Assignment 2: "The Edge"

The second assignment in my photography class is called "The Edge" and is all about paying attention to the edges of the viewfinder, and composition of what us students are photographing. After screwing two rolls up, I vowed to get some really interesting pictures, more for my sake than the class. Long story short, I biked out to this swimming spot I know of, which is located next to what I like to think of as an industrial wasteland, climbed over some razor-wire, and shot a roll-and-a-half of film. Last night I went into the darkroom to develop and get three good prints, and spent SIX AND A HALF HOURS there! The negatives were beautiful, my contact sheet is full of possibility, Derek came and kicked it for about three of the hours, and I got back home at five this morning. That's officially a personal record in the darkroom, and the results:

Themes I'm playing with are "time", "wasteland" and "emptiness"


After enlarging and developing, I don't LOVE this one^, but at three-thirty in the morning, I was not about to start over with another image!

I love how the other two compositions turned out, the prints look awesome and I'm really excited to make enlargements of the rest of the contact sheets, they all look interesting! As far as "the edge" goes, it could probably be argued that these are not the best images, but for artistic purposes, I'm stoked on how they turned out. I'll be in the darkroom this week making more enlargements, to be up soon.