Assignment 4: Final Series

 Wait, These are Permanent?

             

I wanted to try to add a black border to each of the photos, but I couldn't quite get what I wanted with the filed-out 35mm-negative-holders. I then decided to use the 120mm-negative-holders to project the entire width of the film onto the photo paper. The only issue I had with the extra light coming through was that the light reflected off of the metal bars that are below the focusing part of the enlarger. I just taped the bottom of each bar and I was good to go.

I produced most of these prints at with a contrast setting of 3, and luckily I was able to keep the height consistent (setting 54) for all of them. Nearly all of the prints made with contrast setting of 3 took about a 30-second exposure. The couple I had to do at contrast 4 took 45 seconds, and the other two at setting 5 took 60 seconds.

I really liked the look of the film-edges showing in the final prints because it looked somewhat like a roll of positive film when I had them all lined up on the wall. It gave me the feeling that I was looking through a reel of memories, and I wanted to emulate that through my display.

I spotted each of these prints (albeit not very well); I chose to spot the main image to get rid of as many dust marks as I could, and I deliberately left any imperfections in the film-edge part of the prints to give it an air of use and history.

The Display

I did not have enough space to back up and take a single photo featuring the entire series, though it would have been nice to do so. Overall, although there are some things I would like to do better (like the spotting), I am happy with how these photos turned out.

Thank you for a great semester!