Negatives Evaluation

From looking at my negatives, I think 5 out of 13 came out good.

I think 6 of my photos turned out bad because of too much exposure, not enough exposure and bad focus.

I think the photo that will turn out best when developed is the picture where all the students look like they're working productively because I used the rule of thirds and the focus looks really well in that one. Also, because i took the picture from a distance and avoided mergers.

The technical aspects present in my best negative would be good focus, good lighting, rule of thirds and I took it from a good distance.  You can tell from a negative if the focus is bad or not, in this negative you can see the subjects clearly.  I could tell there was good lighting because the negative wasn't too dark or light.  And in the negative, you can see that my subjects are more drawn to one corner.

The advance composition techniques that are present in my favorite photo are rule of thirds, lighting and view.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Many people in the past have been fired due to photo manipulating, which lets the reader know how serious this action is taken. When a photo is manipulated with and then published, the viewer sees something that is almost all false.


In my personal opinion, I believe photo manipulation has its limits. When a published manipulation goes into for example the Austin American Statesman, and the change is not stated, its unethical because what people see is going to be believed by the reader. In a major important source like the newspaper, majority of the readers believe think what they are reading and that the pictures shown are legit. The only way that manipulation of a photo is acceptable is when the photo is not being published into a source such as a newspaper or maybe even a non fictional book.

 This picture was the most unethical in my opinion because the manipulator put the black student in this picture when he really wasn't there at that exact event. Knowing what change was made shows me that there really are not many black people that go to this school, and for them to have to crop someone into the photo is not right. The photographer should have taken a more diverse photo.

Drug Cartels in Mexico

This story is very interesting and has a lot of information on delirious events that happen and are discovered in the drug cartels in Mexico. The day they found the abandon car with all doors open and trunk open with a body wrapped in the back and a bullet in the head was shocking because how far they go in the drug business to hide someone or how they kill someone. The drug cartel in Mexico seems really bad and hard to stop there wont be a end to it any time soon with all the stuff that goes on in Mexico's drug cartel.

My favorite photo was the one of the old woman in the casket, all around her looks as though it is still and quiet.it looks as though the photographer took into consideration depth and lighting, maybe even a framing technique. Its my favorite because of the simplicity of it there is the woman, the casket, a couple flowers, though the whole picture makes up a big statement. 

Making a Black & White Print

materials:

Timer

Drying Cabinets
Tongs or Spatula
Enlargers
Focusing Aids
Safe lights

 

chemicals:

Developer
Stop bath
Fixer&bleach fixer
Stabilizers
Toners

Summary:

First you get your roll of film and take it to the darkroom. Then you get goggles on before you go near the chemicals. After you put your goggles on wait for the teacher's instructions and see what your supposed to do next. You have 4 different chemicals to go through. After you go through your procedures you are done and you just wait until you finish your whole print.

1. emulsion-and colloidal suspension of a liquid in another liquid
2. aperture-an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap
3. masking easel- 
4. exposure- amount of light being exposed
5. safe light- a dark room light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper are not sensitive
6. dodging- to shade from exposure for a period, while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area
7. burning-

Post Shoot Reflection

The challenges that I had to encounter the most was trying to get the perfect lighting and the perfect angle of my subject.  What I did to get these things how I wanted them was either I moved the camera up or down depending on what the green bar on the side did.  And for the perfect angle I moved either closer or further away from my subject.

The technical aspects that I was thinking about the most was the Rule of thirds and the focus of the photo. I always tried to get the best focus on my subject by adjusting it.

Trying to use the rule of thirds, I tried not to catch the photo with my subject directly in the center. So what I did was try to put them in the bottom corner with some kind of scene filling in the rest of the photo.

Something different that I would try next time would be to get a closer photo of my subject. I caught most of my photos from a distance.

Processing Black and White Photos

Materials:
A metal or plastic film tank w/ cover 

Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry 

Graduates (used to measure chemicals) 

A darkroom timer 

A can opener 

A room that is totally light proof (not even the slightest sliver of light should be visible). 

