How to Develop Film

I strongly recomend this book

http://www.amazon.com/Black-White-Photography-Revised-Edition/dp/0316373052/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391089416&sr=8-1&keywords=black+and+white+book+photography

about photography

At this point in the course (even though it’s after only three lessons), I would really like it if you would begin to think about positive materials, on paper, or negative, on film, like the small sculptures made of light. Small transparent works created by a real PHYSICAL action.  Unique and unrepeatable works, which have sprung out of a certain randomness.If you understand and can make your own this concept, then the course will be very stimulating and expressive.

Dara Love

This photo stands out to me because of the contrast of the 2 boys and the stone. Because the stone is so light in this picture, probably a sunny day and the light is being reflected, it lets the boys darkness in color stand out more. This picture also has a lot of depth to it as everything is moving toward a single vantage point.

Dara Love - Leonard Freed Photo

This picture is separated into 2 parts. There is the first couple that is right in front of the picture embracing each other. Behind them is another couple kissing and embracing each other. There is a line down the middle separating the 2 couples which is outlined by the women's bodies. The mans pants line and woman's arms in the front  leads the eye back to the other couple kissing in the background.

Fine Art Photography- Tracey Hummel

I chose this photograph because I like how the light hits her face. My eyes first focused on her face, then the brim of her hat, and then to the shadows at her back. I think that the photographer used a normal lens for this and did a great job illuminating her face. Also, the woman's posture creates lines that your eyes naturally just follow.

FineArtPhotography--Blake Tebbe

This photograph is of a man and a woman who appear to be looking at something over their left shoulders. The face in the middle divides them and the contrasts in this photograph are very strong. The woman's elbows are at an angle which makes her kind of in question at what she is looking at. The face in the middle is staring right through them. The photo has vertical images with the people standing tall and horizontal effect near the bottom of the photo.

How To Develop Film

To develop film:

Water at 20 degrees
developer for film: Ilfoso 3   1+9 (450 water and 50 ilfoso 3)
fixer  1+4 (400 water and 100 fixer)

time to develop:
6 minutes

1. add developer, swirl three times to right and 3 times to left. then move up and down twice, at every 30 seconds move once up and down and at every minute move twice up and down perfectly vertically
2. remove developer
3. add water and shake
4. remove water
5. add fixer and swirl for 30 seconds then swirl at every 15 seconds for 3 min
6. remove fixer
7. add water for 20 min

Sierra Turner

Photo taken by Scott Speck. I chose to describe this picture because I liked how it completely centers in on one point in the photo. All the symmetry and lines lead to one place. The way the outside of the pillars contrast shadow as it gets further away. The photo almost seemed as being almost piched which means a very small hole was used for the camera.

Sierra Turner

 

 

Photo by Elliott Erwitt - Tretyakova Yana

This photo Ellott Erwitt made in 1995 in Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain. The photo is made in humoristic manner that is usual for Elliott Erwitt. On the right side we can see a lot af men in front of "The Nude Maja" painted by Francisco Goya and on the left side there is only one woman in front of "The Clothed Maja". There is invisible line goes vertical and separates the woman from the men.

Photo by Abbas - Kari Hajduk

Photo by Abbas

U.S.A. Louisiana. New Orleans. 1968. African-Americans resting on their porch.

This image by Abbas captures three main subjects, seemingly a family, and two additional subjects in the background.  At first glance, my attention is brought to the young girl sitting on the step.  Her face is at the center of the photo and many lines in the photo (the contrast of the man's pants and shirt, the vertical entry way between the two properties, etc.) lead directly to her stare.  Frozen in time, the man on the left sits leisurely, smoking a cigar, and the woman on the right rests against the wall, smoking a cigarette.  In the background, a man's head is seen sitting next to a woman who rests with her elbows on her knees.  Her body posture makes you wonder what her story is and how exhausted she is from work and/or life as a woman of color in the US south during the 1960s.  In it's entirety, the photo sits heavy with both content and meaning, reflective of the hard times in which it was taken.

