Artist Reflection for Project 7

     I believe the strongest technical aspect would be my ability in this series to keep the focus center on the subject (Marie). Lining it up is highly important because it defines the balance of the photo. The stools that were used had legs that matched up on the same axis having two points to reference. The weakest aspect would be my inability to permenantly fix the blur effect on most of the image. the small strips had a nice focus, but when it came to that large positive sheet only the leftmost area had any clarity. Specifically the wheel which would almost rival a company manufactured camera that a customer would buy. What had worked on the small sheets to provide a precise image was using a mild light setting (F-11) and increasing the time compared to the first couple positive strips. This experience is similar to cooking, and the blur is tantamount where the food is burned in some areas and uncooked in others. 

     The easiest part was keeping the photo paper in the chemicals and agitating them to catalyze the reaction. Shifting the tub requires no critical thinking and adapting to improve. Albeit sometimes one can forget exactly when the paper is deposited in the liquids, but the matter of a few seconds do not make a difference. The hardest part of this activity was figuring out the issues that troubled the perfection of this project. When I thought of this as similar to cooking (as stated earlier), I remedied the solution, despite being confused as to what caused the blur. 

     The objective was to learn about how lighting affects light sensitive paper, and to create an image with it. I had first learned about how to block light as not to disturb contents inside.  As Marie had used this coffee camera several times it was proven to be light proof besides the shutter, as it should be, so I did not add more time to test to see if there is a light leak. When I had put in my first test strip for the coffee camera in it was exposed to too much light and off center, which I had learned from and adjusted the stools and the time the shutter was open. Then it was time to make the positive from the negative from the coffee camera. The new objective was simply to create a positive of the results from the coffee camera. After a few successes with the small strips I made a large sheet version which mysteriously wasn't able to capture any definition from the smaller samples (besides on the wheel of the car on the bottom left), and had to call that a wrap before using too many resources. If I were to reenact this activity, I would want to build a scene, like borrow some artwork and line it up outside, or take a picture of the cars parked outside.