Getting close...

It's getting close.  To the left is the raw shot.  To the right is the cropped version.  These images were captured during my shoot the other day.  It is from my film based contact sheet.  I still need to spend some time in the dark room printing this image and then toning it properly.  I wanted an idea of which image I wanted to use and I think this is the winner.  I plan to tone it in a more believable way.  I just needed to get an idea of how it would look post toning.  Megan did such a fantastic job!  Best model/assistant a girl could ask for!  She quickly caught on to all the steps I naturally forget and would promptly remind me.  So patient!  I will only post this image one more additional time and that's when I've processed it completely.  Fingers crossed!  Hope it comes out fantastically!  I know I've already posted a version of this so I promise not to post more than one more time as the finished product.

Aloha

Last night I had my second photo shoot.  My first set of negatives was destroyed by the light.  Darn you light!  This is a digital image version of what I was shooting.  I played around with it a little in Picasa to tone it and try to make it look "Old World" but at the end of the day it still looks digital.  I dropped off my negatives at Image Control and must say the experience I had of just dropping the film off was great.  The owner and I chatted for about 30 minutes about the best films and the best way to meter the film.  I learn so much from every person I come in contact with in the photography world.  It truly is a community of passionate people who like to help newbies like myself be the best photographer he or she can be!  So happy to be in the loop (or loupe)!  The bad puns in photography never get old and are vast and numerous.