Due Monday

Just a reminder that you are two bring in at least one roll of film that you shot through a Holga. On Monday, I will present a demonstration on scanning film. Afterward, you will scan your images. On Wednesday, I will do a demo on editing the images. Afterward you will edit your images and scan any new film that you shot.

I also wanted to mention that you can hold a polarizer over the lens of your Holga to block two stops of light. This would allow you to shoot 400 speed film on a gloriously nice day without fear of overexposure and it would also allow you to take more multiple exposures without fear of overexposure. Assuming that the film, shutter speed of 1/100, and aperture of f11 would result in a perfect exposure, putting a polarizer over the lens would allow you to take 4 shots without overexposing the film.

Sunny 16 rule

The Sunny 16 rule states that on a nice sunny day, you can set your lens to f16 and your shutter speed to 1/ISO and get a very accurate exposure. It totally works.

If it is a little overcast but still bright, then you can use f11 instead.

The Holga has a fixed aperture of f11 and a fixed shutter speed of roughly 1/100th of a second. So how does that apply? Well, if you are going to go out and shoot on an overcast day, then using an ISO 100 film would be perfect. Of course, you can't change film from shot to shot. Let's say that you use an ISO 200 film instead. On that same overcast day, the film may be overexposed one stop. That is okay as print film is very tolerant of overexposure. Slide/transparency film doesn't tolerate overexposure. What if all you have is ISO 400 film on that same day? Go for it. That is two stops overexposure (assuming a perfect world). It will still be fine. Worst case scenario is that some of your highlights will be blown out.

If you plan on doing double exposures or more, then you should use ISO 100 in this case. Otherwise you risk grossly overexposing your film with cumulative exposures.

Brainstorming on the urban landscape

The Urban Landscape

http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/ul-what.htm

Link to submit work for inclusion on the website

http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/ul-contribute.htm

Urban Landscape photo tips

http://digital-photography-school.com/urban-landscape-photography-tips

http://digital-photography-school.com/photographing-urban-landscapes

http://www.amateursnapper.com/photography/urban-landscape-photography-tips

Work by BGSU Photography Professor Lynn Whitney

http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/whitney_lynn.php

Some possibilities:

Willis Boyer

Graffiti

Night Photography-different color lights

Motion

Businesses that have gone out of business

New businesses

Street signs

Series of repurposed buildings; i.e. former pizza hut building being used for a law office

Reflections

Urban sprawl

Small architectural details

Panoramas- check out the free program Microsoft ICE

Contrast the new and the old

Depict city as falling apart or coming back?

Store window displays

Abandoned buildings

Urban decay

Holga Panoramas

Start by reading this article.

How to use 35mm in a Holga

Panorama images shot with the 35mm Holga setup

Gallery of Holga images, some from modded Holgas

Simple how-to guide

Very excited....

You are so going to have a diptych/triptych assignment!

Check out this series by Masataka Nakano titled Tokyo Nobody

Taylor Photo

Taylor Photo is the only place in area that develops transparency film (E-6 process color positive film). They also process color print film (color negative/color reversal/C-41 film). Both 35mm and 120/220 medium format film.

1403 Bernath Parkway
Toledo, Ohio 43615
(across from the Friday's restaurant on Airport Highway)

Welcome to class!

Hello all!

I would like you to read the following for Wednesday:

After Capture article about Matt Logue's Empty LA series

Matt Logue's Empty LA series

Sweet Jan Staller Image with write-up

Jan Staller's website - please look through his portfolio and read the write-up there and the Notes section

Boston Globe article on Jan Staller's work

Bill Owens' website -he is one of my favorites- his Suburbia project is especially well known

Andrew Moore - fantastic work - his Detroit series is currently on display at the Akron Museum of Art