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Glorified Version AKA Matt is taking a photography class right now and he wanted to share some of his photos with everyone. I'm just hosting them for him so, enjoy, They're really good.
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Thanks guys - comments are greatly appreciated, good or bad. Some of the prints are flawed because of my sloppy work in the developing and print rooms. Oops.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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overall - nice work. i think you have a strong sense of composition...i especially appreciate that all images are full negatives - no cropping. demonstrates good skills within the camera lens. your print quality definitely needs work - but that comes with time and pracitce - definitely can be fine-tuned. good luck with it all - photography is such a great medium - keep it up!!!
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Thanks guys - comments are greatly appreciated, good or bad. Some of the prints are flawed because of my sloppy work in the developing and print rooms. Oops.
Overall I like them a lot (particularly 1,3 and 5), have you tweaked them in photoshop at all or are these just straight scans?
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Thanks guys
Looking back I'm really not that satisfied with the exposures themselves, I think they are way to industrial and hopefully for the second half of the semester I can do something a little more sensual...
For whoever wants to know, I used a Pentax P5 35mm - metered manual mode. I usually go with Kodak TriX 400 or Ilford 500 for my film. And they are straight scans, but you can see the flaws in my printing if you look closely. Its very time consuming and some of my negatives were shittier than I thought when I loaded them in the carrier. A couple prints have areas that very "blown out" or too white, oh well.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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Cool stuff. Good composition and better printmaking is all about practice. Do you have access to a negative scanner? Those are fun for digital manipulation purposes.
I wish I had a Pentax, but my Rebel does the trick. Is this your first photo class? (I presume yes?) If so, do you have assignments putting certain photography principles to use, i.e. playing with shutter speeds/f-stops, etc? Sorry for all the questions--I'm a big photography. I've managed to gather nine cameras over the years.
And dodging and burning really is a dark art.
Once you get comfortable in the dark room, play around with layering and blending techniques. Jerry Uelsman, http://www.uelsmann.net/, has some pretty trippy mind bending work that makes you wonder how he made all those compasite images.
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aliveguy77 wrote:
Cool stuff. Good composition and better printmaking is all about practice. Do you have access to a negative scanner? Those are fun for digital manipulation purposes.
I wish I had a Pentax, but my Rebel does the trick. Is this your first photo class? (I presume yes?) If so, do you have assignments putting certain photography principles to use, i.e. playing with shutter speeds/f-stops, etc? Sorry for all the questions--I'm a big photography. I've managed to gather nine cameras over the years.
And dodging and burning really is a dark art.
Once you get comfortable in the dark room, play around with layering and blending techniques. Jerry Uelsman, http://www.uelsmann.net/, has some pretty trippy mind bending work that makes you wonder how he made all those compasite images.
Thanks for the pointers. Never heard of a negative scanner...
My teacher is too obsessed with abstraction instead of letting us take pictures of what we want, but oh well. She sucks. Instead of signing up for a beginner level class, my counselor put me into the more advanced (basic B&W) class for some reason, but Im actually a film major. I've experimented with different shutter speeds, etc., but not too much. I inherited the camera from my dad and he actually gave me a 20-80mm zoom lense so Ill probably put it to use in the coming months. To be honest I hadn't picked up a camera in months before I took this class, so everything is new for me.
Burning and dodging is a real bitch, but it makes the prints look decent. A good burn is the most satisfying thing
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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glorified_version wrote:
aliveguy77 wrote:
Cool stuff. Good composition and better printmaking is all about practice. Do you have access to a negative scanner? Those are fun for digital manipulation purposes.
I wish I had a Pentax, but my Rebel does the trick. Is this your first photo class? (I presume yes?) If so, do you have assignments putting certain photography principles to use, i.e. playing with shutter speeds/f-stops, etc? Sorry for all the questions--I'm a big photography. I've managed to gather nine cameras over the years.
And dodging and burning really is a dark art.
Once you get comfortable in the dark room, play around with layering and blending techniques. Jerry Uelsman, http://www.uelsmann.net/, has some pretty trippy mind bending work that makes you wonder how he made all those compasite images.
Thanks for the pointers. Never heard of a negative scanner...
My teacher is too obsessed with abstraction instead of letting us take pictures of what we want, but oh well. She sucks. Instead of signing up for a beginner level class, my counselor put me into the more advanced (basic B&W) class for some reason, but Im actually a film major. I've experimented with different shutter speeds, etc., but not too much. I inherited the camera from my dad and he actually gave me a 20-80mm zoom lense so Ill probably put it to use in the coming months. To be honest I hadn't picked up a camera in months before I took this class, so everything is new for me.
Burning and dodging is a real bitch, but it makes the prints look decent. A good burn is the most satisfying thing
working in the darkroom is an artform in itself. getting the right amount of contrast...tonal qualitites.....etc. there are many photographers who do not print their own work and rely on master printers to do it for them.
i haven't kept up my work as of late - but i have always loved locking myself in the darkroom for hours. ahhhhhhh....the intoxicating smell of fixer!!! hahaha.
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dreamncolor wrote:
i haven't kept up my work as of late - but i have always loved locking myself in the darkroom for hours. ahhhhhhh....the intoxicating smell of fixer!!! hahaha.
i did enjoy the darkroom when I had access to one. it was an escape. well, pretty much since it was in the basement of the art building on campus and doubled as a tornado shelter. I spent seven hours down in there once working on a project, and didn't even know it had gone by. Now, however, I opt for the digital darkroom of photoshop and the negative scanner.
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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