First batch of prints from photography class!

Hurray! My very first batch of printed photos from my photography class, and all of these came from film that I developed ALL BY MYSELF and printed with chemicals also ALL BY MYSELF! Ha! This was for the first project, where we had to have at least one example that best fit each of the following categories:

1. Shallow Depth of Field (e.g., the foreground is sharp, the background is blurry)
2. Great Depth of Field (that is, everything in the foreground and background is sharp, in focus)
3. Capturing something in motion, freezing something in motion
4. Showing MOVEMENT (blurry arms in a picture)

Click on each picture for a larger version!


This is for #1. This was actually the first print I ever made, a pretty damned lucky first try.


For #2. this is actually a dirty little creek close to campus, but it looks much cleaner in black and white.


For #2 also. Looks like a scene from France, but is in fact the downtown old capitol.


For #3, capturing something in motion. This is the type of fountain that has spouts directly in the concrete, you can choose to walk over it. I managed to capture the water just when it erupted out of the spouts. It's still a little blurry, even though I had the shutter timed to 1/1000ths of a second.


This is my print showing movement. In this case, this is another fountain in another part of town, or part of it anyway. The sky has been totally overexposed because I had to keep the aperature open long enough (1/15 second) to capture the movement of the water. I liked this fountain, although I had to be sneaky about taking pictures of it (as it is on the front lawn of a big research center).