PRINTS!

28 shots later, I can't tell you how many I hours spent focusing, adjusting, compensating, metering, developing, printing, mixing, frustrating, in taking these pictures!

The picture below was taken with a 4x5 View camera. what you're seeing below is a scanned Silver Gelatin contact print from the negative, it was taken at 10:22 Am in direct sunlight with a 90MM Toyo lens. subject was about 4 inches from the lens, with bellows length at about 16.5 inches, which equated to an X factor of 17X therefore, according to the chart, i needed to add +4 Stops of light. i spot metered the white spikes @ f/22 for 1/60 seconds. so adding 4 stops light to get the white at Zone V (18% gray) I added the +4 Stops to make the final shot f/22 @ 1/8 second.

Apparently in the final print, my film holder had a light leak as seen by the fogginess on the lower left corner and that fog line on the bottom of the print.

The picture below was taken with a 4x5 View camera. what you're seeing below is a scanned 4x 5 Negative and below that the print. shot was taken outside in shade on piece of old wood. The wood was wet, and had some paint on it. i figured it would make good contrast because of the woodgrain creating these rectilinear lines moving across the frame, then abruptly halted by the curvilinear octopus tentacle. shot was taken at F/11 @ 1/8' bellows at 5.5" no X factor was taken into account.

Contact print on silver Gel paper was at f/16 @ 8 seconds total, - 3 seconds Dodge on middle left, side.

below is my feeble attempt at a Edward Weston pepper.

Here is the actual setup! shot at F/11 @ 1 Second, did not compensate for Bellows.

final words:

I had been working on looking at finding patterns and textures in everyday, and maybe not so everyday objects and bring out the extraordinary detail that they had. sometimes we overlook the awkward looking pepper in the mound of perfect cookie cutter peppers, or the strange spiked inner cheek of a cow. no one ever sees them, because frankly, who eats cow cheek? i put up 7 photos at the critique of the 28 shot. the ones i posted were my personal favorites. i hope it was educational! i know it was for me!