While cleaning up the old hard drive, came across these photos I had scanned from my Photography I final portfolio. So figured I would share them with you today, so hope you enjoy.
This first picture is of my dad. Ran up and took this pic when he was heading off somewhere or another. May be why he has that funny look on his face ^^;;
I took photography course for two reasons. First was I have always had an interest in photography growing up. My mom gave me an old Pentax camera when I was young and I would use it whenever I had the money to buy a roll of film. I actually used that Pentax camera to take these photos. That camera has served me well through the years.
Second reason was I was hoping that taking a photography class would get me out of art history, one of the required courses for my undergraduate degree. Sadly though, it did not and I had no choice but to take art history the next semester.
But I am still glad I took the class because it was a great experience. Class covered a lot of the basics of photography regarding lighting and composing the shot. The class also gave us experience using a dark room, as we were required to use ‘analog’ SLR cameras and not digital. Working in the darkroom alone was well worth taking the course as I learned a lot about processing film. Though it could be a bit crowded when you have a lot of people all trying to make prints at the same time -.-
I wonder if they still teach darkroom these days, as many people have digital cameras. Maybe they substitute that time teaching how to accomplish the same techniques in Photoshop? That would be nice, since a ‘digital darkroom’ can be more accessible to people.
Over the course of that semester I took hundreds of photos. The number of assignments escapes me, but I think it was four. From that we had to make contact sheets, which is basically a print of our developed negatives lined up so can see the entire roll. We would then chose which ten photos we felt were our best from that assignment and develop a print. We would then have our prints critiqued by the teacher and classmates.
Our final portfolio consisted of eight prints, chosen from the forty prints that we previously made. We had to chose our best two shots from each assignment.
We were given the option to use our critiques to try and improve on the prints if we wished. But sometimes, you actually make it worst – I notice that this print has a lot of dust spots. Dust is the worst enemy when working in a dark room, especially when it has a lot of traffic going through it. A problem don’t have to worry about in a digital environment ^^;
On a side note, this was my professor’s favorite photograph from my set. He liked how the light cut through on the pillar. Truth be told, I just took this photo just to get to end of my film and didn’t think much of it.
We were also required to mat frame our prints as they were going to put up on display in the art building as part of their student showcases. On the back of each print we were to put our name, professor’s name, course and time so that they could be returned to us. I never went back to pick up my prints, mainly because I had these scans of them.
This was my from my first assignment and is my favorite. Loved the intersecting lines the branches made and the light / dark areas made from the sun shining through the limbs.
Hope you enjoyed the photos. I have another cache of photos I found plan on sharing next time.
lol that first pic is funny he looks mad and surprised at the same time. nice pics
Nice photos! ^^
Ultima you are truly an inspiring person, first with my dollfies and now with photography. Thank you for showing these to us.