Final Value Drawing

In-Process Photography Reflection & Image

Reflection:

1. I developed craft with this assignment by learning how much of a difference changing the time and the apperture could make on the single photograph. I had no idea that you could even change the apperture or that the time would make a difference in these photographs! I also learned how to opperate the enlarger by myself. 

2. I used the enlarger, a manual camera, 5"x7" photo paper, film, the developer, fixer, stop bath, permawash, and water wash in my process of printing pictures. I learned all the times the print needs to sit in each for, and it has become almost natural by now. A method I used was adding constant movement to the developer and permawash to develop it fully and get the best outcome.

3. I had some trouble with focusing my image at first. I ended up doing about 6 test strips before I could move onto the bigger 5x7 image. My prints would always end up blurry. I also had trouble with the light, and I had to adjust by aperture 2 different times than the original setting. Finally, I didn't have the right amount of time on my timer, so I had to change that a few times as well. All in all, I ended up with a good final photo!

4. I solved these problems by opening the aperture more to let more light in, changing the timer to 15 seconds instead of the initial amount of time, and focusing my image as much as possible. My plate thing that I laid the photo paper on had some marks on it, so sometimes it was hard to see if the image was in focus or not. I solved this by shining the image and focusing it on a part of the plate with no marks or scratches on it.

In-Process Drawing Reflection & Image

Reflection:
1. I developed a skill of shading in this assignment. I learned how to turn a view of something into a drawing, and how to exhibit extreme shading and color difference. Also, I learned how to line things up and have everything in the right scale when drawing.
2. A drawing board, pencils, a light, the installation, and a paper were essential for this project thus far. The light was especially important because it allowed us to get extreme shadows on our objects. Some methods I used in my drawing was shading and cross hatching. Those helped me a lot develop my shades and light and show the relationship between objects.
3. A problem that emerged in this so far is that I had trouble getting my rubix cube lined up with everything. I had trouble getting the lines on it parallel and everything straight. Mr. O helped me a lot with it by telling me a trick, which is to angle your pencil the way the line is and draw it from that point of view instead of drawing it by estimating the angle.
4. I solved this problem by using the trick Mr. O taught me by angling my pencil to really see the angle by itself without all the other distracting lines.