Assignment 6: Fish out of Water

This, I must say, was my favorite assignment we have done this term. It gave us a good chance to let some creativity loose which we had not done too much before. I took this assignment like I took the portraits in Slade's class. When I got this assignment, I had two thoughts: 1. The definition of "Fish out of Water" 2. My portrait assignment. I let my creativity from that spill over into this assignment, and it worked. All of my pictures turned out amazing, but my favorite is the rifle bullet in the group of shotgun shells. Because the table it was shot on (no pun intended) had a glass top, it almost looked like they were floating. Also another one of my favorites was the six bullets with the bullets still there, with the shot one in the center. It was shot on the same table, but has a different effect because of the angle. Also the blurred background from the focus gives one of the most interesting background for any of my pictures. I got that part right from the portraits. This is some of my best work ever.

Assignment 5, Contrast

This assignment was challenging to say the least. The low contrast was the hardest by far. The normal high contrast was fun, but trying to get it to have "normal" contrast was a nightmare. The low contrast was kinda' easy and worked out well, but trying to fix the contrast was near impossible. But, after everything, they came out as good as they are going to get from me, and I will just try to not mess with the laws of contrast, along with physics. Not too good of laws to mess around with. I personally like the normal high contrast ones the best, and thanks for finally giving us a chance to shoot another roll.

Assignment #3 Journal

My pictures for this assignment did not like the toning process. While a couple had a big change, most of them did not seem to change at all. The NT sephia and the WT poly had some big effect, which I liked, but the rest did not seem to change much. I believe the NT and WT selenium somewhat increased the contrast, but it was rather hard to tell. On the other hand I had an enjoyable time with the toning, and maybe I'll try again sometime. But for now I will leave the toning to the people who have trained for it.