Halloween Spirit

Last night, some friends and I went to "The Great Pumpkin Carve" at the Chadds Ford Historical Society. It's a little cheesy and childish, but the carvings people turn out are amazing. So, I took as many pictures as my camera could hold of some of the pumpkins I liked. I apologize in advance that they're kind of blurry, but it's pretty crowded in the "pumpkin patch" and my friends kept moving on without me, so I was half-ready to walk when I took ninety percent of them.

"El Cielo Es Azúl…"

So after two days in the darkroom, I enlarged three photos and uploaded two of them here. They're both from that day when back when when the whole class pretty much just played around in all that garbage behind the school.

Here's Cassie standing next to a dumpster. Sorry, no arty, poetic titles or anything. I can never think of good titles for anything. As far as the picture goes, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I like it, I guess. I was pretty proud of the fact that it showed up at all, so go figure.

Can you guess what this one is? People seem to be having a little trouble with that and, I've got to say, I like that. Enigmas make me happy. Anyway, it's water in a piece of industrial tubing (I think that's the right word for what it was.) I really like it compositionally, but there are scratches and stuff from my dirty negatives and it's not exactly centered. I guess I could work on that if I really wanted to, I just don't know. I was surprised by how much I liked the photograph when it developed, so I don't exactly have an attachment to it. It's not like I was dying to see it in full. Maybe I'll work more on it… I don't know. It's been a little tough for me to work on anything lately.

Fun With Apertures

So, time to talk about all the things I've learned so far. In particular, three things about apertures.

1) The aperture is the opening which controls the amount of light that reaches the film. The larger the aperture, the more light reaches the film. The smaller the hole, the less light. Pretty simple. Used in conjunction with shutter speed, the proper exposure is achieved.

2) The aperture is gauged using numbers. The larger the number, the smaller the aperture. The smaller the number, the larger the aperture. For instance f/1.4 would be larger than f/8. Confused yet?

3) The aperture is also responsible in controlling depth of field. This allows you to focus in on what you choose. For instance, making a point in the foreground very clear and keeping the rest of the image slightly out of focus.

Now that I know all this stuff, I should probably go work on that aperture photo assignment.

The Beginning of a [Possibly] Beautiful Friendship

Hello, Blogspot and others! I'm Victoria, an 11th grade student at PFA. As part of my darkroom photo, we're creating blogs to post our work. So I'm going to start with these photos I've previously taken.