Developer

film 

film cassette

       

Chemicals: 

Glacial Acetic Acid (optional, for Stop Bath) 

Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended) 

Hypo Eliminator 

Process: 

1.In the dark room, take out the film from the cassette, and pull the flat end off the 35mm canister with the can opener. Peel off the tape that connects and unwind the film and remove the end of the film from the spool. 

2.Load the film onto the film reel. If using plastic,slide one end of the film into the slot on the outer edge of the reel and "walk" the film in until it is loaded. Metal uses a higher degree of dexterity, which might not be the best when you're standing in the dark trying to get your shots onto the reel.  

Following the instructions that come with the tank, practice loading a few times with a roll (that you're not gonna use for the real thing) in daylight so you can see and get kind of used to doing this in the dark. Once you feel competent in daylight, close your eyes and try it. 

The first roll you actually try to develop should not have important material on it, just in case things don't quite work out.

3.Put the loaded reel in the film tank and cover as directed. The film is now in a light tight container so you can turn the light on.   

4.Make sure the temperature of the chemicals are carefully controlled. Development time is affected by two things which is the speed of the film and the temperature of the developer.

Most film is processed between 65 and 75 degrees. Higher temperatures could lead to a net like look, which gives film a coarse, overly-grainy appearance. 
5.Pour developer into the open part of the sealed film tank and cover it. Don't open the tank itself. To keep fresh chemical on the film surface, the process of shaking is necessary throughout the process. To do so, turn the tank upside down once a minute. When it is upright again, tap it several times against your work surface to remove any air bubbles that might form on the film during agitation.
Develop film for the time recommended on the packaging. When done, take the lid off the tank's pour spout and pour it out.
6.Pour running water into the pour spout for one minute to stop development. Alternatively, mix a small amount of glacial Acetic Acid with water (a 1:30 ratio) and let the film sit in that for 30 seconds to wash off the developer. 
7.Fixing takes 5-10 minutes. Be sure to use a fixer with hardener, since that will help the negative from getting easily scratched. Even thought you should wait until everything is finished, you could inspect the negatives at the end of fixing time.
8.Remove the tank cover completely, since you don't have to worry about exposing the film to light, and let the film sit in cold running water for five minutes. Inspect it and make sure your negatives are there.
9.Now you need to remove all traces of the fixer to keep white stains appearing on the negatives. Pour in a tankful of Hypo Eliminator and shake for two minutes.
10.Wash for five minutes.
11.Carefully pull the film out of the tank. Don't touch the surface. Hang the film to dry using wash pins or film clips.
12.In about 1-2 hours, the film will be dry. Use scissors to cut (in the space between images) the film into 6 long strips. Store the negatives in clear glassine envelopes or PVC plastic negative pages.

Definitions:
    Contact sheet:   developed roll of negative print film
    Agittaion:    process of shaking or moving briskly
    Enlarger:    an apparatus used for making projection prints
    Developer:    a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like
    Stop bath:    an acid that or rinse for stopping the action of developer before fixing a negative or print
    Fixer:    fixative

 

 

         
 
          

Repetition

A table football game using Barbie dolls is displayed at the International Design Festival in Berlin.

In this photo, the Barbies are nicely repeated and alternating with color and sides (pink & white, front & back) easily leading the eyes to notice the repetition.

Turkish marines train during a military exercise in Izmir, Turkey.

 Repetition, in this picture occurs in the boats and the waves they make.  The first thing I noticed were the white waves which lead my eyes to the boat in which it is coming from, so I'm guessing most people noticed it in the same way.

Funny Captions

A Home Owners Association member opposes drinking and driving, in addition, they decide to put this on their tree. Last year on Halloween, her son was hit an nearly killed by a drunk driver so the sign was put up as a reminder to not drink and drive/fly.

 

 This firefighter is having a tough time trying to put out this forest fire. So after 30 he decided to sit and take a rest while he still tries to finish the job.

Tom goes to what used to be, Johnston High, today he decided to ride his bike to school since he was running late, he got to school and connected the wheel and the pole with a lock.  After school, he was gonna go home, but to find only the wheel still there he had to walk.