Monday, January 23, 2012

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.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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.