The semester is over, and I had more fun than I thought I would. In fact, I’m signed up to take another photography course next fall. Yay!
Before I continue, those of you who follow the political side of my blog know that I’ve got certain leanings and opinions and such, and I’m fairly live-and-let-live regarding what I post. I also know that a lot of people (and corporations) are not. Therefore, to make sure there is no confusion about anything, every black and white photo on this blog under the “Photography” category was taken by me (Joe Reimers), in most cases in the context of furthering my education. But those pictures are definitely my intellectual property, and are, in fact, copyrighted to me, except to the extent required by my instructor and educational institution for the sole purposes of furthering my education.
As these images (namely, the black-and-white images under the “Photography” category) are mine, I grant the right to download, view and share these photos for personal, non-commercial use only.
With that silliness out of the way, here’s some more happy photo fun-time goodness.
If you look closely in the background, you can barely not see the Golden Gate Bridge. Yeah, it was cloudy, but I had to work hard to get the clouds to come out in the print (the print has more cloud texture than the raw negative. I had to do some serious burning.)
The world's crookedest street
View out a San Francisco Cable Car
I took this one with 400 speed film pushed to ASA 3200 out the back of a moving cable car.
I love this picture. It’s also pushed, but the effect is very different. Hard to believe it’s in San Francisco!
This was my last – and most successful – print of the Grotto. I can still do better, but it’s much, much closer to where I want it.
This last picture is from an assignment I had in which I had to emulate a significant work of art. I chose Picasso’s Old Guitarist, and photographed my brother emulating the pose with 3 different guitars (classical, electric and Rock Band controller.) What makes this print interesting is that I put 3 different negatives on the same print without any light bleeding. They’re almost straight and sorta equally-positioned, too! It’s hard to do when you can’t see where the prints actually are. But that’s what makes dark room work fun!
May 11, 2011 at 13:53
As an aside, I actually did 2 Picasso emulations. The other was a more deconstructed Guitar and Violin, but it didn’t turn out as well.
May 11, 2011 at 14:32
These look really nice here. I think you have an invisible Golden Gate
I like the Lombard street pic, it has a 3 D effect, there is a real feeling of depth. I also like the high contrast effect on the night shot out of the cable car. The other bridge has a serene dreamy feeling. Nice job
May 11, 2011 at 15:19
Is it me, or do the scans look better than the prints?
May 12, 2011 at 10:50
They did turn out well I think the condensed size helps. You can’t see as much up close detail this way. I wonder if it increases the contrast slightly…