Portraits of Lina

 Practising portrait shots with Lina

Sepia tone for Monotone images

I have added some colour tone to the vegetables. I am not sure which are more appealing - the black and white or these toned ones.

Still life Black & White Vegetables

 I went to Preston Market and could not resist buying these beautiful subjects for portraits.

Portrait of Kohlrabi

Portrait of Garlic Chives

Portrait of Mushrooms

Portrait of Choko

Portrait of Bitter Gourd

Portrait of Ridged Gourd

Secret Life of the City

Entered a photomontage into the Secret Life of the City competition at 69 Smith St. The show opens officially on Saturday, but the works have been hung and the gallery is open as of today (Wednesday 24th).
Here is my entry.

Large Format Still Life

Personal project for college coming to a close - these are the final images for my 5x4 films.

Large Format Camera Work

For my personal project I have decided to use the 5x4 camera at college to photograph still life - vegetables which, unlike people, do not blink or wriggle.

There have been challenges with the loading and development of film, getting the light right and so forth. But I am getting close to completion.

Theses are images I took using my digital camera when I was testing the light and composition prior to using the large camera.

Portraits of Carole

Carole was the second prize winner of the Visual Arts end of year exhibition fund raiser - and wins a black and white portrait.
The portrait was taken in the studio at NMIT

These are the four I like best, but it is up to Carole to chose which she likes best.

The lectures and practical exercises we have undertaken during the course have paid off I think.

Portrait with Large Format Camera

We are learning to use a 5x4 camera - the film (which measures 5x4 inches) is loaded in sheets into a large camera. After much fiddling around an exposure is made, then developed and tweaked in the dark room. Below are the digital images I took of our subject - Chris Lock, who was so very very patient while we adjusted and changed his pose,, the lights, the focus and everything.

Portrait of Daniel

Daniel showed great patience allowing me to spend ages taking his photograph.
These are good results I think

More portraits ... this time of Ingrid

These are scanned from negativesfrom the Mamiya.

Portrait Assignment using Mamiya Camera

The end results of my portrait assignment. These photos were taken at Lina's house at her dining room table.

First foray into medium format cameras

This is the camera I was introduced to last week - along with a light meter - for the first time.
Medium format film is bigger than 35mm film, has no sprockets and is more of a challenge to load. They are a challenge to use - but can produce beautiful superb black and white images.

Week one we were sent off to shoot a roll of film around the TAFE grounds.
Then we had to develop it in the dark room.
Today I printed three of my better ones at around A4 size.

Needless to say I am pretty pleased with the exposure and so forth considering there is nothing automatic on these old medium format cameras! And it was my first encounter with the light meter - complicated things they are.....



Could not resist the obvious industrial subject.

A roof - mainly for the contrast light and shadow

This is a shy apprentice in the carpentry school.