Some Pictures

[Manda_24]

Here are a few of my pictures that I did last year. I had to develop the film my self and then use an enlarger then the chemicals to develop the pictures also.

Since I don't have the 100 posts or whatever that is need to post pictures I have them on a website.
This is the main page that has all the pictures that I have uploaded to the computer on. Not all of these are the one I did with my manual camera.
Those are on this page. I only have a few of them that I did unfortunately with me at school so I couldn't put them all up.

Picture 1 is a bridge that was in the courtyard back at school, I exposed it to light just as the picture was appearing when it was in the developer.
Picture 2 is the same bridge but dyed blue with some kind of dye that we used.
Picture 3 is also in the courtyard and I did the same thing to this on as the first.
Picture 4 was taken just down the road from my house looking out onto the river.
Picture 5 is a sandwich picture. I used one negative of a rock wall and turned it vertical and the other part was a fire escape in an alley.

Comments/criticisms/advice is/are welcome on any of the pictures. Some were taken with a disposable camera so the quality isn't too great and others were taken out of a window.

 

[Piano Player]

Here are a few of my pictures that I did last year. I had to develop the film my self and then use an enlarger then the chemicals to develop the pictures also.

Since I don't have the 100 posts or whatever that is need to post pictures I have them on a website.
This is the main page that has all the pictures that I have uploaded to the computer on. Not all of these are the one I did with my manual camera.
Those are on this page. I only have a few of them that I did unfortunately with me at school so I couldn't put them all up.

Picture 1 is a bridge that was in the courtyard back at school, I exposed it to light just as the picture was appearing when it was in the developer.
Picture 2 is the same bridge but dyed blue with some kind of dye that we used.
Picture 3 is also in the courtyard and I did the same thing to this on as the first.
Picture 4 was taken just down the road from my house looking out onto the river.
Picture 5 is a sandwich picture. I used one negative of a rock wall and turned it vertical and the other part was a fire escape in an alley.

Comments/criticisms/advice is/are welcome on any of the pictures. Some were taken with a disposable camera so the quality isn't too great and others were taken out of a window.

I enjoyed your pictures.

1&2. The building in the background distracts from the subject bridge. Raising the camera at the time just a few inches, and cropping the building would help. There may also be another angle to that bridge where there is a better background. Because of the building, the black&White is just a jumble of shapes. The blue picture gives a clearer view of the scene.

3. Not bad. The walk leads the eye directly to the door or window in the background. Would love to see a larger version of this.

4. Nice standard scenic. But the sky is washed out. A better day for for this picture can be found.

5. I love the airy staircase. It's almost like a spider web. So fragile looking, I almost get a sense of acrophobia. I think the rock wall sandwich detracts from the picture. A blank wall better emphasizes the delicate staircase structure. Positioning is wonderful with the wall in the foreground, and the staircase off to the right. I would be tempted to go for more an extreme angle. Put the staircase all the way to the edge of the picture. Find an exposure setting with almost no other detail available.

 

[mannysee]

Hi,

keep up the good work. Photography is an amazing art.

bridge pic 1 - are these fingerprints on the print?? effect??. The pic needs more highlights and shadow tones, as it is all midtones and grey looking.
bridge pic 2 - i like the blue dye colour.
courtyard pic 3 - i like the winding of the path back to the perspective point at the top of the pic. Again, it needs more contrast i.e. black and white tones.
river pic 4 - i like this. It has a good range of mid/shadow/highlights. I was thinking what this would look like if it was possible to dye the river edge/sand/white areas in a different colour, as this would bring out the meander of the river/eye line as it moves beyond the picture frame.
pic 5 - i like the way the staircase reaches out to the heavens above and it's fragility against the solid looking wall.

 

[Manda_24]

I enjoyed your pictures.

3. Not bad. The walk leads the eye directly to the door or window in the background. Would love to see a larger version of this.

4. Nice standard scenic. But the sky is washed out. A better day for for this picture can be found.

5. I love the airy staircase. It's almost like a spider web. So fragile looking, I almost get a sense of acrophobia. I think the rock wall sandwich detracts from the picture. A blank wall better emphasizes the delicate staircase structure. Positioning is wonderful with the wall in the foreground, and the staircase off to the right. I would be tempted to go for more an extreme angle. Put the staircase all the way to the edge of the picture. Find an exposure setting with almost no other detail available.

It was required that we do a sandwich for an assignment so I just combined them, nothing was really planned and I couldn't see if it was even in focus in the enlarger, it was really dark, so I had to do that one a few times.
I also made the courtyard/walkway one bigger, I'll finish the rest later.

bridge pic 1 - are these fingerprints on the print?? effect??. The pic needs more highlights and shadow tones, as it is all midtones and grey looking.
bridge pic 2 - i like the blue dye colour.
courtyard pic 3 - i like the winding of the path back to the perspective point at the top of the pic. Again, it needs more contrast i.e. black and white tones.
river pic 4 - i like this. It has a good range of mid/shadow/highlights. I was thinking what this would look like if it was possible to dye the river edge/sand/white areas in a different colour, as this would bring out the meander of the river/eye line as it moves beyond the picture frame.

On pic 1 it isn't fingerprints, I took the photo out of the developer liquid and exposed it to light then finished the process. The marks are from where the liquid was pooled.
And the path one I did the same thing with so the colors are inverted, it originally is a lot darker, I should print that one up sometime.
The river one, yeah it was a nasty day. I think it was raining/snowing.

These ones were for a class that I had, I don't have any here at school with me that I did on my own. We had certain requirements for each of the pictures, like what to take pictures of(once it was movement, shape, texture. . . ) and there were different effects that we had to do to them.

 

[Morning Dove]

I tried to see your pictures, but Webshots is a really slow site (always has been) and they wouldn't open. I recommend Renderosity.com for placing pictures online.