In the picture above, you can see the process that I have used in order to create the best picture of all of my negatives that I have developed after taking picture inside and outside with a camera. The first step of the process is creating the contact sheet (very top small strip of paper, middle). This is the first time the negatives hit the paper and come to life. After choosing which picture I had liked best out of all those that have made contact with the paper, I made a value scale on a bigger piece of paper in order to decide how much light is needed to create an image with blacks, whites, and grays. The picture I have chosen was that of the stairway that connects the math and art wing together. On the very right and the very left, you'll see four strips of small paper (two on each side) that are called test strips. The purpose of these are to make sure the light you think will look best, truly will and in order to not waste the paper just incase you have to make more than one, I use a small strip of paper. The final step is to recreate the image with the same amount of light on the successful test strip. The bigger picture on the bottom left is the picture I have created at the F-stop of F-11 and for 34 seconds, but after talking to Mrs. DuVarney, we had decided that there wasn't enough black in the picture; so we decided to add another 17 seconds and recreate the image a final time. The final product is the picture on the bottom right. The picture has blacks, grays, and whites along with the focus needed to create an image that is interesting rather than something boring.
The strongest technical aspect of my work is the process itself. I had to be patient and after about a week of working with the same enlarger and negative, I was able to create the image I had originally intended to create. The technical aspect of my work that can be improved on is the clarity of the picture itself. That is more of how I shoot the picture with the camera rather than how I work with the negative in the dark room. I have to ficus the picture a little more than I had before in order to create an image with less shakiness.
The easiest part of this art activity was developing the negatives. The process takes one day - no longer - and as long as you're paying attention to the time or you have someone else watching the time for you, it is the easiest part of the process because there's no true way to mess up unless you aren't paying attention to the time or what you're doing at all. Th most difficult part of this art activity was being patient enough to create the bigger image. The process took me a week because we couldn't decide on how much light was needed to create the image I had wanted to create with all of the aspects of the perfect image.
I demonstrated the objective in this art activity because I was able to take pictures and develop the negatives. Then take the negatives into the dark room, make a contact sheet, value scale, test strips, and then create the bigger picture with black, whites, and grays. If I could do this art activity again, I would change the picture I had chosen to make bigger and focus the camera in on something slightly more than I had. I would rather have more crisp lines and better lighting that I did inside. Next time I'd take more pictures outside rather than inside despite the colder temperatures outside and comfortable temperatures inside.
