Artist Reflection for Project 8
My strongest technical aspect of this project would be would be the diversity in the values in the final product. There is both black and white as well as at least 8 different shades of gray. I had used a 2 1/2 contrast filter on it to give it the variety in values. The original photo also was composed of several different objects with varying amount of shade made it a perfect choice for this assignment. Something I could have improved on was to increase the darkness overall on the negative. I could achieve this by changing the filter to a 3 or 3 1/2 or higher, but i believe past that it could make things too dark. Another way to darken the results would be to expose it to light more by a second or 2 more or increase the F-11 to F-8.
The easiest part would be agitating the chemicals over the paper like all darkroom projects. It was also easy to cut out what film I would use for this image, then choose the winning frame. The more difficult things were to find what light level and duration I would use, as this was my first dark room assignment. Those who were already in the dark room gave me numbers to work with and I worked from there, but since each enlarger is different and each picture needs different amounts of light to meet the same result as others, I had to experiment some and the large test strip had helped plenty to choose the result for the finished product. I admit I was not sure why some of the small strips were so dark, but later came to realize I did nothing wrong, but the papers must have been previously exposed to light when they were being pulled from the drawers.
I demonstrated the objective by accurately making an enlarged version of the film on the light-sensitive paper using the enlarger. The objective was to go through the process from taking pictures to using the enlarger to make the contact sheet in the from of a test strip, then choose the best value and make another test strip to replicate that, and choose that best result and make a finished product with that chosen value. If I were to repeat this project, I would take a snapshot of something that isn't school related (because I do not need a reminder that I am in school). Overall this activity is easy now that I understand it, but since it was my first experience in the dark room, it was actually relatively disorienting.
The easiest part would be agitating the chemicals over the paper like all darkroom projects. It was also easy to cut out what film I would use for this image, then choose the winning frame. The more difficult things were to find what light level and duration I would use, as this was my first dark room assignment. Those who were already in the dark room gave me numbers to work with and I worked from there, but since each enlarger is different and each picture needs different amounts of light to meet the same result as others, I had to experiment some and the large test strip had helped plenty to choose the result for the finished product. I admit I was not sure why some of the small strips were so dark, but later came to realize I did nothing wrong, but the papers must have been previously exposed to light when they were being pulled from the drawers.
I demonstrated the objective by accurately making an enlarged version of the film on the light-sensitive paper using the enlarger. The objective was to go through the process from taking pictures to using the enlarger to make the contact sheet in the from of a test strip, then choose the best value and make another test strip to replicate that, and choose that best result and make a finished product with that chosen value. If I were to repeat this project, I would take a snapshot of something that isn't school related (because I do not need a reminder that I am in school). Overall this activity is easy now that I understand it, but since it was my first experience in the dark room, it was actually relatively disorienting.
I can see by your contact sheet, test strips, and final print that you understand the print developing process. Nice composition and variety of textures in the final print.
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