Blur Film

This is a my mom in a dark room. I opened the shutter for roughly ten seconds and during this my sister, standing behind my mom, drew angel wings in the air with a flashlight. I wanted to emphasize the white wings so I contrasted heavily.

This is of my sister outside that I told to run. I followed her movement and tried a panning effect where the background is blurred and the object you follow with your camera is less blurry.

I had my sister break some pool balls, which is just her hitting the main white ball into a group of pool balls to scatter or "break" them. I got the photo seeing the balls begin to smash apart.

This is a blur of a water fountain. I hoped to give the water a ghosty look but it didn't turn out quite that way. Overall though I like it because it has good lighting.

This is my contact sheet for the blur film. A lot of images turned out, which made me happy, and I really enjoyed this project overall.

Multiple Exposure

This is a project using the technique of multiple exposure. A picture is taken and then the film is rewound and another picture is taken over the previous ones. In this picture I stood outside and looked up into the branches of a tree and took a picture. Then I rotated my camera slightly and took another one. I like how this image looks like cracked glass.

This picture was of my mom and the fireplace (with fire), and then another picture was taken of the fireplace without my mom in it so that it looks like she is a ghost.

This is of my dog in front of a light and then he left and I took another picture. This resulted in a ghost outline of him.

This is of me looking in the mirror and taking a photo. I layered the image of a Christmas snow globe over it so it looks like I am holding the pony in the snow globe.

My contact sheet for the multiple exposure project. Not my best but it's an interesting technique and I'm just starting out on it. Hopefully it will improve!

Sandwich Negatives

I used a process in which I placed two negative strips on top of each other and shined light through them to create an image which looked like a multiple exposure picture. I used a picture of my cat and my friend and tried to blend them together.

This image was created through the same process as described above. I used two self portrait pictures in this. One is of me looking in the mirror playing checkers against myself, and the umbrella you see is from the other picture and that is connected to the ghostly face seen in the middle.

Self Portraits

This is probably my favorite self portrait! I like how the focus is on the umbrella and my face is blurry and indistinct in the background. I'm glad that I got the 'one eye covered' angle I was hoping for.

This is of me with an umbrella looking at my reflection in the glass window. Unfortunetly the reflection didn't turn out so good, which was supposed to be my focus.

This is of me looking serious with an umbrella. This might stay or not, depending on if I will print out a picture I think looks better.

Self Portrait Contact Sheet

This is my contact sheet for my self portrait project. The light turned out good in most of them, but I feel like I could have spent more time doing this shoot.

Self Portrait Layering Images

This is part of a digital project that has images blended on each other to give a funky picture. One picture is of in a cactus garden (my eyes are closed on that one) and the other is me at a California beach. The face on that one looks pale because it is blended on top of a cactus!

This is a blended digital photo of two mountain scenes; one mountain is an actual mountain in California and the other is the bobsled mountain ride in Disneyland!

This is of me on Mt St Helens (the ghosty image) and on another hike on a mountain (me facing away). I love hiking, and getting to the summit of St Helens was so much fun! It was also a beautiful day and my birthday!

Portrait Project

This is Ariel again! I've seen that I tend to prefer high contrast photos, and her dark eye makeup and pale skin are perfect for this. I used a 35mm camera outside to take this.

Ariel looking haughty. Me on the ground looking up to get this angle...

This is my friend who I'll just call "Ariel". For Halloween she dressed up as a dark angel and had some wicked (haha! pun intended) face paint on that she did herself. I took the opportunity and got some photos of her outside. Thanks Ariel!

I especially like this photo because Ariel is looking at the camera directly.

Ariel looking off into the distance, judging her enemy... the guy in the pizza car who just passed...