my first pictures for photography 101

[pest22o]

Hey guys here are my photographs for my 101 class I took, I will be getting evaluated and I just wanted to hear som eof your feed back on them.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10034.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10035.png

Here's another.

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10033.png
This is probably my favorite

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10006.jpg

Dumpster bear

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10007.jpg

The metro

[ryan brown]

NONE of those pics are showing up for me.

[Rick Meyer]

yeah. me neither.

[tmnt]

Me 3.

[Sacksnack]

They're working for me. They're all pictures of a red X in a white box. I like the third one best.

[triplej96]

I'm guessing the class didn't go so well.....

I am curious to see the real photos :)

[Kdawg]

That camera picks up the red so sharp and clear. Like no other.

[CR_OPSO]

They're working for me. They're all pictures of a red X in a white box. I like the third one best.

You guys crack me up.

pest22o - looks like you only copied/pasted the first part of your links.

[Rick Meyer]

Heck, you guess see more than me. I don't even see the red x in the white box.

[pest22o]

Maybe I'm not posting it right Im supposed to put the URL right?

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/bigger.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/tinnel1.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/clowds.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10027.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/linolnpillers.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/floorlight3.png

[pest22o]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/pest22o/Scan10030.png

[pest22o]

sorry they're so big, but there you go. which one sdo you guys like or hate or if you just wanna give me feed back on each one it would really help me.

[pest22o]

the one my professor liked the most was the Piller one, that one was a bitch to develop took me over to 900 seconds of exposure to finally get that image, it was alot of burning. these arent digital by the way.

[William_Robinette]

One immediate thought:

I wish they were level.

[DivotDan]

They look good man. Some people don't know how to pull off all the PS effects (ME!) and make it still look nice. Good use of available lighting.

I'm just glad after all this build-up that they don't suck! Keep up the good work.

[Michael Friedman]

They look good.

Shooting real film is a noble pursuit....

[egproductions]

these arent digital by the way.


It's more impressive if you say they are digital

900 seconds is obsurd, You sure your aperture was opened up enough? What size print? how far was your enlarger from the paper?

[Jim Montgomery]

Nice work. Reminds me of the work of Mario Algaze. I would have liked to see a little more tonality in some of the shots. The very first one shows a complete range, the back wall and foreground look wet as they should. Has an omnious feel, something that could have been used for a movie intro.

The one of the two kids holding hands was my favorite. If you could have framed it a little more to the right or left it would have been spectacular.

Black and white what a wonderful medium.

[triplej96]

Sewer one is my fav.

[pest22o]

One immediate thought:

I wish they were level.


Level?

[pest22o]

They look good man. Some people don't know how to pull off all the PS effects (ME!) and make it still look nice. Good use of available lighting.

I'm just glad after all this build-up that they don't suck! Keep up the good work.

PS effects? what do you mean.

[sundance44ANCE44]

Nice Composition, Havent Seen B&w In Years, I Think Your On The Right Track

[pest22o]

It's more impressive if you say they are digital

900 seconds is obsurd, You sure your aperture was opened up enough? What size print? how far was your enlarger from the paper?


why is digital more impressive is it harder to get good pictures?

And in regards to the 900 sec exposure; no, the print was regular 8 x 11, it's just that it's taken at the lincoln memorial in the day time, and I was trying to make all the tourists look like ghosts, so I had to lower the shutter(or raise? I forgot which ones the right terminology) and it was day time and I used bulb.It was until later that someone told me about using an ND filter. It came out extremely over exposed the negetive was completly black; but I knew somewhere in there, was a picture, so I exposed the hell out of it. Took me half abox of paper to get it right.

[pest22o]

Nice work. Reminds me of the work of Mario Algaze. I would have liked to see a little more tonality in some of the shots..

I will check out this Mario Algaze, and tonality? (sorry it's my first photography class.)

[pest22o]

They look good.

Shooting real film is a noble pursuit....


Film is awsome I love the whole manual developing, I think it's fun.

[pest22o]

Sewer one is my fav.

the one with me in it or just the dark river? those were all taken on 3200 film all at night.

[triplej96]

the one with me in it or just the dark river? those were all taken on 3200 film all at night.

The third sewer photo with you in it. the photo on the second page.

[CR_OPSO]

The teddy bear next to the trash is my favorite. Nice work.

[Jim Montgomery]

Tonality. Getting all the dynamic range on the film that you can. B/W film has eight distinct zones of tonality. Zone 1 is total black with no detail, zone five is what your cameras light meter tells you to expose for, middle grey. Zone 6 is the tonality of caucasion skin, zone 7 is white with detail and zone eight is white. Each zone happens to be one f stop apart. So if you want to expose for a face, take a meter reading and then open up one stop. Everything else will fall into place relative to the face.

The challenge as a photographer technically is to be able to expose and process your film so that your zones fall in the 2 to seven range. Look at an Ansel Adams print and you will see that what at first appears black, upon closer inspection, actually reveals detail in there. Snow for instance will have a stark white yet still maintain a granular appearance.

You may want to read Zone VI by Fred Picker, if you can find it. My copy is thirty years old. By God it is still available http://www.amazon.com/Zone-VI-Workshop-Fred-Picker/dp/0817405747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198193947&sr=1-1

[egproductions]

why is digital more impressive is it harder to get good pictures?

No, I was just playing. It would take a lot of work to make digital images look like film as much as these do.