Throwback to opening day of Sanrio’s Partnership with Tanaka Farms in September 2017 (photos shot in manual but wasn’t really comfortable with settings yet so quality varied dramatically)
Tanaka Farms
Author: lessalibrarian
Alta Vicente Hike
Last Hike of 2017 and my first time shooting completely manual outdoors
Sony NEX 5t | ISO 200 | f/14 | 1/50 | 20mm
Sony NEX 5t | ISO 200 | f/4 | 1/2000 | 16mm
Sony NEX 5t | ISO 200 | f/13 | 1/250 | 36mm
Photography 101: Light
Photography 101: Light
An introduction to the use of the four qualities of natural, available lighting in black and white, color and digital photography. The student will produce print examples of each quality of natural, available light.
notes on the assignment: Since this was our final assignment, I wanted to do my best work yet, and I think I succeeded. I hope to have all of my negatives scanned from this roll in particular. During critique in class, my instructor said that I used light well and purposefully, we discussed how much of the work I turned in in class featured an absence of people (this assignment was no different), and I seemed to be the one to take the assignment and the class most seriously. My settings for each shot were not as well recorded, so I will not include them below. For some of the images what I wrote down did not correspond to what my instructor thought should be the settings, so I suspect some of them may have been off. Again, I developed the film myself and made all the prints completely on my own with the exception of the skate park abstract, my instructor helped me crop and focus the photograph. All photographs taken in San Pedro using 35mm ISO 100 Arista Film on my Canon EOS Rebel GII.
Late Morning Light
Dappled Light
High Noon Light
Twilight
The berth entrance in this photo is difficult to determine and the photo didn’t come out quite like I’d hoped, but I like the sky and clouds in this photo. The development of the photo could have used some professional guidance to get the effects and stronger blacks that I wanted, but perhaps in the future when I can alter the image digitally.
Contact SHeet
New Year’s Day 2018
Greeting the new year at Griffith Park Observatory overlooking Los Angeles, all shot in manual mode
Sony NEX 5t 16-30mm lens | ISO 800 | f/5 | 16mm
Atlanta
I didn’t get out much while I was there for the American Library Association’s Annual Conference and the little I did get out was shot on my iPhone, but I did manage to get a few shots on my walk to the convention center and from my hotel window at least! The hotel shot is of my hotel… Which was featured in the first Hunger Games movie as the training center! Also, the square photos all have Instagram filters applied…
Photography 101: Motion
Photography 101: Motion
An introduction to the control of motion in a photography through the use of shutter speed control and panning. The student will produce one print example of a frozen motion and one print example of blurred motion.
notes on the assignment: Taking the photos was a lot of fun and I felt magical that I was able to capture my dog still while in motion. I really dislike taking photos of people or animals because I can never take a sharp shot and while this one isn’t perfect, it’s the closest I’ve ever gotten! The example of blur was fun to do although I felt really self conscious standing on a busy street at night. Baby steps to embracing the weird things you have to do to get a good shot! At the bottom I include my contact sheet of the roll of film I shot for this assignment. I tried to shoot at my friend’s child’s softball game, but alas, I was too far away and it was too hard to see the girls running and catching. Luckily, playing catch with my dog seemed to do the trick although I wish I had been a little closer to her to get more of the details in her fur and the folds of her skin. For this lab work I was again in the lab alone and didn’t feel comfortable cropping (or really know if it was an option) without supervision, so I left the image as is. During the film developing process it looks like I bent/pinched the negative, creating that white mark which actually worked out to look like a spring board or emphasis of her jump. That was complete luck!
The bottom photo was taken at night along Gaffey facing Gaffey street bridge. I have to say that the printing process was easy for this one — I did one test print and then the first print I did came out excellent. I upped the filter to 2.5 for that one and really like how the black and white contrast against each other. I was especially happy that some detail of the freeway signs came out, although I wish the sign was a tad darker — something to work out for the future.
Quick Shutter Speed
Slow Shutter Speed
Contact Sheet
House of Mouse
Mickey’s Fun Wheel @ Disney California Adventure (June 2017)
Photography 101: Depth of Field
Photography 101: Depth of Field
An introduction to the control of the range of focus in a photograph using aperture control, subject distance and focal length to achieve both shallow and deep depth of field. The student will produce one print example of shallow depth of field and one print example of deep depth of field.
notes on the assignment: I had a frustrating experience in the dark and became obsessed with printing the perfect print but had a difficult time determining if I actually had an example of low depth of field, if I hadn’t focused the enlarger properly, or if in actuality the photo itself was just out of focus. I went through more sheets of paper than I’d care to count but did manage to come out with one print that I was proud of, shown below. Because I ended up printing *only* shallow depth of field examples and ran out of time, I had to shoot my deep depth of field on my digital camera and print from Costco. Below is a scanned copy of the print rather than the digital file as I feel the coloration on the print came out lighter than it seemed on my computer. I’d also like to note that I experimented with the B&W setting on my camera and did not digitally alter the image after uploading it to my computer. The plus side to the frustration of the lab (I was using the lab during another class’s time so my professor couldn’t help me) was that I got to spend a lot of time using trial and error to see what I liked, see how the enlarger worked, and emphasize that its as much of the process as it is the final product. And even though the final product came out crooked and not as crisp on one edge, I’m still proud of the shot and its composition.
note on the images: scanning created pixelated effect on both images
Deep Depth of Field
I intended the photo to go horizontal, but my professor thought it was supposed to be vertical and I kind of like it like that too!
Subject: Palos Verdes Library District Peninsula Center Deep Valley Drive Entrance
Shallow Depth of Field
Subject: Ports O’ Call Village Staircase
Carpinteria
Memorial Day Weekend in Carpenteria & Solvang, California (May 2017)
SONY NEX-5T | Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS | ISO 100 | f/13 | 1/160
SONY NEX-5T | Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS | ISO 100 | f/5.6 | 1/500
iPhone SE back camera | ISO 40 | f/2.2 | 1/30
SONY NEX-5T | Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS | ISO 100 | f/11 | 1/80
Lessa's Lens 