Eye for an Eye

Last night I developed my pictures from my CD Cover shoot.  I feel that the Hasselblad photo fairies are far more mischievous than the 4x5 fairies.  To be even more specific the photo fairies in charge of wreaking havoc on the film loading process seem to have a personal vendetta against me.  So here I sit with four days remaining (two of which allow for time to work on my assignment) before the assignment is due and I have 7.25 images that made it to film out of 12.  DEAR GOD!  I really wanted to finally have an assignment I could turn in and not have to re-shoot.  However, the outlook is not so good.  First, I ran low on time to shoot.  At the 15 minutes remaining in the studio mark I had taken two pictures!  Suddenly, I was shooting like  I was a fashion photographer -- ga-doosh click!  ga-doosh click! (the sound the Hasselblad makes) and miraculously 15 minutes later I had what I thought was 12 images.  I happily went to the lab after class to develop my roll of what I hoped would be one perfect image -- since I only shot ONE out of the two required rolls.  As I finished the developing stage I quickly unrolled my film off the reel to find pretty much half an empty roll of film.  AHHHHH!!!  Panic!  I put my 7.25 precious images in the dryer.  At about the 90% dry stage I take my film out to inspect what I have -- only to realize I forgot the photo flow stage after the wash and now there are water spots on about 5.25 of my 7.25 shots.  I had no time to do a contact print -- so really is it too much to ask that at least one of my remaining two available images was shot perfectly?!  Only time will tell.  Tonight I shall print!!  To be continued...

Last Night...

Last night I shot my diorama for my CD Cover.  Our teacher played a random song for us and we were to create a CD cover that demonstrated our emotional reaction to it.  My emotional reaction was happy which in turn I associate with lucky.  So in this scene you can see pennies facing heads-up, ladybugs, a grasshopper, a horseshoe, shooting star, and a lucky Buddha.  I haven't gotten to develop negatives yet, but this is one of the digital images captured during last night's shoot.

Rough Sketch

After hours upon hours of gluing this is the first version of my diorama for my CD Cover.  The assignment was to create a CD Cover that captured our emotional reaction to a song.  This is my version.  My emotion was happy/lucky.  The scene is simply lit with some lights I found around the house.  Luckily there was only one casualty in the light bulb family -- turns out carpet can kill lights too, who knew?!  The living room looks like a war hit inside a Michael's store.  Project clean-up will take place some time in the next couple days...Now I just need to think about how I'm going to light this in the studio and whether it needs something else.