BEEN A WHILE

WOW....i am verry terrible at keeping a blog.....i haven't written anything in this all summer....i am hoping that i can keep a better record of what i am doing here at the Academy....So...this summer i have been taking a class with Leonard DeLuna and a Photo Intensive with Connie Begg....it has been kind of a stressful summer.....but i have finished...well...almost....I have printed everything....but i think i may reprint a mural print. So for both classes i shot at the Marin Headlands, but i shot two completely different projects. For Leonard's class i shot more of a technical assignment dealing with textures, walls, and landscape that i enjoyed at the Headlands and then printed them in the darkroom on 16x20 paper, I then spot bleached and selenium toned the images to make them even more beautiful! For my Intensive class i shot macro images of textures and recreated them to be landscapes. I printed them in the darkroom as well, but i printed them as mural prints (3.3 ft. x 4.5 ft.) I then spot bleached them to bring out a bit more contrast....i chose not to selenium tone them because that would add a bit too much contrast to it, because it is a mural print it shouldn't be as contrasty. right now i am in the process of finishing the frames for the mural prints....i have stained them and tomorrow i am going to go to studio and finish bleaching them (1 more left), and then i am going to put the frame together and get the images ready to hang in the gallery.....we are having a show in the 688 sutter street gallery. I have printed 5 images for the show, but i know they won't all fit...i think i may be able to get 3 of the images to fit on the wall that has been designated to me.....I keep forgetting to go measure the wall and see what i can get to fit....so i guess i will just play it by ear on Tuesday (when we hang). I will soon have images of all of the prints i have done this summer....i still have to take photos of them....i think they are much too big to be able to scan.

Historic Process

I don't know if this is going to work or not...but i have made a photobucket album and i think that would be an easier way of posting images because then i can have a folder of images instead of it showing one image at a time and taking up so much space on my blog. so we will see if this works.

Historic Process