Final project from Photo II (my second darkroom class . . . 5 decades after my initial darkroom tinkering)

[Ms. Toad]

(Cross posted in the Artists forum)

My focus was on macro photography in three different climates: NE Ohio, the rain forest, and the desert. I used a shallow depth of field to create a soft focus in the background, or a stark black background (even though most of the photos were taken between noon and 3 PM - e.g. the rose.) In many I also focused on a different part of the plant than most - for example the edge of a leaf - so the subject is familiar but not necessarily immediately recognizable, and becomes more a study of form than of the subject. There is an anchor shot to represent the geographical area/climate for each set of images which were also taken with my macro lens. It does a pretty decent job on distance shots for being primarily a macro lens.

Since the class is a darkroom class, these are cell phone images of the physical print. At least one of them has a shine from the light in the classroom.
Eventually I'll scan the negatives so I can make better electronic versions of the images.


NE Ohio
















The rain forest (The initial image is just a foggy day in NE Ohio - given time constraints it was the closest I could get to anchor shot of a wet, rainy space)
















The Desert