Retuculation

...Is a different way of developing film. The water that is mixed with the developer is hot and the canister is put into ice water after the 11 minutes. The film turns grainy and has a higher contrast.

Strengths: Most of the images turned out good and sharp

Weaknesses: Light leaks, failed attempts at "dodging and burning"

Acrylic Paints

Using a paint brush and non-transparent paint (unlike oil paints) to go over a picture

Strenghts: The color choice

Weaknesses: My lack of painting/small motor skills

Brush Developing

Expose the image onto the paper as you normally would - with the help of a test strip of course. Take some developer and apply it on the photo paper with a brush, fingers, etc. You can use a red light filter if you want to be percise. Wash it, stop it, fix it as you usually would.

Strengths: No matter what I did to it, the picture would look pretty cool.

Weakness: Sometimes nothing showed up when I put developer on it. Sometimes areas would be darker than others.

Window Assignment

This assignment was a form of bracketing, to create a sillhouette of the object or person standing by a window. To get a different effect, change the aperture either negative or positive. Depending on the lighting, either the object/person will be clear or the background.

Strengths: I think I got a pretty good sillhouette effect

Weaknesses: Well, my film didn't catch so I had no film over the weekend and had to do it at school. Not many pictures turned out.

Theme Statement

My theme is relationships (by this I mean friendship and family, not just romantic) and interactions. I still don’t know what I would use to alter the images; I think I would know best once I have the images because I don’t know how they will end up turning up. Ideas will come to me once I see what the pictures look like. I think at least one would be sabattier and at least one double exposure.

Easel Distortion

Alter photo by bending or twisting the photo paper while the image is being projected on it. The photo will lose clarity, but at least 1/3 of the image should be sharp. The paper should be sized at 5' by 7' but the image should be 4' by 6' to make more room for altering it. To see what it will look like, first a test strip must be made and then a safe light filter can be used to view the image.



Strenghts: The test strip lead me to a good print and the prints were somewhat distorted

Weaknesses: I was gone the day that the demo was given so I just had someone explain what to do. I didn't distort the image as much as I could have because I wasn't completely sure how.