Dark Room

[Oblivia Enna]

Well-- it has been my first quarter in traditional photography classes as of this week. I haven't thought about photography as in-depth as I have recently before, so I am fresh and new to this medium. I'm rather confident in my work that is it of acceptable quality. I am pleased with having full rolls of film being well exposed and interesting views, but I would love to hear and am looking foreward to ideas from other creative thinkers as to how I could expand and what I should pay closer attention to, what I should stay away from, and etc.

All these photos that I will be attaching are processed traditionally in a dark room, so I would love to also hear suggestions for filters and etc, but I have no control over the chemicals I use with the class. Thank you ahead of time, and I will respond as often as I can.

[MacStian]

Hi! I admire that you go for the real ol´school darkroom! Thats going to give you a great feel for working with images in other medias.

In b/w watch out for your backgrounds! Choice of backdrop is gonna make the difference between great images or indifferent ones. These two has too high of a contrast in tje back (pos vs. neg areas).

In your pic of statue it would be great if you could close up the backg with leaves, thereby getting rid of the white areas of the skies. (test by holding your hands over the left and right upper corners.) Use of a higher focal length lens might help for a tighter view on the backgr. ...?

[Oblivia Enna]

A new image from a graveyard here. Specks from scanner, sorry.

[Grumbledook]

Hey welcome to the forum, along with the previous comment I would pay attention to your composition.

The focal point of the first one is all down in the bottom corner leaving a lot of the picture out of focus and there is no where for the eye to really settle on the picture.

That last one you posted you need to really pay attention to value and shape with black and white photos. They really benefit from a good range of tones with interesting lines and shapes in them. Its a bit too neutral, again not really anything of interest in the photo.

Having done B&W film photography myself, I will say its hard to know what your exposure looks like until you process the film. I never got onto dodging and burning when I did it but if you are able to do that it may improve some shots with regards to tonal range.

keep us up to date with what your learning, I'm interested in seeing how you get on with film rather than digital