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Sunday, October 6, 2013

The Red Dress Diaries


Ok, first let me say - there is definitely somethin' goin' wonky with my iPhoto...because every time I upload a picture from iPhoto to elsewhere - it comes in blown out way too bright, with the colors either too dull, or too intense...so please forgive what appears to be horrific edits on the two color pics. that I've posted on this entry - until I can figure out how to get the proper versions uploaded...Thank You!

(Moving on...)


It was no accident that "The Big Ugly Land of Oz" Self-Portraiture Challenge theme for last week was, "Movement"...because for one thing, when I decided upon it - I had already taken the first two pics. that you see here, a couple of weeks before - and I figured they'd suit this sort of challenge just perfectly... 


...but besides that - the homework assignment that we'd be given last week, in my darkroom photography class - was to freeze and blur movement by adjusting the shutter speed, and aperture on our cameras...


...et voila! Same red dress, different day and location...and instead of using my trusty Sony Cybershot - I set the timer on my old Canon AE-1, before dashing into the frame, and leaping and spinning until I was pretty sure that I'd gotten my shots. The coolest thing about the last two pics in this entry however - is that I developed the 35mm film on which these pics were taken - myself! And tomorrow I'm going back to the darkroom to mess around with making a few prints from my negatives, YIP!

Believe me when I tell you, this is exciting new territory for an old gal like me :)

4 comments:

  1. Love the first B/W picture. It has an "Old World" appeal. And the solo colour shot is so dynamic. The red against the bright blue sky. Wow!

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    1. @Raymond - Yeah, I was pretty blown away by how vivid the color pics turned out - was such a fabulously gorgeous day!

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  2. I love the solo in red, too. It's amazing how the dress doesn't even look the same in b&w. Very nice.

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    1. @Ella - Yeah, it IS weird! The color red does very strange things when captured in B&W, for some reason.

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