For some reason, she stayed in the water while I got out, and when I turned around to see why she was still standing in the same place, it was perfect – -the sun was setting nearly directly behind her, the air was glowing in that yellow light, and I knew that was it! So she splashed in the water, again, as she had been before, and after a few composites of splashes, I had this: exactly what I was thinking. The rocks were killing our feet this time, so we decided that we should just pack up - I had enough to work with, although it wasn’t perfect. We tried different angles, and played with the light, but it just wasn’t what I was thinking. We started shooting, and something just wasn’t quite right. We went to my favorite little stream that I’ve used on a few other occasions, and dressed in white, with curly hair, and the sun setting, it was everything I wanted….almost. Between the three classes, I had eight, one of which, Brittany, I used for this project. So I had this picture in my mind of how I wanted to photograph “her”, and off I went.Īnother perk experienced for these finals - I had tons of models! It was amazing. Cheesy sounding, I know, but it’s been great letting the ideas flow. I like how inspired I’ve been feeling these last few weeks. So instead of just taking some photos of flowers or birds, or whatever I’ve been working with, I decided to photograph “mother nature”. As a final project, I really wanted to print larger than the typical 8 1/2″ x 11″ negatives that we’ve been printing, but I knew I had to do something great to make a single print final worthy. So for my Alternative Photography class, I’ve been making work that’s about nature the whole semester (don’t worry, I’ll share it with you soon). Is that cheating? I’m gonna go with no □ But I’m free!Įven with falling behind, I’m happy to say that again, I’ve wound up making something for class that completely fits in with this challenge. Now, I’m just anxiously awaiting my grades…for what seems like an eternity. I’m happy to say, however, that I survived, and I’m happy with all of the finals I completed. Did you miss me? Just as I thought I was going to be able to stay on top of things, finals struck with an iron fist, and things got crazy. That way I've got a reference where I can correct any colour drifts once scanned.Ah, finally, I can breathe. I've also taken to shooting a frame at the start of each session with a colour check chart. First 2 stages Dev and Blix are the most temperature critical (pretty much need to be nailed on 38C) - rinse can be 30-40C and the Stab bath anything between 20 and 40C. I found that with the Patterson tank 3 inversions at the start of the process, a quick knock on the bench to remove bubbles, then open the tank lid (with a cloth over the gap - it sprays very nasty chemicals everywhere otherwise) as the process off-gasses a lot more than B&W, then a single inversion and tap each minute after that works okay. So before you start, you need to work out how many "films" you're into the kit, and decide the duration of process you'll need. With fresh chemicals, the Dev takes 3min15 seconds rising to 4 minutes for depleted, BLIX takes 4mins when fresh right up to 15 minutes by the time you're on your 20th reel. The 1L Tetenal kit is good for around 20 rolls of 100 ISO C41 (a roll being a 36exp 35mm or a 120 film - 220 film counts as 2 rolls - 400ISO depletes the chemicals more, so count it as 1.5 films) if you re-use the chemicals. Problem I've found is that you I generally only process one or two films at once. C41 is pretty easy to do, but to do consistently, and with a good colour balance, and get it bang on every film, is a pain.
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