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Ali and Caity - double exposure DARK

Ali and Caity - double exposure

This is a picture I took of my friends Caity and Ali on the top of my new building. It was a double exposure. I first shot Ali on one side of the frame, then she stepped out and I shot Caity on the other side of the frame. I guess they were a bit closer than I thought they would be, but I kinda look how that turned out. I really like how their bodies kind of fade into each other. I also really like how you can see their shadows and the way the buildings look in the background.

Chip and Jess at Neon

This picture I took inside a deli. I had a lot of difficulty printing it because of the dull/fake lighting in the deli, and every print came out either too light, too dark, or too grey. I eventually scanned one in that was decent, but too grey and made it darker in photoshop.

Jessica at Wesleyan

This is a portrait I took of my sister, Jessica, at Wesleyan, which is where she goes to school. What I really like about it is how you can see the reflection in her sunglasses. Also I just think she looks nice in the picture. I had virtually no difficulty printing the photo because it was a beautiful day outside, so the lighting was really easy to work with.

Anna, Lizzie

These pictures were taken with my Holga indoors. The negatives barely came out, they were almost all white. They were virtually impossible to print in the dark room, I even tried exposing them at one second all the way down and nothing came out. I also tried using a filter and that failed too. So I scanned these in and then worked with them a little on photoshop so that they could come out. This is the furthest I've gotten so far.

Flatiron Building

This picture is obviously of the Flatiron Building near Madison Square. It took me a couple tries to get the right contrast on this picture while printing in the dark room. This is my final print, my favorite one. I knew there were clouds in the sky but I couldn't really see anything in the sky in my first couple of prints. However, I was too scared that if I exposed it for longer than the building would come out too dark. So I used a little stick that has a little black piece of paper on the top (name?? dodger?? or something) and placed it over the building in the picture after exposing it for the first 6 seconds (with the lens all the way open), and exposed it for another 6 seconds, which only affected the sky this time - allowing clouds to come out. I like this picture because it seems so dark and dreary and old-fashioned, which is what happens on such a cloudy day, and which was how the building looked on this day.