Kelly Wrage

It took me a couple of weeks to find the time to put this work up.  It's just been one assignment after another--busy busy busy.  This one was based on using "alternative cameras".  This was of course an experiment that forces the photographer to consider what he or she is photographing based on what the camera "sees" or how it functions, quirks and all.  God knows I have a plethora of what would be considered alternative cameras because I've been using them extensively for the past few years, but in the spirit of the assignment, I decided to get a new camera--a couple actually.  I loaded each one with films of differing speeds because there is no other way of adjusting for changing light.  One of the quirks that these cameras have concerns framing problems.  It's similar to that of most Diana cameras, where the viewfinder is a little off in relation to what the lens sees.  This camera is WAY off, and as a result, there is too much space to the right of ...

Homework due this week was fun and creative, not to mention, fairly easy.  Just one image and it could be created however you chose.  This was my take on a photo of my brother-in-law and his family.  I thought it would be funny to use one person to portray all of the members of the family.  I only had myself, so that's who I used.  It's a creepy image, but it makes me laugh.  

These are the last few which I have digital files for in this series.

I tried posting these the other night, but they were originally files from digital captures of the actual photographs.  Can't remember now why I documented them that way rather than scanning and adjusting the negs.  Probably part of an assignment.  Photographers are often hired to professionally photograph the work of other artists, and I know I've had assignments where we had to do this so..... The scanned negs would have been much better--lost a lot of detail and the blacks were more gray than black.  That meant having to adjust the levels and a tad more detail may have been lost trying to bring up the blacks.  Hopefully, the burning in of the reflected light around the edges won't look so spotty this time.  Fingers crossed.

I feel the middle image here shows the true bond between these two he-men and exemplifies their intense fondness for one another.  It scares me.