The end of the first semester...

Next week we are submitting all our work. I'm looking forward to next semester to start with digital photography, working in a Studio, etc...

HENRI CARTIER- BRESSON

Henri Cartier- Bresson was a great french photographer, who was creator of Decisive Moment. Here you can see his photographs and listen about his idea of "decisive moment".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUWznm1ufU

FINAL PRINTS!

Today was my last day in Dark Room this year. Finally I got my prints to submit them next week.

More Pinhole Camera- FUN :)

Few days ago I was planning to do my self-portrait with "box camera". I've exposed my paper to the light for 2min and 40sec. I like negativ a lot, cause it looks like painting. I didn't make to positiv cause obviously wouldn't work.

ME, Myself and I



After we've decide to experiment with group photos and have some fun... We've put the camera into the booth inside the car, to make it steady.

With Thomas- positiv

Thomas, Carole, Orsoya, Pamela, Wojtek and ME

HANDS AS A SYMBOL

One of my projects for College is called Visual Communication. We had to choose the topic, take shots, and tell a story... My idea was to shoots people or just their hands... Trying to represent them as a symbol... Love, friendship, happiness, etc. I've been taking shots in my Creche, where I work with the help of my children. Big thank you to them for their big patience, which is not easy when you are only 3 years old. And this is what I've achived...

PINHOLE CAMERA- First Print

First photograph was taken in the Garden in my Creche. I've expose the paper for 2,30 min.

Negativ

Positiv- tester



Final Print





PINHOLE CAMERA

Finally I finished my pinhole camera. It is a shoe box. Inside I've spray over using black mat spray. I did cut small rectangle in the lid. I did cover that hole with silver foil. Using a needle I made a tiny hole in it. Then I made piece of cardboard to cover whole rectangle. In Dark Room you meant to put light-sensitive paper, sticking very well, to the bottom of the box. After you did put the lid on you meant to stick black electric tape around it, to make sure there's no light sources coming through. Tomorrow I will try it to take some photographs. Can't wait...

SPLIT GRADE PRINTING

Split grade printing is when we use two filters, normally number 0 and number 5, to make fine black and white prints. First we print tester with filter 0 to check the right exposure time. Next we expose to the light using filter 0 with choosen time. Then we expose to light again but using filter number 5 with different exposures time to make a tester. We print the photograph and we are choosing on with which time we would like to expose using filter number 5. Last step, we expose first with filter number 0 and then with filter number 5, and we can print now. Here are my examples...


TESTER WITH FILTER 0





TESTER WITH FILTER 5 OVER THE PRINT WITH FILTER 0





FINAL PRINT

SANDWICH PRINTING

Sandwich printing is a technique created by putting two negatives  into the film carrier of the enlarger and printing them on one sheet of paper as one image. I will try this tomorrow in Dark Room...

MIMIC SHOT

Part of our assignment for Photographic Techniques is to take a mimic shot. First is the photograph which I've been trying to mimic. It means not to copy, but trying to look at the technique, object etc.

LAKESIDE REFLECTION Raymond Gehman



And my photograph....

DODGING AND BURNING

We have chosen photograph, which we like it. But our print is still not perfect. Sometimes we would like to make some parts of our image brighter- called dodging and some parts darker-called burning. When we are dodging, we are trying to block some areas of the print for part of exposure time. When we are dodging we are giving more exposure on some parts of image so they coming out darker on the final print. On first photograph you can notice that the sky is completely white. By burning this part of the photograph the clouds became visible.


FIRST PRINT



PRINT WITH DODGING AND BURNING

FILTERS

    Few weeks ago in the dark room we’ve started  using different filters to change the tones of images. Higher number of the filter shows the contrast between black and white, there is no grey color anymore. Using lower number of the filter  we can see more details on the image (dust, clouds, etc.). Here are my photos of this same object using different filters.

FILTER 0

FILTER 1



FILTER 2

FILTER 3



FILTER 4

FILTER 5

















DEVELOPING FILM

Yesterday I’ve been developing  the photographs from my first black & white negative, Ilford 400 in dark room. I have also developed my second roll of film, which was completely new experience to do on my own, then we’ve been doing in the class together.  And there is also so many things that you need to think about: the right amount of the chemicals, right temperature, which is changing every minute or so in the cold Processing Room, appropriate agitation and timing. Not to mention I putting the roll of the film on the spool in total darkness first. Here are some photographs… I hope I will work on them soon…

PHOTOGRAMS

Few weeks ago I’ve had my first class in a dark room and it was a great experience. First thing we’ve been learning how to make photograms. On the photo-sensitive paper we were putting some objects and then we are exposing it to the light. After magic begins, when we put the paper into the developer first and then into the rest of the chemicals. I’ve learned as well (a bit late), that first photogram was a negative and next week we’ll make them into the positive and this look like reflection in the mirror… So for example name on positiv it's not the name anymore... Here are some results…

Hello! My name is Gosia, I’m 31 years old and I’m from Poland. This is my first blog and it’s a new experience for me.

     I’ve always liked taking photographs since I  remember… I think it’s because I’d like to capture a moment… Not even to capture, but probably more to hold the moment… Try to not forget about it, to be able to come back to it, to smile again, to laugh again, to stop and think or just simply to look at it again… Like using a Big Time Machine…

     That’s why the name of my blog is Indian Summer. I remember to look at it when I was younger. It was so thin, so beautiful, so magic and so fragile as well. But you could take photo of it to hold in time forever…

 Photography is my big passion but because of lack of the time which I have, it never became even a little bit professional, what I would have always liked to be. I’m taking shots for my friends on their family occasions, like christenings, birthday parties etc.

     This year I’ve decide to take it a bit more seriously and I’ve started Digital Photography Academic Course in Griffith College. It’s a big challenge for me, first because English isn’t my native language and second because of the lack of time. I am also a  Montessori teacher full time and I attend college in the evenings after work.

     I hope that with every step on the course I will be growing and becoming more confident and each next photograph will be taken more as a professional shot. I hope you will enjoy that journey with me…