Film Assignment 5 Journal

Contrast.
This assignment didn't go as smoothly as I would've wished. Shooting was tough because, since it was an overcast day, all of my light was very soft. This makes it hard to capture hard contrast. Most of my images were pretty grey to begin with, and I had trouble showing a huge difference between my high and low contrasted images. My best pair was probably the door handle. This one was a 2 1/2 filter against a 4 filter. I wish I would've done this with all three pairs, but the others are only 2 1/2 to 3 1/2. The chair handle and the hole in the fence--both images are very similar to each other. Instead of high contrast and low contrast, it mostly looks like dark and light. If I could redo this assignment, I'd do a 4 filter instead of a 3 1/2. I was trying to use the same time in both images, which is why I stuck with 3 1/2. I am not pleased, but I'll do better next time.

Film Assignment 4 Journal

Ring around test.

I found this not too have too much of a point, but it was good to continue technical assignments. They're things I need to experience and see for myself to become a true photographer. I liked the sense of bracketing, which allowed me to pick my absolute favorite filter and time. I loved the print I chose, so I didn't do this assignment grudgingly. It was a little hurried, and I've never done so many prints at once. But it was good. Unfortunately, I screwed up the border on an entire filter set since I did them all at once, and my negative could've been cleaner. But all in all, this was successful. Good experience.

Film Assignment 3 Journal

Print toning.
Luckily, I chose a fun shot that I enjoyed looking at in different tones. It was a Campbell's soup can, and looked good in almost all of the different tones. I really liked to be able to edit the color specifically, something I had only been able to do digitally until now. My favorites were the warm-tone prints in both brown/copper and split tone selenium and sepia. They were slightly brown, and had a slight, unexaggerated, subtle antique look. I liked this a lot. The sepia was definitely my least favorite. Both warm tone and neutral just looked so unnatural. Too yellow. Combined with the selenium though, it looked quite nice. I did an extra print that I only bleached, something I experimented with while trying sepia. It looked awesome, so I'm glad sepia was required. I didn't particularly like nor dislike the neutral selenium. It looked fine, but I didn't like the purple tint. The neutral brown/copper was pretty good, but the difference between that and the reference wasn't apparent enough to be noticed. This didn't go as well for me as it might've with others, but I'd definitely like to continue experimenting with toning.