PG150 final portfolio - Student Choices

 After the five assigned categories, we could submit three student choice pictures. Here I got a little upset with my professor, because I got this picture I thought was really cool, but he didn't want me to submit it, because it was "too candid". I ended up doing something else, but it wasn't that great so here are my "four" student choices. #4 is the one I was not allowed to use. #3 is what I choose instead. #2 is also from my first roll of film. Can you guess the city now? ;) #1 is one of my favorite pictures (good job Chicka)

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PG150 final portfolio - Quality of Light

Quality if light is hard to describe, it should be clear that the picture is about light. Most people took pictures of shadows - some of them very cool. Mine was a little different.

PG150 final portfolio - Still Life

Meet Mr. Bananaface. I had a lot of fun with this category shooting and than also developing. People really liked it and it is really original, because most of people in my class for still life put together just bunch of objects and took pictures of it. :)

PG150 final portfolio - Motion

Picture for category motion could be one of the three different kinds. Stop action - when the moving object is sharp and the background is blurry, burred motion - when you know object is moving because is blurred, but the background is sharp and focused, or so called panning technique when you move together with the object - this is really difficult to do. So here is my blurred motion. I guess I could have done better.

PG150 final portfolio - Cityscape

Next required picture for portfolio was supposed to be a landscape or cityscape. Because this class was mostly in the winter I decided to go with a cityscape. I took this picture on my first film, when we were told just to go out and shoot a roll of film, so the professor can show us how to develop it. I happen to be traveling over the weekend and this was actually one of the best pictures in my portfolio. Anyone knows the city? ;)

PG150 final portfolio - Portrait

This picture was supposed to be a studio portrait. Or at least portrait with controlled lighting. My school has a studio, so we just took turns taking pictures of some of us during the class. This is just one of my classmates (no need to get excited some of you)

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One of my last classes this semester was a photography class. Old fashioned black and white film photography, where you get to go to the dark room and develop your own pictures.
I really liked this class and even when sometimes it was a lot of work and time consuming.
It's so much faster to just snap a picture and look at it right away in the camera and decide if it's worth keeping or no.
The magic of B&W film photography is when you take out the film from the tank and you see that there are some pictures on it. And when you can tell that not all of them are underexposed. And later when you dip the paper in the developer, you wait a second or two and all for sudden a picture starts popping out - not always the best quality right away, but after several attempts of configuring the right aperture, right time and right contrast filter you get out of the dryer something you can be actually proud of.
(long sentence, if anyone has a suggestion how to shorten it, email me)
Even though I didn't excel in this class (shocking, I know) I enjoyed it very much and I'm going to miss it.
Next couple posts are my final portfolio pictures. Feel free to leave a comment - professional or not.