Photo by Burt Glinn -- Brita Ness

Burt Glinn (b. 1925, d. 2008) took this photo in Washington, D.C. the morning after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When examining the photograph, my eye was immediately drawn to the partially-destroyed mannequin leaning against a sign pole. The mannequin's arms have been removed and rough holes cover the front of her body. Her head is situated almost dead center of the composition and is turned slightly to gaze outside of the frame of the photo. The image clearly captures three poles, receding diagonally toward the background. A dark object -- perhaps another mannequin torso, a garbage can, or something else -- lies next to the mannequin. Behind the foregrounded sidewalk, poles, and mannequin, two soldiers can be observed through a thick layer of mist/fog. Each is holding a weapon (or some rod-like object) upward and diagonally, facing in opposite directions. Three more poles and the outlines of city buildings are barely visible through the fog in the top half of the photo. Wet and covered with rubble and puddles, the street reflects the morning light and emphasizes the darker elements in the photo, namely the poles and the mannequin in the foreground. 

Lintle Mokake

Picture taken by Alex Web, in Mexico Matamoros cemetery in 1978.

The strongest point of this photo is the boy, because immediately when you look at the photo you see him. When you look up there on the photo there is man and a boy on the horse. Then, on the left there is a small old house which I think it belongs to the small boy in the photo. In November 1978 Mexico was hit by an earthquake so I think all the dead people are buried in this cemetery and you can see that the house next to the cemetery is left roofless due to the earthquake.

Photo by Marilyn Silverstone-- Blake Tebbe

I chose this photo by Marilyn Silverstone of a man playing a piano while smoking from a tobacco pipe. The main thing that catches my eye though is the face above the piano that is staring at him as if it were watching him play. The level of the face and the pianists face is just about even which lines the two faces up as if they are speaking to one another. The lines in the curtains divide the two faces and separate them but it is as if the man is playing the piano to the face as if he is trying to talk to him. I also like the pattern on the floor of the room and the different shades created from the light entering through the window.

Photo by Guy Le Querrec --Claire Odorico

When I first looked at this photo my eye was drawn to the woman, especially her headdress and her gaze. I like the different vanishing points created by the lines; one by the rows of seats, and another perpendicular to that, created by the lines on the wall. I also really like the shadows on the seats. The direction the woman's hands and gaze are pointed in are very captivating to the eye.

Katrina Officer-- photos by Erich Lessing

I like this photo because of the use of contrast, specifically between the men's suits and the background of the photo. Although the Eiffel tower is in the background, my eye is drawn to the men's clothing. The eiffel tower seems to fade into the background, blending with the color of the sky. I am focused on these men and start to wonder who they are, what their relationship is to one another, and what the occasion is/why they are dressed so nicely.

In this photo I notice the couple and the way the way the man has his arm around the woman. When I give it a closer look I notice the man doesn't seem to have a left arm. I notice several lines in the composition, created by all the vertical posts in the background as well as the line of the sidewalk. I also like the contrast of this photo, putting the focus on the couple and their dog. I notice their solemn expressions and how it matches with the dreary weather. 

Paul Fusco photo - Hillary

This photo was taken by photographer Paul Fusco at a funeral for Private Bryan Nicholas Spry who was killed in battle. I was drawn to it because of the focus in the photo. I notice that the soldier saluting his fallen friend in the foreground is blurry, and the focus is on the grieving family in the background, along with an American flag. I think it gives an interesting perspective of what is happening in the photo that isn't common.

Brita's photos

Alison Bailey--Wayne Miller Photograph

This photograph was taken by Wayne Miller in 1958 depicting children in a movie theater. I was drawn to this photograph because it captures the emotions of every children in the theater in one quick snapshot. I believe Miller did an incredible job creating a strong focus on the first three girls in the front seats, and it is strengthened by the bright faces in the background. Strong photograph emotionally and compositionally.

Photographer Robert Capa-- Two pictures (Tracey Hummel)

I really like the photo above because of how the woman and the dog are depicted. The background is blurry because it is the woman and the dog that the photographer is focusing on. With the city landscape in the background, the running of the two make the photo come to life.

I chose these two photos because I thought that Robert Capa did a wonderful job of choosing main focal points within each photograph. In the first photo, it is the woman and the dog. In the second, it is the man in the forefront of the picture. These were the things that my eyes were first drawn to. Then I was drawn into looking at the background and the city and the men. 

