One week with an art major.
Time spent in the darkroom this week: Aprox. 12 hours (Or, three hours a day since Monday. But probably more than that.)
Rolls of film developed: 4
Contact sheets created: 4
Time spent scouring contact sheets for possible prints: 30-60 min.
Time spent cleaning negatives: Too long
Total number of final prints created: 6
Number or reject prints and text strips: Oh, God, I don’t even want to know.
Number of ruined prints due to major dust problems: 4
Money spent on 25 sheets of drymount tissue and 25 sheets of 11x14 matboard: $53.69
Prints need for the final project: Oh, crap. 8-10. Why was I thinking 6? Shitshitshit.
The photo assignment has been pushed back!
Instead of being due on Friday, it’s due the class after, which won’t be until Thursday next week.
That’s a relief because if it were still due Friday, I’d have to finish it tonight. Instead, I did my contact sheets and now I have a little bit more time to think about what I want to print and I’ve got the weekend, plus all day on Tuesday, plus whatever evenings work.
Basically, life is good in terms of photography.
Today is going to be a photo-filled day.
I need to shoot 4 rolls of film today and tomorrow. Two today, two tomorrow.Three today, one tomorrow if I’m lucky. All today if I’m super lucky. And them I’m going to develop them tomorrow night and start printing if possible and or maybe printing on Tuesday and I’ll try to finish printing on Wednesday and I’ve got to mat two photos that I print, as well.
I probably won’t have time on Thursday, but maybe I’ll have time to mat my photos that evening?
It’s all due on Friday, so I’ll be working on a tight schedule. Plus, I’ve got other homework.
I need to get outside with my camera.
September 2011
I took all these photos for The List, but I never actually edited them. I just put all the photos on a flashdrive and got them printed at Walgreens so I could hand them in at class. I meant to edit them during my free time and I only got around to a few of them.
This was (is) my photo of a friend. This is also when Angela had pink hair, but you can’t really tell in this photo. Her hair is red now, so that’s awesome.
ANYWAYS. As far as editing goes, this probably underwent one of my my more major edits. I think I started this before long weekend? And then I just kind of sat on it for awhile, trying to decide if the edit was a good thing. Basically, there had been a lot of things on the wall behind her and I was trying to decide if it was better with or without them. In the end, the blank wall won.
The List
- Chair
- Portrait of a friend/classmate
- Self-portrait
- The place you live
- Something you like
- A tree
- A descriptive image of a building
- An abstract image of the same building
- Something you are about to eat
- Make a photograph with a photograph in its composition
- Something that is moving
- An image with text in the composition
- Something you have never seen photographed
- Sweaty
- Love
- Beauty
- Funny
- Shocking
- Spiritual
- Death
- Injustice
- What you are feeling at the moment you are taking this picture
Due: Monday, 9-26
Yep. That’s what I gotta do before class on Monday. And to complicate things, I have to get the images printed. At least we get to do this with a digital camera. but I still gotta go to Walgreens or Target or something on Sunday.
