Results from Photo IIA

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Hello and welcome to my third gallery of photos. These are all taken during or after my third semester in photo class. Enjoy!

You are free to use these pictures in a non-commercial manner as long as you ask first and give proper attribution. I have 2K to 3K pixel scans on my hard drive if you want something larger.

This was a picture I took in early January 2005 when it was raining here in Southern California. The tree is a reflection off of a puddle of water. The 'spots' are ripples where rain just hit. I was hoping to capture a picture with the individual rings clearly visible, but no such luck; My aperture was F/2.8, and the tree appeared to be 20 feet underground, while the ripples were maybe 3 feet away. Taken with Ilford Delta 3200, 1/500.

This is a fascinating picture taken of my ceiling fan, and the only source of light is the bulb beneath it. Although you can't really see it here, this is a case where I think that the grain of Delta 3200 was actually an advantage. I find the shadow of the blades more interesting as a grainy phenomenon than as a smooth gradient. This isn't a very accurate representation of the original print, which was considerably less contrasty (The GIMP only wants to offer me two Gamma settings: 1.8, which turns shadows into gray static, and 1.0, which puts the shadows beyond the dynamic range of the scanner. A Gamma of 1.4 would be perfect).

An incredibly beautiful shot of the night sky, taken late in January as the clouds were clearing underneath a full moon. Taken with Delta 3200, and in contrast to the 10-minute picture from the same vantage point below, this one was a 1/2 second exposure. The picture is a tad washed out; The raw scanner image was far too dark, and I had to bring it up quite a bit.

This is a double print, made by sandwiching two negatives on the same carrier. I can't remember if I placed them facing the same way, or emulsions together. These two pictures were taken from almost the same point, but facing in opposite directions. My scanner didn't capture it, but if you look closely at the print, you can just barely see the fence on the right curving around the background. These were early negatives of mine, I believe they were taken on either Arista.EDU 400 or Ultrafine B&W 400.

Possibly the most beautiful picture I have ever taken. I so totally lucked out on this one it's beyond belief: The air was so still, the trees didn't percepitably move in ten minutes. There were clouds drifting across Orion, which created the 'light of God' effect. And this all happened at the time of year when Orion was just rising out of the East around midnight. My only complaint is that the scanned image loses the subtle difference on the left that tells where the trees stop and the sky starts. Some of my friends have commented that the apartments look as if they are on fire! Taken on Pan-F+, 10 minute exposure.

It seems people like to hotlink the two night-sky photos. Would it fucking kill you to ASK first?

The last picture of my second roll of Delta 3200 to be printed. This was taken with a wide-angle 28MM lens. In reality, all of the panels on the light are the same size! The nearest tip of the light is about 2 feet from the lens, and the farthest corner about 12 feet. Exposure was 1/500 @ F/22.

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