Reed, Cortney Final Project by Giampapa

First Roll

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:04 UTC

This picture was from the first roll of film that I shot. I didn't really understand how to work the light meter on my camera so I wasn't aware that the pictures might not turn out, but I got lucky and my whole roll of film was nicely exposed. I consider this a successful darkroom print .

Stop Action

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:06 UTC

Me and bridge were eating humus watching tv and she was trying to say something but was laughing to hard she couldnt. I quickly grabbed my film camera and took a bunch of pictures , hoping I would've gotten a good action shot . I finally developed my film and saw this picture . This stop action print is actually on of my favorite because it wasnt on purpose I judt caught that moment which is amazing considering how clear and sharp the picture is . I would definitly consider this picture a success because all of the key components are pretty much on point.

Landscape

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:11 UTC

This picture was not intention I was moving something and I put my camera down accidentally pressing the button. When I developed the film I saw this picture and decided to print/develop it. It's not one of my favorite landscape pictures you could say, but I would consider it very crisp and focused for an accidental photograph

Pinhole Camera

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:11 UTC

Another one of the difficult tasks we had to do was make a camera out of an oatmeal container. It was very challenging on making the camera lightproof and on top of that making sure that the aperture wasn't to big or that the container didn't shake when I had to take my finger off of the aperture hole. I was actually really satisfied with the way it came out not considering I had to remake it multiple times to get the exposure just right.

Self Portrait

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:12 UTC

My self portrait was something I really went into depth with . We had to not only take a self portrait using the camera timer and not have someone else take it , but we also had to take it so it represented somewhat of my personality . The intentions behind on why I took my portrait this way was because I've had a lot of trust issues with people. I edited it a little bit on the contrast just to bring out the blues so that way the color blue would also be representing sadness.

Martini Glass

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:17 UTC

The martini glass picture had a whole roll of film dedicated to it. I was experimenting my camera with the reflections and the clear object. Also , this picture has real strong composition which actually might be my best composed piece of photo 1. I would consider this a really successful print the exposure is really well done and just ties it all together.

Photogram

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:17 UTC

This was one of the first things we had to do in photo 1. I tried to experiment with objects that were transparent/translucent. I didn't realize the letters were going to be backwards until after I did it. I would consider this an unsuccessful photogram because there are to many subjects in the photogram and the black value is to consistent. Although it did teach me on how to work the photo process.

First Roll of Film

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:24 UTC

My first roll of film contained weird abnormal pictures of random things. One of the photos was a picture of a cars headlight's . I took this not knowing how to work the light meter so therefore it turned out kinda on the grey scale . I wouldn't consider this successful just because of the exposure but I do think the composition is done well for my first intention of taking film.

Water Show

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:25 UTC

This was just a random shoot on the way to my friends house I thought the reflections off the tree and he house would look cool. Which it did but then it was overwhelming so I then had to focus it so that way it would only be a portion and also rule of thirds bdcause the branch I focused is to the left .

Placement

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:30 UTC

This assignment was to get a couple things and place them in a good compositional way . Not only place objects in a compositional way but the objects had to be something that represented your personality . You had to explain the objects and why you chose them. I wish I would've made more of a focus on one subject and not focused on all of them. Also I wanted a more of a value scale and not such a grey exposure.

Solarization

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:30 UTC

Solorization is very unique technique to print your photos even as a series. I love the idea and look of the outcome . It reminds me of a very ghostly image. The purpose of solarizing would be to get that in between black and white filter. I would consider this a so-so print , I wish I experimented more with the effect in the darkroom but unfortunately I didn't take the time to .

Shallow Depth of Field

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:17:30 UTC

This was the last roll I've ever taken in Photo 2 . I think you can definitly see the difference between some of my earlier pictures and the perspectives that I shot in. This image compared to the first couple ones is very , very clear and focused. The lighting is excellent. This would be a motivation to me to continue to actually try to learn to use the camera and use other successful rolls as examples so that way you get it good everytime . This picture I would consider successful because the rhythm , the repitition and the exposer are all very well put together . Im overall happy on what I started from and ended up at .

Forced Perspective

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:27:42 UTC

This picture I used the small perspective technique . First I tried to take it closer and it was extremly hard considering I had to take the picture also . So i backed up and tried to curve my finger "around" the small can ( which really just a couple feet away from me) . I had to also make sure that the shawdows wouldnt be a disttraction. I would classify this picture as a success because it was one of my first trys on forced prespective shoots. s

Fish Reflection

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:27:56 UTC

This picture was simply just a fun photshoot I wanted to have. To get a water prespective about recyling , clean water and etc . This was a continuing theme that we had to do for a competition . I love the reflections and focuses in the picture . It is really eye catching about the movement you think the water is going in. And the rule of thirds in this picture would be the fish in the middle because its in a good one third of the picture.