Blake picture 3

Hillary Picture

Blake picture 2

Blake picture

Ali picture

Tracey picture 2

Tracey picture

Kari Hajduk's pinhole picture

Claire Odorico pictures

Katrina Officer pictures

 

Sierra Turner

Lintle Mokake

Yana Tretyakova

How To Make A Contact Sheet in the Darkroom

How to make a pinhole camera = Sierra

Sierra

 

Taken at the Vatican with my Iphone. This is my favorite picture because of the lighting behind the pillars. 

ISO sensitivity - Yana Tretyakova

In very basic terms, ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO number increases the sensitivity of your camera. The component within your camera that can change sensitivity is called “image sensor” or simply “sensor”. It is the most important (and most expensive) part of a camera and it is responsible for gathering light and transforming it into an image. With increased sensitivity, your camera sensor can capture images in low-light environments without having to use a flash. But higher sensitivity comes at an expense – it adds grain or “noise” to the pictures.

Every camera has something called “Base ISO“, which is typically the lowest ISO number of the sensor that can produce the highest image quality, without adding noise to the picture. On most of the new Nikon cameras such as Nikon D5100, the base ISO is typically 200, while most Canon digital cameras have the base ISO of 100. So, optimally, you should always try to stick to the base ISO to get the highest image quality. However, it is not always possible to do so, especially when working in low-light conditions.

Typically, ISO numbers start from 100-200 (Base ISO) and increment in value in geometric progression (power of two). So, the ISO sequence is: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 and etc. The important thing to understand, is that each step between the numbers effectively doubles the sensitivity of the sensor. So, ISO 200 is twice more sensitive than ISO 100, while ISO 400 is twice more sensitive than ISO 200. This makes ISO 400 four times more sensitive to light than ISO 100, and ISO 1600 sixteen times more sensitive to light than ISO 100, so on and so forth. What does it mean when a sensor is sixteen times more sensitive to light? It means that it needs sixteen times less time to capture an image!

ISO Speed Example:
ISO 100 – 1 second
ISO 200 – 1/2 of a second
ISO 400 – 1/4 of a second
ISO 800 – 1/8 of a second
ISO 1600 – 1/16 of a second
ISO 3200 – 1/32 of a second

In the above ISO Speed Example, if your camera sensor needed exactly 1 second to capture a scene at ISO 100, simply by switching to ISO 800, you can capture the same scene at 1/8th of a second or at 125 milliseconds! That can mean a world of difference in photography, since it can help to freeze motion.

Read more: http://photographylife.com/what-is-iso-in-photography

This photo I have made on my old SONY Alpha A-550. This is sunrise that I saw from my flat in Prague. I used aperture prioririty like I usually do. I made it black-and-wite to focuse attention on the lines and the light.

How to Develop & Print Pinhole Photos - Kari Hajduk

How to Develop & Print Pinhole Photos - Kari Hajduk

"Under the safelight, remove the exposed film from the camera and place it in the developer tray. Gently rock the tray so that a wave of developer washes back and forth across the film. When it looks dark enough, pick the film up by one corner and let it drip for a few seconds. Then place it in the second tray, the stop bath (or water, if so desired.)

Again, rock the stop bath tray for about ten seconds (this is called "agitating"), lift up the negative and let it drip, then place it in the fixer tray. Agitate the fixer tray for at least two minutes. Fixing the image is very important: the fixer dissolves out any silver which hasn't turned black, so that years from now, the picture won't turn yellow or some other unwanted color. Sometimes improperly fixed photographs just fade out, as if they were bleached by time. After a minute of agitated fixing, it is OK to turn on the room light--after first checking to see that the photographic paper is covered!

The last "wet" processing step is to wash the photographic paper in clean, room temperature water for about four minutes. This step is very important, too, because if any fixer is left in the paper, it will act like a bleach and cause the photographic image to fade over time. Room temperature water is important because water which is too hot or too cold can damage the layers which make up the photographic paper. Last, pat the paper dry with paper towels or with a clean cloth towel and set the paper on a clean space where it will quickly dry."

Source: http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/darkcam.htm

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This is a picture I took on my first day of experiencing rain in Rome.  It was taken with a Nikon 3100 DSLR.  After it rained, I was looking out my bedroom window and noticed how dirty it was.  I pulled out my camera and focused in on the rain drops and the corner edge of the window.  Looking further in the distance, you can see a red light from an oncoming car and the tan buildings on each side of the narrow street.

