Homemade Backdrop

These are the top four captures for my "Homemade Backdrop" project.  I edited the images in Lightroom, adjusting the contrast, saturation, curve, and brightness.

Model: Lisa P.

Perspective and Scale

These are the final images for my Perspective and Scale project.  I used my BJD (ball-jointed doll) Satoru as the subject.  My basic story for the project is  enjoying the splendor of nature and the calm and elegance of the early-evening sun.  Additionally, the photos convey another story of Satoru waiting for someone, and acquiring some sort of magical power from sun, allowing him to both heal others, as well as hurt.
All of my photos were edited in Lightroom to achieve a similar effect.  The final image, which is a merge of two different ones, was edited in Photoshop as well, causing the tonality to vary slightly from the other three images.  In Lightroom, I played with the saturation and luminance of the oranges, yellows, and greens, tweaked the levels a bit, played with the contrast and blacks, and lowered the clarity slightly.
With the final merged image, I took an image of when he fell on the ground, and cut him out of it, adding him to the image of him standing with his hands out.  I then airbrushed in an orb in his hands and changed the blending mode.

Shadow Play

These are the images for my "Shadow Play" project.  I used Tmax100 film.

This photo exhibits a strong use of directional lighting.  This is an images of a redwood tree in my backyard.  In the darkroom, I didn't need to do anything "special" to the print, like adding filters or burning.  I printed on fiberbase paper.

This photo uses shadows to create a pattern.  I was aiming to emulate the feeling of a jail cell.  Like the first print, I did not need to do anything "special" to it while printing. I printed on fiberbased paper

This photo uses silhouette.  With this photo, I wanted to emulate Alfred Hitchcocks' "Psycho".  In order to take the photo, I set up a light and shot from inside my shower.  My father held up the knife for me.  This print was a little more difficult in the darkroom; I needed to use a 3 filter.  Printed on fiberbased paper.

On another note, I still need to do my dyptic photo, for I do not know how to do positive printing.

Shadow Practice

These are the captures for practicing shooting shadows.

 

For this photo, I practiced with silhouettes.  I tied strings onto a skeleton and had my friend hold it like a puppet.  The photo was taken with back lighting behind a white fabric screen.  I lightened up parts of the photo and darkened the shadow a bit as well in Lightroom.



































For this photo, I practiced distortion.  I lit my model from a 3/4 angle so the shadow would stretch diagonally.  I changed the levels a bit, upped the contrast, made it black and white, and added grain in Lightroom.

For this photo, I practiced with silhouettes. My friend make a deadman's knot and we tried it onto the skeleton. She then held it while I shot.  The photo was taken with back lighting behind a white fabric screen.  I lightened up parts of the photo and darkened the shadow a bit as well in Lightroom.



















For this photo, I practiced projecting a pattern.  I used a piece of a laundry basket which was cut and then spray painted black.  I then backlit it so it would cast a shadow.  I edited it in Lightroom by changing the levels, making it monochrome, and changing the hues a bit.

Historic Homes

These photos are from my Historic Homes project.  I shot on an Oympus OM1 with Tmax100 film in Alameda, CA.

When I printed this photo, I didn't really need to do anything special to it in the darkroom.  The only thing I really needed to do was expose the paper for a little longer than usual.  I used fiber based paper

This photo was more difficult to print.  I had been having trouble opening up my roll to put the film on the reel, so my teacher and I took it out of the film change bag to look at it.  Unfortunately, I had a bit of a light leak, so I had to drastically burn the left side of the print because it was blown out.  It could've been burned more, but I feel that it is decent.  Printed on fiber based paper.

Color Project

These are the top four captures from my Color Project.  All photos were edited in Lightroom, with watermarks added in Photoshop.

For this photo, I began by cross processing to get a general color scheme, but then changed the tonalities a fair amount to achieve the desired results.  Since I am very much into early color photography from the 50's, I edited mine so it has the strange color shifts, saturation, and grain that the early color photos possessed.

 Like the previous photo, I began by cross processing it, then tweaked the saturation, hues, levels, and what-not until I liked it.  I wanted to emulate early color film in this one as well, but particularly polaroids.  I added a bit of a white vignette to create the faded effect that many developed along their edges.

This photo is from the "greys" portion of my project.  It still possess a tinge of color, but focuses mostly on warm greys with a touch of cools.































As with the previous photo, this is from the "greys" portion of my project.  It still possess a tinge of color, but focuses mostly on warm greys with a touch of cools in the background.

Complementary Color Grid

For my project, I had to take 24 captures of my favorite color, choose my top nine photos, then put them into a 6x6 grid.  After that, I shot the complementary color and made it the border for the grid.  The color I chose was red, blue-green being its complement.  Photos were edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.