Barn

giampajm — 2014-05-27 12:28:00 UTC

This picture was taken in a barn in the dark . I took a whole shoot in the barn but the flash ruined most of them giving the picture a flat apperence. I liked the cool colors on this particular picture and it does look flat but the least of flat from every other picture . I also like the focus point on the metal rod . It was turning point on using flash and to start to learn natural and unnatural lighting. Espicially, with my photoshoots.

Long Exposure

giampajm — 2014-06-11 22:09:08 UTC

I had just dowloaded an app called PhotoCaption and i needed to use it for a long exsposer . I just told abbit to walk in a cirle for 9 seconds. The first one didnt work out because it was too bright outside which made it become negative. Then I said spin a circle for 7 seconds, believe it or not 2 seconds less actually made a difference . It was perfectly exsposed and I love how it exsposed in a ghostly way considering she doesnt have legs .

Stop Action / Show piece

giampajm — 2014-06-11 22:11:19 UTC

For this picture we had a few competitions we had to enter around winter time , one of the themes was a water cycle . So I thought to myself why not maybe an action shot. I wish it was a more composed shot but overall this is one of my best stop action for water. It was hard to get the exact look you want that you have in your head . I also wish that I wouldve put a different filter instead of nothing .

Shallow Depth of Field

giampajm — 2014-06-11 22:11:43 UTC

This was also an olympic challenge. So cheridan was standing with her arm diagonal to the ground and her shoulder closet to my camera and facing down from birdseye view , with my phone , there is a focused area and a non focused area which tends to be short depth of field. Which is Deep depth of field is the opposite. I was really happy about how this picture was taken with the shadow in it .

Light Painting

giampajm — 2014-06-11 22:11:47 UTC

This light painting was also part of the olympic events . Me and my amigo ab's went to the auditorium and she turned on her phone to a white bright light. I exposed this for at least 5 minutes in the dark while she walked with one phone light on every level. At the end I stopped the exposure and this was the outcome. It reminds me of either an audience waving their phone lights at a concert or a bunch of lights shinning on a lake . I would consider this a successful light painting because of the composition and the lighting.

Value

giampajm — 2014-06-11 22:11:53 UTC

Currently for one of our final projects we had to do an event containing value . I was wondering around then school when I thought about the auditorium . I went to the piano in the auditorium and took maybe 2 separate composed pictures of the piano strings and tuners. This one was the better of the 2 because you have the silver that gives off that shine which is white and then you have the shadows on silver parts that aren't being shinned on. I also thought that the repetition of the strings added to the picture to give it rhythm.

Long Depth of Field

giampajm — 2014-06-12 16:55:16 UTC

One of our many assigned film themes was depth of field . This picture took me forever to get focused and right in the center. I went outside to my mailbox and the metal part holding it up I could see through all the way to the other mailboxes so I took multiple shots to make sure if I didn't like one I could have the other pictures I shot to see which one was better in other words as a backup. I really like the composition and the exposure in this picture especially being one of my first assignments.

Hand Tinting

giampajm — 2014-06-12 16:56:13 UTC

I didn't really like the process of hand tinting I felt that it was really hard to get it exactly where you want it and to get it dark enough for it to be the correct color. I tried it on one of my first prints , but the green oil base didn't really get as dark or as clear in the design as I thought it would be. I also wish that the print was a lot better expensed.

Nutcracker

giampajm — 2014-06-16 03:16:50 UTC

This picture was part of my christmas film . I was just wondering around my house for things I could take a picture of from worms eye view and look real. As if the nutcracker is only maybe a foot tall it looks about 3 feet tall in the picture. I tried to really focus on the perspective view on this roll of film . Not only did I have to focus on that but also the proper bruning and dodging for things such as the dark eyebrows on the nutcracker also to the greyish coat on him.

Enlargemen

giampajm — 2014-06-16 03:23:00 UTC

I was in the darkroom after I had finished my assignment for the day and saw that some people enlarged their picture . I wanted to try it . This was the first time I tried it , it was actually really hard because if your films even a little bit dusty then its going to be grainy . You also have to get the best exsposure . I did a good job on the focus point but not on getting the picture not grainy.