Depth of Field - Danka Djordjevic

Understanding and Utilizing Deep Depth-of-Field

http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/understanding-and-utilising-deep-depth-of-field--photo-5794

This is a tutorial that explains uses of a deep depth of field and gives corresponding techniques. It also touches on Zone focusing and Pinhole.

This is one of my favorite photos that I took using my iPhone. I was at a big bike race at my University that they hold every year. Right before the race began a couple of men parachuted down to the race tracks. I thought it looked so cool with the big rays of sun and clouds in the background of his tiny little body flying down. Also the colors of his parachute against the white cloud really pops in a cool way to me. 

- Danka Djordjevic

How To Make And Use A Pinhole Camera - Dara Love

http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Pinhole_Camera.htm

This website describes how to make the box, the pinhole, the shutter, how to load in film, exposure, and finally printing.

This is a picture I took in my home town (Columbus, Ohio). It was for a photo class and we had to take pictures of train tracks. I used a Canon power shot and used the macro setting to focus in on the specific object and blur the rest of the picture. 

ISO Sensitivity - Hillary Bautch

ISO is an acronym which stands for "International Standards Organization." The ISO rating of a camera, combined with shutter speed and aperture work together to determine how clear a photo will be. The lower an ISO rating, the less sensitive to light the film stock is, and therefore the clearer the image will be.

http://www.exposureguide.com/iso-sensitivity.htm

This is a photo that I took once I arrived here in Rome. I am a big fan of perspective photography, because it allows the person viewing the photo to see more than just what is in the foreground of the picture. For instance, in this photo the street is able to be seen in the very distant background of the shot as well as the foreground, creating an interesting viewing experience.

Blake Tebbe photo

This is a photo I took from my cabin back home in Iowa. It is a photo of my four-wheeler and our pond in the background and displays many trees and grasses that are surrounding the pond and my families land.

-Blake Tebbe

How to make a pinhole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7MXBjBdug

-Blake Tebbe

Depth of Field (Alison Bailey)

Depth of Field Information:
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/950/depth-of-field.html

Personal Photograph:
I took this photograph on the western coast of Costa Rica while on a service trip. This little girl was the daughter of our driver to the remote beach village we were staying in, and I couldn't resist taking a picture. With the lighting and the dust/smudges on the window covering her innocent face, I thought it was an interesting contrast.

History of Pinhole Photography -- Claire Odorico

Images created via a small opening will be found in the natural environment and in everyday life, and people in various parts of the world have been observing them since ancient times. Probably the earliest surviving description of this kind of observation dates from the 5th century BC, written by Chinese philosopher Mo Ti. In the Western hemisphere, Aristotle in 4 BC was asking, without receiving any satisfactory answer, why sunlight passing through quadrilaterals, for example, one of the holes in wickerwork, does not create an angled image, but a round one instead, and why the image of the solar eclipse passing through a sieve, the leaves of a tree or the gaps between crossed fingers creates a crescent on the ground. In 10 AD the Arabian physicist and mathematician Ibn al-Haitham, known as Alhazen, studied the reverse image formed by a tiny hole and indicated the rectilinear propagation of light. There was another scholar during the Middle Ages who was familiar with the principle of the camera obscura, namely the English monk, philosopher and scientist Roger Bacon. It was not until the manuscript Codex atlanticus (c. 1485) that the first detailed description of the pinhole camera was set down by Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, who used it to study perspective. http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/whatis.html

I took this picture of a dragon fruit on my trip to Thailand this past summer (August 2013). Although this picture was taken on an iphone, I really like the way it turned out. It captures the variety of different colors and textures in Thai cuisine which are very representative of the fun and vibrant Thai culture.

Depth of field- Katrina Officer

5) Depth of field Depth of field refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It varies depending on camera type, aperture and focusing distance, although print size and viewing distance can also influence our perception of depth of field. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm Here is a picture that I took of my dog using a digital SLR camera. I love this picture because it turned out really clear which I'm proud of because I took this using manual settings! I also like the depth of field and the way the background blurs out, drawing your attention directly to the detail in her face.