white street landfill protest

     

    

assignment: lumen prints

  supplies needed:

-old b&w photo paper

-flowers (or any plant life)

-a piece of glass

-the sun

-time

the easiest image you could ever create! arrange flowers on b&w paper and cover with glass. using the sun as your light source, expose the paper (could take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours). there's no real way to tell if the paper has "cooked" long enough, but once you think it's good, remove the glass and flowers and place the paper in a light safe box so it doesn't continue receiving light. go inside.

for the purposes of our class assignment, we scanned the original prints using a flatbed scanner to later print using an inkjet printer. (for a lasting effect, there is a process to keep the image you've created. 

i've read about it but haven't tried it yet, so i won't go into that) once scanned, we were also asked to play around with these images in photoshop and print our final version to share with the class. no other instructions were given and we were free to do whatever we wanted. since i'm still in the infant stages of understanding photoshop, this was a good exercise to practice different actions i already know, as well as learning other features within the program. 

[set-up]

[original scan]

[final version]

persian shield

nikon d7000

nikon 50mm f/1.8

assignment: infrared/UV photography

we were recently introduced to the Fuji IS Pro camera. 

used with a set of Peca filters, visible light is blocked to create images that show different areas of the electromagnetic spectrum not seen by the human eye.

i spent some time in the studio this week with the Fuji camera using a 60mm Nikon lens...

the above image is a daisy without any filters on the lens.

because i'd never photographed infrared/UV images before, i thought i'd go through all the filters to test and see what each one does...

(the last image is a "visible light" filter, which is why it looks so similar to the original)

*other than cropping, no editing was done to these images - what you see is what was taken in camera*

daisy