Ray Perez likes to Cross Process

Cross processing color film is a fun and unpredictable process that can offer very colorful and dynamic results. You could probably achieve something similar in photoshop, but without the experience of shooting and experimenting using your technical photographic skills.

Cross Processing

http://www.crossprocessing.info/

http://chuckgoodenough.blogspot.com/2010/11/cross-process-c-41-film-through-e-6.html

These are some informative links on the effects using certain types and brands of film. There are also some exposure compensations to consider in the process of exposing different types of film. Now, with the access to high quality film scanners, it is possible to produce beautiful abnormal colored images. Try it, you'll love it!

Rebecca Villarreal presents Don Gergorio Anton

Wow! is about all I could intially say when I found his work. He's a perfect photographer to look at for this class because he works with an alternative process. He prints transparent images on copper if I remember right. His work is incredible, he seems to pull inspiration from a little bit of everything. Many seem describe his work as not catching a moment in time, but as catching that emotion or essance of life in time. Conceptually his work is spot on with his ideas of catching the soul. The process he's working with gives all of his images that etheral look. Some of his work reminds me of Mexican exvotos with the combination of text and image. All of it seems to have diementionality, nothing is flat with what looks like many layers of imagery. It translates well from computer to magazine prints, nothing is lost it would seem from the original. I would really love to see his work in person.

He's done an artist residency at Light Work and has shown work from coast to coast and everywhere in between.

Rebecca Villarreal presents Abigail Hadeed

Okay so I found Abigail Hadeed in one of the many photo magazines that are scattered about the Darkroom, her work is pretty cool. She is a Caribbean photojournalist who tells stories about the people and places she photographs through her photography. Looking at her work strictly for the darkroom techniques her contrast is a little high and I love it. I tend to gravitate towards photos that have more contrast so I'm a little bias.She's done an artist in Residence at Light Work in 2006, where she appropriately enough learned how to create Cyanotypes and platinum printing. She's shown work in a few places and has a few books out. I hope that she will soon have a website with all of her work in one place, because I would love to see more of it

Ray Perez submits Best blush light

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/composition-4.shtml
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light03.htm

This are good links that describes the different temperatures of light and the colors they cast. In the case of our tintypes, bluish light may be our best option for exposing our tintypes directly. I wish everyone my best on this endeavour. It's perfect weather to be shooting outside in the open shade.

Ray Perez presents Michael Ticcino

http://www.mjticcinoimages.com/#!__surreal

There is such a vast opportunity to create beautiful surreal art work when we understand the effects and values of light. I appreciate the dynamics and control of the visual elements embraced by Mr. Ticcino. I ponder the presences of color in these images and how they would affect the compositions. Lighting is and has always been one of the key components in the evolution of art throughout its history. The nature of light is to guide us on a certain path. It is our nature to follow visually, if not subconsciously, to observe light in certain natural directional patterns. Light.

Ray Perez presents Todd Hido

http://www.toddhido.com/

Todd Hido captures a feeling of solitude in the function and structure that we consider our homes. We don't really take the time to observe the atmosphere created by natural and artificial lighting. The elements of fog and snow add more visual stimulation to the image. The glowing interior lights provoke our imagination about the lives that exist inside these lonely structures.
I appreciate his series of barren interior spaces. It forces us to look around the space to try to locate objects other then the walls or doors. The ambient light, again, contribute to the strangeness of seeing or being in an empty room. I am also affected by the color of the light in combination with the color of the interiors. These images are good examples of photographing a mundane subject matter and capturing an intriguing observation.

Tillman Crane is a photographer who uses 5x7, 8x10, and pinhole cameras in his work. He mainly just documents places and objects but the way he does it is intriguing. The photographs above are from his "Olson House" portfolio. With this project Crane simply photographed the empty house and the few objects that were left inside. Normally this type of photography could get a little boring, but I think that the way Crane composes his images creates interesting photographs. Crane places everyday objects in the beautiful lighting that naturally occurs in the house. These items are transformed into important objects that create a kind of narrative in his work.

http://www.tillmancrane.com/index.php