or two of this project.

11/19/08

Ok, so we are finally supposed to be scanning, but as fate would have it, I don't have my pictures with me, but I did a test scan anyway, so enjoy the picture. I will scan the load of my pictures this Friday for your viewing pleasure, so just wait a couple of days.

Believe it or not, that was a scan...

11/17/08

Looks as if the scanning is being delayed, so the pictures will come later, for now, you have to trust me that I'm a photographer.

11/13/08

Woot! I finally succeeded in a project! The self-portrait pictures are in develop and will be done soon. There should be about 21 living pictures. Yet another thing to be excited about is that we finally start scanning pictures this Monday, so you'll all be able to view my photos. (Take that as you will)

Update of 11/05/08

Well, I missed a project and a half and have some major making up to do, but for now, I'm working on the self-photography. Obviously scanning isn't coming as soon as I hoped, but oh well, it's not like I have much to scan yet. Hopefully my next film will work out better and I'll pull out some extra credit pictures.