Midterm

I just got out of a demo for location lighting and have a half hour till my next class. to start anything in the darkroom i would need no less than 1.25 hours {yes, for reals. i've calculated it} so therefore instead of working on my mid term i will be blogging. :D

here is the list of things that i have to have in my midterm {in fancy words, my words and an easiness level from 1-10 [hard] }-

Part A {controling subject contrast/tonality}-
1- photograph one white and one gray card with the proper subject contrast/tonality {meaning-make the gray and white cards look gray and white. easiness level-5}
2-photograph one white and one gray card so that they both appear the same GRAY subject contrast/tonality. {make the white card look gray using the frennel lights.  easiness level-9 {not kidding! i have probably worked harder on this number than on any other one on this list} }
3-photograph one white and one gray card so that they both appear the same WHITE subject contrast/tonality. {now make the gray card look white using the frennel lights. easiness level-2 {but this is only a 2 because as soon as you get number 2 all you have to do is change your exposure 3 F-stops. but if you were doing this without number 2, it'd be a 9 as well.} }

Part B {light fall-off test/inverse square law}- {if you don't know what the inverse square law is and you think you're a photographer, you would be incorrect. it's kind of a BIG deal}

1- photograph the bumbers 2 and 6 cards at their respective distances {2= 2 feet from the light and 6=6 feet from the light easiness level-6. it's doable. it's easy to get it to do what it's supposed to, the hard part is making the light even on both the cards with only one light}
2-photograph the bumbers 10 and 11 cards at their respective distances {10=10 feet from the light and 11=11 feet from the ligh.t easiness level-6.}

{we had a different one here instead to begin with and then as soon as i shot it and printed it, he changed it to this one... naturally that'd happen to me. So i'm going to write this one out too because i did it already- we had to shoot a mirror on a white surface and couldn't get any reflection of anything in the room in the mirror we shot. -
1-make the mirror light gray and keep the background white {easy}
2-make mirror white on light gray surface {keep in mind that the mirror has to stay on the original white surface the entire time. easiness level-6}
3- make mirror white and change background to look black {insanity! easiness level-not recordable. i'd say like a 15!}
4- there were a few others i don't remember exactly what they were

Part C {illustrating shape and dimension}-

take a simple light toned object {a white sphere is what i used} and photograph it on a white background. Use the following lighting combinations.

1- Side light {hard and soft} with the light source close.  {shoot the object with it being lit from the side with a reflector and a soft box. easiness level-4}
2 Side light {hard and soft} with the light source far. {shoot the object with it being lit from the side with a reflector and a soft box. easiness level-4}
3-Front light hard and soft with the light source far. {have the light be behind your camera when you shoot. Which he told us would NOT create a shadow. Which it did. which made me have to do the picture over again. which is not easy because it's film. Which added about 6 hours more of work. i'm not upset about this though. {easiness level-6.5}
4- Top light hard and soft with the light source far. {get a "BOOM" set it up, tie weights to it, drop weights on toe, cry a little {okay so i didn't do this, but someone in my class did}, act like a strong man and hoist the light up 30 feet into the air. climb on ladder, adjust light, nearly fall to your death, have boom fall over, nearly smashing your sphere, but luckily caught by girl you're working with, snap picture, say a prayer of gratitude for not dying. easiness level-8}
5-Back light hard and soft with the light source far {self explanatory, easiness level-7 because we had to not get lens flare from the light going directly into the camera and therefore had to use a "hood" }

the hardest part of Part C is not shooting, it's printing. This so far is the hardest one i've had to print.

Part D- photographing transparent objects {like glass}

1- Bright field lighting {white background but the edges are supposed to be black}
          a-backlighting with softbox {the soft box is the background easiness level-6}
          b-front lighting with a hard light and gobo {cool word, no? easiness scale-9! ridiculous. do you know how hard it is to get zero reflections in a glass and no flare, and nothing but pretty "sexy" glass as my professor calls it?? HARD!}

2-Dark field lighting {background is black but the edges are white}
     a- backlighting with a softbox {easiness level- 7. i don't think i did this one right.....
     b-front lighting with a hard light and gobo {9. I hate front lighting pretty much. this picture we had to take a picture of a glass and it was in like a tent. Everyone had to duck and the entire studio had to be void of anything at all reflecting. Including cell phone lights. insane}

3- lighting for refraction through a liquid. {i like this one. it looks cool. easiness level-7.5}

4- side lighting with fill card and transparent object "prepared" on a gradient background. (prepared object =object that the back is sprayed to make it not totally transparent. this one looks super cool too! after you have the light set up for number 3, it's not hard. it's the same lighting, you just have to do something different to the object}

5- photograph 2 different creative applications using the techniques applied in the above section. the final images must be generated with a 4x5 camera and printed as wet lab enlargements. be certain to use the full extent of the large format camera movements. {i hate large format. it's the bane of photography. it's beautiful, it really is. It's just a pain. And REALLY expensive. it's about 4 dollars for every picture you take {just in the film.} and uses a lot more chemicals to develop too. easiness level- 7 in taking the picture, in developing the film-9}

Part E- photographing Chrom
first attempt-was our first assignment. we did it digitally. mine kind of rocked. you can take a looksie at them here.
second attempt. i took pictures of more silverware in the studio. kinda pretty.

Part F- photographing a replication.
I chose Immogen cunningham's picture of fennel.
my first attempt i shot cabbage.
second attempt i shot the actual thing. and it took 6 hours to figure out how to get it even close to what it looked like. This one is my favorite that i've done. it's SOOOO pretty. :D

I'll put pictures up of all my stuff probably by thursday. but if not, don't shoot me. there's a lot to get done.

well, night people. :D xoxoxox
-Bri

oh, and betsy wanted me to tell you that i love her. which is true.