Making a Black and White print

1) Processing sinks with running water

    Tanks for roll-film processing
    Timers
    Thermometers for processing tanks
    Film clips or a drying cabinet
    Graduates
    Negative envelopes or sleeves
    Sponges
    Scissors

2) developer, stop bath, and fixer.

3) First you will need to rotate the aperture ring and switch on the enlarger light. Focus the light. Turn off the light and put print paper on the baseboard shiney side facing up. And then put the negatives emulsion-side-up on top of the print paper. Set the enlarger timer. Put photo in developer for 1 min. Place in stop bath tray for 15 seconds. Put it in the fixer for 1 to 2 minutes. Let it dry.  Put negative inside of the frame in the center of the negative carrier. Make sure the emulsion side of film faces up. Close the enlarger head using a lever to the right. Focus the image on the easel using the white side of a piece of exposed print paper. Turn off the light  and put strip of print paper on the easel.  Make sure they are held in place.Put a piece of cardboard over the strip, leaving a small part exposed. Set the timer for 2 to 5 seconds and switch it on. After each exposure, move the cardboard to reveal more of the strip till its completely exposed.  Develop the strip. Once the strip has been in the fixer for 2 minutes you can take it into the light. Take the strip into the light and decide which exposed part looks best. Use this for deciding how long to expose the print paper. This determines whether to use filters, also which aperture setting to use.For the print  you do the same thing, except put photo paper on the easel (make sure it's focused and  centered) . Select a filter (there are five grades), 1 being low-contrast and 5 being high-contrast. Place filter in filter holder and close securely. 

Set the aperture and timer using the strip as a guide. Switch on timer. After exposing the paper, place it in the developer tray and then process it.

 

 

Emulsion- a composition sensitive to some or all of the actinic rays of light, consisting of one or more of the silver halides suspended in gelatin, applied in a thin layer to one surface of a film or the like.

 

Aperture- an opening, you can adjust this opening on most cameras 

 

Masking Easel- A frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control  borders when printing enlargements.  

 

Exposure- The total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination 

 

Safe Light- A darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.  

 

Dodging- To shade part of picture from exposure for a period, while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area.  

 

Burning- To expose one part of an image to more light by masking the other parts in order to darken and give greater detail to the unmasked area.

Drug cartels in Mexico

I think that it is a very good topic. It talks about reality and how the people in Mexico live and how they have to live and experiencing such horrible things. Also it sounds like a good thing to know what is going around are world, and how people suffer in Mexico and to notice all the good things we have and what kind of people we have over here that they don't. What surprised me was that the journalist Jeff Antebi, Had been to numerous places such as the slums of Haiti or Brazil and Juarez was very different from them. "The average ordinary resident of Juarez, their life was in danger every day." And the other thing was that the police officers had to ware ski masks to hide their identity when investigating the cartel crimes. It was important to ware them so they wouldn't put their life's in danger or their families. It's sad how the cartels kill anyone, there is a lot of "mistaken identity". People are die left from right. 

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My favorite picture would be the one where the guy is is tied up, hands from back and bullet to he's head in the back of the car, Because it just shows how bad the cartels have gotten.

Portraits and self-portraits - start looking

Favorite professional Photo!

Favorite Self Portraits

What makes a good photo? The subject of what the photo is, would be a main thing that makes a good photo. The focus of something and for the photo to be in focus. The angle the photo is taken would be a other thing that makes a good photo.

Ethics in fashion photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)
 The changes made on this lady's face on the comperter were the neck, The hair, lower in the eyes, something with the mouth, darker make-up, and eye's get bigger.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
It is very acceptable to change a person appearance like that because it's for the company and if the person doing it is okay with it then I think it's acceptable to do it. But then again I don't think it is because girl's try to look like that or a certain way and most of them don't know that it's all  computer.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation? She probably feels bad about it but she's  getting money.

4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
I Think the whole computer make over isn't okay, Putting make up on and fixing her hair is OK.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
The differences between fashion photography is making someone pretty and photojournalism is all natural.

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
It has that it's being alive and being there.

Negatives Evaluation

1. I think 7 of my negatives turned out good.
2. I think Four of them because of the lightting.
3. I think the one I choose will turn out good because it's just perfect :).
4. Foucus would be one presented in my photo. The photo is my evidence.
5. Rule of thirds would be one of the rules in my photo.

Photo Manipulation and ethics

A. April fools day here is somewhat the same over there. The main points in this passage is how photographers use "photo shop" to make their pictures look completely different then what the picture was from when they took it. They crop out and add different things in the pictures and they fool people like that.


B. I Think it's unethical and acceptable. It's acceptable because it's cool to play with it like as making funny/good photos with Photo Shop. I don't think Photographers should use it to change their pictures to make something look better or badder than what it really is.
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A. I think the teeth of the lady is unethical. They did a huge change in her teeth.

B.  I consider this photo as the least unethical because you really don't see the difference. I think it's not bad as others because there's not much to point out.

Post Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get close, capture real moments, and capture action or emotion? Explain how you dealt with these challenges.

It was really hard to go and take pictures for my first time because for me it was like I was taking pictures of people I don't know so it was kinda akward. Trying to get pictures of people in action or emotion is hard cause some students didn't want a picture taken so they'd find a way to move or get up.


2. What technical aspects of photography (focus, exposure, composition) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.

 I think I used focus most. I would try to focus only on one or two things or persons.
 

3. Explain how you attempted to use at least one of the advanced composition techniques you learned in class while shooting.


 

4. What would you do differently the next time you shoot to improve your photographs?
 I will get someone I feel more comfortable with as my partner and go to better classrooms.